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Tearful Bush Recognizes Air Force Sergeant's Sacrifice with Medal

by Dood Abides

Washington, DC (Rotters) - In a quiet ceremony today, President Bush recognized the efforts of Air Force Staff Sergeant Michelle Manhart with a Medal of Freedom. Manhart will be appearing in the February issue of Playboy magazine due to hit newsstands this week. The magazine features a partially clothed as well as completely nude picture of Manhart in a feature article entitled "Tough Love". As a result of the controversial spread, Manhart has been relieved of her duties at Lackland Air Force Base. A tearful Bush apologized for the heavy-handed response of Manhart's superiors and promised to make sure she was reinstated as the behavior of the commanding officer in question was investigated. "I've spoken to a lot of our fine young men who are now serving their third and fourth tours in Iraq," stated Bush. "The number one thing that virtually all of them have said that they enjoy the most in care packages from home is pornography. Sergeant Manhart has made a real personal sacrifice that should not go unrecognized, and my resolve has stiffened thanks to her." Manhart, a mother with two children, has been in the Air Force since 1994, and has actually spent time in the Middle East theater, serving in Kuwait in 2002. Under the president's recent announcement of a troop surge of 21,000, Pentagon sources stated that there was a high likelihood of Manhart's deployment to Iraq. "Tough love is a fairly nice description of this administration's new way forward in Iraq, as we attempt to get the Iraqi leadership to stop jerking around," concluded Bush. "Sergeant Manhart is a touchstone for the freedom and American values we are attempting to foster in a new, more democratic middle east. I hope that she will serve as an example of the sacrifices that we are asking of everyone in America."

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that's pathetic...ur actually stating that she should be held on a pedistal for posing naked. Meanwhile men and women she serves with are dieing for Freedom. What exactly is she doing to help our country again? Oh I almost missed that part--she is an example of all we have sacrified...what a joke. But that's what this is right--a joke!

This is obscene! This woman has not only shammed military women everywhere, she has also shammed the uniform that many of soldiers have given their life for. This woman knew what she was doing was wrong. Also she should not be promoted on her time spent in Kuwait because if you check her military records she was sent home early for questionable behavior. This goes to show that this woman has none of the core values of which the Air Force lives by and therefore should be kicked out!

Who cares if she posed nude? Are we so prude of a society that nudity merits career suicide? If you disagree with nudity, don't buy the publication. But how does somebody posing nude set back all military women? Saying that one person affects all is the same kind of degenerate thought process that kept civil liberties in the stone age for so long.

Dying for freedom? Keep telling yourself that. We reap freedom for nobody in Iraq.

All my airforce buds think it's awesome *shrug*

No in the civilian society it shouldn't merit any real reaction. In the military society, which she choose to be a part of, yes it does merit the judgement which is being shown. The military is not just a job, its a life style with its own set of rules which are briefed, ingrained, and are to be upheld. As someone who teaches new airmen, she knew these rules, she briefs them multiple times in the 8 week basic training that she over sees. The military is a hard place for any women, with many obstcles to overcome, and many bridges to cross. She has made it hard for many women to overcome preceptions that the male majority set forth. Is it right? Maybe not. Is it reality, yes. And it has been a reality that is established based on customs, and traditions, and on what works. If a civilian breaks rules they can get reprimanded, counseled or fired. If a armed forces member makes a lapse in judgement it can cause injury, or even death for others. And underminding a chain of command, and fostering an attitude that you can challange what is established can get people killed. Is her posing going to get people killed no. But if she isn't punished it can set up an attitude of questioning and mutinous behavior detrimental to the fundmentals in the service.

she's got nice tits...i'd fuck her for freedom.

Nice photoshop deuchebag......

I didn't realize that most of you have no sense of humor. What you are reading is satire! "Satire (lat. medley, dish of colourful fruits) is a technique used in drama and the performing arts, fiction, journalism, and occasionally in poetry, the graphic arts, and more commonly popular media. Although satire is usually witty, and often very funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour but criticism of an event, an individual or a group in a clever manner." The piece is obviously ridicule on more than one level. It's ripping on Bush, ripping on the skank that posed, and the system. Lighten up a little, you may live longer!

I think we all realize it's satire...What we are commenting upon is the case as a whole...not the article above.

If we didn't know, we could have always checked the disclaimer immediately preceding the user comments.

What I see is a person who posed nude receiving a harsher punishment than somebody with a DUI. How is that logical?

Interesting - I'm sure the same "superior" officers who are outraged will run right down to the local BX and pick up a copy. It's a bit ironic - she posed for a magazine that is sold in every Air Force Base Exchange, and she's in trouble.

This is funny, people arguing about a naked women in a mag. Tell me this how many military personal from all branchs have been naked on T.V. look that up and then you can stop bitching about one in a mag. And her doing this has nothing to do about dishonoring her branch or anyone else. The only thing thats going to be hard is the fact that every where she goes in the airforce young airmen will be looking at her tits when she's trying to give them an order to do something.
Oh and one last thing to the person who wrote about the military isn't just a job, thats exactly what it is. Its not a way of life, you go to work do your job and go home just like everyone else. except on deployment

It is not just a job. In a regular job you can quit whenever you want, try doing that in the military!!!

Try telling you Commander no, when you are ordered to work 7 days a week 12 hours/day until the mission is complete. Try to ask for extra $$ because you worked 44Hrs/week overtime.

THERE IS NO COMPARISON!!!!!

No one got killed, good clean innocent fun..I say let her make her money and seperate from the military. No harm was done.

