# Why hasn't Bush been to visit the wounded troops at Walter Reed? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 26, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657 "2003-08-26T01:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/41 "2003-08-26T04:15:48Z")
This OP is dumb it lacks any sort of thought just left wing jerk off ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/42 "2003-08-26T04:17:32Z")
Forgive me Grammar Nazis, for I have sinned. I used an apostrophe inappropriately. What shall I do for penance? Back to the OP: Reeder, seriously. Do some fucking research before you blindly attack Bush. You’re hurting our cause. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/43 "2003-08-26T04:23:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*So I sent them to war? > > And yes…if I lived in DC…I would have been there. > > But you wouldn’t have. > > All you care for for is Bush. Not the men who fight and die for him. \*\* You can’t hide now, jackhole. You’re in the Pit now, not GD, and I don’t even have to pretend to be civil. And yet somehow I’ll find a way. I WAS there. I saw the casualties coming out through the base I was in, I saw the treatment that they were getting, which was exemplary under the circumstances, and Goddamnit, I CARE about each and every one of the men and women who fought and died for this country, anytime, anywhere. And that includes you, **Reeder** , since you were in Vietnam. I’d buy you a beer tomorrow for your service. But that’s only after I stifled the urge to spit in your face. Not everything I think, believe, or do is beholden to the pronouncements and actions of our President. Why do you have so much trouble understanding that? If things that I do cause me to have an attack of conscience, I have to live with that. I don’t need you being Jiminy Cricket reminding me every five minutes that you don’t like what I’m doing. Which brings me to YOUR record of visitation, Mr. Conscience. Is it so hard for you to get in your car and drive to Washington? You’re so gung-ho about “visiting the troops” and yet you can’t spend a measly day or two on the road to follow through on your little pronouncements? Shame on you. Thanks for once again proving to me that you have no integrity. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/44 "2003-08-26T05:05:42Z")
Good God. Reeder, this is simply pathetic, even for you. “Why didn’t Bush visit the wounded soldiers?” “He did.” “Uhhhh…well, why didn’t he visit them twice?” Uh-huh. You flat out accused Bush of not visiting wounded soldiers, and you were caught in your lies. Lies, I say. You just made it up that Bush doesn’t visit wounded soldiers, didn’t you? You just fucking pulled that lie right out of your ass, didn’t you? Don’t you think that making up lies isn’t exactly the best tactic here on the SDMB? I know, I know, it works great over on the other web sites. But you’re playing in a different sandbox over here, Sparky. It only took 7 minutes for your lies to be discovered! Did I mention that you should stop with the lying? If I haven’t, please remember to stop lying. Liar. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/45 "2003-08-26T05:14:28Z")
Sadly, lying requires intelligence. Posting garbage does not. Lemur, you give Reeder too much credit. ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/46 "2003-08-26T05:17:57Z")
Lame, **Reeder**. Just lame. I propose that **Reeder** can only post a new thread if the OP is approved by **december**. And vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/47 "2003-08-26T05:18:58Z")
Gosh, isn’t anyone going to advance the hypothesis that **Reeder** made an honest mistake here ? That’s certainly provided cover for the wilder excesses coming from the other side of the aisle more than a time or two. Nope, it’s Liar, Liar, Liar, over and over again. Where are **Sam’s** noble righties today ? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/48 "2003-08-26T05:27:50Z")
**Squink:** You have not read the posts in this thread. There are numerous that call the OP plain junk, not lies. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/49 "2003-08-26T05:27:58Z")
Y’know, every time I feel a growing, irrational dislike of liberals in general, I must remember that it’s only the ones like Reeder that I should dislike… the _stupid_ ones… and it keeps me more in balance with the universe. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/50 "2003-08-26T05:28:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squink \* > \*\*Gosh, isn’t anyone going to advance the hypothesis that **Reeder** made an honest mistake here ? That’s certainly provided cover for the wilder excesses coming from the other side of the aisle more than a time or two. > Nope, it’s Liar, Liar, Liar, over and over again. Where are **Sam’s** noble righties today ? \*\* Parse through the thread, if you haven’t done so already. Then, take a look at the title of the thread. Notice how it doesn’t jibe with reality. Then note the fact that rather than admit his mistake and move on, **Reeder** proceeds to keep digging himself into a hole. There was no ‘honest mistake’ in this thread from **Reeder**. Many ‘dishonest mistakes’, but no honesty from that idiot. You shouldn’t try to turn this into a ‘Left vs. Right’ issue. Right now, it is just a **Reeder** vs. Reality issue; Do you really want to claim him as a proper Leftist? