...bugfuck, insane man a rifle and no body armor and tell him to get his romantic on?
Words fucking fail me.
No, they don't.
You fucking AWOL, weasel, motherfucker of a coward, why don't you crawl back up into the silver douchebag's fetid womb and self-abort. Don't you ever compare yourself to my soldiers, you fucking waste of the dribble that came out of your wimpy daddy's nutsack.
Link here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/03/17/BL2008031701328_pf.html
Bush on the Romance of War
During a videoconference on Thursday, Bush told U.S. military and civilian personnel in Afghanistan that he envied them.
Tabassum Zakaria writes for Reuters; "'I must say, I'm a little envious,' Bush said. 'If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.'
"'It must be exciting for you . . . in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks,' Bush said."
Peter Baker writes in The Washington Post: "That quickly drew a rebuke from VoteVets.org, a group of veterans that has been critical of Bush's policies. 'I seriously doubt any of us infantrymen in Operation Anaconda found it exciting or romantic when the Taliban and al-Qaeda were firing mortar rounds at us and our fellow soldiers,' the group said, quoting one of its Army veterans, Will King, in a statement."
This isn't the first time that Bush, who in his time used family connections to avoid going to Vietnam, expressed a misguided sense of bravado. Back in September, he told a group of military bloggers that he wished he could be alongside them -- only he's too old. See my column, Bush's Battlefield Envy.
Fred Kaplan writes for Slate: "If further proof were needed that President Bush resides in a dream world, he settled the issue on Thursday definitively. . . .
"Someone with such a jaunty vision of war -- concocted from who knows what brew of Rudyard Kipling, John Wayne, and sheer fantasy -- has no business leading young men and women into real-life battle, no business serving as the armed forces' commander in chief."