I would like to know if President Bush has ever spent the day or night with a deployed soldiers family?

Question

Has he even taken the time to consider the spouces and children left behind? Has he ever paced the floors with a worried spouce, or comforted a crying child? Does he even care why we cry, why we can't sleep or eat? Does he even remotely know what it is like wondering day in and day out if our loved ones are still alive? Could he even pace the floors with us and know why he is there? Has he taken the time to have dinner with a family that can only push the food around on our plates, because of worry? My door is open to him, if he cares, which by now WE ALL KNOW HE DOES NOT!!! I hope he can sleep at night, because my husband has his back, and I'm praying all night. When you take the the support beams out of a roof it will hold for a while, but then it begins to sink in the middle, and the the weight is too much and it begins to cave in. Welcome to my life. Do you have a heart at all? Nevermind I know the answer to that. Proud of my Soldier, not my President.............

Apparently none of you guys give a crap either. I did not say anything hipicritical!!!I merely asked if he gives a **** about the families. I am not political BY choice. My husband has a job and never complains. But after the second tour in two years I'm getting discouraged I cry more than I ever have. And I'd say that I can't look to the American public for any support. If all you have to do is be cruel to people go SURGE yourself. I didn't ask any of you to give me anymore mental BULLSHIT I have enought to deal with. And no i was not even around for half of those other presidents so maybe you should find out some facts before you start being a dick too!

Thank you Elmerfud and thank you Morgan. Unfortunately My husband did not volunteer, to go again. When you are Army propery you do as you are told. I have been looked over in the family circle, because I live in TN and he was placed with a unit out of TX I have no family here to help. So yes day in and out I do it all alone, here lately I haven't been doing much at all. My father was also in Vietnam and several uncles 3 didn't come home one has been insane since return and my father turned a very cold man. Some times a word of encouragement means a lot more than sarcasim, because sarcasim just shows your intellect. Thank you for letting me know there are at least 2 people out there that might give a crap!

Answer 1

Number one, I am also proud of your soldier, and I'm proud of you also. I just want to ask you to stop and think, Your soldier volenteered to do this, and you are not the only one that misses your soldier. President Bush is doing all he posibily can to protect the USA and you. I was in the service during VietNam and had to leave my family also and I had two babies under 2 years old. It's hard on you just like my wife, but she made it thru it just like you will. I would ask you to contact the support personel at your soldier's home base and talk to somebody or join a spouse suport group. You are not alone......Best wishes.......My son leaves nest month for the middle east for a deployment with the Air Force. He is leaving his wife and three boys. We are praying for him and will add a line for you whild we are at it.....########

Answer 2

Wow - what racially charged question! Look Your Majesty, the Obama administration in 2009 outspent by a factor of 10 the over the Bush administration's 2007 budget year. That is a fact. Bush got hammered by conservatives for failing to restrain spending further and that's arguably one of the big reasons the Republicans lost the congress in 2006. It's just that at that point, the TEA party hadn't formed because the Republicans of that time, disappointing as they were, didn't rise to the level of recklessness we've experienced this last year or so. One other thing before you tar Bush with the racist brush - you might remember that in 2004 he launched a huge funding initiative to help HIV and AIDS afflicted people in Africa. He is also working with former president Clinton to raise funds to assist the people of Haiti. He didn't have to do either of those things. I'm a white guy, and I used to like our current president on a personal level. It wasn't his terrible policies that lost my affection for him, it was the dishonorable way he went about pursuing them. Does that make me a racist? I give you my solemn promise that if he were white, it wouldn't change my opinion of him one tiny bit. It's not always (or even usually) about race.

Answer 3

I feel your pain and frustration. I know President Bush cares about all of the troops and their families. I KNOW he visits the hospitals, but I doubt if he could take time to visit a family. My fiance was killed inVietNam. He's buried at Arlington. He was a Pilot and died on takeoff. A huge loss. I've met President Bush twice and the guy really does have a heart. I'll keep you and your family in my prayers. Have faith and believe in your Higher Being.

Answer 4

Slightly off topic, but here it goes. Bush may not be your favorite person, but he does have a heart. After the Virginia Tech shootings, he came to the convocation here in Blacksburg, agsainst the wishes of his advisors. On that day, it didn't matter to the people here if he was Republican or Democrat. He has visited some of the wounded at Walter-Reed. He does more than you know. He has never spent time with me personally, but he's also a busy man.

Answer 5

There has only been one President who has visited soldiers in a war zone.

There has only been one President who - in the absence of photographers - has held a wounded soldier's hand and prayed with him.

There has been only one President who made a promise to go jogging with a wounded soldier as soon as he was used to his prosthetic leg - and kept that promise.

If you are not aware the this one President is our current President - then you need to spend less time paying attention to the liberal spin doctors and notice that he cares about your husband more than any other politician.

Answer 6

It's not the Presidents job to sit with these people holding hands, every military person volunteered for their job, they know the risks and their families should know it too.

Your just looking for attention and a free ride with publicity, whiners like you are an embarrassment to the true soldiers families who stand strong.

Get a life.

Answer 7

Does any politician really care? All that really matters to any politicians is the votes.

Just like Obama: "Vote me as President and I'll weed out terrorists in Pakistan."

Bush, Obama, Clinton, whoever... they don't care about you; they care about the vote, hoorah?

Answer 8

The President has better things to do than have a slumber party with some GI's family. Obviously he's aware of the hardships that deployments burden military families with, but his job is looking out for the national interests.

War sucks, and no one know that better than the military and their families, but that's what we do.

It sounds to me like you need to have a long talk with your soldier when he gets home. The military life isn't easy, and not everyone is suited to it...Good luck.

Answer 9

I had your husband's back, yours too, from 1974 until I retired in 1997.... To the best of my knowledge Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush nor Clinton spent any "day or night" with my family when I was deployed nor anybody's else's family.

So, to answer your question I'd have to say no, he hasn't.

Answer 10

Our military is 100% voluntary. I do however have the utmost respect and appreciation for every soldier that is or has fought for our freedom. And so does President Bush.