Making war with high hopes and thin skins (12/21/03)

Making war with high hopes and thin skins
By PHILIP GAILEY, Times Editor of Editorials
Published December 21, 2003

President Bush went to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington last week for a knee examination, and while he was there, he visited with soldiers recovering from wounds suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the fourth time since the war on terror began that the commander in chief has met privately with wounded soldiers at the Army medical facility. Bush took special note of one amputee: "I remember coming in a couple of months ago to pin the Purple Heart on a fellow who lost both legs and one arm. Today, I saw him walking."


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