BUSH "HELPS" WOUNDED SOLDIER BECOME U.S. CITIZEN

By Richard Sisk

New York Daily News

(MCT)

WASHINGTON - President Bush paid tribute Monday to a badly wounded soldier with the Brooklyn brass to get in his commander in chief's face about becoming a citizen.

"He grabbed my hand, and he said, `I'm not a citizen of the U.S. and I want to be one,'" Bush said of Army Spec. Noe (Lito) Santos-Dilone.

"Now, here's a man who knows how to take it directly to the top," Bush said with a grin.

Bush later presided at the swearing-in ceremony for Santos, 21, originally from the Dominican Republic, and Mexican-born soldiers Spec. Sergio Lopez, 24, of Bolingbrook, Ill., and Pfc. Eduardo Leal-Cardenas, 21, of Los Angeles, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Speaking later from a hospital bed, where he was being treated for his wounds, Santos recalled his friendly confrontation with Bush after the president spoke to the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in May.

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This makes me sick. In years past, the recruiters have been known to go into Mexico and draft kids with the promise of citizenship. I suppose they just do it here in the United States, now. Citizenship, if you live. Citizenship with all your limbs? Ahhhh...maybe, maybe not. Again, the unfortunate, the disadvantaged, the underprivledged fighting the rich man's war. Makes me sick.

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