The Decider Meets a Troop ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

And it doesn't faze him in the least. No conscience = no guilt.



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U.S. President George W. Bush meets double amputee Army Sgt. James Kevin Downs upon his arrival in Nashville, Tennessee, July 19, 2007. Downs was wounded by an IED in Iraq. Behind is his father Joe. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES)

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[Ganja Ninja]

1. "Heh Heh, Hey Stubby looks like you won't be playing any tennis."

[YOY]

2. Just curious. Do you think the guy is giving love the shrub because...

a. He's getting paid to do this.

b. He actually refuses to believe that he lost his limbs so that the Military Industrial Complex and Oil companies could profit because it would destroy him.

c. He'll actually get his entitled benefits if he shows the love.

d. We've been completely wrong and this glorious war is actually completely just and well thought out and we're fighting them there so they don't jump out of Aisle 5 in Walmart over here.

[Ron Green]

4. Maybe in the celebrity- and media-driven environment we've created,

this unfortunate guy's excitement about meeting the preznit eclipses his loss. I don't know what I'd do if I were this troop, but I'd like to think that I'd turn a photo op into a smackdown.

[YOY]

8. Smackdown? Just a "loogie-to-the-face-down" would be good for me

n/t

[JuniperLea]

10. he let his wounds all hang out...

Most people cover such things... I think that was his statement.

I'd be excited to meet any president, I think. But the excitement would wear off quickly if I ever met this one.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. e. He's looped on pain killers and has no clue where he's at or ...

who he's talking to.

[YOY]

9. and his father? What's he on?

Hell if that were my old man, I'd be ashamed if he didn't say something to put the monkey in his place.

[Ganja Ninja]

12. I have know idea what the hell he's thinking.

I'll bet 2 or 3 years from now he'll wish he'd choked the SOB.

[Justpat]

13. b. n/t

[YOY]

14. I'd be wont to make him understand it for that very reason.

Poor guy...

[Maddy McCall]

43. B

Without a doubt, B.

[TomInTib]

3. Scenes such as that make me crazy.

That gutless motherfucker standing there with that shit-eating smile on his cretinous face.

You cost Sgt.Downs his legs, you lying fuck.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

21. Look at it this way, Thomas:

Said lying fuck has not even begun to pay the price for his actions. He will.

Imagine going into history as being, very likely, one of the most, if not the most, vilified and disliked public officials of any stripe in the history of the republic. Imagine being the political death of a family that saw itself as being America's Dynasty. Imagine being the person directly responsible for an erosion of a nation's international position that will take multiple generations to put right.

And then, there are the legal issues that we have yet to begin to resolve. They are gonna take up a lot of his time in the years ahead as well.

Nah, it's gonna suck to be him, starting in the very near future and going on for many years after that. Who knows? he could be the first former president to punch his own ticket, and i don't say that lightly. When the reality of his actions and their consequences ultimately intrude on his sociopathy, and they will, especially when he finds himself abandoned by former sycophants and vilified around the world, unwanted for his counsel and uninvited to events, he would very well take the most immediate and self-indulgent way out of this vale of tears. You can be sure that he will return to the solace of his old running buddy, John Barleycorn, for he will have few, if any, social-based support systems.

And then, he will not be mourned, except by a handful of his most toxic fellow travelers. Certainly not by larger society. And he will know, in the marrow of his soul, it is all his own fault.

[TomInTib]

26. So very well put. Thank you.

For now I am slightly less crazy after reading that.

But only for the moment.

You always massage a subject so succinctly.

And you have brought me down from the ceiling and off the walls many times, friend.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

30. Well, then...

That is a rich, rich payoff for me, for any time I have spent typing shit here.

Any time, bubbaman, any time at all. I have clung to a few ceilings and walls in my day. I know how valuable some solicitous and moderating words can be.

[Supersedeas]

32. If it comes to pass, then it will be justice...only we have seen so lil of it to date

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

34. That's the problem with Real Justice:

It's slow, and we live in a society that demands immediate gratification of our wants and needs. We have forgotten how to be patient.

[Stephanie]

46. also his hands

or at least the right.

[truedelphi]

48. The exchange between you and T_S is an odd one

On the one hand your words describe the Bush we all know - but if you are to write the history books, young children will not be able to read them (Yet we who have been made into adults by the heartless insanity of the Bush years can very well feel that your words ring true)

Then there is the reply from T_S - and his eloquence would do well for those history books - and it is language that even a child could read - but it is of an eloquence of a past era (In today's dumbed down schools - such language would be prohibited.)

