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Bush salutes fallen troops on Memorial Day holiday

World May. 27, 2008 - 05:06AM JST ( 20 )

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SushiSake3May. 27, 2008 - 10:32AM JST

Sheesh,....what an insult to the troops.
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SushiSake3May. 27, 2008 - 10:34AM JST

"He singled out Army Spc Ronald Tucker of Fountain, Colo, who died less than a month ago in Iraq in a bomb attack that occurred as he returned from helping build a soccer field for Iraqi children."

Touching, but Army Spc Ronald Tucker would still be alive if Bush and the neocons hadn't started this war for nothing.
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SushiSake3May. 27, 2008 - 10:44AM JST

Heck, you know Bush was wrong about the war when someone who actually fought in one (albeit very briefly) - John McCain - says "As we all know, the American people have grown sick and tired of the war in Iraq," McCain told hundreds of veterans and their families gathered for a ceremony honoring U.S. service members killed in conflicts.

"I understand that, of course. I, too, have been made sick at heart by the many mistakes made by civilian and military commanders and the terrible price we have paid for them."
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SushiSake3May. 27, 2008 - 10:48AM JST

Got to say I find it weird that the people who strongly support this war seem to be the ones who have never actually had the guts to fight in one.
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SargeMay. 27, 2008 - 11:05AM JST

"They're an awesome bunch of people"

They sure are.

"what an insult to the troops"

The troops don't think that.
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SushiSake3May. 27, 2008 - 11:21AM JST

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....
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SargeMay. 27, 2008 - 11:28AM JST

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.
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RomeoRamenIIMay. 27, 2008 - 11:36AM JST

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
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skipthesongMay. 27, 2008 - 11:41AM JST

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

Sushi, so that wouldn't hold true for any other president, past, present, and future?
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zurcromium1May. 27, 2008 - 12:56PM JST

President George Bush is a great and honourable man.
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SushiSake3May. 27, 2008 - 02:23PM JST

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

So say the terrorists.

I'd wager ordinary Americans would disagree.
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zurcromium1May. 27, 2008 - 02:24PM JST

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.
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SushiSake3May. 27, 2008 - 03:13PM JST

Like most of them?
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RedMeatKoolAidMay. 27, 2008 - 03:35PM JST

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
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MadvertsMay. 27, 2008 - 03:41PM JST

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.
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SargeMay. 27, 2008 - 10:31PM JST

RedMeat - Thanks for the Obama gaffe, but we probably won't be seeing that anywhere else. The media will just ignore it.
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adaydreamMay. 28, 2008 - 01:41AM JST

Everybody knows how I feel about our fractured leader.

Nice post Madverts.
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SuperLibMay. 29, 2008 - 08:03PM JST

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.
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MadvertsMay. 29, 2008 - 09:21PM JST

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.
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SuperLibMay. 30, 2008 - 03:00PM JST

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.