NEWSWEEK STORY: "I'm So Sorry" [Newsweek supports Bush over meeting with grieving families]

Newsweek ^ | August 14, 2005 | By Holly Bailey and Evan Thomas

[G.Mason]

Indeed there were. Of course I am way too old to accept gifts from my enemies, and you appear way to smart. ;)

[OldFriend]

More like the MSM is trying to separate itself from this Kookburger.

[Cricket24]

Not a bad story but they also could have included some of the stories of families who fully support the President and our troops. One question I have is...why do these people blame our President? Why don't they ever blame the people who actually killed their son? The terrorists and insurgents who kill not only soldiers but innocent people? After all, these soldiers did enlist of their own free will. Many of them re-enlist. I just don't understand why they can't see who is actually responsible for the deaths.

[Cricket24]

We don't hear about this too often. If this was the Clinton era, each and every one of these meetings would be used as a PR scam. This whould never have happened had we (1) Taken Saddam out the first time,(2) Bill Clinton had been more interested in our security than in sex and (3) if the ATF and FBI had focused more on terrorism than on trying to get guns away from law-abiding citizens. A subject by the way that really ticks me off and we never hear about in the MSM.

[pollyannaish]

Great article. This is exactly why I cut Ms. Sheehan no slack. If she thinks that this decision has been easy for the President she is very, very wrong. It doesn't matter if you agree with his decisions or not, the truth is it was NOT taken lightly and the casualties hurt him very badly on a personal level.

Fortunately, he is a man of principle and promised to do what he believes is best for the country. In this case, I agree with him. But even if I didn't, I would trust that his motives are in no way selfish. That is transparently obvious to ANYONE who has any sort of heart.

Cindy Sheehan is not only exploiting her son and her own grief. (I heard her say on camera "And I thought I was the unluckiest person on the planet." Barf. How selfish.)
She is also exploiting the President in this situation who, despite the allegations of her cronies, does not have a heart of stone. I really, really feel for him.

[G.Mason]

Some Atta "time line" info ...

Mash here

Build their gallows high

[Peach]

Thank you for that link, G.Mason. I've saved it to another file.

[Plymouth Sentinel]

Great story, one that ultimately conveys the enormous sacrifice paid on behalf of freedom, and to a very small degree the inevitability of war, of this war at this time, within the larger statecraft that we practice.

GWB is one of the good guys and anyone who cannot see the visual toll this war effort has taken is either stupid or ignorant or both.

I'm a tolerant person, but find little for Sheehan or others of her ilk. She's allowing her understandably raw emotion to tarnish the 'memory of the loved and lost,' if I might be permitted the reference.

[TheForceOfOne]

I agree, and thank God for the alternative media or we would be pulling are hair out and screaming inside a sound proof room while the MSM laughs and pumps out one propaganda piece after another without any form of a watch dog to correct them.

Bringing down Nixon was the Utopia of liberal media monopoly and power. Notice how Dan Rather didn't get away with his lies but we still have a long way to go because we were unable to make him fully accountable for his treachery. He was called out on the carpet but without penalty he walked away just like the Kerry campaign which was involved up to their eyeballs in that scandal.

Lets face it, nothing moves fast on Capital Hill even when everyone is on the same page, and on top of that it gets reported 180 degrees depending on which political party is in office.

Political correctness stopped us from taking Saddam down the first time and political correctness caused the death of thousands on 9/11. Now Able Danger is fighting to bring the truth forward. Political correctness is a 300lb Gorilla on the back of American politics.

[bobsunshine]

Great Story.

Remember this ad about "Ashley" in Ohio. Another great story.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249884/posts

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the ping!

[grey_whiskers]

Just tried myself and the counter didn't increment.

Let's document this; if not malfeasance it certainlny appears as incompetence.

Oh, yes, as a control, try to rate another story on the site and see what happens?

I did that with an ANTI-BUSH story, and it wouldn't tally my low rating, or increment the counter...

Can we get a bunch of Freepers over there to try and nail this down?

Cheers!

[samadams2000]

They realize about 20 years too late that they cant make money and offend their readers. Do not ever buy that rag.

[GVnana]

It was like we were old friends. It almost makes me sad. In a way, I wish he weren't the president, just so I could talk to him all the time.

There have been many such stories about this man ever since 9/11. Sheehan is an aberration in more ways than one. People with wicked agendas aren't worthy of attention.

[Lancey Howard]

Extraordinarily pro-Bush story from Newsweek

Which doesn't make any sense.... I wonder what smear job Newsweek has up its sleeve?

[SuziQ]

Ascione is just over five feet; her late brother was 6 feet 7. "My whole life, he used to put his hand on the top of my head and just hold it there, and it drove me crazy," she says. When Bush saw that she was crying, he leaned over and put his hand on the top of her head and drew her to him. "It was just like my brother used to do," she says, beginning to cry at the memory.

Maybe the Lord was trying to soften her hardened heart by putting it in the President's mind to touch her in that way. He could have touched her arm or her hand, or even her face, but it's interesting that that touch seemed to be just what she needed.

A very good story that shows just how petty Cindy Sheehan is being. She's trying to paint the President as someone who doesn't care about the men and women he sends into harm's way, and this shows that it is just not true.

[pepperhead]

Be on your guard. They must be hunting for another way to smear him.

Ascione's family was one of the last Bush approached. Ascione still planned to confront him, but Bush disarmed her in an almost uncanny way.

It's Voodoo! ;)

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Her son volunteered, had a sense of duty to his country, gave his life honorably in the service.

It is also certainly possible the young man joined the Army, in part (emphasizing, ‘in part,’) because he didn't want to live with his loser mother...

Now his mother is so guilt-ridden she was such a lousy parent and lousy wife (where is his father?) and it took the army to be his mother and really make a man of him, she is jealous, angry and blaming everyone else...

[D-fendr]

"To oppose something my husband lost his life for would be a betrayal."
-Inge Colton, whose husband, Shane, died in April 2004 when his Apache helicopter was shot down over Baghdad.

[lawgirl]

It's ProBush for Newsweek, but there is still veiled stuff in there.

More complicated is the question of whether Bush's suffering is essentially sympathetic, or whether he is agonizing over the war that he chose to start.

Bush didn't start the war. The terrorists did. This could have been two presidential terms arguing about education and taxes. 19 men on 9/11/01 decided to change that, not W.