Honoring our fallen soldiers one lie at a time

I know Memorial Day is almost over, but I just read this post over at the Tattered Coat and got goose bumps. Not only that, but he mentions fetishes several times. Not sure if it was all that fetish talk or Matt's great writing that gave me goose bumps, but go read the whole thing. It's fabulous.

I saw Bush's speech this afternoon on CNN or MSNBC. All I could think about was the hypocrisy. Bush is talking about honoring our fallen soldiers when he couldn't even fulfill his duty to the Texas and Alabama National Guard. What a loser president we have.

If he understood that sacrifice, he would have done everything in his
power to make sure that the vehicles our soldiers ride in had more than
enough protective armor to shield them. If he understood that sacrifice,
he would have attended the funeral of a fallen soldier. If he understood
that sacrifice, he would have made sure that those who misrepresented Pat
Tillman'’s death lost their jobs. If he understood that sacrifice, he
would have apologized for taking the country to war on the basis of lies.

There has to be a middle ground between honoring the fallen and using
them for political advantage. Because in the end, the people who died on
9/11, and the soldiers who died while serving this country, deserve better
than to be turned into political props and recruitment posters.

Now I haven't looked at a transcript of Bush's speech today, and I'm not going to because it's late and I'm sleepy, but when he said something like "America has always been the reluctant warrior," I laughed out loud. Pre-emptive, lying, doing-no-good warrior maybe. But reluctant? Come on.