3 ghosts of Bush's recent past

[leftchick]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uspost154084355dec15,0,4776213.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

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Then there were the awardees up on stage: Franks, who won his wars in Kabul and Baghdad and then was lucky or smart enough to retire before Iraq went sour; Bremer, who smartly saluted his superiors in Washington throughout his 14-month tenure and only later let it slip that he'd thought they were all wet about how many troops were needed; and Tenet, who assured Bush that proving Iraq had weapons of mass destruction would be a "slam dunk."

Apparently, none of these apparitions of old embarrassments made the guest list, and Bush wasn't in a mood to revisit them. He told some folksy stories about Tenet's busboy beginnings in his family's diner in Little Neck, Franks' West Texas roots and Bremer's penchant for desert boots.

Then he moved quickly into full-praise mode, calling the honorees "three men who have played pivotal roles in great events," hung the hardware around their necks and called it a ceremony.

It was left to White House spokesman Scott McClellan to field questions from slightly incredulous reporters about why someone like Tenet - he has taken incoming flak over his leadership of the CIA from the 9/11 Commission, a Senate select committee and a host of independent experts - was getting the nation's highest civilian honor.

"Today is a day to pay tribute to these individuals," McClellan repeated relentlessly each time the question was asked. "And we're going to stay focused on honoring these individuals on this day. That's where our focus will be."

[TaleWgnDg]

1. Well, America can flush THAT "highest civilian award" down

the toilet


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.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Along with, of course, the Purple Heart.

bush turns everything to shit.

[BikeWriter]

2. Three awesome failures!

:-(

[TomClash]

4. You can't think much of any award won by . . .

Charlton Heston
Robert Bartley
James Baker
Dick Cheney
Helmut Kohl
Don Rumsfeld
Caspar Weinberger

[TaleWgnDg]

5. how tragic!

[Historic NY]

6. great examples of "Peter Principle".............

awards for accomplishing nothing, the morass goes on.

[Hekate]

7. Jon Stewart's take on this bestowal of medals ...

He called it the Special Olympics.
Oh yeah.

Hekate

[BamaBecky]

8. "Hush Awards" to stop "tell all" books, mentioned Olberman last night n/t

[flordehinojos]

9. You don't like the question? Stay FOCUSED ON SOMETHING ELSE Scottie!

"We are going to stay focused on ....." is Scottie's answer whenever he does not like the question which mostly is whenever he doesn't have an honest answer for the question.

Stay focused on the war on terror.
Stay focused on the honorees.
Stay focused on the Resident's time with injured soldiers after his physical.
Stay focused on .......

Scottie, once in a while it is good to focus on a REVIEW of everything that's gone wrong...there is some pain in doing that and then there is some growth from that pain.

The INFALLIBLE RESIDENT has many GRAVE SINS to ATONE for and this time of ADVENT seems to be the right time to do it in.

[UL_Approved]

10. To Bush, they ARE heroes

These guys put Bush right where he wanted to be. They are some of his most important henchmen. It looks like a Communist decorating party, none the less. This is why the shrub must be removed.

[NashVegas]

11. Duplicate Story

locking.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1071880