I sure as heck don't think what she did was wrong, but wouldn't you think that she would have thought about Sherry Lynn White, discharged for misconduct from the Navy after posing for the same mag? This didn't happen that long ago.

serviceMEN who read Playboy have a pass. serviceMEN who commit rape or adultry are fined and demoted in rank.
Michelle poses nude and is forced out.
She must have had redeeming qualities if they made her a drill sergeant and now the Military is hurting recruitment
of guys who want to train under her.

ya know its kinda dumb she got discharged from the air force for that. as someone who served in the military its great that she showed it all, i havent seen it, but she got some of her freedom taken away by getting discharged. so what she posed naked, people act like its such a bad thing she wanted everyone to see her naked. she might of broken some of the air force codes, but so what, there was no threat of our freedom getting taken away for it. this articles really funny, but in a sense she should be recognized for what she did. i mean honestly how many women get choosen to do playboy. even better she was an airman so how many airmen get a chance to bare it all on playboy. staff sergeant Manhart if youre reading this you did a good thing, you explored your freedom as a human being, but you got it taken away by being discharged. we as americans take little things like this way too seriously.

Howdy all,
This is one damn funny piece of work, i just about sprayed my coffee when I read the bit about her "sacrifice" "stiffening his resolve".

Seriously though, you guys need to lighten up about this. I know that, being Canadian and all, i can't really fathom the sense of harcore nationalistic pride that you proscribe to the military, so why does it matter that the woman is military? Would you still feel the same way if it was a staff sergeant posing for Playgirl?

This woman should be celebrated for sharing her beauty with the world, not fingered as a slut simply because she is comforatble with herself. You need to be proud of your women, not ashamed of them.

On a lighter note, she's got a sweet little ass to boot.

Nice job!

This whole issue is ridiculous. It's okay for us to send kids to another country to kill other people and DIE for our freedom, but it's not okay for us to display that freedom. Yup! That makes sense to me.

As an Airman in the U.S. Air Force, I completely disagree with her justification of posing for Playboy. It's not so much about her posing for a magazine like Playboy. The problem is that when she took her oath to become an Airman, she obviously forgot about key topics that she taught to the future Airman. One key thing was becoming proactive in a group. In this case, she would be wrong for posing.

I also agree with some of the other people that have posted about this. This is a large problem because she didn't abide by the Uniform Code of Military Justice or our Core Values. The saddest part of the whole thing is that those who are condemning her behavior are more then likely the ones that are picking up the magazine. Manhart deserves a dishonorable boot from the military. She doesn't care about the troop she's fighting beside.

Confused, pull your head out!

This article is obviously fake. There is no "medal of freedom," and you can clearly tell President Bush was superimposed into this picture which was stolen from another website.

There is no "Medal of Freedom"?!? SEARGENT MANHART was superimposed over an image of George Bush awarding a Medal of Freedom. What are you REALLY so pissy about?

SSgt. Manhart knew that there would be repercussions for posing nude for Playboy and yet she made the decision to do it anyways.
In addition, she no longer carries any respect from her subordinants and is now useless as a noncommissioned officer. I would not want her as my supervisor at all. Having her as a supe would no doubt put a strain on my relationship with my wife. Anyone who would want to work for would do so in the hopes to see her naked again or maybe to get a piece of ass.
Get her out. We don't need her.

You air force guys are a bunch of pussies! Air National Guard? What is that... one step above cub scouts?

This chick is hot and will make a much better "motivator" naked than as some fake-ass staff sergeant.

What's naked got to do with good leadership? You AF homos never changed clothes in front of anyone else of higher rank.

you're putting the pussy on a pedestal.

Yay, an easy way out of killing and dieing for oil! Taking a few pictures is so much easier than the sexual abuse women put up with to stay IN the military.

RAF guy,

Your wife should worry about you no matter who you work with. You obviously have no personal dignity or you would be confident in both your ability to control yourself and your wife's trust.

is everyone really missing an obvious part of the satire?

we (i am an american living overseas) are despised in many parts of the world for our violent, sex obsessed, dysfunctional/multicultural, misogynist, society which we are forcing on the world, sometimes at gunpoint.

"Sergeant Manhart is a touchstone for the freedom and American values we are attempting to foster in a new, more democratic middle east."

if we take the time to read why Osama Bin Laden says he attacked the USA, it was for our military presence in the Middle East during Gulf War 1.

who knows what exactly 250,000 coed, 30% lower income African Americans did during that time.

have you listened to any rap music (or now, most popular music) lately? i can only imagine what happened...

Great opportunity for her. Better opportunity for the Air Force. I want to join. America is so ass backwards regarding nudity. As a county, we are a hundred years behind the entire European Arena speaking from a sexual point of view. Frist move I saw the President make in a long time that will gain public support!!

What a whore! ...I mean Bush!

Yeah, but she looks GREAT in that black t-shirt and jeans!

I think it's retarded that some think that people serving under her have lost all respect for her. If anything, they probably gained more respect for her because she had the, er, balls to do what she wanted in the face of conservative America. I love my country but it sure is screwed up sexually. She hasn't shamed anyone or anything.

Ummmmmm...would any of you have known if not for all of the publicity this got from the media? Good on you Michelle...you're hot.

Please show pictures so that I can make a proper judgement.

I think this is karma, i remember her yelling at me in basic.who's doing push-ups now, biatch!!!

This girl should be a example for all hot women in the army :D

If you think that our perception of sex and nudes are bad, take a look of the customs and traditions of some religions in other parts of the world, as Muslim believes for example. It not just the Air Force and the integrity of the service members, but the whole political situations and operations that we are involved in. As the politics are affected, the more that different policies will be enforced for our country to save face.