President Bush "Sacrifices" his Golf Game for the Troops

As reported today in salon.com’s column “The War Room”  President Bush decided in 2003 to give up his golf game in support of the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Well, God bless his little pea-picking heart (as my mother used to say).  Alex Koppelman writes (you can read the full article here):

President Bush sure does feel for U.S. troops, doesn’t he? First he told soldiers in Afghanistan how envious he is of them for their chance to do something “exciting” and “romantic,” and now, in a recent interview, he revealed that he has given up golf in solidarity with their families.

“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as — to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” Bush said. “I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life. And I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it’s just not worth it anymore to do.”

And so again let me salute our president, a man who truly knows what is important and can show his solidarity with the fighting men and women of the U.S. military.