Bush Helps Assemble Soldier Care Packages

[Rose Siding]

FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- President Bush chipped in Friday at a warehouse that fills care packages for troops overseas, stuffing plastic bags with candy canes, presidential coins, playing cards and other goodies.

Bush shed his coat and tie to join an assembly line inside a cavernous warehouse on this military base just outside Washington.

"You can't ever thank the troops enough," the commander in chief said. "This is one way of saying `America appreciates your service to freedom and peace and our security.' I hope the troops understand that with this package comes a lot of support and a lot of affection."
...
Other volunteers, some in military fatigues, hooted, hollered and snapped pictures with the president as he worked on the line. "This little operation here is cranking out a lot of care packages," the president said. "With it is a message of good will and hope."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-bush-uso,0,729240.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[MichiganVote]

1. Oh yeah? Did he include any holiday scrap metal for armor?

[earthside]

2. What About Coffins?

Is little George going to help assemble coffins for the dead Americans coming home from Iraq?

[SaintAnne]

3. seems like a photo op

yeah, he should send some armor too, maybe some health care coverage. candy canes don't do much in the long run

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. For how long?

5 minutes? Ten?
:wow:

[Mari333]

5. Lousy POS. Anything that spoiled frat boy touches is poisoned n/t

[The Zanti Regent]

6. What about body armor?

It's too late for my only child, he sure could have used it before he was struck down...

[American liberal]

11. I'm so sorry to hear of your loss; it's so senseless *eom*

[genieroze]

24. I'm so sorry for your loss. eom

[JPace]

7. Wonder if he give back all the soldiers arms and legs that

have been lost, or bring back the dead soldiers or for
that matter all the dead and wounded Iraqi's?

He created hell on earth and now he want to offer them
candy and cookies. Is this insane or what?

[zann725]

12. Reminds me of those free Turkeys he handed out in FL after hurricanes

to many of the same people who only weeks later he denied the right to vote! Man sure knows a good photo op when he sees one!

[acmavm]

8. The military wouldn't NEED care packages if pResident AWOL and his

buddies hadn't gotten ahold of the government and used it to profit themselves at the cost of these people, ALL our our nation, and the citizens of Iraq.

If he so self-assured about the war, if he's so damn convinced that things are going so well, and if he truly believes the propaganda about 'freedom' that he's always inflicting on the world he really needs to start suiting up and handing a gun to some of the people in his own family, in cheney's family (Mary for instance), and the rest of his fricking cabal. It's long past time that he start showing the 'courage of his convictions' so to speak.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. And three minutes later,

he put his coat and tie back on, posed for two more pictures and left quickly, muttering to Rove, "Why do I have to do fucking bullshit like that? Damn. GET ME A DRINK."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. OMFG, he ACTUALLY "shed his coat and tie"...he IS God's Chosen One!

Man, we're not even at the end of Bush-Cheney I, how the HELL are we going to make it through Bush-Cheney II?

FOUR more years of Stepford Wife Pickles
FOUR more years of mummified parents, Pappy 'n' Bar
FOUR more years of the "innocent" Bush "kids"
FOUR more years of crippling economic policies created solely for the benefit of his "base" of the "haves" and "have mores"

The standard response to the "You can't ever thank the troops enough" crap, at least from what I've seen on DU, has become "If you want to THANK them enough, BRING...THEM...HOME."

:grr:

[Turbineguy]

17. Hmmm.....

I wonder if he was wearing a Kerry/Edwards 2004 Tee shirt underneath.

[American liberal]

13. or how about a paycheck and a plane ticket home for Christmas?

If you've read the story in the Middletown, NY, Times Herald-Recorder, Spc. Loria lost his arm earlier this year in a roadside bombing attack. (He was in a Humvee without adequate armor.) He went from a hospital in Wash., DC, back to Fort Hood, TX, was finally released after months and months, then the military confiscated his final paycheck, saying that he owed the military almost $2,000.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=137978&mesg_id=137978

Bush is a lying hypocrite. He's going down. There's no way people are going to stand for this for 4 more years.

On edit: Link to story

[Bo]

14. Thank Xtians for the Ass

Jesus loves to bomb poor people and kill babies. Ive never seen a more satanic person than *

[NVMojo]

15. all I can say is ...

:puke:

[neweurope]

16. May I join you...

:puke:

[genieroze]

25. Third times a charm.

:puke:

[msgadget]

18. Oh, this ought to protect them on the field of battle.

What the heck are you anti-war crybabies worried about? The man's on the case!

[Skittles]

19. I'm sure it came straight from the heart

sick bastard :puke:

[Benhurst]

20. What crap to be sending grown men and women. NT

[Zerex71]

21. Wow, those candy canes will stop RPGs and IEDs.

Thanks for nothing, Dickhead-in-Chief!

[Cymbaline68]

22. Presidential Coins?

WTF is that?

[William Bloode]

23. I bet it was just......

long enough to take pictures for the media whores!

Hahahahaha! Weapons of mass distraction strike again!

[PartyPooper]

26. Shrub is just a little too hypocritcal...."Soldier Care Packages"?

Since when did the "War Monger-In-Chief" start giving a sh** about our soldiers?

:eyes:

[pinniped]

27. Ain't that the truth.

-"You can't ever thank the troops enough," the commander in chief said. "-

If not for the troops, *'s cronies wouldn't have scored billions in contracts and millions in profits.

Did the asshole help assemble any packages last year?

[brentspeak]

28. Hey, Sarge! Our Care packages only have left-feet socks in them!

Who was the idiot who prepared these things?

--The tag here says, "G.W.Bush, #245".

[TyeDye75]

29. Real useful

FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- President Bush chipped in Friday at a warehouse that fills care packages for troops overseas, stuffing plastic bags with candy canes, presidential coins, playing cards and other goodies.

Im sure candy, cards and cash can stop bullets and roadside bombs, right? How about putting some body armour in those package W. anker