Bush gets Purple Heart...

[headscratcher4]

Sort of. But I agree with Bush, however, hehasn't earned it...


From Dan Fromkin's Washington Post column: Washingtion Briefing...back in late April...


Bush Gets a Purple Heart



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Joyce May writes in the Cove Herald of Copperas Cove, Tex, about a Vietnam veteran named Bill Thomas who decided to give Bush one of the three Purple Hearts that he received in Vietnam.

"Thomas said he and his wife came up with the unprecedented idea to present the president with the Purple Heart over breakfast one morning a few months ago as they discussed the verbal attacks, both foreign and domestic, the commander in chief has withstood during his time in office.

"'We feel like emotional wounds and scars are as hard to carry as physical wounds,' Thomas said. . . .

"Thomas said he drew up a citation and he and his wife signed it before dropping it and the medal off with Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, to forward to President Bush.

"Carter later called Thomas to inform him that the president was very moved by the gesture and would like the couple to present it in person."

And that's what happened on Monday, in the Oval Office. Why exactly Bush felt that was appropriate is a pretty good question.

"'He said he didn't feel like he had earned it,' Thomas said."

 

[Upchurch]

From before

"'He said he didn't feel like he had earned it,' Thomas said."

Golly. Ya think?

 

[LawnOven]

hmm maybe he could get cheney to shoot him in the leg.

 

[sackett]

hmm maybe he could get cheney to shoot him in the leg.

Hah. You think Dick would pass up a chance like that? His best SHOT ever at being prexy?




Yeah, that deserves banning. I admit it.

 

[LawnOven]

heh some would argue that he already is "co-president".

 

[Crossbow]

Gee whiz!

I thought the only way Bush would ever get a Purple Heart is if he got really drunk/stoned so badly that he went skinny dipping while still wearing his shirt with a couple of purple pens in the left breast pocket.

 

[The Kilted Yaksman]

heh some would argue that he already is "co-president".

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

 

[TragicMonkey]

Does "wounded by pretzel" count toward a Purple Heart?

 

[tsg]

Hawkeye: "Why are you getting a purple heart?"

Burns: "Last month when I got shell fragments in my eye."

Hawkeye: "It was egg shell!"

 

[Schneibster]

Does "wounded by pretzel" count toward a Purple Heart?

My second thought. My first was, "What, he missed his mouth and stabbed himself in the face with one of the multitudinous forks at the formal dinner with the Queen?"

 

[tsg]

"'He said he didn't feel like he had earned it,' Thomas said."

Yah, right? Then why go through the trouble of having these people present it to him in person?