Bush To Jog With Soldier Who Lost Both Legs In Iraq

has the audacity to make a photo-op out of it?

this makes me sick to my stomach

disgust.

MKJ

"I can makes his legs disappear..."

OREGON VET TO JOG WITH PRESIDENT WITH NO BRAIN

He's disgusting and vile...how can he, or Rove, believe anyone would applaud this? :puke: MKJ

That's the woman executed in Texas. She claimed to have been born again in prison, and although hundreds of people,even Preacher Pat Robertson, asked W (then Texas governor) to commute her sentence to life in prison, W refused. Bush, sitting in the governor's office mocked her to a visitor, whining in a high pitched voice, "Oh please, Mr. Governor, don't kill me!"

What to you want to bet, he's kidding around about this legless vet - "Oh, please, Mr. President, don't run too fast!"

That aside, I hope this young vet has sufficient recovery to have many opportunities to engage in activities like running. I was amazed to go diving with a Vietnam vet with double, above the knee amputations, who had prosthesis that allowed him to wear not only shoes, but diving fins, and he handled some steep ladder entries from a tall dock at the Tech Divers place at Grand Cayman, as well as some pretty fast currents. Having read Max Clelland's book, I know that his prosthesis were so painful for him to wear/walk on, that he finally was forced to be wheel chair bound.

This is a disgusting story.... he won't greet any of the coffins, but he'll go jogging with a man who has no legs. Hope the guy is at least a Bushie, so he'll get a charge out of it. Maybe he won't be too put off by Bush's "victory" lap.

TC

NT

Bush is going to outrun him and gloat about it.

* probably feels that he'll look good jogging in comparison to a guy that lost his legs.

He went after Iraq because he knew that it was potentially vulnerable.

He takes advantage of the downtrodden, weak, poor and helpless.

He has to have control of everything and even with the control he screws things up.

I guess we know who the better man will be at this jog.

A success story of some sort for Bush?


I'm happy the young man is alive and able to be mobile again

but the thug responsible is using his victims as a way of saying "See? I didn't ruin his life!"

As if the young man's recovery had anything at all to do with Bush

The soldier would not have this life-altering injury to recover from if Bush had not lied to get his occupation

Sick.Sick.Sick

I am livid.

in the homefront. Goebbels would have done well had he had Hitler jogging with a veteran of the siege of Stalingrad.

I`ll bet diamonds to donuts he took it as a dare/challange.

"hehe hehe I`m gonna blow his doors like the last guy hehe hehe"

FU

...like a heart attack.

Hey, completely healthy guys drop dead all the time. I knew a cardiac surgeon in the Navy who jogged five miles a day, had a cardiac arrest.

He was resucitated but not soon enough to prevent him from pretty severe brain damage.

We can but hope...for a "Jim Fix"...for "you know who."

CNN's sosobad was all gushy about this. :puke:

certainly he won't be EXPLOITING this soldier right?

:sarcasm:

Did someone tell her that a victim was being trotted out to exploit?

I know she has an issue with that.....

...the soldier is showing resolve in the face of adversity.

He's not being used.

:eyes:

Why would the soldier allow himself to be used this way? It's like a rape victim going on a public date with her attacker - with the attacker gloating all the while.

Just sick.

is just around the corner, Jesus will give him a new pair of legs. Brilliant!

What I see is a victim who is cozying up to his attacker and allowing himself to be used for propaganda purposes.

this soldier before.

......the :patriot: Soldier :patriot: that :puke:Idiot Boy:banghead: is responsible for sending to be maimed for the rest of his life. Who Lost Both Legs In Iraq

edite for spelling :grr:

Arm wrestling with a vet who lost both of his arms? Bush is a sickening, sorry SOB!

out of this.

It's sort of like a serial killer posing with his victim.

Every single tragedy that's occured on their watch is nothing more than a marketing tool to them.

While I find this absolutely distasteful, my heart goes out to the young man. His life's been altered dramatically from disabilities he sustained due to a war we had no business instigating in the first place.

The dubious but undoubted propaganda message.

He accepts it, how dare you criticize!

Another is "cut and run has a different meaning to this hero."

So get out the bullhorn and cheerlead on a pile of corpses.

I think he should do photo ops, on rendition flights, in abu ghraid, and in GITMO cages.

How about a photo op with prisoners getting water boarded?

Or children blown to bits in Iraq?

...there's not a whole lot any of us can say.

It's opportunistic as hell on the part of Bush, not to mention in VERY poor taste. But that's never stopped him before.

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Asshole wouldn't drop his salute until the soldier had to because of the injury. IIRC, the junior party is required to hold the salute until the senior party drops their's. Dumbass in Chief forced a wounded vet to back down and break convention.

