"Make no mistake about it, we are at war."
--Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush
30 people were killed this morning, and 140 more people were killed since Wednesdday in the war in Iraq.
7 American troops were killed by two separate roadside bombs on Wednesday.
Iraqi political talks were "in ruins" as the Iraq defense minister warned of a never-ending civil war. There are about 150,000 U.S. troops under the command of President George W. Bush in that country today.
And where was their Commander-in-Chief?
AWOL.
The President spent Thursday at fund-raisers for Congressmen.
He raised well over half a million dollars for Rep. Chris Chocola of Indiana. And he raised about $1 million for Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio.
With 150,000 troops under his command in a country on the brink of civil war, with the soldiers he sent to Iraq killed daily, the Commander-in-Chief was not in his War Room with his Chiefs of Staff. He was not working late into the night in the Oval Office executing a plan to protect America from terrorists. He went to two parties and played politics.
On the day that Bush went to two parties for political cash, the family of Army Staff Sergeant Curtis Howard, age 32, was notified that he had been killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb.
On the day that Bush raised more money for Congressmen's political campaigns, the old high school principal of Private First Class Allan Morr announced that Private Morr had been killed in Iraq. Morr graduated high school in 2004.
The families of Private First Class Christopher Marion, age 20; Staff Sergeant Gregson Gourley, age 38; Sergeant Rickey Jones, age 21, and the families of two other US servicemen not announced yet, were all notified of a giant hole that would be left in their lives forever, and began making funeral arrangements, as the President went to parties to raise campaign cash.
While the President raised money for Congressmen, the mother of Corporal Andrew Kemple laid him to rest in the ground. The Republican Governor of his state attended to show his respect to her son and his service to the country.
The President raised over $1.5 million for Republican politicians on Thursday. It doesn't help Howard, Morr, Marion, Gourley, Jones, or Kemple.
Their Commander-in-Chief was AWOL.
Again.