Our President, Public Servant No. 1
George W. Bush spoke late last week about the difficulties of
avoiding his guilty conscience and deflecting blame for the Iraq disaster away from him his job:
No question about -- it's difficult. I mean, we hear it every day, of course. So do you, you report it every day. It's tough work. And it's hard. The hardest part of my job is to comfort the family members who have lost a loved one, which I intend to do when I go down to North Carolina on Tuesday.
Except there's one teeny tiny problem with that confession:
President Bush has yet to bury a fallen warrior.
More below the fold:
[...snip...] This is a departure from past presidents' practices. President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies for troops killed in the failed hostage-rescue mission in Iran. President Ronald Reagan attended a service for Marines killed in Beirut. President Clinton went to Andrews Air Force Base to see the coffins of Americans killed in a terrorist attack in Nairobi in 1998. Bush's absence from funerals has kept them off the front pages, one of several administration policies that have minimized Americans' exposure to the costs of war.
ACTION ALERT:
Dear Kossacks,
I know Christmas is a long way away, but 2008 is longer still, so if I could ask for one thing, it would be for some of you to recommend this and/or contact members of the White House Press Corps and forward this information so that they could ask our President the following question at his next press conference:
Mr. President, is it because it is "the hardest part of your job" that you have yet to attend the funeral of a single soldier killed in Iraq?
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