Posted on 09/30/2005 9:49:59 AM PDT by TaxRelief
[Dole speaks to jihad mom about war]
RALEIGH, N.C. -- U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole and peace mom Cindy Sheehan met privately to discuss the war in Iraq and parted as divided in their views as ever.
"Some of the inflammatory statements that have been made by Ms. Sheehan and her political organization undermine the overall War on Terror and are extremely detrimental to our men and women in uniform in harm's way," Dole, R-N.C., said in a statement after the 10-minute private meeting on Thursday.
Dole, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was "a gentle lady," and "a warmonger," Sheehan said. She used the same epithet to describe Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam veteran who has supported the war in Iraq, after a meeting with him Wednesday.
"She just expounded on the talking points of the Republican Party," Sheehan said after visiting Dole's office. "She's 100 percent on board with the war and I'm 100 percent against the war."
Dole told The Charlotte Observer that she began by expressing her sympathy for the loss of Sheehan's son, Casey, a soldier who was killed in Iraq.
But Dole said she also told Sheehan that her "name-calling of the president and discrediting the war -- that's not helpful, that kind of language It's harmful for the morale of the troops."
Sheehan's conference with Dole was one of several scheduled this week as part of her campaign to persuade members of Congress to explain the reasons for the war. She spoke before a massive anti-war rally Saturday on the National Mall and was arrested Monday demonstrating in front of the White House.
Dole said she told Sheehan about Saddam Hussein's record in Iraq of raping and gassing his own people, reminded her that he had ignored multiple United Nations resolutions. Dole said that Iraq had become a breeding ground for terrorists, so it was necessary to fight the war.
Sheehan said Saddam bought the weapons he used on his own people in the 1980s after U.S. aid allowed Iraq to buy arms instead of food.
Dole said she believed she answered all of Sheehan's questions.
"She stays on the Republican message and gave the president's key talking points (and) she did not answer one question that I asked," Sheehan told the Winston-Salem Journal.
Senator Dole: "Four..."
Mrs. Sheehan: "Why won't you answer the question? You just keep repeating what President Bush said on national TV!"
Senator Dole: "The answer is four, Mrs. Sheehan."
Mrs. Sheehan: "There is nothing noble about the number 'four'!"
Later to the press: "Senator Dole is a numbermonger. She told me the same thing President Bush said, but I still need to talk to every Congressman until I find the answer! I need to know what two plus two equals!"
Why do these stupid politicians waste their time?
Libby'd've had a more productive time talking to a rock.
The only person that Cindy al-Sheehan needs to be meet privately with is a qualified psychiatrist!
Why are these Republicans talking to this idiot?
Can we start calling her MOP? Mom Of Peace?
Libby'd've had a more productive time talking to a rock.
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She would have been better off doing the talking with the back of her hand.
why are any republicans legitmizing this woman by giving her the time of day?
Why do these Senators even give this whack job the time of day?
Every single one of them who's had a meeting with her comes out of it saying the same thing. She was rude, crass, undignified, venomous. She called the President names. WTH?
Only if the "P" stands for the same "pieces" that it does in the ROP, Islam.
I don't know who is telling these fools their image is enhanced by meeting with this woman, but they are 180 out of whack. If they want to score points, they should have repudiated the woman without a meeting when the President was under attack. Theyd didn't, and I have nothing but disgust at the actions of McCain, Dole, Kyl and Allen for humoring this activist.
If I wanted to run against these "Republicans" in a primary, would play who they met with 24/7. I guarentee McCain is going to have this used in the Rep primaries to good effect.
I'm sticking with my vote for calling her "Jihad Mom".
"Why do these stupid politicians waste their time?"
My sentiments as well..I also frankly am getting a bit ticked off at conservative politicians granting this woman more face time. They should not be dignifying this woman by meeting with her.
Dole, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was "a gentle lady," and "a warmonger,"
How can someone be both a "gentle" person and a "warmonger?" Methinks the single digit IQ Cindy Sheehan needs to get a more expansive vocabulary than the over-used, over-simplistic, left-wing boilerplate labelling she hides behind.
And would for the love of all that is good GOP senators PLEASE stop meeting with this low life traitor?? She is undeserving of the time and attention of any serious adult. She has done nothing nor accomplished anything that earns her time and attention from the nation's leaders. For Washington leaders to meet with her is a slap in the face of parents who lost children without betraying their country afterwards who haven't been granted time by the power players in Washington.
It is time for Cindy to fade into the dark night of obscurity and for our political leaders on both sides of the aisle to cease giving this vile demagogue and HATEMONGER the time of day.
Absolutely has the right to question...and so do we have the right to scrutinize and criticize this moonbat's comments!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
Why would anyone with a brain give CS an ounce of time?
oops maybe thats it - no brain.
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