Bush expresses sorrow over U.S. deaths in Iraq | Reuters
Publicly, President Bush has expressed sorrow over the number of troop casualties in Iraq. Still, he attempts to convince himself, and the rest of us, that this was the right war at the right time:
“One day people will look back at this moment in history and say ‘thank God there were courageous people willing to serve’ because they laid the foundation for peace for generations to come”
It makes one question if, privately, he regrets this decision and sees the gross miscalculation he and his administration made. Does he lament his errors behind closed doors, or has he so firmly convinced himself with his own public rhetoric that he has done the right thing, that there is no room for consideration that things may have gone horribly wrong?
Soldiers are brave and selfless. They are heroes. It is sad that our president’s decisions have cost us 4,000 of these heroes.
Too Bizarre for a Title
If I were to put a checklist together of things that could go wrong during a boating excursion, I think a flying eagle ray stabbing me in the neck would fall pretty far down on that list — somewhere between a great white shark attack and a tidal wave.