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.
I hope you are right and only wonder at it's taking so long.
And by the way, does anyone remember that woman who made a disturbance at some event about 2 or so years ago? She was another mother who had lost a son, but I don't know her name.
No, she's just lost...She has no peace...Without God, without hope...
Oh, I got her name wrong. It is Dolores Kesterson. She doesn't believe anyone is behind Cindy. I will bet this woman has people behind her, too.
Rev up the search engines!!!!
Exactly....she didn't like Bush to begin with and I don't believe for a second the way she described their encounter...now she's defending Cindy and says she will now go on the Michael Moore website....she's a rat..
Pure semantic b.s., worthy of the Sink Emperor himself.
He has just made her say that she supports Michael Moore over the President, and that President Bush has killed thousands of people!!
She's going off the chart now...Bush has killed thousands of people.....
Well, that was the whole 19th century mystic revival (there was a similar movement to the 1960s New Age crap in the mid 19th century to the late 19th century, for those of you who don't know.) Another crappy counter-cultural thing, that fizzled out. You know, Grand Order of the Hermetic Dawn, the Aryan race (this is when it comes from actually) which originated in Thule. The secrets of Atlantis. All sorts of pseudo-mystic crap.
And as I recall, you're right. But I can't recall which story. (Big Conan Doyle fan here, btw.)
LOL.
I'm listening to her, breaking a long standing policy not to listen to Bill O'Reilly.
Bill just asked her if she will go on a Michael Moore web site. She said she probably would.
She doesn't know his entire view of the US, but there are a lot of things that he's brought up that needed to be brought up.
Bill: If you had to decide who to back, Michael Moore or the president.
Dolores: Michael Moore, whether he's lied or not, has not killed. The president is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
OMG. I'm going to mute. I can't stand it.
I'm really only listening because the author of the book "What they don't tell you about natural cures" is supposed to be on tonight and I want to see if BOR has done his homework.
I bought that book and returned it the next day. MAJOR rip off. No one could live the way that author proposes people to live. Oh, and he believes that the government manufactured the anthrax scare in order to boost pharmaceutical sales of cipro.
It was liberal dreamers like Woodrow Wilson who coined the phrase, "making the world safe for democracy!" Wilson just happens to be a neocon favorite now.
Excuse me for a minute. I am going to Google.
I don't suppose anyone in the media can find just one mom that isn't a delusional Bush hater, Michael Moore worshiper.
I don't believe her either
She said that the President killed hundreds of thousands of people
And poor Jim tries so hard to keep this site a family-friendly one, too... :)
"If I did, I didn't mean to. An isolationist foreign policy is as old as our founding fathers. In fact, it was a bedrock conservative principle all the way through Reagan. Don't get involved in foreign wars unless its absolutely necessary"
And you're misrepresentation of history is almost as old.
Look up the Barbary Pirates some day, sparky.
Barbary pirates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
Ping. Some interesting links and postings in re the Cindy Sheehan Show.
Sheesh...where does BO dig these people up from? Is this whackadoodle night?
She said she was a "family of one" and refused to meet the President in the same room with her former husband.
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