Reply #25: Note how Bush reiterated his LACK of desire to serve. [View All]

[CBHagman]

A number of media outlets reported on this particular remark from Bush at the opening of the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Notice that Bush has the nerve to joke about his lack of desire to go through Marine training -- this from someone who was safely Stateside in the Air National Guard while the Vietnam War was going on. Notice, too, that there was no general uproar in the press -- because the media and the GOP didn't seize on the quote.

"In this museum, you will experience life from a Marine's perspective. In this museum, you'll feel what it's like to go through boot camp -- no, thanks! -- make an amphibious landing under fire, or deploy from a helicopter in Vietnam."

There. Note that direct reference to Vietnam, plus Bush's rubbing our faces in the fact that he's not interested in going through that.

Ask your friends and family why Bush gets to strut around playing dress-up, crowing about being commander in chief, but vehemently didn't want to serve, and makes no bones about it today.



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/11/ap/politics/mainD8LAIIRG1.shtml


Bush said visitors will experience life from a Marine's perspective - what it's like to make an amphibious landing under fire, deploy from a helicopter in Vietnam or endure a grueling boot camp.

"No thanks," Bush joked.


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_Bush_Marine_Museum.html?source=mypi

It's like the parable in the Gospels of the two sons asked by their father to work in the field. The one said yes and then didn't go, and the other said no and then went. Jesus asks which man followed the will of his father, and of course it's one who went.

The same is true here. If Kerry is such a foe of the troops, why was he there with them by choice and, by the Navy's own reckoning, with valor?