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US President George W Bush says he would fight in Afghanistan if he was younger.

President Bush spoke of his dream to work on the frontline in Afghanistan during a video conference with US military and civilian personnel in the war-torn country.

"I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said.

"If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.

"It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks," President Bush said.

President Bush was briefed about problems and progress in Afghanistan where a war has dragged on for more than six years.

The President was told challenges range from fighting local government and police corruption to persuading farmers to abandon a lucrative poppy drug trade for other crops.

President Bush heard tales of all-night tea drinking sessions to coax local residents into cooperating, and of tribesmen crossing mountains to attend government meetings seen as building blocks for the country's democracy-in-the-making.


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...rom=public_rss

I guess the jungles of Vietnam weren't exciting enough so instead he stayed home to navigate the dangerous and treacherous skies of Texas? And now he wants to 'live vicariously enough " through our young people serving overseas?

ok......add this to the already long list of Bush - isms as another well intended a but off the mark remark

well he's said that 100s of times over...be nice if he really tells us the truth and say that he just wants all the oil....and not for 'freedom' and 'democracy' that is 'so desparatel needed ' in the middle east.

Because Afganistan is just overflowing with oil...

It sounds as though he was trying to motivate the troops.
Just out of curiosity DS, which branch did you serve in? EXACTLY.

How about you go drill for oil in Afghanistan...

Army.

I don't believe you

that's too damned bad then.
Oh yeah..I forgot, I am supposed to rattle off all my service information like where i served, my unit and battalion info and the like to you....


Yes...yes... "Army" is too vague


How dumbass of me not to leave some very credible info that anyone here can go dig up.... right?

PhiGam...

I don't know nor like you enough to just arbitrarily stick that much info up here for you to see.

I don't give 2 shyts if you believe or not....really.

but no...NO...for a man that hasn't served in combat when he had his chance...I don't agree with his statement.

Maybe he could tell my brother who is now deceased, that the mine his truck hit was romantic

maybe he could tell my frat brother (one of our founders,) that the 4 friends he watched die from mortar rounds was an exciting position, especially when one just talked of being able to go home in four days to see his wife and 3 kids after 2 tours.

Give Gee Dubs kids some kevlar an M 16, MREs and 2 clips for about a week and maybe just maybe I will buy his statement.

I actually would have understood that coming from McCain.

Maybe because I think Bush is an ass and I can exercise my 1st Amendment right to say so?

I'm sorry did I also hurt your feelings by not getting on my knees, kiss his ass and and thank God he has been sent to us?

Ain't happening.

I UNDERSTAND what the hell I have lost duh!

But for that man to make that statement makes me looking forward to 1/20/09


Something I wrote 2 years ago....

A Brother’s Grief 1/19/06

Mr Bush

i wanna take this time to thank you
i know i don’t need to e mail this to you
Because for every right of mine that u are violating
I know somehow u will read this thru your eavesdropping
Wiretappings and illegal e-mail openings and infiltrations of message groups

I wanna thank you for conveniently sending my brother home early

I wanna thank you for taking a man who for so long tried to live outside of the box and sending him back in one

I wanna thank you for taking the time to screw up our lives so bad that my parents who were on the verge of quitting to smoke have gone thru 2 packs within the last 12 hrs.


I wanna thank you for leaving 2 children who so lovingly looked up to him, now without a father and a family that one day will have to tell these children what kind of man their father was and that they should smile when they think of him because he loved them so....

I wanna thank you for taking an ordinarily quiet women who was his devoted wife and making her into a hysterical mess destroying the peace of my parents house...nobody's fault but yours.

I wanna thank you for the cardboard words of condolences in our time of grief in recognition of the rights that he fought for abroad while you violate mine right here

Thanks for the lost sleep and the food I don't wanna eat.

There are so many other things I wanna thank you for but....

I gotta breathe

I gotta breathe...

I gotta keep breathing each breath that he will never take again

I gotta walk

I have to move....

I have to take steps that his foreign soiled shoes will never take again

Soon u will send someone to say some well rehearsed words that he died a hero

Thanks but no thanks...he died on your fool's errand

The one that u had faulty info on...

You will send someone to say that he died for their freedom

Thanks but no thanks

No one recalls ever getting a memo from Iraq that they needed our help.

But we thank them for leaving to do a thankless job for thanking us
for sending our blood to spill his blood far from home

When it all boils down to it Mr Pres..if you wanna show me your thanks...

Send your children to Hell with a carbine, full metal jacket and some BDUs for 14 months and tell them

The same bullshyt you tell us...and lie to yourself about

Even if they don't come back in a box...

They won't come back the same way they left.





- SEC and PhiGam...if you don't like the fact that I and many others criticize the president, especially after a boneheaded remark like that.....you know what you can do.....

W. is teh lame.

I think that Bush is a terrible president and I criticize him when he does something wrong but your comments and criticisms here are just way out of line.

well boo hoo for you bud...get over it.

Do you want me to change it so you can feel a little better?

You don't find Bush at all hypocritical for saying, "Gee, I didn't bother to fight in Vietnam, but I wish could be here now fighting?" I'm fairly certain that he was "slightly younger" then or was it that he thought it was a losing battle and therefore not worth his time? Better to leave it up to John McCain back then since he wasn't too afraid to go? I'm not a Republican, but if McCain would have made this statement I'd be okay with it, since it wouldn't seem like a slap in the face to the troops that are there fighting.

amen bluefish...maybe I am the only one getting that....

I "get it," I just don't have a big problem with Bush sending a message of support to the troops, even if it is bullshit. I also don't have a problem with him not serving in Vietnam considering his circumstances.

I don't have a problem with Bush saying support the troops

(God you guys are clowns)

I DO have a problem with him making light of it...again..ESPECIALLY knowing he had a chance to do it....in light of his situation?

Given his daddy's connections he could have lived the romantic dream during his youth instead of allegedly patrolling the dangerous skies of Texas.