Bush Visits Badly Burned Soldier -- Appears to be Hurting Him in Photo.

[Octafish]

Every day, George W Bush kills and maims more and more people.
Look at how he's holding Sgt. Dreasky's bandaged arm and hand.
Those who've suffered burns know even the slightest touch is excruciatingly painful.



You know what? Bush doesn't care.

Born to be a soldier

Survivor becomes symbol of hope for Mich. unit that lost 6; Guardsman's spirit inspires Bush

Edward L. Cardenas / The Detroit News

Sgt. Duane Dreasky of Novi never expected a bedside visit from his commander in chief, but even swaddled in bandages, his response was immediate.

"He tried to salute, and the president said, 'You don't need to salute, I need to salute you,' " his wife, Mandeline Dreasky, recalled of the five-minute visit her husband shared with George W. Bush at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. "He was so proud and I was emotional for him. Bush is his hero."

As the only survivor of a blast in Iraq that killed four of his comrades, Dreasky has become something of a symbol of hope for a Michigan National Guard unit that has lost six citizen soldiers -- more than any other unit in the state.

He also is an example of how advances in evacuation techniques -- and new, cutting-edge care at U.S. military hospitals -- are allowing more soldiers to survive injuries that might have killed them in previous conflicts.

For Mandeline Dreasky, the drama of her husband's condition began on a day in November, when she arrived at her in-laws' Novi home, knowing Army officers were waiting inside with potentially devastating news about her husband.

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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/METRO/606300359

CON-SHUNSS?
WHAT'S THAT?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. does it hurt yet?

what if I push here? heh heh

[Octafish]

5. Bush is as cruel as they come. As a kid he'd put M80s up frogs' backsides.

...according to his then-friends.

History has proved him right: Bush is one sick fellah.

The Character Issue

Two weeks ago there was considerable revulsion at the news of a California teenager tying a M80 to his pet rabbit, lighting it and tossing the rabbit over a pond.

Cruelty to animals is very sick going well beyond creepy little bully.

In the past few weeks Justin Frank has been promoting his new book, Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President and noted (in the book and in interviews) that the child W used to delight in putting firecrackers in living frogs. In particular a May 21, 2000 quote in the Times by Terry Throckmorton (longtime Bush buddy) is often quoted:

We were terrible to animals,' recalled Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. `Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Throckmorton said. `Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.;

If this is true, we may be dealing with a sick puppy - it is clearly a question that should be asked in public. It is possible Throckmorton was lying and it is also possible that this is normal behavior for a Bush boy.

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http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2004/08/the_character_i.html

[Philosoraptor]

2. He gets a sadistic kick out of it.

He was forced to do another photo op.

God damn his soul.

[Octafish]

12. Doctors consider Bush a nutjob.

As with all sick people, I feel sorry for him and his family.

Bush on the Couch

By Justin Frank

Dr. Frank is the author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (2004). He is a Washington, D.C.–based psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at George Washington University Medical School.

If one of my patients frequently said one thing and did another, I would want to know why. If I found that he often used words that hid their true meaning, and affected a persona that obscured the nature of his actions, I would grow more concerned. If he presented an inflexible worldview characterized by an oversimplified distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, allies and enemies, I would question his ability to grasp reality. And if his actions revealed an unacknowledged – even sadistic – indifference to human suffering, wrapped in pious claims of compassion, I would worry about the safety of the people whose lives he touched.

For the last three years, I have observed with increasing alarm the inconsistencies and denials of such an individual. But he is not one of my patients. He is our President. He wants to remain our President for four more years, and he intends to do so on his own terms. On August 27, the eve of the Republican Convention, Bush said to New York Times reporters Sanger and Bumiller that “he would resist going ‘on the couch’ to rethink decisions.”

