After reading DWG's diary scolding Bush for planning on attending the memorial at Virgina Tech, It dawned on me that there is now a legitimate question that EVERY newspaper and network reporter should be asking President Bush:
"Does this mean that you will now attend the memorial services of soldiers who have been killed in YOUR WAR in Iraq?"
From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war. March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four straight months of 80 or more fatalities.
Number of brave men and women have been killed in Irag: 3,308
Funerals and/or memorial services Bush has attended: ZERO.
Why?
Aides say Bush has not attended a military funeral because he does not want to favor one ultimate sacrifice over another.
That is the biggest bunch of political spin bullshit I have ever heard. The Bush administration even went so far as to refuse the release of photographs of coffins returning from Iraq. Out of sight, out of mind.
Despite the invasive and distracting security detail that will have to be in place, Bush still wants to be there to comfort the friends and families of the Virginia Tech shootings.
So I ask again: Does this mean that you will now attend the memorial services of soldiers who have been killed in YOUR WAR in Iraq? Afterall, those friends and families need some comforting too, right?