"Bush's emotion without reflection"
"There was also a vignette during this visit just before Veterans Day that made you marvel yet again how Bush, who never saw combat in Vietnam as he served in the Texas Air National Guard, brazenly continues to abuse the willingness of today's soldiers to sacrifice. He took some time to play a virtual reality game with soldiers. Bush and some soldiers were "shooting the enemy with rifles that aimed laser beams at targets in an imaginary neighborhood in Iraq," the Post reported.
White House press secretary Dana Perino: "They were making sure a neighborhood was safe."
The Agence France-Presse version had Perino saying that Bush helped "shoot the bad guys" in a Baghdad neighborhood.
In other words, Bush sits down to shoot imaginary "bad guys," in the middle of a war..."
