What is Bush up to lately?

[tombogan03884]

    Subject: Denzel Washington



        HAD TO SHARE THIS!!!

        

            Remember this next time you walk up to the ticket window of your local movie theater with $10 in your hand.

            

            The Media (Accidently?) missed this one!!!!

            

            Please read this:  The troops oversees would like you to send it to everybody you know.

            

            

        Subject: Denzel Washington, and Brooks Army Medical Center.

        Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas, (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States, especially burn victims.  There are some buildings there called Fisher Houses.  The Fisher House is a Hotel where soldiers' families can stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the Hospital.  BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most of the time.

        

        While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses.  He asked how much one of them would cost to build.  He took his check book out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot.

        The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it.  The question is - why do:

        Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton,

    Tom Cruise

    and other Hollywood fluff

    

    make front page news with their ridiculous antics and Denzel Washington's Patriotism doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the Local newspaper in San Antonio.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    A true American and friend to all in uniform!

    

    

    This needs as wide a distribution as we can create.

    

    Please share it!

    

    

    

    

    

  

[PegLeg45]

This thread was definitely not intended to paint Bush as a saint......just to show a side of the man that the media seemed to forget.
He made a tough decision and the soldiers and their families paid a stiff price doing the job, but Bush didn't/doesn't just shrug that off as them 'just doing a job', he shows he remembers and respects them for it.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/jogging.asp

[tombogan03884]

The Snopes article says W was interested in the prosthetic itself, that's from the Engineering training he got learning to fly  

I'm the same way about metal work, When I look at a gun I don't see "proprietary polymer finish", I see machining marks in the metal,
I look at a computer tower I don't notice what it says is inside, I see whether the corners were "coined" or "air bent".
I bet every one of you are the same when you come in contact with your industry.

[MikeBjerum]

Something for everyone to remember when they bash Pres. Bush "W" - He did the best he could with the information he had.  His father faced this, did what he thought was right, learned it was a mistake, and his son was following up.  He was working in the shadow of an attack on our nation on our soil.  He was being supported by nearly everyone in leadership ... even though today nearly everyone will deny it.  And, today, we all have the advantage of hindsight!

As far as weapons of mass destruction - Please tell me the difference between a gallon of chemical in a warhead, an ounce of spent nuclear waste in a "dirty bomb," and a van packed with fertilizer, diesel fuel and scrap iron.  The weapons changed over time, but they are still killing with them!

Monday morning quarterbacking is only good when dealing with Monday morning defenses.  Our leaders make their decisions today, with the information they have today, and they pray that when the sun comes up in the morning it is still the best move.

FQ - Quit living in the rear view mirror!  It is about today and how to make the best of it.

Good Show President Bush!  He remembers who he is, what he was, and what these citizens have done and given for us.

[tombogan03884]

Been looking for these for a while,

The intel they worked with turned out to be a scam, big deal, it happens, but BOTH sides BELIEVED it .

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[dipisc]

Hi;

     Glad to see    W     out and about. I know he was reported to be speaking at some fund raisers a while back, but for the most part he is honoring the custom of staying out of the news for the first year of a new President. Well, it has been 18 months - so it is time for him to get out and about.

     If I was returning from anywhere - I would be happy to say Hi, shake his hand and even get a pic if I could. He kept us safe after 9-11 up until he got out of office.  What has been going on these past 18 months of "bama's   opology tours?

[Solus]

Something for everyone to remember when they bash Pres. Bush "W" - He did the best he could with the information he had.  His father faced this, did what he thought was right, learned it was a mistake, and his son was following up.  He was working in the shadow of an attack on our nation on our soil.  He was being supported by nearly everyone in leadership ... even though today nearly everyone will deny it.  And, today, we all have the advantage of hindsight!

As far as weapons of mass destruction - Please tell me the difference between a gallon of chemical in a warhead, an ounce of spent nuclear waste in a "dirty bomb," and a van packed with fertilizer, diesel fuel and scrap iron.  The weapons changed over time, but they are still killing with them!

Monday morning quarterbacking is only good when dealing with Monday morning defenses.  Our leaders make their decisions today, with the information they have today, and they pray that when the sun comes up in the morning it is still the best move.

FQ - Quit living in the rear view mirror!  It is about today and how to make the best of it.

Good Show President Bush!  He remembers who he is, what he was, and what these citizens have done and given for us.

My thoughts exactly, along with the suspicion that Bin Laden could be in collaboration with Saddam, when I was considering what I would have done if I had been in the hot seat. 

With the intelligence available and given Bin Laden's shipping connections and the availability of nuclear waste, I could envision freighters loaded with as much nuclear waste as was available parked in every major harbor in the US. all being detonated as "dirty bombs" on the same day.   If nuclear weapons were available, the damage potential would only be greater. 

Bin Laden and Saddam would willingly work on a mutual attack of the US and I just could not see how I could wait for a "smoking gun" when it might be mushroom clouds in the port cities of the US.

[Solus]

This thread was definitely not intended to paint Bush as a saint......just to show a side of the man that the media seemed to forget.
He made a tough decision and the soldiers and their families paid a stiff price doing the job, but Bush didn't/doesn't just shrug that off as them 'just doing a job', he shows he remembers and respects them for it.

In the story, the Sgt. says that in the weight room, Bush made the comment that the Sgt. wouldn't be able to do something, and the Sgt. said he had to do it to prove him wrong.

Bush knew exactly what effect him saying "you can't do it" would have on that soldier. 

[fightingquaker13]

You know, I've read a lot of posts on this thread critiquing me (putting it mildly ) for bashing W.. Oddly enough, this cheers me up. Not that I'm a misanthropre and just like pissing folks off (with a couple of exceptions ), but because y'all seemingly genuinely like W. Here's why this makes me happy, even though I obviously disagree. I haven't had a President in my political lifetime that I actually liked since Bush senior (the first president I was old enough to vote for). Him, I geunirly respected. I saw him as a Truman type of patriot. Clinton, W. and now BO? I view them as wastes of time. That kind of thinking leads to cynism and without hope, there will be no change. (sorry, couldn't resist ), but the point still holds. You have to have someone to be for, not just against or the whole process becomes just flat out bleak. I hope we get someone in 2012 that all of us can get behind.
FQ13

[twyacht]

Like I first posted, I knew I wasn't going to make you (FQ), throw your arms up and change your opinion or perspective.

I accept it, and move on. It's good to banter, debate, and argue, I know you won't join the Peace Corps, although those young indoctrinated wayward young women would Looooovvvveeeee you, it is what it is.

I agree with your very "broad" perspective of our last couple of Presidents. However, given the last 18 months of our current one, and the OP, Bush has more class, reverence, respect, and honor than BHO and Bubba combined.

History, after were long gone, will prove that, and in the same vein,,,,Jimmy Carter, Bubba and BHO, will always be the last quarter of the 20th centuries WORST Presidents.

Still want to go to Cuba?