Re: Off Topic War Stuff Still hurts my heart Bill


William Wagner wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/07/mom.protest/
> International Edition |
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> Soldier's mom digs in near Bush ranch
> Senator sees 'echoes of Vietnam' in vigil to meet president
>
> Sunday, August 7, 2005; Posted: 5:31 p.m. EDT (21:31 GMT)
> CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- A mother whose son was killed in Iraq says she
> is prepared to continue her protest outside President Bush's ranch
> through August until she is granted an opportunity to speak with him.
> Later, in a TV interview, a Democratic senator from California said the
> episode evokes images that were commonplace during the Vietnam War.
> Cindy Sheehan's 24-year-old son -- Army Spc. Casey Sheehan of Vacaville,
> California -- was killed in Baghdad's Sadr City on April 4, 2004. The
> Humvee mechanic was one of eight U.S. soldiers killed there that day by
> rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. (Full story)
> They are among the 1,829 American troops, including 31 this month, who
> have died in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
> The president -- who is spending a nearly five-week-long working
> vacation at his Texas ranch -- said in a speech Wednesday that the
> sacrifices of U.S. troops were "made in a noble cause." (Full story)
> Sheehan said she found little comfort in his comments.
> "I want to ask the president, why did he kill my son?" Sheehan told
> reporters. "He said my son died in a noble cause, and I want to ask him
> what that noble cause is."
> Sheehan said hers was one of a group of about 15 families who each met
> separately with the president one day last June.
> "He wouldn't look at the pictures of Casey. He didn't even know Casey's
> name," she told CNN Sunday. "Every time we tried to talk about Casey and
> how much we missed him, he would change the subject."
> Sheehan said she was so distraught at the time that she failed to ask
> the questions she now wants answered.
> "I want him to honor my son by bringing the troops home immediately,"
> Sheehan told reporters Saturday. "I don't want him to use my son's name
> or my name to justify any more killing."
> Sheehan, who co-founded the anti-war group Gold Star Families for Peace,
> led about 50 demonstrators near the Bush ranch Saturday. Some protesters
> were with the group Veterans for Peace, which was holding a convention
> in Dallas.
> The protesters stopped their bus miles from the ranch in Crawford, and
> walked less than a half-mile before being stopped by local law
> enforcement officials.
> A message on the Gold Star Families Web site says, "We want our loved
> ones' sacrifices to be honored by bringing our nation's sons and
> daughters home from the travesty that is Iraq IMMEDIATELY, since this
> war is based on horrendous lies and deceptions.
> "Just because our children are dead, why would we want any more families
> to suffer the same pain and devastation?"
> The message also urges Bush to send his twin daughters, Jenna and
> Barbara, to Iraq "if the cause is so noble."
> The site says the group is made up of families of soldiers who have died
> as a result of war, primarily in Iraq.
> Joe Hagin, White House deputy chief of staff, and Stephen Hadley,
> national security adviser, met with Sheehan for about 45 minutes
> Saturday, according to White House spokesman Trent Duffy.
> Sheehan said that the two men "were very respectful."
> "They told me the party line of why we are in Iraq," she said. "I told
> them that I don't believe that they believed that."
> Duffy said Saturday that "many of the hundreds of families the president
> has met with know their loved one died for a noble cause and that the
> best way to honor their sacrifice is to complete the mission."
> Bush has refused to provide a time frame for U.S. troop withdrawal from
> Iraq, saying American forces will return home when Iraqis can take care
> of their own security.
> "President Bush wants the troops home as soon as possible, but the U.S.
> will not cut and run from terrorists," Duffy said.
> Sheehan elicited sympathy from both sides of the political spectrum on
> Sunday.
> "What you're seeing with that mom trying to meet with President Bush is
> echoes of Vietnam," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat.
> "Because no one is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel."
> "I think the president ought to meet with this mother," said Sen. George
> Allen, a Virginia Republican. "What I would say to her is her son will
> always be remembered as a great hero and a patriot, advanced freedom in
> Iraq and the Middle East, has made this country more secure."
> Boxer said her own message would be different: "I would tell her to do
> everything she could to spare other families this grief, to get us off
> this cycle of violence."
> Recent surveys have shown decreasing public support for the war.
> In a Newsweek poll released Sunday, 64 percent of those asked said they
> do not believe the war in Iraq has made Americans safer, and 61 percent
> said they disapprove of the way the president is handling the war.
> The telephone poll of 1,004 adults was taken from Tuesday to Thursday
> last week and has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
> CNN's Elaine Quijano contributed to this story.
>
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