Laura Bush on the Today Show on NBC: “(N)o one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch” news from Iraq.
Huh?
Except for the thousands upon thousands of Iraqi families who have lost loved ones, or the soldiers who have come back with a variety of ailments from Iraq and Afghanistan to a broken veterans’ health care system (broken by the Bush administration’s neglect), or perhaps the families of those killed in war. I could go on.
Dan Froomkin, on his indispensable blog, White House Watch, asks:
Was the first lady actually looking for sympathy?
To call attention — even when prompted by an interviewer — to the first family’s supposed suffering when American troops are losing their lives and American families are losing their loved ones in a war of choice doesn’t strike me as appropriate.
That’s especially the case considering that there have been some concerns raised in the media before about whether the war is affecting Bush as emotionally as perhaps it should.
God knows, I wish I slept as well as he says he does.
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