As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself -- not here at the hospital, but in combat with a Cedar. I eventually won. The Cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of fact, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here, but thanks for your compassion, Colonel.

-Statement offered by President Bush in the presence of servicemen and women wounded in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006

Who better to tell jokes about going to war with a cedar and receiving first aid for scrathes, than people who got their limbs blown off in Iraq...a war you started.

[Edited on January 3, 2006 at 10:08 AM. Reason : ya, repost]

1/3/2006 10:07:15 AM

barely thread worthy imo

not worth TWO threads.

[Edited on January 3, 2006 at 10:17 AM. Reason : 0]

1/3/2006 10:16:35 AM

i think you libs are trying too hard now, hes just trying to have some humor. its not like he is comparing the two, its a joke. i dont really see that as insensitive

now john kerry, with his 3 purple hearts for teeny weeny slivers of shrapnel that a bandaid can fix, is another story.

[Edited on January 3, 2006 at 10:26 AM. Reason : . ]

1/3/2006 10:25:33 AM

Yes clearly its better to be a brush-clearing draft dodger then to get 3 purple hearts of which one was awarded for a small piece of shrapnel, and save a life of swift-boat mate. Clearly, Kerry must have been a pussy.


CAN THE PRESIDENT PLEASE HIRE SOMEONE TO CLEAR HIS BRUSH FOR HIM. Doesnt the country need him?

[Edited on January 3, 2006 at 10:42 AM. Reason : -]

1/3/2006 10:39:36 AM

"save a life of a swift boat mate"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

1/3/2006 10:42:28 AM

not even the trees are on his side

1/3/2006 10:47:58 AM

^^ what was funny about that?

1/3/2006 10:54:44 AM

some people find chores like clearing brush relaxing. so relaxing, in fact, they like to take large quantities of time to do them

[Edited on January 3, 2006 at 11:55 AM. Reason : but really i dont see it as that offensive, though im sure a few soldiers might be upset]

1/3/2006 11:55:38 AM

Josh8315 - your point of view does not matter.

1/3/2006 11:58:42 AM

Quote :

"CAN THE PRESIDENT PLEASE HIRE SOMEONE TO CLEAR HIS BRUSH FOR HIM."

People said the same thing about Reagan when he would clear brush on his California Ranch. It's ridiculous that you guys will actually scrutinize that. Give the guy a break. He clears brush to get away and take a break.

1/3/2006 12:16:45 PM

you think Kerry or Gore would've made a single joke in their entire time in office?

1/3/2006 12:23:24 PM

you are all retarded

1/3/2006 12:25:27 PM

congratulations Golovko...you just submitted the least productive post of the thread!

1/3/2006 12:40:04 PM

Productive no... accurate yes

1/3/2006 1:19:55 PM

^another person who makes a worthless contribution to the thread!

1/3/2006 1:23:42 PM

perhaps he was making an analogy

of course, i can't decide if we're the rancher or the brush

p.s.

i'd be highly insulted if i'd given this guy an arm in combat and he is telling me not to worry about the scratch on his face, or is comparing it to a maiming

fucking plank-eye son of a bitch

[Edited on January 3, 2006 at 1:36 PM. Reason : `]

1/3/2006 1:35:50 PM

Quote :

"some people find chores like clearing brush relaxing."

And I am one of them. You don't get the same satisfaction from hiring someone to do your work for you.

1/3/2006 7:32:25 PM

Quote :

"i think you libs are trying too hard now"

This isn't outrageous; just an example of how big of a dipshit Bush can be.

1/4/2006 2:42:58 AM

i know i'd feel like chicken shit if i was talking to some guys about how i tweaked my shoulder at the gym

and then realized i was talking to a dozen guys with prosthetic limbs and mangled features

1/4/2006 9:26:51 AM

yeah if you were serious

but if you're joking about it, it lightens their mood

i hardly think that the soldiers would have been pissed about it. they probably all laughed.

1/4/2006 10:16:52 AM

yeah, i'm gonna go with no

diff'rent stroke for diff'rent folks i guess

its kinda like if you make a joke about fucking someones mom
and then they're like "my mom died in an abusive rape and robbery"

doesn't matter if you were joking
you still feel like shit

1/4/2006 10:22:24 AM

but that doesnt apply at all because Bush DID hurt his arm clearing brush...it wouldnt be the same as your analogy unless the person you are talking about actually DID fuck dude's mom

1/4/2006 10:38:24 AM

i think its quite valid

and i was addressing more the "joke" aspect that 30thannz was advocating

1/4/2006 10:43:01 AM

look, if there's a soldier in there with gunshot wounds and bush says this joke

he's all "iraqis couldn't take me out, but some underbrush was too much for the pres! LOL."

1/4/2006 11:09:15 AM

i didn't see FDR making wheelchair jokes

1/4/2006 11:14:33 AM

you didn't see FDR do anything.

beyond that, the press wasn't up his ass the way they are everyone today.

because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it did or didn't ever happen.

1/4/2006 11:19:56 AM

Jesus christ shut up.

If my legs were blown off and I was left a stump, a pro comedian wouldn't be very funny.

Let alone the man who sent me there.l

1/4/2006 1:39:36 PM