Re: Bush's lame elitist lie, "I don't play golf out respect for troops' moms" angers vets.

"Captain America" <america.captain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/15/georgebush.usa
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> George Bush has angered US war veterans by declaring that out of
> solidarity with those who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq he
> decided to make his own sacrifice: giving up golf.
>
> In an interview with the Politico website, the president said he took
> the decision because of the war. "I don't want some mom whose son may
> have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel
> I owe it to the families to be in solidarity. And I think playing golf
> during a war just sends the wrong signal."
>
> Brandon Friedman, a veteran US infantry officer who served in both
> Iraq and Afghanistan, told the Press Association: "Thousands of
> Americans have given up a lot more than golf for this war. For
> President Bush to imply that he somehow stands in solidarity with
> families of American soldiers by giving up golf is disgraceful. It's
> an insult to all Americans and a slap in the face to our troops'
> families."
>
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> WTF? How stupid can Bush be? Golf? GOLF?!?
> That dumb asshole needs to get his ass kicked by all branches of the
> armed services.

How stupid can you be, dumb asshole?

The Associated Press

WA****NGTON -- President Clinton turned his attention away from a nearly 
constant focus on the Kosovo crisis Monday to play a round of golf.

Clinton went to the Army-Navy Country Club in suburban Virginia shortly 
after he finished receiving an update from national security adviser Sandy

Berger on the NATO mission in Kosovo. Apparently, Clinton wanted to take 
advantage of sunny weather with temperatures approaching 70 degrees. Save 
for a few speeches and a journey to Camp David, the president has been 
virtually sequestered at the White House during the past six days, as NATO

carried out air strikes against Yugoslavia for its repression of ethnic 
Albanians in Kosovo. While at the golf course, Clinton placed telephone 
calls to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder 
of Germany. David Leavy, national security spokesman, said the leaders 
discussed the status of the air campaign; Serb action against Kosovo's 
ethnic Albanians, driving thousands of them from their homes; and Russian 
Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov's pending visit to Belgrade.

-Eddie Haskell