Bush to Award Three Medals of Freedom

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) is awarding the nation's highest civilian honor to three men central to his Iraq (news - web sites) policy, the White House announced Thursday.

Bush has chosen retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who oversaw combat in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and the initial invasion of Iraq, former CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet and former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The president will hand out the awards at a White House ceremony Dec. 14, press secretary Scott McClellan said.
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This fall, Bremer suggested the United States had paid a price in Iraq in the immediate aftermath of major combat operations because it did not have enough troops in place to stop the looting.

Those remarks gave Bush critics ammunition for their claims that the administration's postwar planning was inadequate.

Bremer tried to calm that controversy by saying he had constantly supported the president's strategy in Iraq.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20041202/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_medal_of_freedom

[skylarmae]

1. my mouth's agape..

my brain scrambled; and stomach about to hurl! Thanks for the THUMP.. I needed that..

[Democracy Died 2004]

2. I guess they are getting

Medals of Freedom because they ran out of "I love Satan" buttons?

[Stinky The Clown]

3. what the FUCK?????????

I thought the MoF was for *real* people who do good things.

Franks, although I think he's not a good guy, I could even make a case for ...... Tenent? I just don't get that ...... but Bremer? Gimme a fuckin' break ........

[montanacowboy]

4. Yup...give the three stooges a medal

nothing shocks me anymore - I just laff like I am watching some Sat. Night Live show

[Buck Rabbit]

5. Bremer will just lose the medal ...

he'll set it down next to the $8 billion and forget where he put it.

[Lisa]

15. that's the funniest thing I've heard this week!

Buck, you are EVIL! Thanks for the much-needed laugh!

[flordehinojos]

6. those medals are so full of blood i'd throw them in his face!

[NYC Liberal]

7. Did they do a FABULOUS job, George?

Were their jobs "hard work."

Hmph.

[lapfog_1]

8. 3 out of 5 isn't bad

That's right, 3 out of the 5 worst decision makers in the Iraqi mess.

The other two being Rummy and Cheney.

Tenet was the "Slam Dunk" WMD guy (despite his own agency saying
"hold on a minute there").

Franks was the "shock and awe" plus the "rapid advance" strategist
that created chaos in the fall of the Saddam gov. Plus he, along
with Rummy, was the "120,000 should do the trick" guy, with no
provisions for security forces AFTER the main war was over.

And Bremer was the "we need to disband the Iraqi army (creating
a huge population of unemployed armed insurgents), and we must
purge the Bathists (leaving an infrastructure devoid of anyone
capable of making anything work... thus creating even MORE pissed
off people - now insurgents) AND, for the trifecta, he started
awarding contracts to US companies (like Hallibuton) who DIDN'T
hire locals to do things like drive trucks, but hired TARGETS at
astronomical wages from the US to do those jobs... thus pissing
off even more people.

Three complete incompetents. Medal of Freedom winners. Great.

[Just Me]

9. The 100,00+ innocent lives extinguished,...will surely do unto you,...

,...as you should expect them to do unto you,...the way you treated them,...as expendible lives,...for your glory.

GWB,...you deserve the hell you have delivered,...and you will get ten-fold what you gave,...per the verse.

[alexisfree]

10. wtf

is my brain still working? or I’m just plain stupid?...wtf is wrong with this world!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Massachusetts]

11. WTF

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :silly: :silly: :silly: :crazy: :crazy: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke:

[jmowreader]

12. Well, it makes perfect sense

Bush isn't going to admit he fucked up. He isn't going to admit anyone misled him. Instead, he's going to award medals to the people who misled him the worst.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

13. Look on the bright side.

At least he didn't give them to Wolfowitz, Perle, and Chalabi.

[Maven]

14. So, where are the Freedom Medal band-aids, you sleazebags?

[aikido15]

16. Criminals are awarded medals of honor...

Wonderful.

[Sara Beverley]

17. These medals have no meaning for me since they are awarded by

Bush, the pretender to the throne. Receiving anything from Bush would not be an honor to me.

[Massachusetts]

18. Yup you are correct

:thumbsup:

[BootinUp]

19. Breaking: Bush reduces Medal of Freedom to a worthless

piece of tin. :puke:

[JI7]

20. awards to "shut the fuck up" and not tell the truth as Paul O'Neill

Richard Clarke and some others have done.

[UTUSN]

24. Exactly--It's a Payoff to Shut Up---No Books--Ya Hear! n/t

[Poor Richard Lex]

21. Won't the Iraqis hate them for their freedom? eom

[Ilsa]

22. Too bad they aren't awarded posthumously.

I hope I didn't break any posting rules. If I did, I'll be happy to comply with DU rules and retract.

[hippywife]

23. OMG!!!

While not surprising this should be renamed the Brown Nose Medal of Compliance in these three cases.

The stupidity keeps on coming! :eyes:

[Palacsinta]

25. Color me conspired............

Ya know......I've been in the "I can't BELIEVE we lost but we did, so I'm going to live to fight another day" camp........but now............I am stunned! Tenet? Bremer? Franks? There is NO EFFING WAY that this administration has pulled off what it is apparently pulling off without effing stealing the effing election!! 51% of Americans BELIEVE THIS CRAP? The FREAKIN' MEDAL OF FREEDOM to Franks, TENET and BREMER? Jesus, Mary, God, and Joseph help me!!

[Cinletharwi]

26. Didn't he give this one or a similar medal to a country music singer?

Seems I remember this same sort dishing out medals happening before..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Franks was highly visible campaigning for Bush in 2004. Payoff. . . nt