Bush Says Finishing Mission Is Best Memorial to Fallen

[mopaul]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/politics/30cnd-bush.html?hp&ex=1117512000&en=c01243119bb75ba6&ei=5094&partner=homepage

ARLINGTON, Va., May 30 - President Bush paid a Memorial Day tribute today to generations of Americans who have given their lives for the nation, saying that while the United States has always been a "reluctant warrior," its soldiers have been willing to give their all to rid the world of oppressors and spread the ideals of freedom.

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
A U.S. Coast Guard honor guard marched toward a Memorial Day ceremony today at Arlington National Cemetery.
Speaking at Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, Mr. Bush saluted all those who have died in uniform, singling out the more than 400,000 Americans who died in World War II. The United States, he said, "will always honor the character and the achievements of your brave generation."

He then turned to the wars fought under his command, focusing on Iraq, where 139,000 troops are stationed and where 1,647 have died, according to Pentagon figures last updated on Friday. They include 1,264 killed in action. An additional 12,630 had been wounded through Friday, about half of them seriously enough that they did not return to duty.

As he often does, Mr. Bush lumped together the military campaign in Afghanistan, begun in 2001 to root out Al Qaeda and the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks, with the war in Iraq, launched in March

---i especially love that last paragraph.....

[wtmusic]

1. A "reluctant warrior" huh?

I know that memo from Downing Street was around here someplace...

[mopaul]

2. yeah, america, the reluctant warrior...who writes this nazi shit?

don't tell me

[Pinboy]

4. The ONLY time he was reluctant...

was during the Vietnam War.

[Cha]

3. But then bush is fulla

shyte and talks outta both sides of his ass..so we know whatever the bushmonkey says ..it's just the opposite that is true.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Yep

Of course. He's backwards.

[Postman]

5. How would he know? The best memorial would be to not have anymore.

Commander AWOL/Deserter is telling how best to honor the fallen????

Fuck you, Bush.

[MisterP]

6. "we have resolved to honor our veterans by creating more of them"

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[wtmusic]

8. Bye

[MisterP]

21. awww, I didn't get to see!

did he tell us all how wonderful the Führer is, saying that the best way to honor the dead is to obey him?

[mopaul]

23. in so many words

they are funny

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Of course

Tying Iraq in with 9/11. :eyes: No Bush you fool the best way is to bring them home! Don't let any other families suffer! But oh you don't care about them do you you shit?

[kliljedahl]

24. Was it one off these two?

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[LynnTheDem]

11. "reluctant warrior" is why BUSH kicked UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq

Because he was so "reluctant".

[samsingh]

12. bush has no shame

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Smile, Smile, Smile

by Wilfred Owen

Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned
Yesterday's Mail; the casualties (typed small)
And (large) Vast Booty from our Latest Haul.
Also, they read of Cheap Homes, not yet planned;
For, said the paper, "When this war is done
The men's first instinct will be making homes.
Meanwhile their foremost need is aerodromes,
It being certain war has just begun.
Peace would do wrong to our undying dead, --
The sons we offered might regret they died
If we got nothing lasting in their stead.
We must be solidly indemnified.
Though all be worthy Victory which all bought,
We rulers sitting in this ancient spot
Would wrong our very selves if we forgot
The greatest glory will be theirs who fought,
Who kept this nation in integrity."
Nation? -- The half-limbed readers did not chafe
But smiled at one another curiously
Like secret men who know their secret safe.
This is the thing they know and never speak,
That England one by one had fled to France
(Not many elsewhere now save under France).
Pictures of these broad smiles appear each week,
And people in whose voice real feeling rings
Say: How they smile! They're happy now, poor things.

--------------------------------------

The same old lie...

[im10ashus]

14. He must have been misquoted!

After all, he himself said "mission accomplished", so why can't the media get it right.

:sarcasm:

Edited to add:

[Sapphire Blue]

15. Complete the mission - Bush & co impeachment followed by war crimes trial

[Zorra]

17. Yes. Life in prison for them all would complete the mission perfectly.n/t

[Sapphire Blue]

18. In a 'Gitmoized' prison

[freeplessinseattle]

16. Maybe if he could ask the dead soldiers

they'd tell him differently.


What a prick, always the political opportunist.

[babylonsister]

19. I'm still waiting for him to attend

just.one.funeral. But that's all apparently beneath him. Either that, or he's too damned scared to be among the peons that don't agree with him.

[annabanana]

20. He is awash in blood

Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter’d with the hands of war;
All pity chok’d with custom of fell deeds:
And Cæsar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

[Cha]

22. And what "mission" was that,

fucktoid? The one that was "accomplished" on the USSLincoln?

[Doctor_J]

25. That lying, murdering coward has a lot of chutzpah

showing his face today, let alone proposing how we can honor the fallen.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. The best memorial would actually be idiot son's head on a pike

[PATRICK]

27. I agree

we should finish the mission of the last two world wars and scour the nation of corporate fascism and hold dynastic families accountable for money received from war profiteering, construction of death camps, subversion of democracy and bringing war criminals to America.

The best memorial to two world wars would be the symbolic prosecution of three generations of Bushes whose hands are covered in American blood, tyranny draped in a dishonored flag, words drowned in the Hitlerian echos.

Yeah, finish it. WWII isn't over. Nothing else will be until the real enemies of humanity, a bare handful of untouchables are brought to account.

[mopaul]

28. the bush vampire family has sucked us dry for 60 fucking years now

fucking nazis, but no one will believe me. almost no one.

[spanone]

29. Sadly, OUR PRESIDENT doesn't know shit.

He's as hollow as a log.

[mopaul]

30. not his words, not his thoughts, just words that he reads

and he's getting pretty good at reading those words after four years practice.