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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
I also don't think Ty posted that to make Bush look bad -- but as a comment on likely upcoming fireworks. I don't understand your reaction.

That account omits the next part of the conversation, where Webb replied "That's between me and my son, Mr. President." The story makes Webb look like a rude bastard, not Bush.

I thought Bush's response ("I didn't ask you that") made him sound like a jackass.

The entire article is here:

• President Bush has pledged to work with the new Democratic majorities in Congress, but he has already gotten off on the wrong foot with Jim Webb, whose surprise victory over Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) tipped the Senate to the Democrats.
  
  Webb, a decorated former Marine officer, hammered Allen and Bush over the unpopular war in Iraq while wearing his son’s old combat boots on the campaign trail. It seems the president may have some lingering resentment.
  
  At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.
  
  Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.
  
  “I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.
  
  Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t. It’s safe to say, however, that Bush and Webb won’t be taking any overseas trips together anytime soon.
  
  “Jim did have a conversation with Bush at that dinner,” said Webb’s spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd. “Basically, he asked about Jim’s son, Jim expressed the fact that he wanted to have him home.” Todd did not want to escalate matters by commenting on Bush’s response, saying, “It was a private conversation.”
  
  A White House spokeswoman declined to give Bush’s version of the conversation.

I don't see the Webb retort ("between me and my son") in there, but perhaps you get the super-insider version of the paper or something.