Why aren't the Bush daughters in Iraq?

What a surprise? Oh I feel for you,acolytes

How naive do you have to be?
Support the troops" you fell for the dumbest bumpersticker phrase in all of politics. And yea, you got DUPED. You got bodyslammed on the pavement thinking these vultures support the military. And all you can say back is "Support Da TROOOOOOOOOPS DUHHHH Do you support da TROOOPS DAH CUZ I DO I got sticker on back of truck! "

They aren't supporters. They are parasites reaping off the rewards of this war.

Here comes the smack down. BAM! Good analogy between the FDR kids and the Bush clan.

Face it, you got hosed.

www.latimes.com...

Why aren't the Bush daughters in Iraq? The president's family has set an appallingly bad example for wartime sacrifice.

By Kitty Kelley, KITTY KELLEY, who wrote "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," is working on a biography of Oprah Winfrey. March 19, 2007

WHEN I WAS a little girl in a convent school, the nuns impressed on me the power of setting a good example. These beloved teachers are no longer around to instruct the president and his family, so I recommend that the Bushes learn from Mark Twain, who said: "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

My suggestion comes after the White House announcement earlier this month that Jenna Bush, one of the president's twin daughters, is writing a book on her all-expenses-paid trip to Panama, where she worked for a few weeks as an intern for UNICEF. Jenna Bush is quoted as saying she will donate her earnings from her book to UNICEF, a commendable gesture, considering her father's net worth of $20 million. But while the 25-year-old makes the rounds of TV talk shows this fall in a White House limousine, dozens of her contemporaries will be arriving home from Iraq in wooden boxes. In Britain, Prince Harry is insisting on going off to Iraq — even as his country is reducing its troop commitment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt showed how the power of good example could also be powerfully good politics. When he led the country to sacrifice in World War II, his children enlisted and his wife traveled to military bases to counsel and comfort the families of soldiers. Newsreels showed the president's four sons fighting with the Marines in the Pacific, flying with the Army Air Forces in North Africa and landing with the Navy at Normandy. Soon other public figures followed suit — movie stars (James Stewart and Clark Gable) enlisted and sports heroes (Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg) went off to war.

The contrast between FDR's good example during wartime and that of George W. Bush is stark and sad. The Bush family rallies to the political campaigns of its scions and spends months on the road raising money and shaking hands to put their men into public office. In fact, the public image of their cohesive family — the pearl-choked matriarch surrounded by progeny and springer spaniels — helped cinch more than one presidency for the Bushes. Yet now, when its legacy is most in peril, the family seems to be squandering its good will on a mess of celebridreck.

The president tells us Iraq is a "noble" war, but his wife, his children and his nieces and nephews are not listening. None has enlisted in the armed services, and none seems to be paying attention to the sacrifices of military families. Until Jenna's trip to Panama, the presidential daughters performed community service only when mandated by a court after they were cited for underage drinking. Since then they have surfaced in public during lavish presidential trips with their parents, bar-hopping outings in Georgetown and champagne-popping art openings in New York.

The first lady, so often lauded for her love of literacy, has not been seen in the reading rooms of veterans' hospitals. The president's sister, Doro, publicly picketed Al Gore's last days in the vice president's mansion as he awaited the Supreme Court's decision on the Florida recount of 2000. Yet she has been strangely absent from publicly supporting her brother's war.

The presidential nieces and nephews also have missed the memo on setting a good public example. Ashley Bush — the youngest daughter of the president's brother, Neil, and Neil's ex-wife, Sharon — was presented to Manhattan society at the 52nd Annual International Debutantes Ball at the Waldorf Astoria. Her older sister, Lauren, a runway model, told London's Evening Standard that she is a student ambassador for the United Nations World Food Program, but she would not lobby her uncle for U.S. funds. Her cousin, Billy Bush, chronicles the lives of celebrities on "Access Hollywood."

"Uncle Bucky," as William H.T. Bush is known within the family, is one presidential relative who has profited from the Iraq war. He recently sold all of his shares in Engineered Support Systems Inc. (ESSI), a St. Louis-based company that has flourished under the president's no-bid policy for military contractors. Uncle Bucky told the Los Angeles Times that he would have preferred that ESSI, on whose board he sits, was not involved in Iraq, "but, unfortunately, we live in a troubled world."

