Michael Wear
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Mar
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What I feel really strongly and confidently sort of categorically is that the spirit with which this administration has communicated about this war, the lack of sobriety.
One thing that always stuck with me, after he left office, George W. Bush went to Saddleback Church with Pastor Rick Warren around his book, Decision Points.
And for those who don't know, Saddleback is one of the most influential evangelical churches in America, tens of thousands of members.
And Pastor Rick was interviewing George W. Bush about his book, and they got to the point in the book where Bush was talking about the decision to go to war in Iraq.
And Bush sort of
played out his arguments and the decision he made and why he still thought that that was the right decision.
But it was clear watching online the level of sobriety that he had.
But
The audience was so, my read on it was the audience was so uncomfortable with the weight that was evident in Bush's own playing out of his reasoning, that when he got to the point of, I still made the right decision, essentially, I'm paraphrasing, of course, there was kind of a rah-rah, hoot-holler, USA sort of applause from the audience, and Bush cuts them off.
and says, no, that wasn't what I was doing here.
And I think for any commander in chief, I know President Obama, the decisions related to sending our service members into combat weighed heavily on him.
That is a healthy and righteous response to the weight of what you're doing and of the responsibility.
And the flippancy, the memification, the jingoistic mockery with which official communications from this president himself, but also the war department, that goes contrary to any
a standard of responsible, ethical, respectable military or national leadership.
And that sort of flippancy with life itself ought to be roundly condemned.
And does America no service, no service at all.
Um, uh,
I could go on, but I feel very strongly.
And of course, this is the same sort of tone that they bring so often, not always, but so often to so much of their agenda.
And it is not a befitting of the office they hold.
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