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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey're sending the USS George H. W. Bush into the Persian Gulf.
Because irony is always awesome.
Except when it isn't.
Like, at all.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Was another ship not available, because this could be seen as purposely insulting to the whole region, no?
And naming ships of war after past Presidents is idiotic.
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)NBachers
(16,998 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)How appropriate.
RandySF
(57,588 posts)The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)There is a level on which I am seriously enjoying this....
MADem
(135,425 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)mattclearing
(10,091 posts)There's a birthday skydive I can get behind.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)to the Promised Land. Don't send our troops, just put the Bushes in charge of the Iraqi troops. I think that would round out their legacies very well.
mattclearing
(10,091 posts)I remember thinking, "If the alternative is war and the likely deaths of thousands, why wouldn't someone agree to a straight-up fight?"
Googling it now, it's unsurprising that Ari Fleischer shot it down without a thought: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/americas/2297371.stm
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)A hell of a lot of people would be alive today, and a lot of others would have their missing limbs and their sanity back. I'm hoping that one day we can solve conflicts with virtual reality wars. Let the two leaders play a video game against each other. This shit we're doing now has got to stop. Maybe if we can somehow make it unprofitable to wage real-life wars, we might see the end of it. I think we should make contractors provide their services and products to the government free of charge, as proof of their patriotism. If our young people can give their all for their country, why can't they?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)will never be in harms way
and yes, Rummy was one too, he was in the military but nowhere near combat
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)My husband said "is that the W or the HW? both fuckers should be on it."
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)USS George H. W. Bush just happened to be the carrier deployed to that part of the world when the SHTF in Iraq
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,780 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Oh, wait .
peoli
(3,111 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Can we all get several of these?
rustydog
(9,186 posts)to write another" I love you" note in the sand to his wife. Yes, he'd fight in THIS one, but.....but......but...
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)says this move is full-throated tone deaf.
spanone
(135,627 posts)WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)Good Job, Mr. President.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Others were sent to Basra and another Iraqi city not currently threatened. I doubt any are on the carrier or will be coming home.