Bush: I'm Envious Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan

[G_j]

I. personally, am speechless..


Bush: I'm Envious Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan

President Bush let his inner adventurer out while discussing the state of the war in Afghanistan with military and civilian personnel. While those in Afghanistan detailed the logistical and diplomatic problems via teleconference, the President took a much more whimsical approach to their mission. Via Reuters:

"I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed."

"It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks," Bush said.


Meanwhile, over 40 Taliban insurgents were killed in a battle in Southern Afghanistan, and six Afghani civilians were killed in a suicide bombing aimed at an American convoy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/13/bush-envious-of-soldier_n_91455.html

[shraby]

1. He certainly wasn't envious about being in

Vietnam when he was younger, now was he???

[tekisui]

3. No, he was more like,

shit-himself scared.

[tekisui]

2. Chimpy! Get the fuck over there and drive across an IED!!!!

Then, talk about the romance. God, allfuckingmighty.

[Cant trust em]

4. Maybe he should send some of our other soldiers to this "romantic" mission

instead of fighting idiotic wars in Iraq. End the other war now, George!

[ingac70]

5. Well that sick fuck needs to enlist! n/t

Romantic? :puke:

[OhioChick]

6. Funny

How he didn't feel this way during Nam.

Hell, he's not too old. Once he leaves office, he should go and finish his time that has been unaccounted for all these years.

"Fantastic Experience?" Has he been eating pretzels again?

[Breeze54]

7. O.M.G.. He's drinking again and remembering his "good times" in Vietnam! It was so romantic!

Er.... um...wait.... he didn't go to Vietnam when he had the chance!! :grr:

Let's send him to the 'front lines' of Afghanistan now!!

Now's our chance!! This time he really, really wants to go!!

There's hope yet for him!! Don't you just love it?? :loveya:

:puke: :sarcasm: :grr: :nuke:

Hey bush?

Come here!

Do us all a favor, would ya?

[bdamomma]

29. ohh....breeze 54

those little smilies spell it out so correctly.

[spindrifter]

8. This is outrageous.

I was there last year. I can assure him that it is not romantic. For one thing the freaking weather is abominable. In the summer, most areas are freakishly hot, as in desert. In the winter, it is colder than cold. People are starving because they can't get food in their mountain villages that are cut off due to snow. Since people burn cow dung for fuel, the air is filled with you-know-what. On top of that, years of drought have killed off a lot of the plants that used to grow there and there is almost always loads of dust, some of it fecal. It took me almost two months to get over the nice chest cold I brought back. I was lucky--I didn't get the intestinal problems some of my colleagues did.

And that is only the physical stuff--not the "romantic" opportunity to get up every day not knowing if you or someone you knew was going to make it through the entire day without getting hurt, killed or kidnapped.

F*ck you, *.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. I know it sounds trite, but as a Navy Wife (ret), since hubby managed to avoid

being stop losssed

Thank you for yer service

And we know it is NOT romantic,

Only an a-hole who has never seen war can think there is honor and glory in it... ok there is honor, but glory?

He's watched too many John Wayne movies

[Breeze54]

14. Welcome Home, spindrifter

and Thanks for serving. :hug:

[G_j]

15. certainly is

something is more than wrong with that sniveling coward,

Welcome home!

[bdamomma]

30. he is just not well at well, and just those comments he made

drip with this :sarcasm:

[ixion]

9. cheap words from commander AWOL

he's never had a romantic experience in his whole crappy loser life, IMO.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. That is why he was in the TANG, flying to keep

mexican Corsairs (F4-Us folks) away from US Airspace, since he didn't have the cajones to go to Nam

You weasel... son of a &))&^())_...

[JohnyCanuck]

11. There's another GD thread on this topic here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3005012

The consensus on that thread seems to be, to put it in a nut shell, that Chimpy should go have sexual congress with himself.

[Occam Bandage]

13. Funny. He had his chance to confront danger on the front lines.

[AnnieBW]

16. Chimpy... put down the Narnia DVDs

and take a look at what a REAL war looks like!

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Oh com'on you went and ruined the illusion of a romantic war!

:-)

KUDOS

[JohnyCanuck]

18. How Bush Got (and Lost) His Wings

Tracking the National Guard Career of the Fatuous Flyboy from New Haven

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

SNIP

In April of 1972, two important events coincide. The Air Force mandates drug testing for all pilots during medical exams and Bush takes what will turn out to be his last flight as a pilot for the Air National Guard.

Less than a month later, Bush flees his Texas Guard base for Alabama, where he signs up to work on the congressional campaign of Winton "Red" Blount, a friend of Bush's father and Nixon's postmaster general. He didn't inform his superiors at Ellington that he had left Texas until two weeks later, when he requested a transfer to the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron, a postal unit with no fighter jets. Initially, the transfer is granted.

No one recalls seeing Bush report for duty and there is no documentary record supporting his service there, which, in any event, was to consist primarily of reading flight manuals--an uninviting assignment for the quasi-literate airman. On July 6, Bush is scheduled to take his required flight physical, which will for the first time include a drug test. He fails to show up. Failure to take a flight physical is grounds for immediate suspension of his pilot's license.

