Posted on 08/11/2005 4:25:56 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Her bio as listed on the site she and Cindy Sheehan run:
NADIA McCAFFREY is known at the mother who defied President Bush by allowing the media to view the flag-draped coffin of her son, Patrick. After Patrick was killed in the Iraq war, Nadia traveled to the Middle East with filmmaker Mark Manning, who made a 30-minute documentary about the trip. They sought answers to what causes wars, and met with Iraqi mothers. Nadia explains her purpose: "I wanted to look them in the eye and share their pain."
http://tinyurl.com/5en7k
Oh please.
Thank you, Sam. This is pure insanity.
psychos with travel money.
I'm losing patience with these...people.
Nadia McCaffrey lost a son and gained a cause, a woefully uneven trade that nonetheless thrust the Tracy resident into the 2004 presidential campaign. Her only son, Patrick, was a soldier, killed in Iraq. Her new cause is defeating President Bush. Her allies are other bereaved relatives who launched a nationwide ad campaign this week challenging the Republican president.
Army Sgt. Patrick Ryan McCaffrey died June 22. He was shot in the chest multiple times, ambushed while patrolling in the city of Balad, 85 miles north of Baghdad.
"The day my son died, my life totally changed - totally changed," McCaffrey said at a National Press Club news conference Wednesday. "That day, I had to do something about what is going on in the world today."
McCaffrey has joined Vacaville resident Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was killed in April, and others in the ad campaign organized by a new political action committee called RealVoices.org.
http://tinyurl.com/d2ote
Real Voices of course was the ad campaign done by Moveon and paid for by George Soros.
Huge understatement, and no, I don't think your intention was to mock this poor, sick soul.
The national enquirer has more scruples.
....provided by George Soros, Warren Buffett and that guy who owns Progressive Insurance.....
*ping*
these women are taking LSD , I'll bet ya anything....
they look , sound and act just like tripped out acid heads
I didn't see it in this piece, but I've noticed that the mothers making the most noise, are also divorcees. The woman on O'Reilly last night, Sheehan, both display characteristics of a person who would be hard to live with.
Typo above:
Should read the following:
"Best known as the woman who defiled her son's death by allowing the media to view and photograph her son's coffin."
That is all.
These people are lunatics.
It's hilarious how they all need to make themselves look like heroic figures. I wish she'd explain how allowing cameras into the funeral or whatever "defied" President Bush. For those who don't know it, the reason cameras were banned by the Pentagon was to protect the FAMILIES. As proof of this, all you have to do is think about it--any family can invite the news cameras to follow their loved one's casket from the wake to the cemetery. It's their choice. Who's stopping them? Answer: No one.
VACAVILLE, Calif. -- Five minutes after President Bush began his State of the Union address, Cindy Sheehan clicked off her television set...
Cindy Sheehan found it where she always does: in other families who have lost a loved one in a war they neither believe in nor want to believe will continue, without end, with the nation's acquiescence.
They call themselves Gold Star Families for Peace. Organized less than two months ago, it is part support group and part activist organization, with members united by grief and the belief that their loved ones died in a war that did not have to happen. They represent a small percentage of the families that have lost someone in Iraq -- 50 families out of more than 1,450.
[Note--going by their own website they seem to have only two, perhaps three members. Only Nadia and Cindy seem to be moms who have lost children in the war.]
Patrick McCaffrey, who managed an auto shop in Palo Alto, Calif., joined the National Guard after Sept. 11, 2001.
"He wanted to protect the homeland from terrorism," said Nadia McCaffrey of Tracy, Calif., Her only child, 34 years old and with a wife and two children, never dreamed he would be sent abroad to fight. "He would never have signed up if he thought that was a possibility," McCaffrey said. "His family was too important to him."
Gold Star Families do speaking engagements or grant interviews on a moment's notice, though they know the risks. Already, some people have written them off as grieving mothers -- most Gold Star members are mothers -- whose judgment has been clouded by emotion.
[Who could think such a thing!]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42498-2005Feb21.html
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