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

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> "Eddie Haskell" <kimn@[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.
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>>> 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."
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>>> 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.
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>> How stupid can you be, dumb asshole?
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>> The Associated Press
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>> WA****NGTON -- President Clinton turned his attention away from a nearly

>> constant focus on the Kosovo crisis Monday to play a round of golf.
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>> 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.
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>> -Eddie Haskell
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> Still a false parallel for many reasons...see if you can figure it out

Still a false claim you're making because you are a democrat.

-Eddie Haskell