Bush On Iraq Amputee: "Good Man, We're Gonna Get Him Some New Legs..."

[Wetzelbill]

Bush On Iraq Amputee: "Good Man, We're Gonna Get Him Some New Legs..."

During a speech, President Bush commented on a meeting with a veteran who had lost both legs in Iraq. Citing his conversation with the veteran, Bush said "he's a good man, we're gonna get him some new legs...".

Watch the video from CNN:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/07/20/bush-on-iraq-amputee-go_n_57083.html


I tell you what, that Bush, he's just like Rocky Balboa, all heart. A total class act. :eyes:

[Hand]

1. I'll pass on the video, thanks.

My blood pressure's bad enough as it is. :nuke:

Chimpy is flat-out insane.

[panader0]

2. I caught that too. bush just doesn't get it- HE lost that young man's legs

[Skidmore]

22. Well, hell, what's the complaint here?

You don't need the legs you came with when you can get store-bought ones. Don't get arthritis in those joints and it's patriotic and good for the economy. Happy shoppin'.


Got legs?

[Alexander]

3. What is that, his Forrest Gump moment?

I read a post from a DUer claiming that Forrest Gump warmed people up to the idea of a mentally deficient leader and "giving the dumb guy a chance", hence Shrub's selection.

It makes some sense, if you think about it.

"Lieutenant Dan, you got new legs!"

[bahrbearian]

6. Yes, brand new solid Titaium...

[sandnsea]

9. I would say

not being able to even expect a hamburger order to be right warmed the country up to mental deficiency a whole lot more than Forrest Gump ever did. In fact, I bet Forrest Gump could do a better job at McDonalds than most of the potheads that are working those jobs now.

[Alexander]

11. Excuse me?

"not being able to even expect a hamburger order to be right warmed the country up to mental deficiency a whole lot more than Forrest Gump ever did. In fact, I bet Forrest Gump could do a better job at McDonalds than most of the potheads that are working those jobs now."

Newsflash - being a "pothead" does not automatically make you stupid.

I'd rather have a pothead take my order than a drunk, that's for sure.

[sandnsea]

13. Nah, just absent-minded

And people who are drunk on the job tend to get fired so I don't even know why you brought that up, not thinking clearly I guess. :)

[Alexander]

20. We must know very different potheads.

"And people who are drunk on the job tend to get fired so I don't even know why you brought that up, not thinking clearly I guess."

That's as broad and incorrect an overgeneralization as the one you made about potheads.

There are plenty of drunks and potheads I know who have held down steady, even difficult, jobs. It is foolish to say the decline in cognitive faculties is solely due to weed, and you've been smoking something really wacky if you think that's the case.

[sandnsea]

23. You're the one who brought drunks into it

You're the one who said you wouldn't want your order taken by a drunk. Now why would you say that, hmmmm.

You sound waaaay too defensive to me.

[stellanoir]

4. Big of him. . .

And he'll be as good as new.

Compassionate conservatism at it's finest. . . .right. . .?

Leaving many body parts behind. . .

Keep those war profits comin'.

/sarcasm

[China_cat]

8. You forgot the part where they then

send the bill to the vet...and repossess his legs when he can't pay. And the chimp says that the gov't. paying for them would just open avenues for others to cancel their insurance.

[stellanoir]

16. Yeah in truth. . .

I didn't forget. I just withheld from typing it. The way in which our vets are treated so-o-o sub humanly and as though they are thoroughly disposable cannon fodder, I wonder if he'd, over time end up homeless.

Hope that was a fear. . .and not at all prophetic.

Have just heard all too many grim stories.

[Wetzelbill]

10. it's ok though

It's not like our health care system has any holes in it, especially with Bush being such a compassionate advocate of health care for everybody. Just ask all those kids he provided health care for last week in that bill.... oops, nevermind.

[Mandate My Ass]

5. What a lucky ducky that amputee is. New legs are so much better

than those old ones he was born with. Maybe the Pentagon should charge him for those new legs, that's not standard issue. :puke:

[Wetzelbill]

7. kind of like all those displaced Katrina victims

that Barbara Bush said were so much better off in Texas than they were back home. And you wonder why I can't stand those people.

[Mandate My Ass]

12. Oh yes, they did quite well for themselves being displaced and barely

escaping the devastation with their lives. Very well, indeed. In fact, she sent them some of her son Neil's useless software and pocketed a nice fat tax break for giving out software to people who'd never have a computer to use it on. The Bushes excel at "giving" people things they'd never dream of asking for themselves, and passing the tab along.


Bush had better be careful or else all the troops are going to "opt out" of keeping their own legs and get those brand new ones the gov't is so generously doling out.

[Bitwit1234]

14. Now where's Oz, I need a brain.

[rucky]

15. He's like Santa Claus and the Grim Reaper all rolled up into one...

big asshat.

[Wetzelbill]

18. I started to laugh at that until

I realized how fucked up this guy is and that he is the current White House resident. It's like living in a nightmare or something.

[MidwestTransplant]

17. What a lucky guy. No doubt they will be better than his first pair.

[notadmblnd]

19. yeah, well I hope the poor guy doesn't hold his breath

waiting for those new legs because I doubt bush was doing anything more than playing to the crowd. His feigned compassion towards that soldier only lasted till he walked off the stage.

[Wetzelbill]

21. Bush is creepy like that

He weirds me out how he talks about things like getting this guy new legs with the same tone that he would if he was talking about getting somebody a new puppy. It's like the gravity of a difficult situation doesn't even register with him. He seems like he is incapable of understanding and feeling the differences between something like a person riding a bike and another person getting their throat cut. I have long felt Bush is a sociopath, it would go a long way toward explaining his execution record and his mocking of Karla Faye Tucker, as well.

[StarryNite]

25. He has to be a sociopath.

[SoCalDem]

24. Who's gonna get his Mom & Dad a new life (or their old one back)?

The thing that's overlooked in all these homecomings for horrifically wounded soldiers is this.

Probably in MOST cases, the girlfriend/fiancee/wife will split, and that wounded vet will be "in the care of" his Mom & Dad for the rest of their lives.

It's what parents DO!

Gone will be any hope of a leisurely retirement for them, with their grown son a phone call away to help Pops with the yard work, or to help Mom move some furniture.

Those older parents will be forever mired in oceans of VA paperwork and a llifetime of phone calls trying to make sure he gets the care he's entitled to.

It probably will shorten their lives too. Worrying about what will happen to him when they are gone, weighs heavily on the soul.