Gold Star Families Speak Out: "HOW DARE HE"

[kpete]

Gold Star Families Speak Out:

President Bush, showed an appalling lack of respect, understanding, and common decency when he told a reporter this week that he you no longer plays golf because “I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

How dare he equate his decision to give up playing golf with the sacrifice he has demanded from our families and from the 4,077 U.S. troops killed in combat and the many thousands more who have taken their own lives or died as a result of drugs and alcohol as a result of the horrors they witnessed in Iraq?

What President Bush owes the families of the troops who have died in Iraq is an end to the war that shattered our lives by killing our sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives, nieces and nephews, granddaughters and grandsons.

He will never be able to begin to understand the pain of losing someone he loves in an illegal, immoral, and unjust war. We aren't asking for his solidarity or his sympathy -- we are demanding that he bring all our troops home from Iraq now before one more family's life is ruined forever.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/33479

[midnight]

1. Let's end the war, not golf.

Way over time to BRING THEM HOME.

[hisownpetard]

2. That was such a disgusting remark - even considering from whence it came - that it's almost

difficult to address it.

How demeaning it is, to the families of those who lost their lives in Bush's War. How trivial
it makes their deaths, in the mind of the man who sent them there to die!

No words.

[madame defarge]

3. Notice that...

the Hypocrite-in-Chief didn't give up mountain biking, clearing brush, fishing, pleasure boat riding with Daddy in Kennebunkport, etc...

[KansDem]

4. Bush lied us into this war...

It seems the only people who haven't figured that out are Bush himself and the US media.

[dajoki]

5. K&R!!

If, and that is a BIG IF, we had a TRUE commander in chief, I would endorse his playing golf, just for the sake of clearing his mind. However, we do not have a TRUE commander in chief, we have a moron who has no mind to clear, let alone any conscience whatsoever, therefore his giving up golf is nothing but an idiotic and backhanded punch in the mouth to the brave soldiers and their families who have sacrificed so much for his whims and lies. There is absolutely nothing he can do to be in solidarity with them other than to bring ALL the troops home NOW and then RESIGN in disgrace!!

[hisownpetard]

6. And what makes it even more egregious is the fact that Bush planted that question, indicating

that he must've just wanted to get it out there, thinking that it'd be a good public relations coup to show how compassionate
and thoughtful he is, giving up golf to show what a great guy he is.

I have never seen a bigger POS in my life than that man.

Not to mention the "reporter" who regurgitated the Bush- dictated and totally irrational question (paraphrasing): Mr. President, it's been noted that
you have stopped playing golf. Is that related to Iraq?

WHAAAT?????

[undeterred]

7. He should give up warmongering, not golf.

But that would be too hard to give up.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I would like to start taking up a collection to buy the man a set of golf clubs

Perhaps if he starts playing golf again, our soldiers and the Iraqis will stop dying.

Seriously, though, this blogger broke the truth. The reason he quit playing golf is his bad knees. http://bluegirlredmissouri.blogspot.com/