While visiting a dying soldier at Walter Reed that year, Bush was even berated by a devastated mother, as his press secretary, Dana Perino,
recounted. He tried to offer comfort, but eventually, he just stood there and took it.
Bush knew that, at the end of the day, it was ultimately his fault that that mother's son was in a hospital bed. Though he believed that the Iraq War was just, his decision to invade in 2003 was one that was his alone.
"I don't blame her a bit," he told Perino.
How George W. Bush handled a grieving Army mom shows the awful nature of Trump’s attack on the Khans