Bush salutes fallen troops on Memorial Day holiday

Tuesday 27th May, 05:06 AM JST

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SushiSake3 at 11:21 AM JST - 27th May

Sarge, do you have any proof to back that up, or was that just another made up comment to push a point at all costs? I suspect the latter....
Sarge at 11:28 AM JST - 27th May

Sushi - If I turn back the clock to the time when I was physically able, yes, I'd go to fight in Iraq if ordered.
RomeoRamenII at 11:36 AM JST - 27th May

Army PFC Bill Cleland

KIA - Viet Nam

I made it back home. As long as I am alive, his memory will never be forgotten.

RR
skipthesong at 11:41 AM JST - 27th May

Sheesh,....what an insult to the troops."

Sushi, so that wouldn't hold true for any other president, past, present, and future?
zurcromium1 at 12:56 PM JST - 27th May

President George Bush is a great and honourable man.
SushiSake3 at 02:23 PM JST - 27th May

zurcronium - "President George Bush is a great and honourable man."

So say the terrorists.

I'd wager ordinary Americans would disagree.
zurcromium1 at 02:24 PM JST - 27th May

I am proud of President George W Bush, he is the leader of the free World. And you know, I am proud that my country is beginning to reject American soldiers who dont want to go Iraq.
SushiSake3 at 03:13 PM JST - 27th May

Like most of them?
RedMeatKoolAid at 03:35 PM JST - 27th May

President Bush salutes our fallen soldiers. He gives speeches. But Barack Obama, he can see those who have fallen in battle. That's another difference between him and ordinary politicians.

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

-Barack Obama, on the campaign trail, in New Mexico State
Madverts at 03:41 PM JST - 27th May

Well, if there's anyone that needs to pay his respects to fallen troops it's the idiot that sent a great many of them to their needless deaths for the profits of corporate whore's.
Sarge at 10:31 PM JST - 27th May

RedMeat - Thanks for the Obama gaffe, but we probably won't be seeing that anywhere else. The media will just ignore it.
adaydream at 01:41 AM JST - 28th May

Everybody knows how I feel about our fractured leader.

Nice post Madverts.
SuperLib at 08:03 PM JST - 29th May

It's just too bad JT couldn't give a story about Memorial Day without the story being given through Bush. Obviously most people will ignore the significance of the day and what it represents to American history and just focus on Bush only. Seems kind of a shallow thing for the media to do to the soldiers who served anytime before Bush arrived, but I guess you have to sell papers.
Madverts at 09:21 PM JST - 29th May

Superlib,

Most people are focusing on current affairs. Whilst I understand what you are saying, all the current fallen troops are because of Bush Co's wars. Wars that were caused and initiated by Bush.

An it's pretty obvious why people are angry about that.
SuperLib at 03:00 PM JST - 30th May

But your anger is known. It's said every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Memorial Day is once a year and the focus is on all of the fallen troops in all of the wars. Thinking that your 1,298,983rd swipe on Bush is more important than that is the point I was trying to make. The anti-Iraq War crowd shouldn't have a free pass on hijacking the day for their agenda, and neither should Bush. And neither should the media.