Since the Swift Boat controversy hit center stage in mid-August – both the ads and Bush’s refusal to take responsibility for them – we again see his reluctance to examine his conscience. Instead he remains mired in his long-standing pattern of denial and blame. Responsibility is something this president flees at all costs. It is a behavior pattern that began long before Bush became president, governor, or even a college student. It even began before Bush had become an alcoholic (he finally stopped drinking at age forty, with the help of his religion), though his response to criticism is typical of untreated alcoholics.

Bush was the first born child to a family that had long and moneyed traditions on both sides. When he was three and a half his sister Robin was born. It has been said that the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” was written with the first-born child in mind. It seems to capture perfectly the irrevocable trauma felt with the second child is born: Nothing can put the first-born back together again. Of course, first-born offspring find different ways to manage this insult. Some can be suspicious and overly competitive; others can be overtly nice while covertly furious; still others always keep an eye on the second child, making sure he doesn’t get too much. First-born children keep careful track of how much food mother gives to their siblings.

But if the second-born dies, as Robin did when George was seven, then an entirely new and complex dynamic is set in motion. The first-born often has to disown his destructive fantasies and banish them into his unconscious. But such fantasies threaten his mental equilibrium and he has to do something with them. One solution is to project them outward, thereby experiencing people around him as destructive or a source of danger.

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http://hnn.us/articles/7106.html

[TlalocW]

3. Why isn't he sunbathing with him in a photo-op

He can continue his motif that he started with jogging with the soldier who lost his legs.

After that, arm-wrestling a guy with an arm prosthesis.

TlalocW

[Octafish]

13. The guy is shameless.

He is the rotten head that is rotting the nation down.



If only Bush knew he's just a figurehead...

Bush fulfills pledge to jog with wounded soldier

By Jennifer Loven
Associated Press

President Bush took a jog Tuesday with a soldier who lost part of both legs in Iraq, following through on a bedside promise even the president had doubts about at the time.

Despite a slight drizzle, Bush and Staff Sgt. Christian Bagge took a slow jog around a spongy track that circles the White House’s South Lawn. About halfway through their approximately half-mile run, Bush and Bagge paused briefly for reporters.

“He ran the president into the ground, I might add,” Bush said, as the two gripped hands in an emotional, lengthy shake. “But I’m proud of you. I’m proud of your strength, proud of your character.”

The president met the soldier on a New Year’s Day visit to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where Bagge had been recuperating from his injuries for months. Bagge, now 23 and a native of Eugene, Ore., was in a convoy hit by roadside bombs a year ago in the remote Iraq desert south of Kirkuk.

Bagge’s left leg was amputated just above the ankle, and his right leg ends just above the knee.

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http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1915739.php

[louis-t]

15. "See, he's better than new!"

Screamed the AWOL chicken-in-chief.

[LibDemAlways]

16. First thing I thought of, too. His first words to

the guy were probably, "Look at the bright side. You won't have to buy your mummy costume for the Halloween party."

[MikeNearMcChord]

4. Sadly, this man will need extensive care, for the rest of his life

and it will cost money, and Bush wants to gut the VA to pay for Paris Hilton's tax cuts, and don't get me started on the drugs needed for control of pain, and how doctors are generally scared of proscribing the needed doses, because of the drug laws.:mad:

[lonestarnot]

9. Excellent observations!

[peekaloo]

6. Pic caption says this meeting took place in January.

File under July 4th photo op.

Poor guy.

[dipsydoodle]

7. I think he's telling the guy

This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home..............

[AlCzervik]

8. i wonder if he said "If i only had a magic wand"

that was one of his most used lines during 99.

[dave29]

10. I made this!

thinks GWB

[Philosoraptor]

11. Disgusting. Revolting. Obnoxious. Horrific. Exploitative. Evil.

Demonic. Ungodly. Blasphemous.

[bdamomma]

14. rove is pullling out the play book for bush

to show how bush is concerned about these troops, :puke: they will do anything to exploit anyone to get what they want.

it is sickening how bush is playing us like fools, we can all see he's trying to get brownie points, what a sick sick man and he is.