I gave up golf because of Iraq war: Bush
                   
alarabiya.net     May 14, 2008            

U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of Americans killed in the war in Iraq. "I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf," Bush said in an interview with Yahoo [read full story]                

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