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Headlines : GovernmentBush: I quit golf over Iraq war
“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
“I want to appreciate those of you who wear our nation’s uniform for your sacrifice.” —George W. Bush, Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 14, 2005
[Posted By bacchus]Republished from The Raw Story
US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.
“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said in an interview for Internet hub Yahoo! and Politico magazine.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them….
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this was on yahoo.com.. the same interviewer asks him to do a Dr. Evil impression and he obliges.. no joke.. I think Dick Cheney does a better one though without half as much effort.
Q: And speaking of impressions, our friend, Robert Draper, author of “Dead Certain,” said you do a great impression of Dr. Evil from “Austin Powers”. (Laughter.)
Bush: That’s awfully — you mean this — yes. That was a really good movie, too, the first one.
Go Here: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_text_2
Then, find this link to see it: “Yeah Baby: Bush does ‘Dr. Evil’ impersonation“
What a sacrifice on par with dying for such a noble cause in relation to Iraqis and their “freedom.”
what a stupid fucking prick.
thanks dikweed
that was
well
words escape me
is that Golf Cart One sticker for real?
He also gave up reading after 911. That’s right: My Pet Goat is the last book he read.
Andrew Cockburn talks about his book ‘Rumsfeld’ with antiwar radio host Scott Horton, he reveals that George Bush didn’t know what a Neo-con was until the summer of 2006, when he asked his dad, George HW Bush.
manchurian candidate
“What a sacrifice on par with dying for such a noble cause…”
Dilated_Rebel, that’s fucking brilliant!
There are plans to build the Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club in Baghdad’s Green Zone…..............
Bush likely sucked at golf anyway.
Bush Lied About Giving Up Golf: Video Proof
Fore!