Soldiers Banned From Talking To Press After Lunch With Bush...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011100389.html

FORT BENNING, Ga., Jan. 11 -- The pictures were just what the White House wanted: A teary-eyed President Bush presenting the Medal of Honor posthumously to a slain war hero in the East Room, then flying here to join the chow line with camouflage-clad soldiers as some of them prepare to return to Iraq.

There are few places the president could go for an unreservedly enthusiastic reception the day after unveiling his decision to order 21,500 more troops to Iraq. A military base has usually been a reliable backdrop for the White House, and so Bush aides chose this venerable Army installation in western Georgia to promote his revised strategy to the nation while his Cabinet secretaries tried to sell it on Capitol Hill.

To ensure that there would be no discordant notes here, Maj. Gen. Walter Wojdakowski, the base commander, prohibited the 300 soldiers who had lunch with the president from talking with reporters. If any of them harbored doubts about heading back to Iraq, many for the third time, they were kept silent.

"It's going to require sacrifice, and I appreciate the sacrifices our troops are willing to make," Bush told the troops. "Some units are going to have to deploy earlier than scheduled as a result of the decision I made. Some will remain deployed longer than originally anticipated."

...but too bad, I don't give a fuck coz see I'm the decider, see."

of a dead soldier, as political props, like Bush did in his medal of honor tear jerker, is as low down as it gets. He could have awarded the medal last week, or next month, but he picked the day after his speech, to use it to start his "sales campaign" for more troops in Iraq. Bush and Karl rove act like vultures, only far worse. Vultures don't murder without remorse for political reasons. Vultures don't cry crocodile(soap opera)tears and lie every breath they draw.

If God is on Bush's side, then I pity God.

and likely needed now more than ever. they would tell the truth.

Let me put on my surprised face. :wow:

dp

and show "respect" ...

Bet you'll never see the photos of the servicemen and women with their fingers crossed as they shook hands with the C-in-C, like the one guy did with Hillary Clinton ... they probably did it, just nobody will ever release the pictures of them doing it ...

I remember the soldiers looking none to happy that they had to sit in the same room with Georgie Porgie

"Any soldiers who are, or who have, served with honor can just STFU"

- Per order of Commander AWOL