George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at 2012 charity fundraiser for wounded veterans
Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a 2012 charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, ABC News reported Wednesday.
The report also said former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier.
According to its website, the charity, Helping a Hero, helps to provide “specially-adapted homes” for wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to help “reintegrate them into their community.”
Former Marine Eddie Wright served on the charity’s board and criticized the president’s fee to “speak on behalf of men and women he ordered into harm’s way.”
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He and his band performed to raise funds to support a project by local high school students to build a home for a disabled Iraq War veteran and his kids.
Even before that, when Sinise first heard about the project on the news, he immediately cut a $60,000 check from his foundation to support what our students were doing.
Both Sinise and staff from his foundation remained intimately involved throughout the project, right up to the day the vet received the keys to his new home. Unfortunately, Sinise couldn't be with us that day. He was playng concerts for U.S. troops in South Korea.
Send them off into a bogus 'war', then charge the fucked over survivors to appear on 'their behalf'.
just what a SHPOS the Little Chimp was, is, and always will be.