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/51 "2003-08-26T06:21:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*I give up. It’s sad that the man who sent our troops to die in a war purely of his making is given a pass for not caring. \*\* **Reeder** , as a liberal, I must say that you _are a complete fucking tool_. You are an idiot. You start a thread bitching that Bush hasn’t visited the wounded. You presented with a reputable cite that he had. Then you bitch that he only visited once. You are given a reputable cite that he had visited more than once. And you don’t have the balls to admit you were wrong. And if Bush visited every other day, you’d whine about how it was a hollow publicity stunt and that he should stop. You are embarassing us. ---
**Author:** ![Read\_Neck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Read\_Neck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Read_Neck)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/52 "2003-08-26T06:30:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Excuse me Mr Scylla…but I have been a soldier laid up up in a military hospital with no one in charge caring. > > Have you? \*\* As a matter of fact I have (twice) and if you knew the way the “system” works you wouldn’t have posted this little piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/53 "2003-08-26T06:49:49Z")
Good lord. One liberal to another: Please shut up. If the president had visited them, you’d be complaining that he’d wasted his time nursing the troops and not pulling out of the war. Listening to you speak is like listening to some horrid, Frankenstinian experiment involving a chimp, a copy of the Communist Manifesto, and a dash of conspiracy theory from Drudge just to top it off. PLEASE BE QUIET. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/54 "2003-08-26T07:39:16Z")
A really, really stupid OP. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/55 "2003-08-26T08:04:13Z")
Wow, now I know how intelligent conservatives must feel after reading a **december** OP. How incredibly frustrating. **Reeder** , did your mother drop you as a child, or did you suffer brain damage at a later stage in life? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/56 "2003-08-26T08:21:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > **Wow, now I know how intelligent conservatives must feel after reading a december OP. How incredibly frustrating.** True. I did like Scylla’s judo approach to arguing with him though. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/57 "2003-08-26T14:17:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Then, take a look at the title of the thread. Notice how it doesn’t jibe with reality. Then note the fact that rather than admit his mistake and move on, Reeder proceeds to keep digging himself into a hole. The thread title is perfectly consistent with **Reeder** ’s initial misapprehension. It adds nothing to your claim that **Reeder** was lying. Nor does the absence of an extended digression, replete with poetry and attempts to change the subject, before returning to the original slander suggest anything but stylistic ineptitude on **Reeder** ’s part. With the hard-on that he’s obviously nursing for Bush, it’d take an act of God for mere facts to divert his arguments. That makes him irrational, but none of us is a paragon of pure reason. Call him an idiot, a cumstain on the skirt of society. Induct him into the local One Trick Pony Chowder and Marching Society, but you haven’t proven him to be a liar. > [@](#): > > You shouldn’t try to turn this into a ‘Left vs. Right’ issue. Right now, it is just a **Reeder** vs. Reality issue A noble sentiment on your part, no doubt. Let’s see you hold to it when the parties emitting reality distortion fields come from the _other_ side of the political spectrum. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/58 "2003-08-26T14:50:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gaudere \* > \*\*[Moderator Hat ON] > > Too much rant and not enough meat. Off to the Pit. > > [Moderator Hat OFF] \*\* Bless you. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/59 "2003-08-26T14:53:04Z")
It’s getting damned lonely over here in the ‘liberal but not a fucking lunatic’ section, perhaps some of you would like to join me in a carafe of Chablis, and a nice baked brie? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657/60 "2003-08-26T14:56:11Z")
Scoot over, **wring**. And pass the fucking Chablis already. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-bush-been-to-visit-the-wounded-troops-at-walter-reed/197657.md?page=4)