I'll bet you thought Bush couldn't get any dumber or more pathetic, dincha?

So he'll be enlisting on jan 21st next year then?

Yes, George Bush is well known as a man eager to fight in wars, and there is nothing in his past that would suggest otherwise.

Nothing new here. Bush has always fantasized about fighting in wars.

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funny, he had his chance to do so.

His valiant service in the AFR is well known, yes.

less about his hypocrisy, more about war being fantastic, exciting and romantic. and helpful to 'this young democracy'.

indeed not just any war, but this particular war.

You must remember that his daddy was a 'war hero' and fighter pilot in WWII, so he had a good opportunity to romanticize war when he was a young'un. When his own cojones were on the line, he scooted into the reserve, but there he flew fighter planes and hobnobbed with fighter pilots, who are not going to tell the same stories the infantry would.

So, all his 'experience' is listening to stories, and those stories wouldn't have seriously diminished the glamour of war for him. This does underscore his essentially incurious nature and how poorly informed he is about the world in general.

In June 2007, then-White House Press Secretary Tony Snow claimed, “The President is in the war every day…On the frontlines, wherever.”

^^ this is hilarious

don't forget what he did the other day...

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Um, I know everyone hates bush and he's an idiot and blah blah blah, but there is a sort of "romance" to war - defening your country against the bad guys, fighting for all that's good and just, upholding your values, freeing opressed peoples, etc. Thats why a lot of people join the army! There have been books written about this, how the carnage of war can be beautiful someones (Things We Carried talks about this a bit...)...

wait what, so many typos.

hopefully you guys get what I'm saying

its one thing to say when youre actually fighting in some war and another if youre the bitchmade pussy who started the war and killed a bunch of ppl for no reason but never fought for shit

im sure ppl have written about how like the death of their parents changed their outlook on life but itd be another thing for a dude to murder your parents & then be all like 'lol this is really dramatic for you i wish my dad got killed so i could have this exciting ass story lmao'

lol i agree with you, it's tasteless for bush to say this, i'm just saying that to a lot of people there is a "romance" to war

There's a romance to the myth of war - not to war itself. defening your country against the bad guys, fighting for all that's good and just, upholding your values, freeing opressed peoples, etc. These things have nothing to do with te reality of war. And that's what is so concerning about Bush's statement - he seems to have no idea that when he is sending young men to war it is very different from his comic book wet-dreams about heroism and duty.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue. Pilots see a different side of war than the grunts do.

lol i heard terminal cases appreciate life more & hear the birds singing and shit so i injected you with AIDS ;-)

i envy u AIDS-having mufuckas lol

Um, I know everyone hates bush and he's an idiot and blah blah blah, but there is a sort of "romance" to war - defening your country against the bad guys, fighting for all that's good and just, upholding your values, freeing opressed peoples, etc. Thats why a lot of people join the army! There have been books written about this, how the carnage of war can be beautiful someones (Things We Carried talks about this a bit...)...

lol you been brainwashed.

but seiously, that's why i corrected myself to 'this particular war', the romance factor of which is extremely low to non-existent. this isn't ww2. this is vietnam, korea. do you think anyone who says such a thing about this war can possibly have read reports about it, any book-length analysis, any journalsism, watched any news coverage of it, any video footage, spoken to the affected, and taken any of it in?

Everybody needs a sense of grand narrative, of belonging to something more than just you. Particularly if you live a bland middle-class suburban existence with a shitty job and a boring wife and kids who don't like you too much.

Join this war and the shitty job and boring wife and kids were look great tout suite.

yeah, but read too many heroic stories of wwii and you start dreamin'

actualy reality never enters in to any of it.

"were" = "will"