George Bush Romanticises War in Afghanistan

Photo from source, Reuters

Our increasingly erratic President is now ticking off some of his biggest supporters: the military. It's very strange to use the word "romantic" in conjunction with war. This is not a Cary Grant/Ginger Rogers movie about war, it is actual war. Stranger still, The Decider inimates that were he younger and not otherwise employed, he'd like to be there on the front lines. Actual history strongly disputes that statement.

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Bush says if younger, he would work in Afghanistan

U.S. President George W. Bush got an earful on Thursday about problems and progress in Afghanistan where a war has dragged on for more than six years but been largely eclipsed by Iraq.

In a videoconference, Bush heard from U.S. military and civilian personnel about the challenges ranging from fighting local government and police corruption to persuading farmers to abandon a lucrative poppy drug trade for other crops. . .

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