Time to put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye

[kellinator]

Bush to address nation:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/17/sprj.irq.main/index.html

My cousin David is a Navy chaplain with three young children. They won't tell us where he's stationed, but we believe it's Kuwait. Apparently he has a lot of soldiers coming in wanting to talk.

What I'd like to know is, if Bush is so certain this is worth risking lives for, why isn't he out there on the front lines?

Comments

[candy-angel.livejournal.com]

because its only worth risking lives of people he doesn't know

Chicken hawks

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

You've read Al Franken's story "Operation Chicken Hawk." Bush is a child of privilege, so he's above menial things like warfare.

But the real reason he'd never go to the front line of a war in an Islamic state -- and the reason his twin daughters would never go -- is because there's no booze there. (We're much more likely to see them in a Girls Gone Wild video.)

Well....

[the-yellow-king.livejournal.com]

....technically, he can't go to the front lines. He's not allowed. Ever since WWII, there has been a very distinct thing in military command - Presidents, even if they are the CIC, don't go near the front lines. They stay their ass in Washington. Why? Well, with the new age of tactical nukes, chemical and biological warfare, large-scale bombs - heck, everything they developed during the Cold War - it's too easy to cap the President outside of his home country. Hell, the SS -sweats- when he has to go to Canada.

This is why, for instance, when 9-11 happened they stuck Dubya on Airforce One and had him flying about and totally incommunicado with everybody [Except for the usual SAC communication and the initiating of us going down a few levels in DEFCON. We came a sliver away from nuking the MidEast in retaliation; Dubya made the call not to until we had more information. We did not want to irradiate Mecca till we were sure.]. Wasn't Bush being a coward - it's Standard Operating Procedure for every President since Truman. Makes ya feel warm and cozy, don't it, that if we all die in nuclear conflagration the upper levels of the government and a whorking portion of the military will be safe and sound.

Also, the same applies for Bush's daughters - they will not be allowed to join the military at this time or any other time until Bush is out of office. Too much chance for "incidents" to occur if they went off to war or some bullhockey. They'd become a prime target for America's opposition [of which we don't have a lack for, thanks to our previous foreign policies].

All that lifts, however, for his kids once he's out of office.