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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 08:48 AM
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USA Today: Bush visits with soldiers wounded in Iraq
Edited on Tue Nov-09-04 08:53 AM by truthpusher
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-11-09-bush-troops_x.htm

Bush visits with soldiers wounded in Iraq

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush will be paying a bedside visit to soldiers wounded in Iraq Tuesday as American forces fight fierce battles in Fallujah to seize insurgent strongholds from Sunni militants.

A week after the election that gave him a second term, Bush was turning from personnel decisions for his Cabinet and staff to go to Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center, accompanied by his wife, Laura. On a similar visit in March, the president awarded Purple Hearts to eight soldiers.

The U.S. toll in Iraq has surpassed 1,100, and the assault on Fallujah pushed that number higher Monday when two Marines died. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush was "very well aware of the sacrifices that our men and women in the military are making. You know, the loss of any life is terrible. The president mourns the loss of each and every one of our fallen."


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-11-09-bush-troops_x.htm
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 08:50 AM
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1. .....
phot-op :puke:
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 08:50 AM
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2. Trying to turn around the legacy. nt
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 08:52 AM
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3. I'll bet that will be a highly selected visit....
Sorry, no credit earned for your photo ops...
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shoelace414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 08:55 AM
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4. too bad flag draped coffins don't make good photo-ops
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 08:59 AM
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5. The rotten bastard started the war to win the election. How dare that
slime set foot in the hospital? How do people swallow that shit?
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IthinkThereforeIAM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 09:14 AM
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6. A "new" distraction...

... to keep the spin away from all the voter fraud that is cropping up.
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toska Donating Member (180 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:36 AM
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7. Annual physical?
Think he'll finally take his annual physical while he's in the neighborhood?
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:29 AM
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20. Yes, let's push for that physical

Bet he never takes it!

Remember he has a mandate to do anything he wants to do.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:48 AM
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8. Haven't the wounded suffered enough?
Now they get to be immortalized in some future George W. Bush Presidemential Library as foils for the fable that Bush gave a tin shit about anyone or anything besides his wallet or his dork.

And this bullshit line from a mouthpiece, that Stupidhead "mourns the loss of each and every one of our fallen" inadvertently betrays the lack of concern Stupidhead has for the tens of thousands of corpses he's made the didn't happen to be born in the United States.

Dante would have to create a whole separate circle in Hell to accommodate the corrupt Bush administration if he were writing today.
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petrock2004 Donating Member (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:05 PM
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22. bravo
i like your style

i wonder if you can still swear a loyalty oath if you've lost both your arms?

:puke:
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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:38 PM
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30. I guess you would just have to look loyal?
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Krupskaya Donating Member (689 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:51 AM
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9. I'll bet $100 right now...
...that he won't be in the missing-limbs ward. This'll be the attractive and dashing flesh-wound-on-the-face ward, or perhaps the took-a-bullet-in-the-shoulder ward. God forbid we should actually see what this g.d. war looks like.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:55 AM
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12. exactly. How can a soldier
stand for a picture if his legs are blown off? How can they get a pic of an embrace if he has no arms?
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Krupskaya Donating Member (689 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:57 AM
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14. Yup. I've got it!
Pictures with guys suffering from Gulf War II syndrome! Since it doesn't exist, they'll look great.

/sarcasm
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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:35 PM
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23. Maybe he should visit the morgue for his photo-op?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:52 AM
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10. I wonder if he went to the amputee section ward or the burn unit?
How dare he.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:57 AM
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15. * can't get into a burn unit.
They have standards there about bacteria, contamination, and human waste. Bush is human waste.
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:54 AM
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11. "oops, no WMD here.. how about here? nope. heh.. heh.. heh.."
do you think he'll that cute little game of hide and seek with the soldiers in the hospital?
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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:56 AM
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13. Now that the election is over
it's a good thing to get in some bad news photo ops. Now we'll all remember him as such a compassionate man caring for the troops.

UTTER BULLSHIT.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
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Krupskaya Donating Member (689 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:58 AM
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16. Good point.
For all his troop-supporting, as if he were a goddamn truss, he sure didn't hang out with 'em much in the last few months. But now it's -- ahem -- open season.
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MallRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:58 AM
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17. Is this the first time he's visited wounded soldiers in the hospital?
Imagine that. Next thing you know, he might actually attend a funeral.

:eyes:

-MR
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Catfight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:07 AM
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18. Will he be handing out Purple Heart Band-aids? That will cheer
them up.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:01 PM
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29. *smack*
:thumbsup:
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Serial Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:14 AM
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19. My mandate for * - visit soldiers as often as you vacation!
That SOB!
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PatriotGames Donating Member (896 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:00 PM
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21. Dead/wounded soldier = More $$$ for bushCo.
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nostalgicaboutmyfutr Donating Member (991 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:43 PM
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24. Located in the CNN Politics section?????
Why does CNN cover this in the Politics section????:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/09/bush.tuesday.ap/index.html

well, maybe i spoke too soon...it is all politics!
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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:46 PM
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25. That's great actually.
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wanpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 09:39 PM
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26. simply disgusting
:puke:
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 09:41 PM
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27. bush "visits" with the troops, did he have a bible with him?
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212demop Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 09:54 PM
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28. He doesn't need it
God speaks through him, remember?
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