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6. Almost as bad as Bush asking the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq...

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 01:43 AM

Feb 2013

"How do you know his life would have been good?" in response to her saying that her son's "life motto" was life is good.

As the commander in chief strode briskly toward her, it seemed to Dolores that he was trying to intimidate her. "He came marching in and got right in my face...eyeball to eyeball, and said, 'I'm George Bush, the president of the United States, and I understand you have something to say to me in private.'"

Dolores tried to give Bush a sense of what type of person Erik had been. She described her son as a "comedian" whose favorite saying was, "Life is good." The president replied, "How do you know his life would have been good?"

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