Both your responses are correct -but the tone is so different.

[BobRossi]

5. On the other hand.

The legless troop seems quite pleased to meet the asshole that put him in harms way, as do his parents. Fuck them all.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

7. Now There's A TRUE 26 Percenter

When shaking hands with, and hugging the man somewhat responsible for the fact you'll NEVER walk again, is the high point of your life, you can't get anymore loyal than that.

I'm sure he'll remember george fondly for however long he ends up living.

[SIMPLYB1980]

11. Thats enuff people!

This man has sacrificed for you. Regardless of your felling for Shrub, he doesn't deserve the hate. Shrub does!

[abq e streeter]

15. Thank You

for saying it

[SIMPLYB1980]

27. Thank you to! Someone had to say it!

[abq e streeter]

16. meaning thank you SIMPLYB

[Stephanie]

17. There's no hate for the soldier here.

Nice try, though.

[SIMPLYB1980]

29. Sounded pretty hateful to me.

He could just be a solder happy to be home and alive. Calling him a 26%'er is an insult as far as I'm concerned. He was no Chicken-hawk he actually served

[Lex]

19. Nobody's 'hating' on the soldier. nt

[HeeBGBz]

22. Nobody's hating that soldier

Cut that phoney bullshit.

[conspirator]

37. "somewhat responsible". He is the responsible. When a GI tortures an Iraqi bush is also

the responsible. When the elite sends the slaves to do their dirty work they now that atrocities will happen.

[PBass]

18. Think about how Bush's audiences are screened, before he can give a speech. Supporters only!

Meeting him in person for a photo op would be no different.

[bleedingheart]

20. how can shrub sleep at night...

that young man sacrificed his body in a war based on a lie.

[Bluebear]

23. Bush: "I was wounded too!!"

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/070106woundedtoo.htm

Our fearless leader is talking to wounded troops and tells them about his run in with some cedar.

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Uh, guys... 'troop' is a collective noun

The photos show W meeting a soldier.

:patriot:

[Stephanie]

25. whatever

we take a little poetic license around here sometimes.

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Oh, okay

When I see people making fun of Freeperisms, then, I'll just remind them — "Hey, poetic license."

:hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

35. Oh bloody hell, don't do THAT.

Then you'll just get accused of being a troll.


d00d, series... you should know better than to correct grammar in GD, no matter how well-intentioned. I mean, there are some people you just can't win with.



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[Oeditpus Rex]

38. *slaps forehead*

Drat me and my silly "If we're gonna make fun of them, we should hold ourselves to a higher standard" belief.

[Stephanie]

40. What is an "Oeditpus" anyway?

Um, you're an editor? Shall I explain that for the freepers or do you think they'll figure it out on their own?

[Ron Green]

42. "Troop" is also used to refer to a single soldier,

as in "You're fucking up, Troop,"

God knows I heard that a few times 40 years ago.

[Chico Man]

47. Wouldn't that be troopER?

[Ron Green]

51. No, "trooper" usually refers to a state police officer. "Troop" is a legitimate word for a soldier,

as in "support the troopS" (plural) or "you're fucking up again, Troop" (as in my military career.)

[judaspriestess]

31. Thank you for your service young man

[npincus]

33. I keep thinking he should be the one in the wheelchair

he should switch places with that man.

[conspirator]

36. Bush thinking: "Thank God it's not my legs. Sucker" n/t

[spanone]

39. God Bless Him, and i don't mean junior.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

41. Poor kid has no choice except to believe Bush's war is good

too bad when people are forced to live in denial.

[Guaranteed]

50. It's not his fault. I wouldn't WANT this guy to know the truth. nt

[Harper_is_Bush]

44. With all due respect.....they look hand-picked to me.

red/white/blue shirt.....the looks of adulation.

Great visuals...a man (nation) that has suffered so much, accompanied by his father no less, is still grateful and loving of the man who has made them suffer.

[Control-Z]

45. The Decider

needs to have his legs painfully blown off - and then spend the rest of his life making decisions from a wheelchair. Although, for him, with his pappy and all their dirty money, he still wouldn't have any real understanding. Dirtbag!!

[ClayZ]

49. Hey george, those shoes hurting your feet a little?

Argh!