(Vet) Bush's golf claims 'a slap in face'

[sabra]

Source: UK Press

Veterans have said President George Bush's claim that he gave up golf to show solidarity with US soldiers serving in Iraq was a disgraceful "insult to all Americans".

Brandon Friedman, a veteran US infantry officer who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, said Mr Bush's claim that he sacrificed golf for the war was a "slap in the face" for US troops.

The president said he gave up the sport in 2003 out of respect for US soldiers killed in the war, which has now lasted more than five years.

Mr Friedman, who is vice chairman of the US veterans' organisation VoteVets, 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."



Read more: http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iM-WI3KxZBuToaITLa9uSUo8O4dw

[livetohike]

1. Yes, our President has sacrificed so much

:sarcasm:

[DogPoundPup]

13. So have his kids and son-in-law

[MikeNearMcChord]

22. This should be printed and posted on every street corner

in America! Bravo DogPound!!:patriot:

[ixion]

2. of course it was an insult... * hates America and all it stands for, hates us for our freedoms

he cares only for his uber-wealthy booze hounds who seek only to rob us blind.

[niyad]

3. dear goddess, he actually SAID that? I thought the other threads were just being snarky.

I was about to say: un-frigging-believable" but then realized that nothing that clueless murderer says surprises me.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Well, Karl thought it would play as a Noble Gesture. Go figure." - Commander AWOL

"We republicons will have to be more careful with how we catapult the propaganda."

- Commander AWOL

[truthisfreedom]

26. I can just imagine him talking to rove about the reaction. "Thanks a lot, turdblossom."

"Nice one. I f#%&ing gave up golf for nothing!"

[TomInTib]

5. Remember when LittlePrick and Pickles gave up sweets?

Remember that bullshit?

Gave up dessert to show solidarity with the troops.

Fuck them and everything about them.

Bastards.

LittleShit couldn't play golf worth a damn, anyway.

[tanyev]

8. 4,077 families (so far) have given up sons, daughter, husbands, wives, mothers and fathers.

Awfully magnanimous of Georgie and Pickles to give up desserts. I bet it didn't even last very long.

[YDogg]

6. It is pretty damned sick.

bush is such a fucking disgrace

[KSinTX]

7. Proud to see our C-in-C sacrificing so much. My prayers are with him

[Zambero]

9. Advice for Bush

3 Things:
1. End the war and bring our troops home, if you truly respect the troops.
2. Resume golf, now that pangs of guilt have subsided.
3. Stop being such a sanctimonious ass (admittedly difficult for Bush)

[ToughLuck]

10. When did Bush ever have respect for anyone?

He is a coward and a fraud.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

33. Survey says........

NEVER!!!!

[central scrutinizer]

11. Did he even like golf to begin with?

Reminds me of my mother who would "give up turnips for Lent." Of course, she never ate turnips anyway so it was a completely hollow, no-sacrifice, kind of fasting. But at least she was self-aware enough to know that it was a sarcastic thing to say. Can we say the same about Bushco?

[kskiska]

12. He didn't mean it to be a "sacrifice."

He just didn't want the media flak over any pictures, and he knew he couldn't stop the pictures. He doesn't seem to mind the pictures of his bike riding, though.

[jody]

14. Ever time the bar is lowered for * he manages to go lower. n/t

[Solly Mack]

15. I certainly know where Bush can wedge his sand wedge

[wryter2000]

16. Poor Boooshie

No matter what he does, the troops don't support him. Ungrateful, mean troops.

[Wizard777]

17. That right up there with "let them eat cake!"

It's time for the American revolution to begin.

[MisterP]

18. well, at least he didn't tell a burn and amputee ward that he got a "war wound"

pulling down cedars on his pig ranch

[raystorm7]

19. Bush is always better with his mouth shutt =/ .... NOT!

[Imagevision]

20. utterly disgusting, can't wait until this as*hole is replaced

[CRK7376]

21. I guess he's implying all

soldiers play golf??? WTF! I'm a soldier and I never play golf, no time or interest. Sacrificed my butt!

[papapi]

23. Every time I see his monkey face and his wife's ferret face, it makes me...

...want to PUKE! He gives up golf and his wife supports Big Brothers/Big Sisters while he's senting thousands of soldiers to his self made holocaust to die! Two faced dogs with shit eating grins come to mind. Can monkey's be fascists? I thought fascists were pigs?

[NCDem60]

24. The Limbo President.

Just keeps going lower and lower.

[crimsonblue]

25. I suspect his "giving up golf" had more to do with Moore's movie..

Fahrenheit 9/11, where Dubya is on video giving a sanctimonious speech and then tells reporters to watch his tee shot. Fucking prick.

[samsingh]

bush is insulting the soldiers with this

[samsingh]

27. bush is insulting the soldiers with this

[FightingIrish]

28. I'd have been a lot more impressed if

he'd given up breathing.

[sofa king]

29. He's lyyyying.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/05/14/BL2008051401929_pf.html

"Not only is it a hollow, trivial sacrifice at best, Bush's story doesn't hold water. While he dates his decision to abjure golf to Aug. 19, 2003 -- the day a truck bomb in Baghdad killed U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello and more than a dozen others -- the Associated Press reported on Oct. 13, 2003, that he'd spent a "cool, breezy Columbus Day" playing "a round of golf with three long-time buddies."
_______________

http://victoriakos.blogspot.com/2005/08/bush-takes-vacation-from-his-vacation.html

"DONNELLY, Idaho, Aug. 19 (2005) /PRNewswire/ -- Tamarack Resort received official confirmation today that President George W. Bush will be at the Idaho mountain resort Aug. 22-24. Tamarack is located in the Payette River Valley, 100 miles North of Boise in Valley County, Idaho.

"During the President's visit, access to the resort will be limited to Tamarack Resort homeowners, Club members, lodging guests and season pass holders. However, there will be no planned public appearances by the President and some areas of the resort may be restricted....

"Tamarack Resort, the first all-season resort to be permitted in the U.S. in 22 years, has received national attention for having not one, but three spectacular crown jewels: a world-class ski mountain, a Robert Trent Jones II signature golf course and beautiful Lake Cascade, suitable for swimming, sailing, fishing, sea kayaking, and boating."

________________

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/30/as-katrina-struck-bush-vacationed/

Yesterday (August 29, 2005), disaster struck. And even as one of the strongest storms in recorded history rocked the Gulf Coast, President Bush decided to continue his vacation, visiting the Pueblo El Mirage RV and Golf Resort in El Mirage, Ariz., to hawk his Medicare drug benefit plan. (Bush will spend one more night in Crawford tonight before flying back to Washington.)

________________

He's lying because his damned lips moved. I'm sure he's been golfing regularly. It's just that the press isn't allowed to follow him while on vacation. Someone will nail him down on this, just as everything else he says eventually proves to be false.

[tanyev]

30. So he didn't give up golf, he just gave up showboating for the press while playing golf.

Liar-in-Chief.

[woodsprite]

31. With our Preznut, it was an honest mistake - He thought we were in a "Golf War". n/t

[DU GrovelBot]

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