Why aren't the Bush daughters in Iraq?

because we have an all-volunteer army of which mandatory conscription and drafting aren't a part.

if they want to join up, they can.

besides of which just what use would they be ? i don't think i'd trust that kind of party dud with a spoon much less a weapon of any kind.

Originally posted by wcssar
besides of which just what use would they be ? i don't think i'd trust that kind of party dud with a spoon much less a weapon of any kind.

Do you see the hypocrisy? Serving doesn't mean signing up for combat on the front line. I am talking about actual "Support" What the author of this article is pointing out is the fraud that this family is to the military in such a visible way. None of these family members pitch in and here is Bush leading the charge? C'mon ....

I don't even understand why people give Hall Passes to this family.
It's just sad when you think about it.

Murtha did more for the troops than all of the Bushes put together. And look what Cheneys and Bush's tried to do to him.

I tell you what I would like to see. I'd like to see Jim Webb have the President under oath about Iraq. You would see the biggest dangerous fraud in American Presidential History.



Kelley has a point and the point is this family thrives on bumpersticker mentality. And it means literally just that. A Sticker to say and make them feel "patriotic" rather than "BE" patriotic.

Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
Why aren't the Bush daughters in Iraq?

because we have an all-volunteer army of which mandatory conscription and drafting aren't a part.

if they want to join up, they can.

Again, this isn't about "them" in Iraq. It has to do with hypocrisy and the ultimate fraud that the whole family is. Did you read that part about Uncle Bucky? A war profiteer who hasn't been taken to task at all. These kind of actions are dangerous to our citizens and our country. You must know that,Madnessinmysoul. I trust you have rationality in your soul as well.

And if we don't confront them, it's a slippery slope. That's what Americans need to think about. That bumper sticker "Support the troops" is frayed,withered,old and just a gigantic fraud for this administration.
And yet they get "Cred" for being "For" the military.

It's such a naked fraud too. And the Cheneys are no different as well. How does someone have the audacity to call someone "unamerican" or "not patriotic" What kind of parasite do you have to be to dismiss someone when your ass hasn't served or done anything for the soldiers.

These aristocrat families could do something for the Military.


Are you ready to attack anywhere and have these people further harm this country?

1) They aren't in the military
2) Its a volunteer force, no draft is involved as in days past.

When you volunteer to join the military, you should consider the very real prospect of going into a war zone and combat, especially if you've signed up after hostilities started in Iraq.

Heck, for that matter, let's say Iraq never happened. You could be sent to Kosovo or Bosnia and get killed in action or by some training/transport mishap. You could also be sent to the N.-S. Korean border only to have North Korea invade the very next day.

I don't think they should necessarily go off fighting in Iraq... at the moment, that choice is up to the individual (and I'm thankful for it).

But I do think there are good points in there. The family does seem rather disconnected from this all-mighty cause we're shedding so much blood over.

But maybe, just maybe, we don't have all the celebrities going off to war because (gasp!) it doesn't seem so noble this time.

Just another symptom of a problem that's already so clear...

Originally posted by Zhenyghi
1) They aren't in the military
2) Its a volunteer force, no draft is involved as in days past.

When you volunteer to join the military, you should consider the very real prospect of going into a war zone and combat, especially if you've signed up after hostilities started in Iraq.

Heck, for that matter, let's say Iraq never happened. You could be sent to Kosovo or Bosnia and get killed in action or by some training/transport mishap. You could also be sent to the N.-S. Korean border only to have North Korea invade the very next day.

You are missing the point,Zheny. I am pointing out the fraud that these hierarchy families are when they stand next to the military for a photo op.
And how much the American public is duped time and time again for this "jingoist patriotism" I still am surprised that "core" of supporters who don't see that they are damaging this country in endless ways. There is a line and when you cross it you can't go back. This administration crossed the line on all fronts. Our security,our treasury,our trust,


Again, no sacrifice equals no connection and more blood than these people will know what to do with. How many soldiers died in March? Now whoever isn't seeing that isn't paying attention. Which means: if someone is still distracted by the "theater", those in political power will continue to abuse the military and the families which pay the sacrifice. I'm sorry but the days of shouting out "Support the troops" is going to be looked at as our most pathetic days in U.S. History. People will have so many questions in the immediate future. "What did the Administration do to support the Military" "Uh, send them on exhausting 2/3 tours of duty with no reserves at home. "


And this is not bashing. This cabal has never been held accountable. And now with the on going scandals it looks like the avalanche can't be stopped.