“He is one hot 60-year-old!” . . .
I couldn’t agree more! Our President does A LOT for jeans; love the boots and buckle as well!
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MUST READ . . .
BUSH’S EXIT STRATEGY IN IRAQ IS VICTORY
by INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
The Presidency: George W. Bush, obeying a U.N. mandate, set out to dethrone a mass murderer and an aggressive tyrant, expand democracy and take the war on terror to the enemy. He’s done all that and more.
Much has been made of the “Mission Accomplished” banner that sailors hung on the USS Abraham Lincoln to welcome President Bush’s arrival on the carrier’s deck on May 1, 2003. They were enthusiastic and victorious, fresh from supporting the most rapid military advance in history, a stunning victory that liberated 25 million people and deposed a brutal mass murderer who made war against his neighbors and his own people.
Gen. George Patton’s Third Army, in what has been widely regarded as the most impressive armored attack in history, took four months to battle from the Falaise Gap in France to the Rhine. The U.S. Army’s Third Infantry Division traveled the same distance in two weeks.
Iraqi soldiers take defensive positions on a joint search mission last weekend for three missing U.S. troops near Youssifiyah, south of Baghdad.
Few remember that President Bush never actually used those two famous words, “Mission Accomplished.” But he would have been justified in doing so, just as Lincoln would have been in saying those words at Gettysburg.
Both knew that more difficult days lay ahead, but both knew they were on their way to victory.
Bush did not proclaim peace in our time, but rather: “We have difficult work to do in Iraq.” He said: “We’re helping to rebuild Iraq, where the dictator built palaces for himself, instead of hospitals and schools. And we will stand with the new leaders of Iraq as they establish a government of, by and for the Iraqi people.”
Yes, there have been mistakes and surprises, just as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower didn’t anticipate the Battle of the Bulge or Adm. Nimitz the kamikazes. President Lincoln was forced to switch commanders from the incompetent Gen. George McClellan to the brutally effective Gens. U.S. Grant and William T. Sherman. But he never abandoned the goal of victory. Bush has switched to Gen. David Petraeus and has a new “surge” strategy.
It is said that no strategy survives contact with the enemy. But Bush’s strategy is clearly a copy of Reagan’s effective strategy during the Cold War: “We win. They lose.”
You can read the rest of this commentary here:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=264380921482583
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I’ve got a few projects to complete for my son’s upcoming HS Graduation Party . . . until tomorrow!
Hi Deb. LOL and the above. I noted your comments on Friday's Dose. They inspired what I wrote above. (Sorry for the several typos. Spell check only catches so much.)
Another point to the “Mission Accomplished” - the ship was on it’s way home when the war was about to start in Iraq - and their orders came down ..... turn around and go back again. They did!
I believe the normal tour is 6 months - and these wonderful young people were delayed from returning home and went on their first COMBAT MISSION. I’m not sure, but I think they were out for 9 months (or maybe more).
The ship’s MISSION was ACCOMPLISHED!!
The ship is home ported in San Diego.
But must he drive a Phord??!!