UPDATE BELOW
I just read Caroline Glick's interesting little ode to George W. Bush and her pain (yes, her choice of wording) at him no longer being POTUS:
"A couple of days ago I heard the news that George and Laura Bush paid a private visit to the wounded soldiers at Fort Hood. They specifically requested that the base commander not inform the media of their visit. They came. They comforted the wounded soldiers and the Fort Hood community for a couple of hours. And then they left. And they never had their pictures taken saluting the troops or holding their hands.
When I heard the news, I felt this pain that hasn't gone away. It's a pain that I have been feeling fairly often since last November."
Imagine, a former POTUS visiting victims of a shooting at a military base in the US. How selfless. But why does she say she misses him? Here goes:
"It hurts to hear about an American President who cares deeply and sincerely about wounded soldiers and soldiers murdered in a terrorist attack and know that he is not the American President."
Is there some sort of massive amnesia afoot on the right side of the aisle? Because the above statement is breathtakingly absent actually history.
Is this the same POTUS who so deeply cares about US soldiers that he violated his most sacred trust and knowingly and willfully lied this nation into a war of choice in Iraq? Is this the same POTUS who was so busy making sure his cronies got no-bid contracts that he failed to supply our troops with proper armor before sending them into battle? Former SeDef Rumsfeld famously once quipped about the matter, saying, "as you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."
Is this the same POTUS who made fun about lying the nation into war as our troops were getting killed? No, don't recall? Let me remind you:
How funny is that? I could go on, but you see how absolutely dishonest one has to be to claim that Bush actually cares about US soldiers. I might point out too that we seem to know not only that Bush visited soldiers at Fort Hood but the had apparently told the base commander not to notify anyone. And yet here we are, we know all about it, both the visit and the request. How strange really.
No More Mr. Nice Blog noticed the same strange show and supposedly not tell. I tend to believe that a man who so violated the sacred trust of his military and sent Americans to die in a war for profit to be heartless. Whatever this visit was about - likely to rehabilitate his legacy - Bush does not care about our soldiers. If he did, would he think it funny to joke about a lie that sent troops to die and pull that comedy routine while troops were in fact dying? Is that really so funny? Not hardly.
UPDATE:
Right-wing blogger, Macsmind, claims that "Lots of Americans are missing President Bush" and points to Glick's strange ode. Since when is Glick "lots" or even "some" of Americans?
