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Posted on 08/10/2005 1:47:20 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Nightline Tonight Mon., March 14, 2005
That was my son's unit. He was killed on that day 04/04/04. Here is a letter that I wrote to NightLine about the broadcast:
Love
Cindy Sheehan
March 15, 2005
To Whom it May Concern:
Imagine my distress when I turned Night Line on last night and I was confronted with the gory details of my son's murder in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq on 04/04/04. Imagine, also, my sorrow and rage at the side of the story that you presented to the American public.
[SNIP]
I was on the Night Line Townhall Meeting in Washington, DC on 01/27/05. After I spoke (which I think was a fluke), Ted Koppel dismissed me as being "emotional." First of all, how can I approach this discussion without emotions, MY SON WAS KILLED, AND KILLED FOR LIES? Second of all, that show was not fair and balanced and I think the conclusion "Should we stay" was foregone.
The show last night was also not fair and balanced. To see all the wives being interviewed who had not lost their husbands and to hear what "hard work" it is to be left behind when their husbands are at war. How hard to you think it is to have a child killed in an illegal and immoral war? In this "wonderful" group of families left behind, we had exactly ONE of the wives call us..she is Diane Rose who was my son's Colonel, Frank Rose's wife. The last time we heard from Diane was in October and we feel we have been left behind by anyone connected to the 2-5 Cavalry. Is support only given if your loved one stays alive? One wife was quoted as saying that Sundays were the hardest for the families left behind. My son was killed on Palm Sunday last year..how does anybody think Sundays are for my family?
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full-well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by a George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11. We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy...not for the real reason, becuase the Arab-Muslims who attacked us hate our middle-eastern foreign policy. That hasn't changed since America invaded and occupied Iraq...in fact it has gotten worse.
It would be so amazing if your show would put me, or another parent who lost their child on who disagrees with the war and this administration: to have just an entire show..without presenting the false side of the debate. That would take a lot of courage and integrity. I hope your program will exhibit these qualities.
I also think that Mr. Koppel owes me an apology for the rude way I was treated on his show. After I expressed myself about the war being based on lies and that the troops should be brought home immediately because the war was based on lies, I was not thanked for my comments, or my son's sacrifice. He just said to keep the discussion away from emotions. Then, the wife of a soldier who was killed was allowed to speak and she praised the policies of this deplorable and despicable administration, and she was thanked and praised by the panel.
No kidding
So what carrot did they dangle in frount of you to get you to enlist in the military, when you were a boy?
Why not? By all accounts he was a church going Eagle scout who wanted to make a career out of the military and he re-uped when he didn't have to. No one had to dangle anything in front of this great man.
"so it's not likely that people will choose NOT to live in cities."
They have no choice but to live in cities. They can't go back to an agrarian society. It all started with the Industrial Revolution, I believe, when people were forced into cities for the benefit of the industrialist.
I, for one, will be more than happy to move to an urban/country setting, but do not have the wherewithall to do so. It's an excellent way, though, to avoid the tyranny of multiculturalism and diversity mumbo-jumbo.
"He volunteered to go."
Yes, he did. He volunteered, and in doing so was prepared to fight to defend our country.
I don't think I or this woman is disputing that.
This bitch thinks she is the only mother to ever lose a son in battle. How dare she sully her son's brave legacy with her Jew-hating, traitorous lies. Bush should meet with her and slap her in the face, like Truman would have.
:)
"So what carrot did they dangle in frount of you to get you to enlist in the military, when you were a boy?"
No carrot for moi. LOl!
I had to serve. No all-volunteer army back in '72.
LMAO !!!!!
Love it !!
Now..which one is the King...and HOW can you tell?
From what movie is that pic?
"He 'asn't got @#$% all over 'im!" :)
"People should return to living in rural areas.
That will be the best way to protect against WMD terrorism."
LOL
You're a nutbag.
Go build yourself a bunker and live like a hermit, if you so desire, but saying that cities are obsolete, is delusional in the extreme! And biological warfare, which IS something that Saddam and the Islamonazis and even other crazies have either used or would love to use against us, is not deterred by the rurality of the populace the wish to use it against.
And while there was a time, when most things Americans wanted were grown and/or manufactured here, there has NEVER been a time when we did not import things and food from other places.
I suspect that you are very unhappy to be living now and yearn for a time, which though it never existed outside of your own imaginings, you wish you had been born to. Well, until a time machine is really invented, you're stuck; live with it.
You really have a very sick view of things!
They also didn't draft anybody in '72, just issued numbers
Mine was 134
"The real reason her son joined the military is the same as that of most other boys: a carrot is dangled in their face and told to sign at the bootom of the form. And hooked they are!"
Yeah. Right.
And he re-upped again, why?
Sheesh, where are all of these nutbags coming from? DU?
This woman is shilling for the left and monstrously using her dead son whom I am cosmically certain would not approve of her words, her actions or the company that she keeps. Don't ask me to have any respect for one whom has none for the fallen hero she bore. She has long ago exceeded the benefit of the doubt.
That is just not good enough.
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