Okay, if those photographs weren't disturbing enough...

Attaturk points us to a little more Commander Codpiece sociopathy, via Josh Marshall's place:

Bush saw a number of cutting edge virtual reality games that allowed recovering soldier to simulate riding a car or boat.One game simulated shooting in a Baghdad neighborhood, a game she said POTUS participated in with two other soldiers there and helped shoot the bad guys, at least virtually.

I have no words.

UPDATE:  Donna, in comments below, provides this:

When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following: 

A Recovering American soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001

Here's the address for the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio:

851 Roger Brooke Dr # 3600
Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234

Since President Bush gave them their "Christmas presents" early.

UPDATE II:  Kate Petersen, in comments, links to the USPS and Walter Reed Hospital, which apparently no longer will accept cards without soldiers' names.  Instead, they recommend sending donations to:

www.americasupportsyou.mil

Comments

[sister of ye]

I suppose we should be glad it wasn't Cheney there - he would've gotten out his shotgun and shot the soldiers.

What do you bet the soldiers were instructed to let the Pretzel-wit score the most?

[sister of ye]

Also, what do bet he's convinced himself he actually did a tour in Baghdad, ala WWII and Ronald Reagan.

[queek]

I'd like to send these guys a video game that simulates capturing the preznit in a 3-way with Cozy and Mooshy in a dirty Baghdad quarter and then waterboarding them!

[Margie in Austin, Texas]

As my late, Jewish, FDR-Democrat grandmother would've exhorted, "Jesus H. Christ!!!".

[steverino]

Virtual reality simulators are used to help treat PTSD and they're pretty effective from what I've heard and seen. POTUS, of course, hasn't a clue as to the reason for the treatment...

[Kate Petersen]

Re your update: This idea came up yesterday on an email list I am on. Unfortunately, the DOD no longer allows cards or packages to be sent without a specific name.

This is a c&p from the email with that information. I can research and find the original citation, but I wanted to get this up.

>Walter Reed Army Medical Center officials want to remind those individuals
>who want to show their appreciation through mail to include packages,
>letters, and holiday cards addressed to 'Any Wounded Soldier' or 'A
>Recovering American Soldier' that Walter Reed cannot accept these packages
>in support of the decision by then Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for
>Transportation Policy in 2001. This decision was made to ensure the safety
>and well being of patients and staff at medical centers throughout the
>Department of Defense.
>
>In addition, the U.S. Postal Service is no longer accepting "Any Service
>Member" or "A Recovering American Soldier" letters or packages. Mail to
>"Any Service Member" that is deposited into a collection box will not be
>delivered.
>
>Instead of sending an Any Wounded Soldierletter or package to Walter Reed,
>please consider making a donation to one of the more than 300 nonprofit
>organizations dedicated to helping our troops and their families listed on
>the "America Supports You" website,
>www.americasupportsyou.mil
>
>Other organizations that offer means of showing your support for our
>troops or assist wounded servicemembers and their families include:
>
>http://www.usocares.org/
>http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/tooursoldiers/
>http://www.redcross.org
>
>For individuals without computer access, your local military installation,
>the local National Guard or military reserve unit in your area may offer
>the best alternative to show your support to our returning troops and
>their families. Walter Reed Army Medical Center will continue to receive
>process and deliver all mail that is addressed to a specific individual.
>
>As Walter Reed continues to enhance the medical care and processes for our
>returning service members, it must also must keep our patients and staff
>members safe while following Department of Defense policy. The outpouring
>of encouragement from the general public, corporate America and civic
>groups throughout the past year has been incredible. Our Warriors in
>Transition are amazed at the thanks and support they receive from their
>countrymen.

[Kate Petersen]

Citation for above, containing links to the USPS and Walter Reed sites with this prohibition:

Cards for Soldiers

[watertiger]

Thanks, Kate.

[donna]

Thanks Kate,

sent that along to my mail list as well.

Sad that we can't even do something nice for wounded troops without it being a "threat" to security or something.

What a ridiculous, paranoid country we've become.

[leslie]

WT~ they just want us to look like a threat to security or the soldiers, or someone else.

Did the "Decider" put on a uniform of one of the soldiers who can no longer wear one
whilst he played army-man?
I cannot speak to the level of hate I have for him and his cronies.
I never thought myself capable of such feelings.

[P O'Neill]

Chimpy keeps saying --

Because when it's all said and done, I think the key thing in life is to look in the mirror and say, I didn't compromise my core beliefs. And I believe people will say that about me.

What do the guys below see when they look in the mirror? They see the essence of their first interaction with every other human being, their face, destroyed by the dude in Crawford admiring himself in the mirror.

[pansypoo]

seeing that georgie always wears his bullet proof chest i say he has to take some shots and why is he not dead yet?

[kate]

He has to visit the vets as to not visit would seem more callous. The beauty of this obligation is that it illustrates the depth of his moral bankruptcy when he continues to push the war despite the pain and death he knows it causes.