[lbo-talk] another Bush landing

[Doug Henwood]

At 7:48 PM -0400 6/11/03, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW wrote:
>BUSH LANDS AGAIN
>
>THE ONION - With more than 5,400 jubilant Marines and sailors cheering him
>on, President Bush landed on the deck of the USS Harry S Truman in a Navy
>jet Monday to preside over a historic veterans-benefits-cutting ceremony.
>"Your brave and selfless service to your country will not soon be
>forgotten," Bush told the recently returned Operation Iraqi Freedom
>soldiers. "At least, not for another five or ten years." After
>congratulating the soldiers on their victory over Saddam Hussein, Bush
>announced that the new budget passed by the Senate includes a $14.6 billion
>reduction in veterans' benefits. He then held aloft a pair of oversized
>scissors and snipped a ribbon bearing the words "Veteran's Benefits." "No
>one knows the meaning of the word 'sacrifice' quite like our men and women
>in uniform," Bush said. "Whether sacrificing their lives or their health
>coverage, these brave Americans are willing to do whatever it takes to help
>this nation, and for this I salute them."
>
>http://www.theonion.com/onion3921/bush_visits_uss_truman.html