No one feels the pain more than the President or the First lady
A week or so ago the first lady Laura Bush was shown footage of the carnage that is Iraq and this is her response.
Ann Curry showed some video from Iraq and asked Bush, in a hushed, solicitous tone: “You know the American people are suffering, watching –”
The first lady replied: “Oh, I know that, very much. And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this. And certainly the commander in chief who has asked our military to go into harm’s way –”
You can see the video here and write-ups here.
A bit sanctimonious isn’t it for someone to tell me she feels the pain more than the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters of the people on this list.
Our collective losses 4+ years into Iraq and for what?
Click here and read what we have wrought.
Randy Kuhl, Jim Walsh, Tom Reynolds and the rest of the members of Congress have an opportunity to join and fix this yet we get nothing more than empty rhetoric from the Republican side of the aisle.
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