[lbo-talk] Bush debuts new playtime army jacket

[B.]

In his recent visit to Camp Pendleton, Bush showed up
in his latest mock military garb. This one has a
decidedly retro sci-fi look, recalling late 70s-era
Star Trek: the Movie. It's kind of cute, because he
had "George W. Bush: Commander in Chief"
monogrammed/embroidered over the left breast:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041207/480/wxs20812072350

I would have loved to have had a jacket like that when
I played army as a kid.

I'm not sure how it ranks against the olive green
windbreaker he used to go around in after 9/11. I
suppose he can design whatever sorts of absurd
militaristic get up he wants to wear. But in the past
it seemed when we [the US public] would see other
countries' leaders going around in Army outfits, we
saw it as being an absurd display of bravura--if not a
sign of their relative, Banana Republic barbarism.

B

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