Bush says if younger, he would work in Afghanistan

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Reuters - YAHOO! News

U.S. President George W. Bush got an earful on Thursday about problems and progress in Afghanistan where a war has dragged on for more than six years but been largely eclipsed by Iraq.

"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.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080313/pl_nm/bush_afghanistan_dc

[Parche]

1. Lets Give Him What He Wants

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :hi:

[trusty elf]

42. ....

[rpannier]

50. Great pic

I'd have gone with

FOOL MENTAL JACKASS myself.

But yours works really well.
I like it.

[trusty elf]

83. Thanks!

A couple of things-

for my feeling, "fool" is too harmless a word, and in a way it has some almost positive connotations-like a court jester as fool or the "fool on the hill".

Also, fool is not an adjective! I suppose you could write it "Fool, Mental Jackass", but this seems somehow redundant.

Foul is a much stronger word, and accurately characterizes felonious monkey's putrid, rotten, stinking nature.

:hi:

[PerceptionManagement]

63. Chimpy should of worked Vietnam when he was younger....

[Greyskye]

2. You won't be employed here very much longer, shrubbie.

Dip your head in some Grecian formula and pack your bags.

[rpannier]

45. You notice he threw in younger

This way when he's out of office, he can say he's not young enough

[jimshoes]

3. I believe the English would say

bollocks!

[Donnachaidh]

4. yeah, he'd be weeding the poppie fields

But wait -- that MIGHT be a good thing for the war on drugs! He's BANKRUPTED every business he's been in....:evilgrin:

[blm]

12. heheheh...... and oh, btw, Georgie - Jimmy Carter STILL works with his hands

to better help those in need.

Or is golf and bike riding all you got in you?

[Dukkha]

5. Afghanistan says if Bush worked here we'd go bankrupt

no thanks

[PaganWitchFeminist]

6. Ship him out

My brother was just shipped to that hell hole (Nat. Guard). Do you know what his unit was told to do if they are attacked? Run and hide with the villagers.

Ship Shrub out.

[mac2]

19. Sounds like what they told my brother when he was in Korea.

The Pueblo incident was about to cause an international incident near the border of North and South Korea. They gave him a gun and said run like hell South.

Now that's good military planning? Sounds like a Bush general was in charge at that time.

[NastyRiffraff]

Oh, I don't know, Chimpy...

You're what? 61? In good health? No reason why you can't go to Afghanistan and contribute! We'll even take up a collection to buy you a one-way ticket there. You can be responsible for your own armor, of course. And your own health care. Think how exciting and "romantic" it will be!

[olddad56]

7. He'd be working hand in hand with the Taliban, sort of like now.

[TomInTib]

8. This isn't the first time he's said that.

"a fantastic experience"

Suck off, FuckFace.

[mac2]

11. Didn't George send National Guard to Afghanistan his age?

They come back to their families without legs, etc. You envy that George? No he would "work" there as a person hiding in the hills after he went AWOL from Caryly.

[aquart]

9. Like his daughters? Oh, wait.

[babylonsister]

10. To be on the front lines? Why'd you miss that VN opportunity?

You were younger then. Whata putz.

[arewenotdemo]

54. He would have gone but noblesse oblige intervened.

Now he's reduced to wistfully musing on what was taken from him...the romance of war.

We should be sympathetic.

[Johonny]

13. When he was younger

he had the same opportunity in Vietnam and passed so frankly I call B.S.

[MichaelHarris]

14. Hey George

your daughters are pretty young and I bet they have friends.

[stray cat]

15. He isn't too old - I think he should go for it!

[margotb822]

16. Romantic, really?!

Maybe he and Laura should both go, and ya know, watch the sunset, dodge bullets, wander among fields of poppy...

What a stupid fuckin' moran! :dunce:

[MaineDem]

17. Clearing brush?

Making businesses fail?

What else is he capable of?

[jaksavage]

74. Murder. nt

[durablend]

88. He can clear brush from around...

His buddy OBL's cave...I'm sure he'd appreciate it!

