When will Bush go to an American soldiers funeral?

Question

BUSH WENT TO CONVICTED KEN LAY's FUNERAL! WHEN WILL BUSH GO TO AN AMERICAN SOLDIERS FUNERAL AND HAND THAT FOLDED AMERICAN FLAG TO THE SOLDIERS MOTHER! WHEN?

Answer 1

Lyndon Johnson is responsible for a good number of the 58,202 Americans killed in Vietnam. Lyndon only attended the funerals of two, and only because he knew the family's.

Answer 2

This question on a day that Bush went to visit wounded soldiers?
Presidents do not go to soldiers funerals, of course you don't mention that in your rant.

One of the more shallow memes of the current war goes like this:

"Isn't it shameful that President Bush hasn't attended the funerals of very many of the service men who have fallen in this war?"

Anyone who thinks very hard about this knows this is an incredibly shallow criticism. Otherwise, the great Generals and Presidents of history, such as Roosevelt, Eisenhower, MacAurther, Patton, Lincoln, and Grant would have never done anything with their time except attend funerals.

Still, if you need to know what history shows, then ask a veteran. As Gulf War veteran John Cole notes, no President has ever regularly attended military funerals.

That's right. Franklin Roosevelt didn't. Harry Truman didn't. Dwight Eisenhower didn't. John F. Kennedy didn't. Lyndon Johnson didn't. Richard Nixon didn't. Ford and Carter didn't. Reagan attended more than most Presidents ever did, but still usually didn't. Bush the Elder usually didn't. Clinton did a couple of times, but mostly didn't.

What if we go all the way back to Presidents like Abraham Lincoln, or George Washington? Turns out that they didn't either.

Why? Because if they did, they would do almost nothing else.

The President of the United States is the leader of hundreds of millions of people. Part of his job is to command hundreds of thousands of people in the military. The next time you vote for a President, I hope you think very hard about that, because that's one of the most important things any President ever does.

But one thing he generally doesn't do is attend the funeral of every fallen service man. Mind you, a good one wishes he could attend every such funeral. A good one feels it like a knife in his gut every time a soldier falls. But he can't be there every time a soldier falls. He just can't.

If you don't understand that, then, to be blunt, you lack maturity

Answer 3

I under no circumstances criticized George Walker for not attending funerals. are you able to imagine what issues would were like if Wilson and Roosevelt had to attend thousands of thousands of funerals? so a procedures as showing the coffins, i do not understand. He would or received't replace this custom. because the vast majority of human beings are already antagonistic to the conflict. i do not see the way it may make any massive difference.

Answer 4

i think bush is right to not attend any soldiers funeral.

i say this because if he goes to one soldiers funeral then he should attend all of them!! soldiers are equal in death so why should presiedent go to one soldiers funeral and not anothers?

Answer 5

U shud see these pics b4 saying anything abt Bush - the smartest President in the world
( No, I haven't used photoshop on them )
Here is the link http://www.freewebs.com/parasit-e/index.htm?post=bush

Answer 6

Bush attends funerals at the National Cemetery all of the time. All of the Presidents do.

Answer 7

When has ANY president gone to a soldiers funeral???Did Clinton?Oh and by the way,this is a voluntary military,and our military believe in their sacrifices for morons like you to spew your hatred for this president.Go crawl into your cave if you cant deal with the reality of war.Its panty waisted girly men like you that cant deal with war and the reason why this country has gotten so spineless when it comes to defending ourselves against those that want to kill us.

Answer 8

He is too busy having grieving mother's of fallen soldiers' arrested. I think Cindy Sheehan could attest to that.

Answer 9

read your news and check your facts...bush went to the wounded soldiers bedsieds today...where do liberals come up with this stuff...sheesh..oh and by the way where was clinton in 92 when the sudanese wanted help capturing bin ladin..if he had gotten off of is kiester do you honeslty think we would have wtc and 911 today?

Answer 10

he will never do it...first, he doesn't want to acknowledge the harsh reality of the results of his poor decision-making and second, he would need to go to almost three thousand of them...