Posted on 08/07/2005 6:46:27 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
A determined mother of a fallen US soldier who has pledged to hold a roadside peace protest near President George Bush's Texas ranch until he talks to her, said yesterday she met with the president shortly after her son died. Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, California, said she was among several relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq who were invited to meet with Mr Bush in June last year at Fort Lewis near Seattle.
She said the meeting occurred two months after her son, Casey, was killed in Iraq. Since then, she said, various government and independent commission reports have disputed the Bush administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction - a main justification for the March 2003 invasion. "I was still in shock then," Ms Sheehan said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press. "It takes about eight or nine months for the shock to subside. Now, I'm angry. I want the troops home.
"All of those reports prove my son died needlessly. This proved that every reason George Bush gave us for going to war was wrong."
Ms Sheehan has not seen Mr Bush, but she did talk on Saturday with Steve Hadley, Mr Bush's national security adviser, and Joe Hagin, deputy White House chief of staff, who went out to hear her concerns.
A good illustration of how the media decides what is news. We a destined to see much of this woman if we tune in to the MSM.
Being a useful idiot for the Communist party and being the "founder" of some idiotic organization sure beats working for a living. Besides, when you're working for a living, it's difficult to pick up those fifteen minutes of fame. Everybody wants to be a celebrity and rub elbows with other celebrities. Even if you have to exploit the death of one of your children to do it.
check out some of the information here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1458638/posts?q=1&&page=1
she wrote an editorial for an online communist paper that essentially says that the united states are the terrorist. no joke.
Hearings to be held at DNC because Republicans Denying Democrats Use of Rooms on Hill
Among those speaking at the hearings will be:
Joe Wilson, Former Ambassador and WMD Expert; Ray
McGovern, 27-year CIA analyst who prepared regular
Presidential briefings during the Reagan
administration; Cindy Sheehan, mother of fallen
American soldier; John Bonifaz, renowned
constitutional lawyer and co-founder of
AfterDowningStreet.org.
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2005/0614-26.htm
Excellent point.
Bump for the ignorant mom trying to find a purpose to her life.
I know what you mean.
Imagine if someone camped out at Clinton's vacation spot for a month to ask why their loved one died at Waco. Or a relative of someone who died at that asprin factory Clinton bombed did the same. Of course the press coverage would be different.
We all honor what her son did. I wonder how he would feel about what his mother is doing now?
Don't confuse the left with the facts!
Seems like there's some form of progressive mass delusion gripping much of the left. Like a snowball, it keeps growing and feeding on itself: Clinton was impeached for having sex. Bush stole the 2000 election. Bush knew about 9/11. Bush lied about WMDs. We went to Iraq for Halliburton. Abu Gharib was Bush-sanctioned torture. The Swift Boat Vets were liars. Bush stole the 2004 election. Gitmo is Bush-sanctioned torture. Rathergate, Downing Street, Valerie Plame. And on and on. Same old crapola.
It gets tiresome having to point out facts over and over. And then getting accused, when reacting to some outrageous conduct like Durbin's "Nazi" comment, of questioning their patriotism.
It never ends . . .
Ray McGovern, a former CIA agent (R), places a photo of the son of Cindy Sheehan, founder of Gold Star Families for American Peace(C) on the table as Ambassador Joseph Wilson looks on during an unofficial forum on the Downing Street Minutes on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC June 16, 2005. The document, created in 2002 for British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that United States President George W. Bush was intent on invading Iraq and that intelligence was being manipulated to support Bushs interests. Sheehan's son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq. REUTERS/Chris Kleponis
Shameful, sad. Tells us a lot about her and her handlers; nothing whatever about the son, the Pres, or the war.
Dan
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