[lumpy]

18. That's the most ludicrous shit he has ever spewed out of

his piehole. What a phony piece of crap coming from the A-NumberOneAsshat-of-the-World.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

20. Is he Harry Flashman come to life?

[noamnety]

21. A romantic fantastic experience

"I'm a little envious"

[Lautremont]

22. A 70 year-old friend of mine returned a while back from a year

supervising the post-tsunami reconstruction of the Maldives. So go for it, pretzeldent.

[slackmaster]

23. Doing what, managing a baseball team?

Perhaps Cricket.

[xxqqqzme]

24. WTF - he's only 60 - that's the 'new' forty right?

Well then if he's the new forty, he's just turned over a new leaf, stopped drinking & blow. He rides his bike, he's in good shape - jeebus Jimmy Carter still volunteers for Habitat - dick wad could volunteer for the Peace Corp(didn't Jimmy's mom do that in her 70's?) and go to Afghanistan, start cleaning up the first mess he made. I know it's not cruising around Maine fishing w/ poppy or scooting around golf courses. But for the love of god, man - finally do something constructive w/ your miserable, empty, slacker, trust fund life.

[mac2]

25. Unless you've abused you body with drugs and alcohol.

It does age one.

[hankthecrank]

26. Bush still has Guard service he needs fulfill

I say activate his sorry ass and ship he over only as a private not an officer!
That way the only life he would put in danger was his own

[LisaM]

27. WORK? Him?

I don't think he's ever worked a full day in his life!

[xxqqqzme]

38. Sure he has! That's why he needs so many vacation days.

Wasn't it during the '04 campaign that he kept saying the presidentin' was 'hard work'.

[Deny and Shred]

28. Put him in the front lines next January. Romantic, are you kidding.

[ConcernedCanuk]

29. I really wonder what the USA will become in the future

.
.
.

USA can't survive the way it is headed.

I really believe, against all desires,

That the USA will unleash a war that will be remembered forever

For those of us that survive.

[BREMPRO]

30. HELLO Red States!! PLEASE don't give us another president that finds war "EXCITING"and "ROMANTIC"!

not to mention, morally bankrupt and hypocritical, unsmart, stubborn, corrupt, unworldly ignorant, a corporate shill, a liar, emotionally damaged, a boasting coward, inarticulate, a nation divider, a torturer, an economic tyrant, and a horrible dancer.

[LuckyLib]

62. What a wonderful summary of that bonehead in the White House!

[LiberalFighter]

31. Liar!!

[Mithreal]

32. What a farce. Tragedy does not begin to describe

what we are letting this President do to our fellow Americans.

[SaveAmerica]

33. How romantic!! A bottle of wine, an AK47, and thee. Take an early retirement

from your cushy non-job and GO!!

[pinniped]

34. Every time this punk mutters this "young democracy" crap I get sick.

Every time this punk mutters anything I get sick.

This sounds like the Bruce Willis excuse.

[democrank]

35. Funny how those chickenhawks love to romanticize about war

http://awolbush.com/

[HawkerHurricane]

47. It's easy to romanticize war...

from a safe distance.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Published posthumously 1920

[Tikki]

36. He could make it happen...didn't 'they' make his absence from...

the Air National Guard disappear....and his DUI(s?) disappear...
Couldn't 'they' just change his date on his birth certificate to like 28 years old...

March his scrawny a** down to the recruiting office and quick
start him to the front lines in Afghanistan.

Works for me.


Tikki

[TheCowsCameHome]

37. Make us proud. Go over there stark naked

and head into the hills and strut your stuff for America.

[Canuckistanian]

39. He'd be calling Daddy up after two minutes in Afghanistan

"Get me OUT of here! I'll take the Carlyle job instead!"

[rateyes]

40. I'll tell you what, Dubya...

since you are too old, we'll take Jenna and Barbara...I know they would just luuuuvvvvvvvvv going to Afghanistan as front-line soldiers.

