soldier declines Bush photo-op

[Cocoa]

kind of a thin source, can anyone fill it in?

http://www.suntimes.com/output/quicktakes/cst-nws-qt11.html

News Headline: "Oil giants reap record profits."

News Headline: "Energy bill hands billions to oil companies."

In the nick of time.


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No photo op prop

An Army soldier convalescing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after being wounded in Iraq combat when told President Bush wanted to visit:

"I don't want anything to do with him."

The soldier obviously doesn't support our troops.




A long walk

From a Defense Department announcement:

"As part of the Department of Defense effort to commemorate Sept. 11, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld today announced the first-ever 'America Supports Your Freedom Walk' to remember the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, to honor U.S. troops and veterans and to highlight the value of freedom."

And all you will have to do to walk down the street highlighting the value of freedom is register with the Pentagon.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I heard something about this on the radio news today. Don't have

any more details. Guess the MSM isn't running to cover it.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Of course not

Let's slam Cindy Sheehan instead. :eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Why does this troop hate America

:sarcasm:

Way to go Troop, it takes lots of cajones to do that, UCMJ and all, as this could be a very legal and lawful order

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Just found something on Dailykos

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/10/13492/4638

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One day a nurse came in to ask Rodgers if he wanted to meet President Bush, who was visiting the hospital. Rodgers declined.

I don't want anything to do with him," he explains. "My belief is that his ego is getting people killed and mutilated for no reason -- just his ego and his reputation. If we really wanted to, we could pull out of Iraq. Maybe not completely but enough that we wouldn't be losing people -- at least not at this rate. So I think he himself is responsible for quite a few American deaths."

Bill Swisher, a spokesman for Walter Reed, says it's "fairly common" for patients to decline to see visitors. "We've had visitors from Sheryl Crow to Hulk Hogan," he says, but he has no idea how many have refused to see Bush, who has visited the hospital eight times.

Rodgers says he also declined to meet Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice. This wounded soldier has lost faith in his leaders, and he no longer believes their repeated assurances of victory.

"It's gonna go on as long as we're there," he says. "There's always gonna be insurgents trying to blow us up. There's just too many of 'em that are willing to do it. You're never gonna catch all of 'em. And it seems like they have unlimited amounts of ammunition. So I don't think it's ever gonna end."
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[don954]

9. wrong place

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Scroll down..you will get to it.

Wounded Soldier Refuses to Meet Bush

is at the top of the page.

[don954]

12. no, my post was in the wrong place.. ;)

i replyed on the wrong line.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Oh....

:D

[Cocoa]

14. that's the guy

thanks!

[Obamarama]

4. Hope he doesn't get "fragged" eot

[unrepuke]

5. I salute that soldier.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. What an ingrate!!!

Disrespecting the leader who gave him the privledge of being injured in a "noble cause"!

God bless him!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

8. I say good for him

I wouldn't want anything to do with *, either.

[don954]

10. Fight the good fight my friend..

:yourock: :patriot:

[lonestarnot]

15. He's in the Hackett club and he can hack it! Hat's off to this troop!

:yourock: :headbang: :applause: :woohoo: :patriot: