Soldiers forbidden to speak after "Tears of Bush" Photo op..

[KennedyGuy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011100389.html

"Assuring there would be no discordant notes here, Maj. Gen. Walter Wojdakowski, the base commander, banned the 300 soldiers who had lunch with the president from talking with reporters. If any of them harbored doubts about heading back to Iraq, many for the third time, they were kept silent".

Utterly pathetic..take a pic with them...send them back to Iraq.

[sce56]

1. F____ING BS

http://web.archive.org/web/20030602211200/

[saigon68]

2. "BRING EM ON" shouted the (Drunken) AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[raccoon]

16. If a Democratic President had said something so stupid, insensitive

and cruel, the so-called media would never shut up about it.

[caligirl]

3. They can probably identify the bottle of artificial tears dropped into the

empty black holes that look like eyes.

[KennedyGuy]

4. Drudgie has the pic of Chimpy crying on the front page..

Doesn't mention not letting the troops speak though..
Big suprise.
Our soldiers are nothing more that props for this idiot.

[earthside]

6. One Weird Photo

There appears to be a rivulet of moisture on his cheek ... but his eyes are COLD.

?x=271&y=345&sig=w3oCjqNYacthklhBbYajOw--">Reuters Photo

[lisby]

9. He's crying for himself, not the soldiers. NT

:(

He's a sociopath.

Lisby

[Skittles]

11. he looks evil

he IS evil

[barbtries]

18. the eyes look dead

they chilled me to the bone

[Buzz Clik]

19. hmmm....

[PADemD]

21. It looks like

he's looking around to see if anyone believes him.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Hitler cried when his German Shepperd Blondie died

even though he is the one that tested a cyanide capsule on Blondie.

[Joe Chi Minh]

20. And part of the training of his Gestapo was for the individual to kill

the dog he had trained.

[HuffleClaw]

5. not a surprise, not at all.

they KNOW the troops would tell the TRUTH.

[CoffeeCat]

8. Yeah right...

I always shed piles of tears over people--and then tell my underlings to make sure that they STFU.

Makes sense to me.

[meldroc]

10. What was fun was watching the expressions of the soldiers as * spoke...

You could tell they were desperately resisting the urge to roll their eyes... Can't say I blame 'em.

[Golden Raisin]

12. And this is the kind of democracy

and freedom of speech Bush is trying to export to Iraq and elsewhere? This is the kind of democracy he's asking our brave soldiers to die for? They are supposed to be defending THE RIGHT to freedom of speech.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. I guess they don't want it getting out

that Bush's tears were faked. Just like the fake turkey he brought to Baghdad.

[Quantess]

14. He had a slice of onion in his lapel, I'm betting. (no text)

[Joe Bacon]

15. That general SHOULD BE BUSTED IN RANK!

We have to purge these Jesusbots out of the military!

[gratuitous]

17. Isn't it a soldier's duty to disobey illegal orders?

Odd, though, that these sort of stories have been pretty widely circulated all through Bush's presidency, but they didn't typically come out for days or even weeks or months afterward. Now they come out in the same news cycle. Bush's approval numbers have been tanking even without timely reporting of his imperious ways; what will happen when people are clued in even before the next phony prop shot is staged?

[EndElectoral]

24. Absolutely...this is Watada's defense! Sen. Byrd has also said the War Resolution is unconstitution

al....Hence, if challenged the orders woudl be illegal orders since Congress abrogated it's responsiblity to determien war, but passed it off onto the President to decide.

Additionally, Watadi claims the reasons for war were manipulated.

Illegal orders must not be followed. Remeber Nuremburg. the whole trials were about the I was just folowing orders defense.

1998
"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier... So long as I'm the dictator. "

1999
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
On Kosovo, Houston Chronicle (April 9, 1999)

2002
So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you.
White House press conference, March 13, 2002 <19>

2002
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. (June 18, 2002)

2004
I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations.
3rd Presidential Debate, October 13, 2004 (See his Mar 13, 2002 quote)

There was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the attack of 9/11, I’ve never said that and never made that case prior to going into Iraq.<70>

[Mz Pip]

22. Bush probably used

artificial tears to get that look. :eyes:

Any tears the soldiers shed were real.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Generic Brad]

23. Those are probably real tears

Most likely he yanked out a nose hair real fast.