[devilgrrl]

41. If he were younger? Like how he didn't go to Vietnam when he was younger?

What a douchebag.

[Gamey]

43. increasing and lowering the volume at will

"Heh heh, look at me! I'm in control."

What a complete, total and utter disaster this moron is!

[rpannier]

44. Ummmm. Yeah... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

The only way you'd get DUH-bya into Afghanistan is if it was the name of a Bar and Grill in Texas where he could score a rock of crack and a fifth of JD.

[galledgoblin]

46. python skit comes to mind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEaaRLklSf0&feature=related

[Laelth]

48. Liar!

:puke:

-Laelth

[slampoet]

49. Hasn't Afghanistan suffered enough? And How's he going to get hired w/o His daddy and his friends?

[frylock]

51. fucking worthless FUCKING piece of SHIT!!!

just had to get that off my chest.

[uppityperson]

52. Well don't let your age stop you mrbush. Your job is over soon, start planning now.

asshole

[fed-up]

53. and may you meet the same fate as these young men and women

http://icasualties.org/oef/Afghanistan.aspx

http://www.khsltv.com/

North State Soldier Dies in Afghanistan
Wednesday Mar 12, 2008
Printable version Email story

A North State paratrooper died while serving in Afghanistan.

The US Army says Sgt. Gabriel Guzman, 25, died Saturday after his patrol vehicle was hit by a bomb. Guzman was from the Siskiyou County community of Hornbrook.

He was serving with the 82nd Airborne Division and had previously served a year in Iraq. Governor Schwarzenegger released a statement concerning Guzman:

Maria and I join all Californians in honoring Sgt. Gabriel Guzman for his courage, selflessness, and unrelenting devotion to this country. His loss is a tribute to the extraordinary patriotism and commitment displayed our men and women in uniform.

Guzman is survived by a daughter who lives in Baypoint and his parents who live in Mt. Shasta.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

55. If Afghanistan won't take you, Iraq would LOVE to have ya, Dubya.

[Owl]

56. Ya sure. Right. Oy vey...

:crazy:

[treestar]

57. Exciting? Romantic?

That idiot makes me :puke:

He's obviously never been anywhere near a battlefield.

He thinks its the movies, not real life.

[Zorra]

58. The Afghani tribes nicknamed Bu*h "Walking Eagle", because he's so full

of shit he can't get off the ground.

[UTUSN]

59. BwahhahahaHAH!1 (Well, not funny.) He was young enough during Vietnam. n/t

[bluerum]

60. Whoa. I bet the Afghan population is relieved to hear that the asshole won't

be dropping in to "help out". He has done quite enough to help them over the last 5 years or so.

[noel711]

61. I'm going to pass the offering plate...

and lets see if we can collect enough 'free will love offering'
to buy Mr. President a ticket to Afghanistan NOW.
Why wait until next year....

[LaStrega]

64. I cannot believe the stupid shit that comes out of his mouth! n/t

[scarface2004]

65. golly i sure like to kill me some ragheads hyar hyar!

can bush be anymore of a goddam cretin freaking asshole piece of shit?!?!?!?

[JBoy]

66. Exciting and romantic indeed

Stupid fuck.

[QUALAR]

67. STANDARDS

I realize that they have lowered the entry standards, but there's no way they're going that low. Maybe Blackwater has a hired gun opening. For his sake don't give him any bullets - he'll shoot his eye out.

[BearSquirrel2]

68. Really how about Vietnam ...

Did the young Goerge Bush say "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."

No the SOB enlisted jump the Air National Guard line over more qualified applicants, go crazy high on coke and went AWOL from the guard.

[ms liberty]

69. You sent my 58 year old neighbor, Shrubbie - is that what you meant by "slightly younger?" n/t

[OffWithTheirHeads]

70. Bush said he would work? BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

That's funny.

[SunnyNobility]

71. Prince Harry envy...

Preznit feels upstaged.

