Bush: "accepting the consequences" of the deaths he's responsible for

from the Oval Office address: http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/18/bush.transcript/index.html

"I know that some of my decisions have led to terrible loss -- and not one of those decisions has been taken lightly. I know this war is controversial -- yet being your president requires doing what I believe is right and accepting the consequences."

When has Bush EVER suffered any consequences for his actions?

We're in Iraq now because Bush never respected or honored our military. He saw the Guard as a way to avoid Vietnam and the sacrifice of service that it would entail, and he left the Guard, without proper authorization, and over some objections, to pursue his political career. Now he has taken our soldiers into a quagmire over a manufactured conflict to suit his political agenda. Had he actally performed the service he was tasked to he may have come to understand the meaning of sacrifice, he may have come to understand what it means to be ordered to fight and risk life and limb. Others fought and died while he sat out the war in the Guard, and later, as an aide in a political campaign. He never respected the Guard, he doesn't respect our active duty military.

-In Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, police fired into the air to disperse the hundreds of protesters who had gathered in front of the provincial government headquarters. The demonstrators, however, didn't leave, and scuffles broke out with police.

-Drivers blocked roads and set tires on fire near fuel stations in the southern city of Basra, and hundreds demonstrated outside the governor's headquarters to protest the increases.

-In western Baghdad, gunmen attacked the convoy of Deputy Baghdad Gov. Ziad Tariq, killing three civilians and wounding three of Tariq's bodyguards, police said. Tariq was not injured.

-Monday, a suicide car bomb exploded outside a children's hospital in western Baghdad, killing at least two people and wounding 11, including seven policemen, officials said.

-U.S. Marine was killed by small arms fire Sunday in the town of Ramadi, in central Iraq, the military said. The death brought to 2,156 the number of U.S. service members killed since the start of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-12-19-iraq_x.htm?csp=34