Nithing

Yes, that last post has me royally pissed off. It's been over and hour and my blood is still boiling. Then I read this quote of his, from a comment he made about the soldiers that were killed in the Chinook incident over the weekend.

"We mourn every loss," the president said. "We honor every name. We grieve with every family. And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders."

The little asshole that's supposedly running our country [into the ground] may say that he "honours" those who die in the war, but he refuses to treat their bodies - or their families - with the traditional honours because it might make his regime look bad. He and his administration have worked to cut both imminent-danger and family-separation pay* (though the Senate has, just today, passed a bill that would increase these benefits to those in the military and their families), as well making budgetary requests that fail to provide them with equipment such as body armour that might help save the lives of some of our soldiers.

He lies to get us into the war and tries to spin everything so he can claim it's going well. His administration's webmasters are cleansing stories and articles to change what they did say to what they wish they had said or think they should have said.

Bush HAS no honour. He is a nithing. I only hope that when his time comes (naturally and in due course - I have no desire to see him killed or injured) he will be treated with all of the cumulative "honour" he has shown the young men and women whom he has sent off to war. I hope the emptiness of his words will be reflected in the emptiness of his eternal fate.

[*Note: One of the things discussed in the article is that hospitals are charging soldiers $8.10 per day for their meals. There has been a lot of disagreement over whether this charge is fair or unfair to the soldiers. What is happening is that when a soldier is in the hospital or otherwise away from his base or other normal source of military food service he has an $8.10 per diem added to his base pay to help cover the cost of any meals he has to purchase himself. The meals provided in the hospital, however, are already paid for by the military, so when the soldier gets the per diem in his check, he's being given money for meals he got that were already paid for. That money is then added back into the hospital bill so that that the soldier is still getting his meals free, but he's not getting "extra" money for them. Some think this is rather chintzy on the part of the military, but with as many injuries as happening in the war, the extra $8.10 per soldier per day could add up fairly fast.]