Posted on 11/29/2005 11:56:53 PM PST by jmc1969
For about 20 minutes Tuesday, the MacKenzie family met privately with President Bush as he offered sympathy and listened to stories about Pfc. Tyler MacKenzie, a 20-year-old solider killed in Iraq earlier this month by a roadside bomb.
"We cried, and I had to pull out some Kleenex and give it to everyone else," Tyler's grandmother Mary MacKenzie said.
"I had to give some to the president, too, because he didn't have any."
Both David and Julie MacKenzie, along with grandparents Emmett and Mary MacKenzie, saw Bush speak at the Brown Palace Hotel before the Secret Service moved them to a quiet room to meet with the president.
Emmett MacKenzie, a 75-year-old Korean War veteran, said Bush reassured them that there would be no pullout of troops until Iraqis could provide their own security.
"He said we wouldn't quit, and we told him we didn't want to quit until the job was done," Emmett MacKenzie said.
"We want to continue, and we're behind him 100 percent."
I may get shouted down for saying this, but I don't like these stories about the president crying. The family does not help him by sharing this intimate detail. It may or may not be unpresidential to cry in these circumstances. But it is unpresidential to be known by the American people, and our enemies, to have cried over one dead man.
You are wrong.
I won't shout you down, but I do disagree. I don't care what our enemy thinks. If his tears are genuine then it is appropriate for him to share them with the families. The only thing that our enemies understand is strength...that we can project by capturing and killing them...it really doesn't matter if president Bush sheds a tear or not...they will be killed or captured in the long run.
The liberals cant say that he doesnt care about the troops.
Jesus was not president. His Kingdom is not of this world.
Good point. The best that has been made in response to me.
However, I would question its importance. The liberals are never stopped by what they "can't" morally or logically do, as I'm sure you know. No, they "can't" say it, in that sense. But they certainly will.
My objection is to the fact that family told the media about it. The image is an unfortunate one in political terms.
"shuddup"
Never, Mr. or Ms. Salesman. Never.
You have missed something here..
He cries for them ALL...
Ms.B
ONLY if they share the same anal view as Sheehan and Dowd...
Semper Fi
I'm a retired CEO, and when my wife sings a beautiful solo in Church, my eyes well up with tears of joy.
President Bush has teared up in public, on camera.
"has teared up in public, on camera."
I'm sure he has. Not good, if it was about the war.
Each additional time is an additional liability. Again, I'm not speaking of the president's manliness. Just of the political image presented.
I understand what you mean. Although, one might view the balance between what little ill it might engender in other parts of the world vs what good it does to show the human and honest, genuine care he has to our side. In the balance it is at most a push...and I would submit that it's a plus. But the plus is local, not global...you would probably be correct in assuming it's a minus in the Arab world. I suppose, in the long run, I doubt there are going to be too many additional suicide bombers that volunteer over this report.
HUH? President Bush showed his human side. Christ showed his human side. I don't see anything wrong with either. It does not project weakness for Bush to shed a tear with a family. Did you read the other part where he said he would not pull out before the job is done? In other words, he is absolutely determined that the sons and daughters of these families will not have died in vain.
What is weak about that?
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