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Originally Posted by RACooper
As insulting say, as making a joke about combat wounds/casualties in front of the wounded?
"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."
Pres. George W. Bush, after visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
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I don't think Bush trying to ease a soldiers situation with a little humor is nearly the same as him calling them uneducated and dumb.