Will Shrub attend Pat Tillman's funeral?

[jmowreader]

I think he will. He knows he has to go to one because the Left is screaming about he's never attended a soldier's funeral. So he'll go to this one.

There will be ten companies of infantry in the parade.

There will be a horse-drawn caisson.

There will be a caparisoned horse--one with a pair of boots stuck backwards in the stirrups.

There will be a minute salute--21 cannon shots at precise one-minute intervals.

The entire National Football League will be in attendance. All will be in black.

Shrub will come dressed in mourning garb. Pickles will spend three days in the White House basement looking for WWII-era blackout curtains to make her dress from. The entire Cabinet will be there.

They'll intern him in Arlington National Cemetery in the area reserved for generals. This because the funeral I just described is halfway between what a dead four-star general receives and what a dead president does. (However, when Shrub dies they'll bury him behind the prison with the other inmates who passed on there.)

On the front page of every paper in America will be a full-page color photo of the Shrub pretending to look distraught standing next to Pickles, who will be pretending this dress isn't made from drapery fabric or polyester doubleknit like the rest of her wardrobe. On page 9C will be a little black & white picture of Pat Tillman.

[NMDemDist2]

1. we are a cynical group aren't we ROFL n/t

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. My gut instinct is that he won't

you know why? It would look weird that he chose to go to the funeral of an NFL player and not to the funerals of any of the other 700+ "everyday Joes" who have died.

Know what I mean?

[Old and In the Way]

7. This ain't no normal pResident, though....

I think this guy will see no irony or feel no shame in exploiting this death. I can even see an NFL/FOX/RNC production to make this into a "special tribute" to the fallen with Mr. Tillman representing all the Iraqi deaths.

Of course this would be a cynical and shallow exploitation of Mr. Tillman, but we are talking about an administration and Party that's willing to exploit the 9/11 victims to further his election bid...why would this be out-of-bounds?

[PfcHammer]

13. nice. i can easily see a prime time memorial show

with acts such as Darryl Worley that
can stir the sheeple to support
the next wave of the crusade.

[MissB]

3. WWII-era blackout curtains!!!!! Rofl!!! (nt)

[azmesa207]

4. Will Scrub attend Pat Tillman funeral

It will be a disgrace if he does It would just be a political stunt

[jmowreader]

17. Just a political stunt? Shrub?

"Mission Accomplished."

"Rubber Turkey."

Shrub loves political stunts.

[billybob537]

5. Shrub will not attend

It would take too much of his valuable time that could be more wisely spent clearing brush! :hurts::puke:

[LittleApple81]

6. If he attends it will look bad for him. Tillman went because of principle

but he is not the common American soldier in this war. It would look like he is choosing a celebrity over regular Americans.

[Malva Zebrina]

8. Bush will in some way seek to capitalize on this dead soldier

I do not think he will have one scintilla of feeling for him at all, as well as for his family, but he will try to capitalize on it for his own gain.

Bush is responsible for the deaths of seven hundred of our young people who were sent to war on Bush's lies.

He is

THE ONE WHO MADE THE DECISION ON LIES. ALL HE COULD THINK OF WAS THE OIL FIELDS, HALLIBURTON, BROWN AND ROOT, AND THE COMPLETION,IN SOME BIZAREE PLAY OUT OF THE OEDIPUS FACTOR, OF ONE UPPING HIS FATHER, WHO IS KNOWN TO HAVE FAILED. THE SON WANTS TO OUTDO THE FATHER BUT THE SON IS REALLY AN IDIOT THAT IS ENTRANCED WITH HIS OWN IMAGE OF HIMSELF. IRONICALLY,HE IS THE RESULT OF THE FATHER'S BREEDING AND THE UPBRINGING OF AN INCOMPETENT BITCH WHO BELIEVES SHE IS INCLUDED IN HIGH SOCIET, WHEN THE FACT IS THAT SHE WAS ACTUALLY SHUNNED.


THE SPOILED BRAT, NEEDS to have the buck stop at his desk, but he continues to shift the blame, lie, and try to spin our of his responsibilites and his horrific mistakes because he was NEVER taught to take responsibility--he was, instead taught how to spin and to pretend and how to play a part.


Now in in his middle fifties, he does not know how to do anything better except to escape to Crawford with his frump who has to be miffed as it appears that he really prefers Condi over her fat assed and banal contributions. He is, you see, still striving in his dedication to Condi, rather than to the boring Laura.

He has taken this country down the tubes to the sewer of total human degeneracy

He is a stupid man and somehow has gained power.

How did that happen?

I cannon beliueve that fifty percent of the people of America still believe that Saddam had WMD.

[Sequoia]

9. What a nightmare you paint

I sure hope not. Football, schmootball. Why? Should we honor this jock because he walked away from that 3 million deal. He would've come back to it...as a hero and get more money. I'm sorry he died but let's remember all the other 600+ and growing too.

[ezee]

12. Thanks for your post

I thought there might be something wrong with me for wondering why there is so much play to this gentelmans death. He is/was an American soldier, just like the 600+ other soliders who have died for this attach on Iraq. His story is no more or less important than those others. They all should be revered for there service and there deaths.

[jmowreader]

18. Ezee, you're low.

It's in the low seven hundreds now in Iraq. We were at 600 at the beginning of the month, just before the huge massacre started. Incidentally, Tillman died in Afghanistan, where the death toll is still under 200 and the war's been going on longer.

Yes, he was an American soldier. He's being played because he was in the NFL.

[dweller]

10. and miss an incredible photo-op?

that we'll be subjected to over and over and over...


nah,
dp

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Of course he'll exploit this.

Even if he doesn't actually go to the funeral, he'll find a way to milk the death of Pat Tillman. Of course, there are the other 700 dead soldiers that nobody has heard of and whose deaths Bush has ignored and hoped we would ignore, too. Tillman acted admirably, but -- not to take anything away from him -- his death was no more tragic than any of the others. But he was a celebrity, so we can expect Bush to use his death for maximum exposure and political advantage.

[Bluebear]

11. Don't forget Toby Keith....

He'll warble a new original ditty about "Going deep for the US of A", it will be a megahit.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

15. It would be tacky but I wouldn't be surprised.

Painting this football guy as a hero is going to influence kids to join the military. Unfortunately it's going to serve as a recruiting tool if you want to die a hero. My opinion is that he was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Darwin's theory in action. No disrespect intended.

[elfin]

16. You Betcha

I hope his wife relays that he was for going into Afghanistan, but felt the Iraqi misadventure reduced troop strength in the real area of importance.

Doubtful about this, but that is what I feel about any loss in Afghanistan.