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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (404139)	5/8/2003 11:36:18 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

nationalreview.com Matthew Miller, himself a Democrat, gives the best reply in his latest syndicated column: “The cost was puny anyway. Early Democratic salvos complained that the photo-op cost at least $100,000, as if we should be outraged. Reality check, please. Fifty million dollars for Kenneth Starr’s investigation was an outrage; $100,000 to land on deck and welcome troops returning from war is patriotic pageantry. Earth to Democrats: There is nothing wrong with a little patriotic pageantry. And the costs of presidential movements are always extraordinary. When a president changes where he eats a meal one afternoon, taxpayers probably drop $100,000. You know what? We give the head of the free world a budget for that. There, that was easy. :-)

To: sylvester80 who wrote (404139)	5/8/2003 12:28:53 PM
From: 4rthofjuly007	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Care to guess at how much it meant to our brave soldiers to have THE commander in chief land on their ship and congratulate them for a job well done? Judging by the reaction of the crew, it was probably one of the most memorable moments of their lives.