More Inaugural Excess and How the Planners are Trying to Downplay Them
Mean Mr. Bush continues to plan his fancy party, while soldiers keep dying in Iraq and tsunami victims keep suffering.
"You don't want to be seen as fiddling like Nero while Rome or Mosul or Baghdad is burning."
Yeah, that's bad P.R.
Inaugural handlers have been forced to justify the expense of merrymaking while the death toll of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeds 1,300. The money, albeit privately raised, stands in contrast to the shortage of armor for troops and their vehicles that the Pentagon has struggled with for a year.
"Precedent suggests that inaugural festivities should be muted — if not canceled — in wartime," Rep. Anthony D. Weiner (D-N.Y.) recently wrote in a letter to his colleagues, noting that $40 million would buy armor for 690 Humvees or provide a $290 bonus for each service member stationed in Iraq.
George Bush just wants to toot his own horn, even if that toot smells like a stinky fart.
"You don't want to be seen as fiddling like Nero while Rome or Mosul or Baghdad is burning."
Yeah, that's bad P.R.
Inaugural handlers have been forced to justify the expense of merrymaking while the death toll of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeds 1,300. The money, albeit privately raised, stands in contrast to the shortage of armor for troops and their vehicles that the Pentagon has struggled with for a year.
"Precedent suggests that inaugural festivities should be muted — if not canceled — in wartime," Rep. Anthony D. Weiner (D-N.Y.) recently wrote in a letter to his colleagues, noting that $40 million would buy armor for 690 Humvees or provide a $290 bonus for each service member stationed in Iraq.
George Bush just wants to toot his own horn, even if that toot smells like a stinky fart.
posted by cookie christine @ 1/14/2005
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