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 Editorials | Issues | May 2008 
Bush Gave Up Golf to Honor Fallen Soldiers in Iraq
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| | President Bush: America's loss is golf's gain (AP) | | |
In the kind of convoluted, twisted logic that could only come from a detached, dispassionate President, George W. Bush said Tuesday that he cared so much about the soldiers dying in his failed Iraq war that he gave up golf.
That's right. The President of the United States says he just couldn't play on the links while Americans died in Iraq.
This laughable attempt at compassion comes off as just another example of how out of touch with reality this President is with his flawed and failed actions.
Reports Mike Allen of Politico:
For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families.
“I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights.
“I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life,” he said. “I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It's just not worth it anymore to do.’”
In a reversal of the usual question that’s put to him, a query submitted online asked the president whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.
“‘Misled’ is a strong word, it almost connotes some kind of intentional,” Bush said. “I don't think so.... Intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.” |
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