Saturday, January 07, 2006

No Purple Heart for Bush, but....

Bush, Jan. 1, 2006, sporting a two inch gash on his forehead
(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

President Bush began the New Year with a trip to Brooke Army Medical Center where he visited with soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. While there, he also presented purple hearts to nine military members.

The president, who had a noticeable gash on the left side of his brow, offered words of comfort as he remarked, "As you can probably see I was injured myself, not here at the hospital but in combat with a cedar."

Bush quipped. "I eventually won."

Let's face it. That's about the sincerest form of empathy anyone can expect from one born with a silver spoon in his mouth whose "successes" in life were handed him by his dad, dad's cronies, brother Jeb or the Supreme Court.

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