"Our soldiers who have volunteered to go there understand the stakes."

Did anyone else out there just sit dumbfounded at that flat-out lie - they volunteered for the military, but not for Iraq.

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saying he couldn't wait to get back to his unit. He was making a direct reference to the military.

we have a few people like you to come here and interpret the meaning of what Bush says. Most of us just sit slack-jawed asking ourselves or those around us "what the hell is he saying?". Keep up the good work and if you have a Bush-English guide, please share.

Did you ever notice that the poorer folks are, the more patriotic they become? Smart poor kids volunteer in droves, while rich kids don't volunteer at all.

There is an economic draft in the U.S. In the entire U.S. Senate, in the entire U.S. House of Representatives, from all those parents there, they’ve managed to produce exactly one member of the armed services. I'm talking about over 500 people. But if you live in Harlem, and you want to get a job where you can make $20,000 a year and have health insurance and educational benefits and get the hell out of Harlem, your choices are pretty much to join the military, and nothing else.

That’s what’s there for you. So, they did have a choice. They had a choice to stay at home where the average life expectancy for a male person of color is about 35, where half the people of color staying in that environment end up being convicted of a felony--or joining the military.

And on the other side, you have people who say, "Okay, my dad's rich, and I’m going to decide whether I want to go to Yale, or whether I'm going to join the Marine Corps." So there's freedom of choice out there, if that's what you want to call it, but anyone can tell you that this country’s wars have always been fought by the poor. We’re asking the poor and middle class kids to fight and die so that the rich kids can have an easier life.