News from Australia: "I feel your pain, says Bush"

[Bluebear]

PRESIDENT George W. Bush says he sympathises with a mother who lost a son in Iraq and has been leading a protest vigil near his ranch but said he will not pull US troops from Iraq as she has demanded.

"I grieve for every death," Mr Bush said as Cindy Sheehan remained camped about 8km away.

For six days she has demanded Mr Bush meet with her about her son, Casey Austin Sheehan, an army specialist killed in combat in Baghdad in April last year.

"It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one," Mr Bush said. "I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place."

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16237309%255E954,00.html

[noahmijo]

1. But yet I won't meet with any of you grievers

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Dim son Would not know sympathy if it bit him on the ass. He is an

unfeeling sociopath. He is totally incapable of feeling anything except for his selfish little self. To borrow a phrase from his equally unfeeling Mommy, he wouldn't want to bother his "beautiful mind" over such things.

[latebloomer]

3. He's a sociopath

He doesn't have a conscience and he can't feel pain for another's grief.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Yep.

;) Great minds in the same track.

[latebloomer]

5. Diagnosis confirmed! n/t

[Cha]

6. Is that why bush was joking

around..looking under the table at a press club shindig for WMD?

bush hasn't "grieved" a god damned second.

[WinkyDink]

7. Definitely a psycho

No joke.
His syntax is all screwy ("the death that takes place") because he can only attempt to show human emotions.
Thus, his usual reliance on cliches and his frequent inappropriate affect.

[Yellow_Dog]

8. Well now that your loved one

got in the way of an IED or AK47 round, now I have to find someone to replace him. Got any more kids at home, send them on down, you owe me that.

[Literate Tar Heel]

9. can anyone else imagine this?

"I grieve for every death," Mr Bush said as Cindy Sheehan remained camped about 8km away.

And then, "Now watch this drive."

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. I don't think they're sociopaths. Sociopaths have an excuse, an utter lack

of understanding.

It seems that BushCo LIKE pain. This involves understanding, which is even worse. A sociopath you can lock up like a sick dog. Those who know, and plan for it, are far worse.

[atommom]

11. I understand the anguish that SOME feel about the DEATH THAT TAKES PLACE."

He's aware, on some level, that some people feel anguish, but it clearly doesn't get through to him. And he's still trying to make it sound as if all of these deaths were inevitable, and had nothing to do with his own actions.