In the kind of convoluted, twisted logic that could only come from a detached, dispassionate President, George W. Bush said Tuesday that he cared so much about the soldiers dying in his failed Iraq war that he gave up golf.
That’s right. The President of the United States says he just couldn’t play on the links while Americans died in Iraq.
This laughable attempt at compassion comes off as just another example of how out of touch with reality this President is with his flawed and failed actions.
Reports Mike Allen of Politico:
For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights.
“I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life,” he said. “I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It’s just not worth it anymore to do.’”
In a reversal of the usual question that’s put to him, a query submitted online asked the president whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.
“‘Misled’ is a strong word, it almost connotes some kind of intentional,” Bush said. “I don’t think so. … Intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.”
20 thoughts on “Bush gave up golf for Iraq war”
Guess he just wasn’t getting the zen.
He gave it up because no one wants to play with him anymore. That’s more like it, imo—Too much a target. Either that or he was getting a little testy with his golf clubs and was a danger to his partners.
Cheney should have gave up hunting.
If bush really felt for the soldiers,
he would give up his beloved brush clearing and do what he is paid to do instead. Oh, yeah, and apologize to the American people and the world and immediately pull out all troops.
If he really felt for the soldiers…
I hate to say it, but
the American voters got so taken because the majority are stupid. Plain and simple. Democracy in action.
Let’s see Bush and Cheney do the Saddam Shuffle.
For the fallen soldiers.
Direct Democracy
God help us all. We need it.
Nero had his fiddle, Neville Chamberlin had his umbrella, Dead Eye Dick Cheney, his shotgun. Bill Clinton, a saxophone and some specially kept cigars. Bush has his golf clubs and his “Mission Accomplished” sign.
I heard Mike Malloy talk about this last nite on the radio and I thought I would crack up. I really can’t believe that so much “dumbness” can be instill in one human being. Damn, I can’t wait to see this idiot, uncaring, dumb ass go back to Texas. How in the hell did the American voters get so taken???????
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