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Subject: Fighting on Front Lines ---"Romantic"
To: newtburger2000@yahoo.com
Judith Moriarty <jdthmoriarty@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm pretty optimistic - job growth has been great - things are a little slow -I'm going to make some money doing speaking tours when I'm out of office - who said gas is $4.00 a gallon?
Have you ever had the feeling, that you're trapped in a sequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? With millions out of work - millions of homes in foreclosure, people living in tent cities, dying due to lack of medical care, - President Bush is having a grand ole time dancing on the side porch of the White House (waiting for McCain). No - he had no idea what the price of gas was - food costs, home heating oil, etc. Fact is -- GWB has never had to worry over school, employment, housing, food costs, medical care etc. Those mundane matters are for the drones and worker bees. The only time he, or any other politician gives a damn about the common man, is during election theater, when everyone pretends that we have a choice as to the next White House resident . The few other times are, when politicians dress in their slumming clothes and visit disaster zones; promising housing, schools, etc. These are called photo ops and are meaningless as the people have learned. Ask GWB how fast (with all kinds of improvements) Kennebunkport was repaired (by taxpayers) when his father was President (slight wind damage). They are even exempt from disaster --------! No insurance arguments here.
GWB uses Air Force One like a shuttle plane - It uses hundreds of thousands of gallons of gas, shuffling off to Crawford - Kennebunkport - or to some fund raiser. Gas ? Who cares - we're paying for it. With five years of war - GWB is congratulating himself on Victory. The 'surge' is being announced as a success - mostly because the real news of Iraq is not reported. Here we are spending 12 billion a month ( a trillion and no end in sight) - a million Iraqi citizens dead - 5 million dislocated - 40,000 imprisoned - electric a few hrs a day - infrastructure in ruins - no potable water - gas having to be imported from Kuwait (it cost 5 cents a gallon under Saddam) - 4000 dead American soldiers, 60,000 injured (many with horrific head wounds) and this is victory. This place the size of California (once with a population of only 25 million/ half of them youngsters) according to GWB and his buddy McCain worth staying in until hell freezes over. When Cheney was told the other day that the American people do not support this long term (all borrowed money) expense of forever war, he said, "So?" This is the arrogance of indifference/ and perverse unconscionable power.
GWB has said a lot of off the wall things, but March 14, 2008, remarks take the cake. He stated that if he were younger and not employed at the White House - he thinks fighting on the front lines would be a fantastic experience --He went on to suggest in this video conference with soldiers in Afghanistan, that he thought fighting on the front lines was romantic and that he was a little envious! He did have the chance to experience the romance of fighting on the front lines when he wasn't in the White House - only thing is he disappeared? We do know he didn't go to Vietnam when he was younger - nor does it appear, that he's done much to influence his numerous family members, who are old enough to fight their Uncle's war. Believe it or not (putting aside the insane remark of war being romantic) Sgt Ty (above) - missing an arm - the fingers on this other arm - and blind in one eye had to fight for full beneifts. GWB and his cohorts in Congress don't have to fight for their taxpayer funded (yearly cost of living increases) pensions. Meantime Arlen Specter wrote a book - "Don't Give up". This is to encourage all those fighting cancer. Only thing is - Arlen pays a total of only $200 a month for tax payer subsidized medical coverage for his family (prescriptions etc) and has access to the best of hospitals/surgeons - treatment. It takes MONEY to hold on to hope - something Arlene and the gang haven't a clue about. JM