[nealmhughes]

72. Hell's Bells, Douglas MacArthur was over 70 when he led the Inchon Landing!

Teddy Roosevelt hobbled onto Utah Beach on D-Day with a cane at nearly 60 and with a heart condition. . . Hyman Rickover was over 80 when he retired from the Navy. . .

[GoddessOfGuinness]

73. Don't let your age stop you, asshole.

It must be really romantic to get your fingers chopped off, no?

[FATCATs]

75. WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT !

[Kelvin Mace]

76. I'mguessing that you would work in Afghanistan

by working clearing brush in Crawford. Just like you worked in Vietnam by flying planes in Texas.

[polticalpout]

77. YOU LYING COWARD! GO SNORT SOME COKE!

nm

[truthisfreedom]

78. Hiding behind thousands of SS men, armored vehicles, clearing city freeways to drive to airports

and never going near the public... is that romantic for you, georgie? Is it exciting and romantic to be "confronting danger?"

You avoided Vietnam by going awol in America. And you'd go to Afghanistan if you were "younger?" Do you ever wonder if this completely disingenuous bullshit gets noticed by veterans who are boiling over inside at your demonic diarrhea of the mouth?

[Hilliard_Dem]

79. Unbelievable.

I'm speechless.

[shanti]

80. words fail me....

:eyes:

[tomg]

81. I am blown out by this.

For years, I thought he was evil, banal, cruel and incompetent. He is not. He is mad. He is really mad, not "he is nuts" like we always post sort of stuff. This shows such a complete disconnect with any moral and ethical reality.

This is said by a person who has been to the VA hospitals, who has spoken to the parents, the husbands, the wives, the brothers and sisters of those who have died or been maimed. There is no recognition that it was his decision that lead to so much death and harm for Americans and Iraqis. I am trying to picture any world leader saying something like this. I could understand (and despise) that kind of language being used at the run up to or the beginning days of a war. Jingoistic, Kiplingesque propaganda and all. It was the kind of language used by the British going into World War I. But to say it and mean it and believe it six years into a war is beyond all understanding.

These statements, for me, are the clearest indication that he must be removed from office immediately. I would actually feel safer were he merely a lying, thieving hypocrite who was humanly evil.

[OneBlueSky]

82. the man is pond scum . . . and I'm sorry to insult pond scum . . . n/t

.

[Orsino]

84. Baloney. When he was younger, he never worked.

I credit him with showing up for many Air Reserve drills, and with actually learning to fly, which is not without risk. That seems to be the full extent of the "work" he's done in his life.

The old saying in football (and I think it's in Texas) is, what could have happened, did.

[raccoon]

85. If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. nt

[JerseygirlCT]

86. Right.

Like you were on the front lines in Vietnam, asswipe.

Like you've ever given a shit about democracy or people in need?

Like your daddy wouldn't find you a cushy safe spot from which to claim you're doing good?

[DinahMoeHum]

87. Puke.

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[mitchum]

89. That chickenshit warmonger was quite a bit younger during the Vietnam days

[GCP]

90. BULLSHIT

Yeah, he really helped out during his younger days, when he wasn't coked up and drunk as a skunk.
Nothing's changed except he's now a dry-drunk.

[Historic NY]

91. Send his ass over now like those Senior Citizens soldiers he...

sent.

[daleo]

92. If Bush were to take a job in Afghanistan

Let's just say that it would create quite a flurry of economic activity there.

[AlphaCentauri]

93. give me a break, this is Bush's Stand-up Comedy Routine

http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/blog_mass_destruction/2008/03/14/bushs-stand-up-comedy-routine/ID=910/

[calimary]

94. Spoken like a true "patriot" who's never been to war, to begin with, and hasn't a frickin' clue.

george, by all means enlist. Try it. They can use a few extra hands (especially as theirs risk being blown off).

The closest this arrogant prick ever got to war was making out with somebody else's girlfriend in the back row at some John Wayne movie.

[Kool Kitty]

95. Jesus Christ, this clown won't take a question from

Helen Thomas, but he wishes he could go to Afghanistan? What a hero. Chickenshit son of a bitch.