These days Bush claims that he simply blew off the physical because the Guard was phasing out the F-102 and he didn't expect to be piloting any more flights. This excuse is circumspect for two reasons. First, although the F-102 was on its way out, the jet had not yet been mothballed and Bush still had the opportunity to learn to fly the new generation of fighter jets. Indeed, there was a fleet of them just down the highway at Dannelly Air Base in Alabama. Moreover, the flight physical was a mandatory requirement of service. This was not a matter of getting a permission slip to play intramural polo at Yale. For most Guardsmen, failure to abide by such orders resulted severe consequences, like being compelled to spend two-years in active duty, perhaps in Vietnam.

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair08122004.html

[ConsAreLiars]

19. Yeah, blowing wedding parties into bloody mist, forcing thousands into boxcars and

killing all of them and burying them in mass graves. Yeah. Woo-hah. That's far more fun than forcing firecrackers up frogs' butts and lighting them. Yeah, participating in mass murder with no risk is something he's fantasized all his life. And achieved.

(edit typo)

[Solly Mack]

20. If anyone ever wanted proof Bush doesn't see the dead and the wounded

not even the ones he does photo-ops with, there it is...

You can't see - really see - all the destruction and say what he did....


And by see I mean those people don't register with him.....their pain, their suffering, their limbless bodies...none of that....he doesn't see them as real people.... he sees them as characters in a movie.

[G_j]

23. a very dangerous, very sick man

a true sociopath

[Solly Mack]

24. I agree

and many in Congress pretend he's just a "bad" president...a failed president. Something an election can overcome...something a change in office can overcome.

When Bush is actually a criminal president...a dangerous president. And it'll take a lot more than an election to make a difference in what the last 7 years have brought.

Bush didn't just happen overnight....conditions already existed - before selection 2000 - in our government for the rise of someone like Bush/Cheney (or selection 2000 couldn't have happened)...conditions that allowed Bush to do the things he has done since 2000....and an election isn't going to erase those conditions. They go deep...far deeper than one man and one office.

[G_j]

25. so right

the conditions run deep,
you know when people were ridiculed for be being "bleeding hearts" (opposite of a cold, closed heart?)
and a good part of the culture bought it, we were drifting in a dangerous direction.
Reagan coined the "L-word" thing, yet the founders of this country were for all intent, liberals.
Every where else on the planet the right wing represents oppression, racism, dictatorship, facism....
so why does the RW supposedly stand for values here?
and what values might those be?
cruelty? torture?

[bdamomma]

32. I agree Solly, he is a very sick sick man.

and Congress does have the tools for impeachment, but they are not bothering to use those tools, I hate to say this, but we all know how this sick regime re writes history they are still on illegal pre emptive path to Iran, now, how many more people have to die for lies.

It just gets me so angry that all of us see what's going on, and nothing is being done....sigh

[opihimoimoi]

21. The ArmChair ChickenHawk??? Yup....trying to act smooth but his fly is OPEN

[mtnester]

22. His unbelievable ignorance is worse than I thought...for those

who ever said he was "playing" stupid...I call them out now..he was never brilliant, he was always just a stupid dildo who had not a single grain of common sense or empathy, a sociopath protected via a silver spoon throughout his life who under different circumstances would be on death row as a serial killer...I would pay money to IQ test this lizard.

And, for any Repuke that can read/comprehend this and ever believed he served time in the ANG...you know NOW that was pure and utter BS/untrue/crapola....(again, the qualifier for a Repuke is reading comprehension)..he could NEVER say this and have served.

I really cannot find the proper word to use for this...jerk..bootlicking halfwit....incompetent pinhead...all lack that one simple something that makes it complete....even asshat is not enough.

[NNN0LHI]

26. Wonder how romantic the Afghan people Bush had slaughtered thinks it is?

[electron_blue]

27. Note Bush implies war is for the otherwise unemployed

[bdamomma]

28. let's send his a$$ out there now.

he probably love living in those poppy fields.

Oh, he is really a sick SOB, why can't anyone see in Congress what a sick person he is.:banghead:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

31. Teddy Roosevelt should rise from the grave and knock dubya upside the head with a stick.

See how romantic that would be.

[ellie]

33. So romantic

My 25-year-old nephew is serving in Afghanistan and had the wonderful pleasure of holding his sergeant as he died in a fire fight. Memories, I'm sure, which will warm his heart for years to come.


:sarcasm:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

34. disgusting...

"Bush: I'm Envious Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan"

Here's a way to satisfy his envy: I've thought for quite a while that our fearless leader should walk point, as he leads us into battle - with a sword - like olden times.

[Johonny]

35. The sad thing is

This crap works on the chicken hawk rethugs. The guys and gals that romance about being in the military but always seem to have other priorities and thus end up spending 12 hours a day play online video games in their moms basement. These people love to hear Bush say stuff like that.

[ThatsMyBarack]

36. Maybe he was with his buddy Jack....

Daniels at the time he said this. :hangover: