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Leak: Draft of Bush Answer to Cindy Sheehan
Scrappleface ^ | 8/24/2005 | Scott Ott

Posted on 08/24/2005 8:59:31 AM PDT by GeorgiaYankee

2005-08-24) -- An internal White House memo, leaked today, indicates how President George Bush initially planned to address Cindy Sheehan's question: What "noble cause" did my son die for?

The draft memo includes suggestions from White House communications staff, followed by several paragraphs apparently handwritten by the president.

While handwriting experts from CBS News continue to pore over the document to verify its authenticity, here is the text of the president's alleged response to the grieving Mom whose protest has captured the hearts of America's journalists.

Dear Mrs. Sheehan,

You have asked me to identify the noble cause for which your son died. I have not answered you personally out of respect for the nobility of your son's sacrifice.

Being president forces me into the spotlight, but I would rather stand in the shadows of men like Casey Sheehan.

Directing national attention on my response to your protest creates a distraction from what matters. The focus of our attention, and our admiration, should rest on people like Casey Sheehan, who stand in the breach when evil threatens to break out and consume a helpless people.

The running story on the news networks should be the valiant efforts of our troops -- the merchants of mercy who export freedom and import honor. They trade their own lives for the sake of others.

As a result, we live in a nation where a woman can camp outside of the president's house and verbally attack the president for weeks on end without fear of prison, torture or death. And the number of nations where such protest is possible has multiplied thanks to the work of our military.

You ask for what noble cause your son died?

In a sense he died so that people like you, who passionately oppose government policies, can freely express that opposition. As you camp in Crawford, you should take off your shoes, for you stand on holy ground. This land was bought with the blood of men like your son.

Now, 25 million Iraqis cry out to enjoy the life you take for granted. Most of them will never use their freedom to denigrate the sacrifice of those who paid for it. But once liberty is enshrined in law, they will be free to do so. And when the Iraqis finally escape their incarceration, hope will spread throughout that enslaved region of the world, eventually making us all safer and more free.

The key is in the lock of the prison door. Bold men risk everything to turn it.

Mrs. Sheehan, everyone dies. But few experience the bittersweet glory of death with a purpose -- death that sets people free and produces ripples of liberty hundreds of years into the future.

Casey Sheehan died that freedom might triumph over bondage, hope over despair, prosperity over misery. He died restoring justice and mercy. He lived and died to help to destroy the last stubborn vestiges of the Dark Ages.

To paraphrase President Lincoln, the world will little note nor long remember what you and I say here. But it can never forget what Casey Sheehan did during his brief turn on earth. If we are wise, we will take increased devotion to that cause for which he gave the last full measure of devotion.

Our brave warriors have blazed a trail. They have enstrusted the completion of the task to those of us they left behind. Let's, you and I, resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Let's finish the work that they have thus far so nobly advanced.

Sincerely, George W. Bush


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: cindysheehan; satire; scrappleface; whatif
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To: iyamspartakus; Darksheare; meowmeow; Constitution Day; 4mycountry; Poohbah; Grampa Dave; ...
This idea of turning Iraq into a democracy is a delusion

Name one country that was a democracy...

A Democracy cannot work, it is mobocracy, or the majority rules.

The United States of America is a Republic, we have elected representatives. We vote democratically, but we certainly aren't a democracy.

Why would we want Iraq to be a democracy?

Here in lies your ignorance to types of Government. Begone Troll!!!

Click the pick

Click the pic!

BWAAAAHAHAHAHA


61 posted on 08/24/2005 9:33:53 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Have you gotten your Viking Kittie Patch today? http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
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To: iyamspartakus; Darksheare; meowmeow; Constitution Day; 4mycountry; Poohbah; Grampa Dave; ...
This idea of turning Iraq into a democracy is a delusion

Name one country that was a democracy...

A Democracy cannot work, it is mobocracy, or the majority rules.

The United States of America is a Republic, we have elected representatives. We vote democratically, but we certainly aren't a democracy.

Why would we want Iraq to be a democracy?

