Four U.S. Soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday.
14 U.S. Soldiers were killed in Iraq Tuesday
All told, 27 U.S. Soldiers have been killed in Iraq this month.
The total for the 'mission accomplished' war is 1,826 U.S. Soldiers who have lost their lives.
President G W-imbecile Bush just left on a five-week vacation. The longest vacation, according to news reports, of any president in the last 36 years.
Just thought you'd like to know.
And so it goes.
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I think 5 weeks is kind of a long time, as most employees can't even get that kind of vac. accrued these days.
I also believe that they need to speed up the training and development process of the Iraqi civil defense and police force so we can stop this casualty dripping and get (mostly) out of there.
Somehow I think I feel a little safer with him on vacation ... don't know why that is.
When I go on vacation, I play golf, or go fishing, or go to the beach. I do not call back to my work. I am on vacation.
Unlike most of us who leave work behind, the President is never really "On vacation". He's not swinging in a hammock with nobody around. He's doing the same thing he always does. It's not like he left his punch press, or banker's desk, or his small business and just took off.
In this day and age of instant communications and high speed transportation, he gets all the information he needs and makes all the decisions he needs to make.
Nowadays, I don't begrudge any president for taking extended time away from Washington.
Here's one area where I must respectfully disagree. When I go on vacation, I leave my cellphone number and trip itinerary. I can expect calls while I''m away and if they don't come I likely will call to find out why.
That's the way my business works.
I don't begrudge anyone a reasonable vacation. But a president taking 5 weeks in a time of war and a time of persistent international terror. And when the war is taking what appears to be a negative turn? That may be in my mind excessive.
I know in critical times in my job if I asked for 5 weeks (even given the above circumstances) the laughter would be deafening.
Like I say: Respectfully disagree.
Yes sir, but I think 43 has his cell phone, and has left his itinerary. I would imagine that if he doesn't get any calls, he, too, will call back to the office to see what's going on.
BTW I agree with you generally about 43, especially about Iraq. I'm no GW fan, or apologist. But the Prez, whether Bush 41, WJ Clinton , A. Gore, J. Kerry, Bush 43, HR Clinton, JEB Bush, me, you, any Prez, can move his/her operation out of the White House for 5 weeks at a time, or more, and go to Camp David, Crawford, Hot Springs, Santa Catalina, Key West, I don't care. The Prez is on the job 24/7.
I would agree if it was FDR, or Truman, Eisenhower, even Kennedy and probably Nixon, but times they are a changin', and we talk on videophones to people orbiting the earth now, GW is in touch and still running things.
Maybe we should send him a fishing pole and a single ticket to the middle of northern Canada, where there are no cellphones. Couldn't hurt us, probably help us.
One-way ticket?
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