What do you bet that if Bagge is kicking * despite running on prosthetics, * changes the route to include stairs, steep slopes, etc.? * ALWAYS changes the rules if he isn't winning, has done it since he was a miserable little shit beating up on his younger cousins.

:boring:
rocknation

to use this kid in this way. Even if the kid supported the war it is crass politicing at its worst.

Bush will do anything to put a happy face on this war, including using someone whose legs were blown off. "See, he's ok with this! So what your problem?"

Kid was used before; he's being used again.

Go jogging George. Have a nice day.

Mz Pip
:dem:

get laid with the guy with no dick, and go to a concert with the guy with no ears....

You are such an embarrassment to this country. You'd do anything for a photo-op. shame on you.

:dunce: :dunce: :spank:

My dislike for chimpy and his gang of mutant cretins is as great as anyone's. But objectively -- this kid gets blown apart in Iraq. He meets chimpy. He asks chimpy if he can come jogging at the white house with chimpy. He, as much as chimpy, wants the photo op, apparently because he's hoping that his example of fighting through a double amputation to reach the point where he can go running, will inspire others. So exactly what was chimpy supposed to do. If he had looked at the kid and said "no, can't do that" he'd be skewered as an unfeeling shit. If he said yes, but then never did it, same thing.

So exactly what should chimpy have done? In this case, I think he did the "right" thing. Hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day (which is probably a better average than chimpy has).

of course I will do it, but without reporters or cameras present because I respect your service to our country and your sacrifice too much to turn it into an occasion for a cheap photo op." If the soldier wanted a photo taken, the White House photographer could have snapped one of the two of them as a souvenir for the soldier--not to be released through the WH press office.

Not, of course, that this would even be remotely possible as an option for the chimp, who is impervious to human suffering and looks upon such a situation merely as the perfect propaganda opportunity. It's an incredible shame the soldier doesn't understand that he's being used by the man ultimately responsible for the loss of his legs. If he had died, Bush certainly wouldn't have been photographed with his coffin.

he is that uncouth

Y'know how that fucking idiot likes to bestow cute nicknames

cheap propaganda ploy.

because in the real world - having a disability sucks!!

I used to hear all the time, Oh, you're so amazing, how you've overcome so much and never let your disability stop you from doing anything. My picture was taken with famous people as a wee girl when I served as a poster child for the March of Dimes - adults were so nice back then, so kind and understanding.

Then you become an adult and start having problems and whoa things change rapidly, especially when it comes to work. Employers are less than sympathetic and can be downright horrible when accommodations need to be made for a disabled person.

In a way, I'm glad I grew up with my disability. For these soldiers or anyone who become suddenly disabled, my heart goes out to them. This guy running with the monster who is responsible for his leg loss, is in for a lifetime of pain in more ways than the just the physical aspect.

the soldier had to prompt the Idiot In Chief when he made a mistake relating how the 2 had met. If this had been any sort of sincere extension of compassion, there wouldn't have been a photo op involved. Shrub cannot sink any lower.

A marketing genius would've had the two run without a photo-op. There are plenty of ways to disseminate the story in such a way to make the President sympathetic. This ain't it.

Maybe somehow he was paid some money/assets? Promised a good job?

So long as he negotiated a decent deal for himself, which is probably a long shot.

We expect this opportunistic disgusting behavior from Bush and Rove. But what about the victim? You know he did not initiate this, but he could have said 'no way' and showed Bush for what he is. What more could they do to him? Since he didn't and agreed to this photo-op, tough shit. I'm fed up with the military and these soldiers kissing Bush's ass. I've used up all my sympathy. JMHO. :nopity:

All of the reports I've read, dating back months, say that it was the soldier's idea.

I 'presumed' it when I posted, thinking that it is just the kind of photo-op the Rove machine would think up and exploit. However, since I posted I have read the AP article about this 'event' and you are absolutely correct- the soldier asked to do this and he and Bush had discussed when Bush had visited him in the hospital.

I should have posted a correction before you did. Glad you did. When I'm wrong I admit it.

As I posted above, I have no use for, and am suspicious of, most everything that chimpy and his gang does. But I don't see what else chimpy could do once this fellow made his request. Some think it should've been a "private" event, but my sense is that wounded soldier wanted it to be public.

Seth

The kid gets his legs blown off in Bush's fake war and Bush crows about it.

The animal.

I would have liked to have been around just to hear what tactless gems the asshole-in-chief managed to come up with.

him.

blind man for wearing glasses. Then maybe he'll have a pretzel, or two.

is at the kids request,than whatever floats his boat.

My hats off to him regardless of his politics.

Maybe Bush will ask him why he's lagging it?