This is Not a Joke
In a gross insult to the sensibilities of all decent people, the illustrious military career of our current President George W. Bush has been commemorated in a bronze statue to be displayed proudly at the headquarters of the National Guard Association.
This would be funny if it was a joke. No such luck. The fact that it is true is a monstrous affront to every American veteran and to the families of all servicemen who did not make it back from Vietnam.
Presidents are often memorialized in their most famous moments -- George Washington crossing the Delaware, Theodore Roosevelt at San Juan Hill.
This would be funny if it was a joke. No such luck. The fact that it is true is a monstrous affront to every American veteran and to the families of all servicemen who did not make it back from Vietnam.
Presidents are often memorialized in their most famous moments -- George Washington crossing the Delaware, Theodore Roosevelt at San Juan Hill.
Now President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard has been immortalized in bronze. The National Guard Association of the United States yesterday unveiled a bust of a young Lt. George W. Bush. The association expressed its pride in Bush, who is perhaps its most famous alumnus around today.
Bush's service may still be a bit of a sore subject for him, though. He seemed no more eager to talk about it yesterday than he did in his 2004 reelection campaign, when critics questioned whether he manipulated his guard service to avoid having to serve in Vietnam.
Bush is rumored to be irritated that a similar (but larger) statue has not been erected in Baghdad to the "liberator of the Iraqis."
posted by Effwit at 11:42 AM
5 Comments:
Meatball One:
Goddammit, I was hoping to put one over on everybody.
You are just too frickin' smart for your own good.
When we can spare one of the Gulfstreams, maybe I'll put you on the list.
What's next? A statue of Babs in a square in New Orleans administering to the sick a la Florence Nightingale?
Un-effing-real, effwit. We live in vexing times.
Dena
Dena:
It is quite egregious I would say.
There are people who, after the "Swift Boat" propagandists worked their magic, actually believe that Kerry was a draft dodger and that W served in Vietnam.
Babs is quite the compassionate soul isn't she? A gooper goddess.
Are you sure that wasn't part of Sports Illustrated's "This Week's Sign that the Apocalypse is Upon Us"?
How ironic is it that the National Guard is honoring a former guardsman who, by all accounts, went AWOL while the same former guardsman now sends tens of thousands of current guardsmen to fight a conflict in Iraq that had no legitimate basis for being fought?
Pathetic.
Drew L:
It is beyond bizarre.
Beyond ironic too, in that Bush is responsible for the very understandable recruiting difficulties currently being experienced by the Guard.
Rumsfeld's (recently recinded) order to cut manpower in the Guard cannot have endeared the National Guard Association to this administration either.
I really can't understand the tribute to Bush.
Collective shell-shock would seem to a (however politically incorrect) excuse.
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