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NEWSWEEK STORY: "I'm So Sorry" [Newsweek supports Bush over meeting with grieving families]
Newsweek ^ | August 14, 2005 | By Holly Bailey and Evan Thomas

Posted on 08/14/2005 8:53:24 AM PDT by nwrep

Aug. 22, 2005 issue - The grieving room was arranged like a doctor's office. The families and loved ones of 33 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan were summoned to a large waiting area at Fort Bragg, N.C. For three hours, they were rotated through five private rooms, where they met with President George W. Bush, accompanied by two Secret Service men and a photographer. Because the walls were thin, the families awaiting their turn could hear the crying inside.

President Bush was wearing "a huge smile," but his eyes were red and he looked drained by the time he got to the last widow, Crystal Owen, a third-grade schoolteacher who had lost her husband in Iraq. "Tell me about Mike," he said immediately. "I don't want my husband's death to be in vain," she told him. The president apologized repeatedly for her husband's death. When Owen began to cry, Bush grabbed her hands. "Don't worry, don't worry," he said, though his choking voice suggested that he had worries of his own. The president and the widow hugged. "It felt like he could have been my dad," Owen recalled to NEWSWEEK. "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."

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush43; cindysheehan; evanthomas; militaryfamilies; newsweek
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To: Darth Reagan

ping


41 posted on 08/14/2005 11:47:53 AM PDT by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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To: nwrep

I'm Shocked!!! We'll that must be NewsweAk's token good story for the year on Bush so they can say "hey, we're objective."


42 posted on 08/14/2005 11:50:07 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: nwrep

What an article! Thanks for posting. This President is an amazing, compassionate man.

Bump for more to read.


43 posted on 08/14/2005 12:13:55 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (As long as Dean's the head of the D-N-C, it just looks better for the G-O-P!!)
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To: nwrep

The events of the last week have so snowballed in the last 3 days, I can not get thru all of the posts.

Overcome with emotion right now, reading this article.
I will need to stop reading, and go do something else.
As an active duty Marine mother, thank you all-
I don't know what I'd have done these past three days without you.


44 posted on 08/14/2005 12:30:16 PM PDT by freema (Ready to Rock AND Roll)
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To: nwrep

Wow, I cannot believe Newsweek publishing an impartial and insightful story on President Bush.


45 posted on 08/14/2005 12:42:06 PM PDT by velocityguy
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To: nwrep

46 posted on 08/14/2005 5:11:51 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: SuziQ
Maybe the Lord was trying to soften her hardened heart by putting it in the President's mind to touch her in that way

That's exactly what I thought when I read that.

I'm going to pray harder than ever for our president, the emotional toll of these meetings have to be horrendous, yet he continues.

47 posted on 08/14/2005 5:34:11 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("You must call evil by it's name" GW Bush ......... It's name is Terror)
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To: nwrep

Newsweak must be trying to "buy" redemption for its earlier Goebles efforts (remember they had to dump one issue this year to save money because of circulation problems).

Newsweak sees the writing on the wall that the Sheehan story is sinking very fast. Rats leaving a sinking ship.


48 posted on 08/14/2005 5:36:26 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: kromike
Agreed. Newsweek must be hemorraging subscribers after that Koran-in-the-toilet fiasco.

And advertisers. In fact, due to the low number of advertising pages, they consolidated two of their weekly issues this August into one.

49 posted on 08/14/2005 5:55:52 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: diamond6

I rated it and when I went back it was still on five, but the numbers had raised.


50 posted on 08/15/2005 3:16:09 AM PDT by ottersnot (Kill a commie for your mommie....Johnnie Ramone. American Rocker and patriot)
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To: Peach

Atta in Prague is old news, but never proven....supposedly no one believes the intel. There is a blurb about this in Stephen Haye's book 'the connection'


51 posted on 08/15/2005 3:17:56 AM PDT by ottersnot (Kill a commie for your mommie....Johnnie Ramone. American Rocker and patriot)
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To: nwrep

Newsweek worried about circulation?

But bump-worthy regardless of motivation.


52 posted on 08/15/2005 3:56:52 AM PDT by aculeus (Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
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To: nwrep
Extraordinarily pro-Bush story from Newsweek

Betcha something additional about Sheehan and/or her handlers is about to break and the rag wants to distance itself from Sheehan.

53 posted on 08/15/2005 4:12:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: ottersnot

What I'm trying to get at is whether Weldon or anyone else has said that Able Danger puts Atta in Prague.


54 posted on 08/15/2005 4:44:35 AM PDT by Peach
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Sir FD

Those musings occurred to me - that young Casey found a different set of values from his biological mother.

He clearly was a son of Freedom and I honor his sense of duty, honor, Country and his ultimate sacrifice.

sp

and what a great idea - to knight yourself;);):)


55 posted on 08/15/2005 5:28:38 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Newbie, PhD. Tenure allows you to stay put - NOT evict others.)
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To: mewzilla

What more can break? The woman has been exposed as a nutjob, a liar, a fraud, and a willing tool of the America-hating, terrorist-sympathizing radical Left.


56 posted on 08/15/2005 5:30:42 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Cricket24

"Why don't they ever blame the people who actually killed their son? "

that would be too easy.

My sons a MARINE, God forbid he should pay th eultimate price, but I garantee you I know who'd I blame!

I'd start with the likes of Traitor Kerry, Drunken kennedy Hanoi Jane, Michael "I'm too fat to walk" Moore and all the other traitors to our country. I know I'd be the first to step over the "PC" line and profile the He77 out of who the real enemy is.

but that's just me.


57 posted on 08/15/2005 5:37:47 AM PDT by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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To: sodpoodle

"Casey found a different set of values from his biological mother"

In death he stands head and shoulders taller than his nut-job mom will ever in her life.


58 posted on 08/15/2005 5:40:08 AM PDT by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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To: Peach; SittinYonder
Thanks Peach, we've been wondering about that.

Off topic:

This article states that apparently Able Danger puts Atta in Prague with an Iraqi intel officer.

I hadn't heard that before; has anyone else heard this?

post-gazette.com/pg/pp/05226/553271.stm

59 posted on 08/15/2005 5:41:59 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Refill with only real Kikkoman Soy Sauce)
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To: strange1

"My sons a MARINE"

I thank you - and the millions of other parents who support the self-sacrificing, heroic and patriotic decisions of their sons and daughters.

We are forever in their debt and yours.


sp


60 posted on 08/15/2005 5:44:00 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Newbie, PhD. Tenure allows you to stay put - NOT evict others.)
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