Reuters posted a GREAT pic with the "Bush honors fallen troops" story

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A man stands among tents set up by anti-war protesters near U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, November 24, 2005. (Jim Young/Reuters)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051126/pl_nm/iraq_bush_dc

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, under political pressure to change his Iraq policy, on Saturday thanked the families of troops killed in the war for their sacrifice as peace activists gathered near his Texas home. Bush, who is spending a six-day Thanksgiving break at "Prairie Chapel" ranch, paid tribute to more than 2,000 members of the U.S. military who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and assured their families Americans would be eternally grateful.

"This week we also extend our gratitude to our military families, who are making great sacrifices to advance freedom's cause," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "They can know that we will honor that sacrifice by completing the noble mission for which their loved ones gave their lives."

His words gave little comfort to protester Cindy Sheehan who lost her son Casey in Iraq last year and who has become an icon of the peace movement after a 26-day vigil outside Bush's ranch in the summer.

Sheehan, who dedicated a garden memorial to her son in Crawford on Friday, vowed that she and her supporters would return to the tiny central Texas town every time Bush visited his ranch. Momentum for withdrawal was building, she said, "and we're not going away. The troops will come home. They'll come home a lot sooner than this administration planned on them coming home. ... This war is going to be over."

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1. The perfect picture for the shrubs speech.

"They can know that we will honor that sacrifice by completing the noble mission for which their loved ones gave their lives."

Noble mission?!?!? :puke:

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2. Slobodan Miloševic also said he was protecting his nation from terror

Doesn't junior say the same thing?

junior's poll numbers have nosedived to the lowest level of his presidency as critics question the war's origins and progress, has consistently said U.S. forces would stand down when Iraqi forces stand up. He argues that setting a date for withdrawal would simply give insurgents a green light.