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

To: jlallen who wrote (571058)	5/2/2004 7:35:31 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

“We haven’t even finished Afghanistan and we’re fighting a war — ‘Mission Accomplished’?” asked Fields Black, a 33-year-old former Marine who won a combat ribbon in the 1991 Gulf War. Black, who requires an oxygen tank to breathe, said he had contracted emphysema and other respiratory problems during the first Gulf War, probably from inhaling oil fumes. Tears welling, he told Kerry that eight months ago, doctors predicted he would die without a course of treatment he could not afford. “You land on the aircraft carrier strutting your stuff and I have a hard time walking?” Black said. “How dare you? That’s how I look at the president, how dare you. Why didn’t you land a plane in Vietnam? Where were you then? Just how dare you. It amazes me how he does it with a smile too.” Kerry listened, then got up, embraced Black and quietly promised to try to help. msnbc.msn.com