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...Bush's Crocodile Tears Like every caring American, my heart goes out to the family of Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor [April 21]. It sickens me, however, to see a photograph of George W. Bush with a tear in his eye over an Iraq war casualty. If it weren't for him, Monsoor's death and those of tens of thousands more did not have to happen. Steven T. Callan, Palo Cedro, Calif...
Bush's Crocodile Tears Like every caring American, my heart goes out to the family of Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor [April 21]. It sickens me, however, to see a photograph of George W. Bush with a tear in his eye over an Iraq war casualty. Monsoor's death and those of tens of thousands more did not have to happen. Bush and Dick Cheney are ultimately responsible for this tragedy. Steven T. Callan, PALO CEDRO, CALIF...
Like every caring American, my heart goes out to the family of Navy Seal Michael Monsoor [April 21]. It sickens me, however, to see a photograph of George W. Bush with a tear in his eye over an Iraq war casualty. Monsoor's death and those of tens of thousands more did not have to happen. Bush and Dick Cheney are ultimately responsible for this tragedy. Steven T. Callan, PALO CEDRO, CALIF...
...Medal of Honor, President George W. Bush said at the White House on April 8, when he presented it to Monsoor's parents, is "awarded for an act of such courage that no one could rightly be expected to undertake it." The ceremony unfolded on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad and on a day of Senate hearings on the progress of the war. Half a world away, the streets of the Iraqi capital were empty under a military curfew to prevent car bombings. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, Democrats and Republicans competed over who could describe...
...succeed him; his lieutenants are leaving to write books explaining all that was not their fault. There is no way to know what he makes of this or how he processes the price of his policies. But the Tuesday medal ceremony, when he stood by George and Sally Monsoor and told Michael's story, provided a glimpse--not of a President with any doubt of the justice of his cause but certainly of a man reckoning with its cost. Bush talked about the rebellious little boy who grew into a resourceful and remarkable man before he died on that roof...