Yes, the President has finally demonstrated personal sacrifice because of the war. No, recently married Jenna and her sister, not Jenna weren't drafted and on their way to boot camp. He isn't donating his Presidential salary to a veteran's charity. He isn't flying to Baghdad to lead from the front.
He's giving up golf.
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"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he said. "I feel I owe it to the families 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 he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights.
"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," he said. "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.’"
That's right - the proper response to a clusterfuck of a war that has killed hundreds of thousands is to give up golf. It would send the wrong signal. In eight years and literally thousands of wrong signals sent, it is playing golf that is the wrong signal to Bush.
This Iraq War must be serious - even 9/11 couldn't keep Bush off the golf course.