Grieving families left behind by soldiers needlessly killed in Iraq can rest easy, knowing that they aren’t suffering alone. George W. Bush, in solidarity with the soldiers who risk everything to carry out his dimwitted orders, has also made the ultimate sacrifice: He’s given up golf.

According to the Associated Press, “Bush said he made his decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.” Bush says he believed continuing to golf would have sent the wrong message, whatever that’s supposed to mean.

…Oh, that’s what he meant. In other news, the President has yet to give up his other favorite sports: fishing, moving brush from one place to another on his ranch, and sending young men and women to die in an unjust and unnecessary war.

Some veterans aren’t too impressed with Bush’s sacrifice — which begs the question: Why do veterans hate America?

As previously mentioned, GW Bush claimed to have experienced an epiphany after a horrible bombing in Iraq. No more would the families of dead and mutilated soldiers have to suffer alone — no, the President too would suffer along with them. By giving up golf.

Well, as Keith Olbermann pointed out in his latest special comment (toward the end), the president who lied a nation into war, who lied about the Valerie Plame incident, who lied about… well, it would probably be quicker to just list what he didn’t lie about. Anyway, he wasn’t even telling the truth about the golf thing. The AP photographed him playing golf two months after he said he’d made his fateful decision to give up playing his game.