Methinks Bush Should Wear a Sandwich Board

I was never impressed with the walkabout that Bush did on board the Abraham Lincoln; of course, as we all know, there were no WMDs and no mission accomplished. Shouldn't there be consequences?

Here's a story from Editor & Publisher about the punishment meted out by a judge who doesn't like people who try to claim they were in the military:

A man who lied to his probation officer about having served in the military was ordered to stand outside the courthouse wearing a sandwich board that says: "I am a liar. I am not a Marine."

William C. Horvath, 35, of Whitefish, pleaded guilty to making false statements, a felony.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy sentenced him to four months of house arrest and four years of probation. He also ordered him to stand outside the courthouse for 50 hours wearing the sandwich board with the message.

On the back, it must read: "I have never served my country. I have dishonored veterans of all wars."

Molloy, a veteran himself, also ordered Horvath to write letters of apology to newspapers, the U.S. Marine Corps, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion in Kalispell. The judge said Horvath must admit in the letters that he lied repeatedly about serving and being wounded.

People who mislead a nation into war should have to wear a sandwich board. I'll leave it to the reader to decide what it should say.