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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wow, what a guy misses when gone a
week!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Liberals have sunk to a rock bottom low with Kitty
Kelley's contemptible attack on the president's children. She is welcome
to disagree with anyone's conduct, but to attack their offspring?? As a
father of 3, I just wonder what that whore was thinking. Anything to
attack her betters and ingratiate herself with the leftist publishing
houses....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Contemptible.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-T</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 26, 2007 10:59
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Today's polemic, or
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kelley19mar19,0,737381.story?track=mostviewed-homepage">Click
here: Why aren't the Bush daughters in Iraq? - Los Angeles Times</A> </DIV>
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<H1>Why aren't the Bush daughters in Iraq?</H1>
<DIV class=storysubhead><FONT size=3><STRONG>The president's family has set an
appallingly bad example for wartime sacrifice.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=storybyline>By Kitty Kelley, KITTY KELLEY, who wrote "The Family:
The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," is working on a biography of Oprah
Winfrey.<BR>March 19, 2007 </DIV><BR>
<DIV class=storybody>WHEN I WAS a little girl in a convent school, the nuns
impressed on me the power of setting a good example. These beloved teachers
are no longer around to instruct the president and his family, so I recommend
that the Bushes learn from Mark Twain, who said: "Always do right. This will
gratify some people and astonish the rest." <BR><BR>My suggestion comes after
the White House announcement earlier this month that Jenna Bush, one of the
president's twin daughters, is writing a book on her all-expenses-paid trip to
Panama, where she worked for a few weeks as an intern for UNICEF. Jenna Bush
is quoted as saying she will donate her earnings from her book to UNICEF, a
commendable gesture, considering her father's net worth of $20 million.
<STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)">But while the
25-year-old makes the rounds of TV talk shows this fall in a White House
limousine, dozens of her contemporaries will be arriving home from Iraq in
wooden boxes. <FONT color=#ff0000>In Britain, Prince Harry is insisting on
going off to Iraq — even as his country is reducing its troop
commitment</FONT>.<BR></FONT></STRONG><BR>Franklin Delano Roosevelt showed how
the power of good example could also be powerfully good politics. When he led
the country to sacrifice in World War II, his children enlisted and his wife
traveled to military bases to counsel and comfort the families of soldiers.
Newsreels showed the president's four sons fighting with the Marines in the
Pacific, flying with the Army Air Forces in North Africa and landing with the
Navy at Normandy. Soon other public figures followed suit — movie stars (James
Stewart and Clark Gable) enlisted and sports heroes (Joe DiMaggio and Hank
Greenberg) went off to war. <BR><BR>The contrast between FDR's good example
during wartime and that of George W. Bush is stark and sad. The Bush family
rallies to the political campaigns of its scions and spends months on the road
raising money and shaking hands to put their men into public office. In fact,
the public image of their cohesive family — the pearl-choked matriarch
surrounded by progeny and springer spaniels — helped cinch more than one
presidency for the Bushes. Yet now, when its legacy is most in peril, the
family seems to be squandering its good will on a mess of celebridreck.
<BR><BR><STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)">The president
tells us Iraq is a "noble" war, but his wife, his children and his nieces and
nephews are not listening. None has enlisted in the armed services, and none
seems to be paying attention to the sacrifices of military
families.</FONT></STRONG> <FONT color=#ff0000 size=3><STRONG>Until Jenna's
trip to Panama, the presidential daughters performed community service only
when mandated by a court after they were cited for underage
drinking.</STRONG></FONT> Since then they have surfaced in public during
lavish presidential trips with their parents, bar-hopping outings in
Georgetown and champagne-popping art openings in New
York.<BR><BR><STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)">The first
lady, so often lauded for her love of literacy, has not been seen in the
reading rooms of veterans' hospitals. The president's sister, Doro, publicly
picketed Al Gore's last days in the vice president's mansion as he awaited the
Supreme Court's decision on the Florida recount of 2000. Yet she has been
strangely absent from publicly supporting her brother's
war</FONT></STRONG>.<BR><BR><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)">The
presidential nieces and nephews also have missed the memo on setting a good
public example. Ashley Bush — the youngest daughter of the president's
brother, Neil, and Neil's ex-wife, Sharon — was presented to Manhattan society
at the 52nd Annual International Debutantes Ball at the Waldorf Astoria. Her
older sister, Lauren, a runway model, told London's Evening Standard that she
is a student ambassador for the United Nations World Food Program, but she
would not lobby her uncle for U.S. funds. Her cousin, Billy Bush, chronicles
the lives of celebrities on "Access Hollywood." <BR></FONT><BR>"Uncle Bucky,"
as William H.T. Bush is known within the family, is one presidential relative
who has profited from the Iraq war. He recently sold all of his shares in
Engineered Support Systems Inc. (ESSI), a St. Louis-based company that has
flourished under the president's no-bid policy for military contractors. Uncle
Bucky told the Los Angeles Times that he would have preferred that ESSI, on
whose board he sits, was not involved in Iraq, "but, unfortunately, we live in
a troubled world."<BR><BR>The only member of the Bush family to show the
strains of our "troubled world" is former President George H.W. Bush, who shed
tears recently while addressing the Florida Legislature. The elder Bush was
talking about son Jeb's gubernatorial loss in 1994. Jeb, who was later
elected, tried to console him. But the sobs of Bush 41 seemed to be more about
his older son's "noble" war.<BR><BR>Perhaps the father's sadness sprang from
his own experience fighting in what his parents called "Mr. Roosevelt's war" —
the good war — the war that saved the world from tyranny. He enlisted at 18 to
fly torpedo bombers. He flew 58 missions in two years and returned home a war
hero. Since then, no one in his large family has seen fit to follow his
sterling example of service and patriotism. </DIV></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR>
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