President boosts morale of departing troops
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President Bush motivated this group of departing soldiers by paying them a surprise visit, according to a Washington press pool report credited to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post and Matt Cooper of Time magazine. Note that they subtly attempt to cast aspersions on the president’s motives by including this little detail:
All the soldiers had been given absentee ballots in the day or two before they departed. Many still had the ballots with them.
A seemingly incongruous statement given the larger context of the article, hmmm?
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September 25th, 2004 at 5:43 pm
President Bush Cheers Departing Troops
The Washington Post reports that President Bush, delayed his departure from Main when he heard a plane carrying Army reservists and National Guard members bound for Iraq was about to refuel here: “May God bless you all,” the commander in