WayMoreSports.com/Gretzky speaks out in support of Bush (Via LGF)


The Great One is on the right side of history. I'm a baseball man, but maybe I need to watch more hockey.

[...]"All I can say is the president of the United States is a great leader, I happen to think he's a wonderful man and if he believes what he's doing is right I back him 100 per cent," said Gretzky, in Calgary for a news conference for Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.


"If the president decides to go to war he must know more than we know, or we hear about. He must have good reason to go and we have to back that."


Gretzky, who makes his home in the Los Angeles area, said his children are American citizens and he has a relative fighting in Iraq.


"I have a cousin who is in Iraq right now and is in the U.S. Marines. He was there in '91 and he's there now and it's a tough time for his family and it's a tough time for all of us.


Col. Kenny Hopper has been in the Marines for more than 20 years, said Gretzky.


Gretzky's aunt — his father's sister — married an American and raised three children in North Carolina.


"I talked to my aunt two nights ago and she's devastated, but she knows that her son believes in the cause," Gretzky said. "He's proud to be in the Marines and he's battling hard and our prayers are with him.


"A lot of people in the world don't have the answers but we've got to believe in the president of the United States and as I said, I happen to think he's a great leader. God bless him and I hope that everybody gets home safe."[...]