"Get ready for some more because we're going to kick their ass."

[alcuno]

Apparently, those were the moving words spoken by our president in March 2002 to the now dead son of the Morehead family. He was killed on 9/12 in Iraq.

"The Moreheads cherish a picture taken in March 2002 of the soldier shaking hands with a shirt-sleeved President Bush at Fort Bragg, N.C. -- and were passing out copies of the photo to visiting mourners Friday.

Jim Morehead said his son was proud to tell the story of having lunch with Bush at Fort Bragg -- 5th Group's headquarters -- after giving the president a field demonstration.

The soldier told his father that the president got up from the table, "and he came back and stuck his head over the table and said 'Get ready for some more because we're going to kick their ass,'" Jim Morehead said."


http://pigstye.net/iraq

[dflprincess]

1. Someone should have asked him

"What do ya mean we?"

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. tou-(f'ing)-che!

:thumbsup:

[southern democrat]

3. Kick

[arcane1]

4. whose ass was he talking about, in March 2002?

:shrug:

oh dear god, I almost hope the father NEVER learns the truth!

-snip-
"My son used to come home and say that the president was a patriot," his father said, sitting on the front porch of the family's Benton, Ark., home. "Now I can say my son is a patriot too."

can you imagine?

and

-snip-

The family considered Morehead to be on the front line in the war against terror, they said.

[alcuno]

7. That part made me sick when I read it.

"My son used to come home and say that the president was a patriot." He was two weeks away from leaving Iraq.

[whathappened]

5. yes the dream he did'nt

have enought balls to do himself when it was his turn to serve , what a wantta bee

[diplomats]

6. I thought Bush didn't use swear words?

Weren't there all those stories about how he frowned upon any use of profanity in the WH? More BS, I guess. (BTW, I find the cowboy-like idiocy of his comment more offensive than his use of the word ass. I was just pointing out the 1 millionth example of this administration's hypocrisy.)

[alcuno]

8. I remember a quote from some book

Something to the effect of "Fuck Saddam, we're taking him out." He's a real tough guy.

[TacticalPeek]

9. Ask Al Hunt about aWol's public profanity fit.

[diplomats]

11. That's right

and that after his supposed conversion, wasn't it?

[TacticalPeek]

10. TooStupidToBePresident

"I've been to war." - aWol January, 2003

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/02/ma_217_01.html

[MODemocrat]

12. Bush needs his ass kicked

The only reason Bush would go anywhere to see anyone would be for a photo op. It amazes me how the military can love Bush. He can just
go to hell in a hand basket for my part.

[Cat Atomic]

13. March, 2002...? Huh?

I thought we were still "giving diplomacy every chance" in March of 2002.

[alcuno]

14. They had probably been in Afghanistan

and needed to "get ready for some more." Iraq has been on the table since pre-9/11.

[arcane1]

15. ahh, it was the Taliban...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/15/politics/main503838.shtml


snip:

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., March 15, 2002

President Bush curried support for higher military spending among rank-and-file soldiers integral to the war in Afghanistan, urging Congress to make the extra funds "the first order of business so we can plan this war."

...

With the House preparing to vote on next year's target budget, the president used a visit to Fort Bragg, N.C., to call attention to his plan to raise defense spending by $48 billion to $379 billion, the largest increase in two decades.

"Nothing is more important than the national security of our country. So nothing is more important than our defense budget," he said. "The price for freedom is high, but it's never too high as far as I'm concerned."