Man darf George W. Bush nicht Unrecht tun. Auch für den amerikanischen Präsidenten hatte der Irak-Krieg schlimme Konsequenzen. Auch für ihn ist das Leben ein anderes, seit im Irak täglich amerikanische Soldaten sterben. Auch er musste Opfer bringen. In einem Interview mit Politico spricht er es offen aus:

Mr. President, you haven’t been golfing in recentyears. Is that related to Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, it really is. I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as — to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.

Mr. President, was there a particular moment or incident that brought you to that decision, or how did you come to that?

THE PRESIDENT: No, I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life. And I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it’s just not worth it anymore to do.

Der MSNBC-Moderator Keith Olbermann gab darauf in seiner Sendung „Countdown“ eine deutliche Antwort:

You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed. Sir, to show your solidarity with them you gave up golf? Sir, to show your solidarity with them you didn’t give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and financially bankrupting war.

Sir, to show your solidarity with them you didn’t even give up talking about Iraq a subject about which you have incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally be the least informed person in the world?

Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn’t give up your presidency? In your own words „solidarity as best as I can“ is to stop a game? That is the „best“ you can do?

Olbermanns Stil ist schon an normalen Tagen überengagiert, überpathetisch, überkandidelt. In seiner Antwort an Bush hat er das (was kaum möglich scheint) noch einmal ins Extreme gesteigert. Und doch wirkt sein bizarrer Auftritt auf merkwürdige Weise ebenso grotesk wie angemessen. Die letzten Worte nach zwölf Minuten (!) lauten: „Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up!“

(Ich übernehme keine Verantwortung für Schäden, die durch aus dem Video tropfenden Schaum entstehen.)

[via Huffington Post]

Nachtrag, 16. Mai.
Jon Stewart zum selben Thema.