AWOL's "Service" Commemorated in Bronze ---pix->>>

[Stephanie]

Calling Mary Mapes!




U.S. President George W. Bush (R) inspects a bronze bust commemorating his service in the Texas Air National Guard, in Washington, February 9, 2006. Bush is the nineteenth U.S. president to have served in the militia or National Guard. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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[FreedomAngel82]

1. Freakin liar!

Is this for real? UGH! I can't believe they are giving him this for being AWOL! Isn't someone going to step up and say "no"?

[pointblank]

2. Un-friggin believable

Thats like making a bronze bust of Gomer Pyle and unveiling it at a serious ceremony in his honor. The only difference is that Gomer Pyle actually served honorably :rofl:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. Gag me with a spoon . . .

. . . here and I was gonna have a bit of lunch, too.

:puke:

[cybildisobedience]

4. will the statue just disappear at some point...

just like Bush did with his N.G. "service?"

[havocmom]

5. Just a bust. A full statue would show a lot of bottles around

[SeattleVet]

23. Just a bust - does this actually show the percentage of * in

a direct relationship to the percentage of time he actually bothered to show up? I'd say that the bust shows about 20%, which sounds about right.

[Kierkegaard]

6. You have got to be F&%#ING KIDDING ME!?!?!

If being AWOL from cush duty is all it takes to get a bust commemorating service, then why don't Murtha, Cleland and Kerry have freakin MONUMENTS erected in their honor???

We have truly gone through the looking glass...

:freak:

[acmavm]

7. Commemorating his SERVICE? WTF? You get a

commemorative bust for going AWOL if you're in the Texas National Guard?

[MuseRider]

8. Quick someone

get some talc on that upper lip!

This is disgusting. Can we pull it down when he is impeached?

[Zookeeper]

9. Shouldn't the bust show him tilted back with his mouth open...

since the only thing he consistently showed up for were his dental exams?

[NightOwwl]

24. Also a very good position for a bottle of booze turned upside down.

Goes down the throat nice and easy.

[SpiralHawk]

10. That's a shit-eating facial expression, if ever I saw one

Bush knows how false and phony this is, and at the level of his soul he is profoundly distrubed by the Propaganda Lie. but his ego and his personality are so deep into fear and denial, that he endures this "honoring" all the same.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

13. yes.

he's one seriously fucked-up guy.

There will be psych books written about him for generations . . . assuming he doesn't murder us all first.

[Stephanie]

25. It says, "am I really getting away with this?"

Answer: NO

[soup]

11. In this case, it's called a bust because

his time in the service was broken.

What an asshat.

[Double T]

12. This is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

[deminks]

14. Close up view

How can he keep the lies straight? They missed the chimp qualities, btw.

[SpiralHawk]

15. Bush's face has doubt and fear written all over it

in this photo.

He must feel the bitter bite of this Big Lie to the core of his bowels (forgive the hideous imagery, nothing less will do).

[Zookeeper]

22. That just doesn't look like him.

The chin is too prominent, the nose and nostrils and all wrong, the forehead is too high. The shirt (check different photo) looks like a wild west shirt.

The ear looks about right. Who the heck sculpted this? Kick him or her back to 3-D Art 101.

[wicket]

16. WHAT THE FUCK??!!!!!!!!!

:puke: :puke: :grr: :grr:

[Swamp Rat]

17. It doesn't look a damn bit like him...

which is good since Bushler never really served his country in a good way.

[VaYallaDawg]

18. This puts a new meaning on the word "craziness."

[leftofthedial]

19. wait a minute! where's the coke spoon?

and the beer cans?

is that a musket behind him or a coke straw?

In a related story, the bust is now missing and unaccounted for.

[Ian David]

20. Thatnks to Bush, not a single Vietcong plane ever hit Alabama. n/t

[deutsey]

21. Did anyone hear/see Mapes on "Democracy Now" today?

It was the first of a two-part interview:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/163259

The second part is tomorrow.