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Why aren't Bush twins in Army?
Thursday 16 September @ 16:57:36 |
 by Jim Hightower
Did you take full and proper notice of the political coming-out of George W’s twin daughters? Jenna and Barbara, the 22-year-old twins, have long been kept away from the political glare, but they’re now adults who have just graduated from college, and both have been brought into the limelight by the Bush political campaign.
Their first outing was for a photo spread and puff piece that ran in Vogue, the fashion magazine. Indeed, they looked splendiferous, beautifully made up and swathed in
glamorous designer gowns––one by Oscar de la Renta, the other by Calvin Klein. No telling how many silk worms toiled to make this photo spread possible.
 But––tacky me–– I couldn’t help thinking as I viewed the photos: Why aren’t they in fatigues and Kevlar vests, like other women
and men their age?
Jenna and Barbara announced that they would be joining their daddy’s election
campaign, but I had to ask myself: Why aren’t they joining their daddy’s
war?
After all, he says that his war in Iraq is absolutely essential to our national
security. And he insists that his policies over there are absolutely worth all
the troops who have been killed, worth the mutilations of thousands of other soldiers,
worth the beheadings, worth the untold illnesses and poisonings being contracted
by the men and women he has sent there, and worth the illegal conscription of
tens of thousands of Americans forced to stay in this disastrous war beyond their
legitimate tour of duty.
So, if daddy’s war is absolutely worth the sacrifice of America’s
workaday families––why is it not worth the enlistment of his military-age
family?
Maybe it’s genetic. After all, George himself was a “ferocious war
hawk” who used family connections to keep himself 8,000 miles from Vietnam.
And now that he’s president, he can start his own war that leaves his loved
ones safely swathed in silk ... while our families see our loved ones come home
in shrouds. ||
“When Dad Is ‘Mr. President.’” The
New York Times, July 24, 2004.
“When Daughter Seems a Bit Too Much Like Father.” The New York Times,
July 25, 2004.
Jim Hightower is the best-selling author of "Let's Stop Beating Around the
Bush," on sale from Viking Press. For more information, visit JimHightower.com.
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