Here in lies your ignorance to types of Government. Begone Troll!!!

Click the pick

Click the pic!

BWAAAAHAHAHAHA


62 posted on 08/24/2005 9:34:01 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Have you gotten your Viking Kittie Patch today? http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
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To: iyamspartakus

Sparticus was a warrior, you are a whiner!!


63 posted on 08/24/2005 9:35:40 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: darkwing104

DANG - In after Zot.


64 posted on 08/24/2005 9:38:52 AM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: blu
Just because iyamspartakus has a spelling problem and airs a contrary view I don't think s/he should be zotted. Does this site not adhere to the Americans with Disabilities or Stupidity law? Have we become so elitist that opposing opinions are Zottable offenses?

I think his problem that as he was zotted before and came back under a different name.


65 posted on 08/24/2005 9:39:41 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Natty Boh III

Natty's mommy

66 posted on 08/24/2005 9:39:50 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: GeorgiaYankee

A well-crafted letter.

Occasionally, parents lose their sons or daughters prematurely and tragically. A high proportion of the 40,000 lives lost each year on our highways alone are the nation's young. Others are lost in sports accidents. Whatever the circumstances, the grief and suffering of parents is immense. But parents who have lost loved ones in war can take some comfort in knowing their loved ones were serving their country in a noble cause. There is no higher honor. God bless them and God bless America. They have our eternal gratitude.


67 posted on 08/24/2005 9:40:04 AM PDT by OESY
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To: GeorgiaYankee
The first serious thing I have read from Scrappleface. It was well written and it shows that below the surface of the comedy Scrappleface provides us, they know what is really going on.

Kudos to Scrappleface.
68 posted on 08/24/2005 9:40:15 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: del4hope

Hi. You unfortunately stumbled upon a "ZOTting of a troll" thread. I think you will find discussions of Wiki and search engines under technology.


69 posted on 08/24/2005 9:40:22 AM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (We shall never forget the atrocity of 11 Sept.)
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To: GeorgiaYankee

Damn! I just read that whole letter to my officemate before I realized it was Scrappleface! (She loved it, by the way, and thought it should have come from the president.)


70 posted on 08/24/2005 9:40:53 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: GeorgiaYankee

btt


71 posted on 08/24/2005 9:43:08 AM PDT by NW Mike (Proud member of the VRWC since 1972 -- who the hell are you calling 'neo'?)
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To: darkwing104
Spartakus flamed out way too fast.


72 posted on 08/24/2005 9:44:41 AM PDT by Lady Jag (The Goat-Vendor of Hamelin, and Expounder of Troll Logic)
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To: Tarheel

I doubt she would read past the first paragraph.


73 posted on 08/24/2005 9:45:27 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: GeorgiaYankee

Bravo! Ott. Bravo! GeorgiaYankee. Bravo!
You are great Americans!


74 posted on 08/24/2005 9:47:15 AM PDT by batmast
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To: Mrs.Nooseman
That guy in #10 is a TROLL and only worthy of being ignored.

Besides I think he's been zapped!

75 posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:11 AM PDT by Pippin (Cindy does not speak for me!)
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To: iyamspartakus

Jay Severin-is that you?


76 posted on 08/24/2005 9:59:37 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: mollynme

Scappleface does not show up on the headline in News/Activism. Therefore, it leads people to read the article as if it is in the "news".


77 posted on 08/24/2005 10:02:58 AM PDT by ClancyJ (Life is a God-given inalienable right to all Americans - not just the chosen ones.)
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To: Tarheel

You heard this because Drudge continues to promote that fag hag Huffington's rag. She's the only one who still seems to think this is a big story.


78 posted on 08/24/2005 10:04:53 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy

That's perfect, from now on we shall refer to Huffington's online crap as the "FAG HAG RAG"


79 posted on 08/24/2005 10:05:50 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: GeorgiaYankee

Too Bad the Bush adminstration seems to have no one on staff capable of writing such a statement nor anyone man enough or eloquent enough to deliver it.


80 posted on 08/24/2005 10:07:45 AM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over TWO YEARS now)
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