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Disgraceful: In 8 Years, George W. Bush Never Greeted Fallen Troops
Disgraceful: In 8 Years, George W. Bush Never Greeted Fallen Troops
This is what a president does . US President Barack Obama has paid his respects to 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan, the first time he has honoured the fallen in this way. NPR notes that , The dramatic image of a president on the tarmac was a portrait not witnessed in years . Why ...
Honoring the fallen
mudvillegazette.com — As the Obama administration debated resource requirements, October became the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan... since the beginning of the war. Even before the "record numbers" the president's approval ratings on Afghanistan were in free fall : In previous polls, Obama received ... (more) Honoring the fallen
Attention Bush Apologists: Reagan Greeted Fallen Americans at an Air Force Base, Idiots
Attention Bush Apologists: Reagan Greeted Fallen Americans at an Air Force Base, Idiots
firedoglake.com — It appears my post yesterday got the teabaggers all riled up . Apparently, their position is that... George W. Bush’s refusal to honor fallen Americans as they return to this country for the last time — something his predecessors all did ... (more) Attention Bush Apologists: Reagan Greeted Fallen ...
Obama honours Afghanistan killed
Obama honours Afghanistan killed
news.bbc.co.uk — US President Barack Obama has paid his respects to 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan, the first time... he has honoured the fallen in this way. The bodies of 15 US soldiers and three Drug Enforcement Agency agents were transferred to a mortuary on the ... (more) Obama honours Afghanistan killed
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Shorter George W. Bush: I support the troops...
INSTAPUTZ — ...I just don't like gettin' up early.

Pres. Obama Stands Witness at Dover Air Force Base
The Moderate Voice — ... to take personal responsibility for those policies, and for the decisions the president — then Bush, now Obama — makes that will have such a profound affect on their lives and fortunes. It takes a certain amount of moral courage to be there at such a moment. It’s painful. It makes you feel bad. Perhaps stirs feelings of guilt or responsibility. It’s a raw, vulnerable, emotionally naked position in which to be. Apparently, Pres. Obama has that moral courage. His predecessor did not. Milbloggers are ...

Propping Up The Dead
Confederate Yankee — ... Obama his cheap theatrics. 14 suffered through a meeting with the President and his surrounding entourage during what should have been a solemn moment of reclamation. Four families, apparently, were able to escape the White House-orchestrated circus entirely. But liberals rotted to the core and rooted in the past instinctively returned to their traditional primal howl, with something called a Blue Texan at firedoglake using Obama's irreverent, calculated photo op to attack who else? George Bush . At Blackfive, a real American, a soldier who understands the solemnity of service ...

Obama exploited the troops by greeting the dead at Dover Air Force Base. BUSH LOVES THE TROOPS!!1!!
INSTAPUTZ — That was the wingtard reaction to this post. Like fish in a barrel.

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