Bush: I Gave Up Golf For The Troops
"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he said. "I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.".... Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization's high commissioner for human rights.... "I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life," he said. "I was playing golf -- I think I was in central Texas -- and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, 'It's just not worth it anymore to do.'"
Somehow, I think someone's getting a raw deal here...and correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm thinking it's the young Americans coming home in flag-draped boxes. Then again, we all have sacrifices to make, no? Some give up their lives...and some give up golf.
The sad thing is that roughly 28% of Americans (those who still blindly and unquestioninglysupport him because he is, after all, a resolute man of God) honestly think that The Worst President EVER © is making a legitimate and appropriate scarifice. Uh, no...a sacrifice in this sense is burying your son or your husband and realizing that you will never celebrate another Christmas or anniversary with him, and the he will never see his children graduate, get married, and start a family of their own. All The Decider © is doing is tinkering around the margins.
Hey, as long as someone else's children is doing the fighting and dying, it's ALL good, no? Commander Codpiece © was able to celebrate his daughter's marriage this past weekend. How many Americans have been denied that opportunity due to the illegal and immoral war??
At least no one died when Bill Clinton lied.
