Sacrifice Par None

By Cernig

What's a Deciderer in Chief to do to when his troops are sacrificing life and limb, mental health and family integrity, for his war of choice?

Give up golf, of course. No sacrifice is too great for the troops. "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."

You go to war with the handicap you have...

P.S. Just in case you want to believe the GOP's insta-spin that this shows Bush's heart is in the right place but his aw-shucks gauchness meant he phrased it badly - please recall that this Sacrificer in Chief also holds the all-comers record for Presidential vacations (2005), which sorta reveals this as the shite it smells like.

Update And then comes this, via BlueGalRedState, which suggests it is far more likely that Bush quit playing golf because he was suffering from knee problems throughout the latter half of 2003:

Bush, 57, will have an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) test on Thursday, Dec. 18. The body-scanning device enables doctors to see internal organs in 3D. The MRI is being performed on the advice of the President's regular White House physician. Last summer, Bush suffered a minor muscle tear in his right calf and that injury, along with aching knees, forced him to abandon his running routine. The calf strain healed by August when he had his annual physical, but the president said in September that he suspected he had a meniscus tear.

I'm amazed he doesn't award himself a Purple Heart, at the very least.

Comments

[expatbrian]

Too bad. That reduces the chances that some duffer might hit a stray line drive right into the Decider's temple and put an end to his traitorous insanity.

[1MaNLan]

"You go to war with the handicap you have..."

That was an example of nine irony.

[smintheus]

In the same interview, Bush invented the verb to "embetter" oneself.