Bush Travels to Calif. to Address Troops(will he don another flight suit?)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) chose a Marine base in southern California — one with one of the highest casualty rates in Iraq (news - web sites) of any U.S. military base or installation — to thank American troops fighting Iraqi insurgents.


Bush was to deliver a speech on Iraq and have lunch with troops Tuesday at Camp Pendleton, 38 miles north of San Diego. More than 21,000 Marines serving in Iraq and neighboring nations are part of the 1st Marine expeditionary Force based there.

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In May 2003, Bush flew off the coast of San Diego to the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln where he declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished." The event, less than two months after the invasion of Iraq, was roundly criticized when U.S. involvement in Iraq turned more violent, American deaths continued to mount and U.S. forces failed to find weapons of mass destruction, the main rationale for the war.


More than 1,200 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, almost 1,000 of them as a result of hostile action, according to an Associated Press count.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20041207/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

Wonder if there will be any banners today? :(

[Sideways]

1. 8 More Weeks Of Boot And Ben Will Be Going To Pendleton.

Next stop....Iraq. My poor son.

[bemildred]

2. Nephew in-law called back from IRR, most likely on his way by now. nt

Good luck to your son.

[llmart]

3. Did anyone see the piece on 60 Minutes Sunday.......

that talked about the 55-year old woman in the IRR who was called up? How fricken desperate are we to be sending 55-year old women?

I'd go to jail first before I'd do anything for this asswipe.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. The San Diego Rental Companies are Cheering This Visit

The rental rate on flight suits and cod pieces are way up.

I'd call that whore profiteering.

[hatrack]

5. Wow, Bush will speak to a hand-picked military audience

What a surprise.

[maddezmom]

6. wonder if he'll promise the troops they'll be home in 4 yrs!!

CNN is pushing the Rummy story of bring all the troops home within 4 yrs.