How Bush Supports the Troops

       The president visited injured troops at Brooke Army Medical Center on New Year's Day, 2006, to award Purple Hearts and in an apparent attempt to boost morale and maybe get some good press. While most of what he said was typical morale boosting rhetoric (though nothing was said about restoring benefits cut from veterans' programs, which would have been a genuine morale booster) two of Bush's statement stand out.
        "I can't think of a better way to start 2006 than here at this fantastic hospital," Bush said. Really? I'll bet the 51 seriously injured soldiers and marines staying at Brooke AMC can think of a better way. How about at home with their families? Leave it to Bush to mock another's pain and suffering, something he's shown an affinity for on previous occasions.
       The Commander-in-Chief also said to the injured troops, "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."
       The silence must have been deafening. Imagine saying something like that to someone who lost their leg fighting a guerilla war you started! What a way to insult the troops! Who could be that insensitive? It shows what an utter lack of awareness Bush has of real people and real life. It's obvious that to him 'compassion' is just a sound bite word he got from Rove. Hell, the guy even says he doesn't read.
       Never misunderestimate this president's depthitude for shallowness (or his capacitation for evildoing in the name of righteousity, which is what got those troops into Brooke AMC in the first place).