Thank you for keeping us safe for seven years. Thank you for standing up to the Republicans, the Democrats, the bloody-fanged Press, the Marxist University, the brainless of Hollywood, tyrannical enemies, and socialist "friends", the Arab "street", and the "Peace" thugs.
Thank you for sacrificing so much to do it. Thank you for being such a strong man that the scorn poured on you from every quarter did not deter you from doing what you believed was right and necessary.
Thank you for standing strong in the face of overwhelming opposition, cruel mockery, manic hatred that would have shaken a lesser man.
Thank you for being a true and honorable warrior, concerned more about the mission than about yourself.
Thank you for marrying such a Lady, and sharing her with us for eight years. We will miss her humor and her quiet strength and her "lady-like-ness".
Thank you for your Texas manliness, and your regular "guy-ness" too. Thank you for being smart but not arrogant, rich but not elitist, important but not self-centered, funny but not cruel. Thank you for that swagger that you just call "walkin'."
Thank you for victory in Iraq, despite a rocky road, and the almost impossible resistance...not only from the Muslim Fascists on the battlefield, but the enemies at home: the leakers of secrets, the comforters of our enemies, the back-stabbers, the political hacks, the liars and the fools.
Thank you for being a leader whose first priority was your country, not your ego or your bank account or your popularity or your Party or your re-election.
Thank God you were there.
Thank you, Mr. President, for all you have given, for all you have sacrificed. You will, in the fullness of time, be appreciated and celebrated for the great, strong and resolute President you have been in this critical, dangerous time.
God bless you.
The Gunslinger
Friends, just this once, I am exercising censorship on comments.
ReplyDeleteI will remove comments criticizing Bush, his policies or politics.
This is a tribute post, not a political discussion.
Hope you understand. Today he gets undiluted praise and appreciation.
Gun,
ReplyDeleteThank you for so eloquently and succinctly summing up the due and gratitude we owe the gentleman who was the leader of the free world for the past eight years. Though I have my differences with some of his policy of late, I will never suggest that George Walker Bush is any less than a man's man.
My hat is off to you sir and I, too, thank you.
Very Sincerely,
Jon Moore
Last night I finished watching a 9 hour documentary on Churchill ("Churchill's Bodyguard"-I recommend).The last episode,where Churchill was booted out months after leading the ungrateful Brits to survival and victory over the Nazis,and they turned to the Labour Party...you see the similarities...The Brits wanted "change",too,and they got it.Years of even MORE rationing,etc.thru the 1950's,while America,under Eisenhower,got busy growing.Knowledge of History can break your heart,sometimes....
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