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To: Carolina
Well, the NY Times reaches a new low this morning (and that's LOW!). I'm not even going to stoop to post a link.

On the Op-Ed page is a piece by one John Lukacks taking President Bush (and Reagan) to task for ---GASP!---returning the salutes of military personnel:

This gesture is of course quite wrong: such a salute has always required the wearing of a uniform. But there is more to this than a decline in military manners. There is something puerile in the Reagan (and now Bush) salute. It is the joyful gesture of someone who likes playing soldier. It also represents an exaggeration of the president's military role.
"Puerile". That better describes why a leading newspaper, with our troops in harms way, would publish such CR@P!
384 posted on 04/14/2003 4:43:54 AM PDT by Timeout (I see happy!)
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To: Timeout
There is something puerile in the Reagan (and now Bush) salute. It is the joyful gesture of someone who likes playing soldier. It also represents an exaggeration of the president's military role.

Puerile: ooh, have they been dipping into their thesaurus?

Q: Will there be a toppling of a statue in Tikrit with American flag [this Hong Kong broad is a real embarrassment to journalism--she of the retreat question infamy]?

388 posted on 04/14/2003 4:48:25 AM PDT by Carolina
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To: Timeout
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/07/24/mideast.summit.02/story.clinton.salute.ap.jpg

Something like this?

397 posted on 04/14/2003 4:57:32 AM PDT by JoeCool
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