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BigBadBrian
06-14-2005, 02:45 PM
Mother of dead soldier vilifies Bush over war

PRESIDENT RIDICULED AT INTERFAITH RALLY

By Frank E. Lockwood

HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER


The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States' "illegal and unjust war" yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington.

Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., accused President Bush of lying to the nation about a war which has consumed tens of billions of dollars and claimed more than 1,700 American lives -- including the life of Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan.

Sheehan was one of more than a dozen activists who were scheduled to speak at yesterday's anti-war rally at the Red Mile, which was organized by the Clergy and Laity Network and co-sponsored by dozens of liberal religious organizations.

Sheehan ridiculed Bush for saying that it's "hard work" comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in Iraq.

"Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you're enjoying the last supper you'll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son, your first-born, your kind and gentle sweet baby. Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big (brother) into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both," she said.

Since her son's death, Sheehan has made opposition to the Bush administration a full-time job.

"We're watching you very carefully and we're going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people," she said, quoting a letter she sent to the White House. "Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life ... ," she said, as the audience of 200 people cheered.

The "Freedom and Faith Bus Tour" -- which brought Sheehan to Lexington, has already visited New York, Chicago and Indianapolis. The next stops include Columbus, Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

Other speakers included state Rep. Kathy Stein, D-Lexington, Clergy and Laity Network executive director Rev. Albert Pennybacker of Lexington, Kentucky Council of Churches executive director Nancy Jo Kemper and Baptist Seminary of Kentucky Professor Glenn Hinson.

Quoting scripture and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hinson suggested the nation is greedy and morally bankrupt and warned that America's fear of terrorism is excessive and unhealthy. Denouncing "fear that immobilizes, fear that causes you to lash out mindlessly, fear that prompts a nation to launch a preemptive strike against an imagined enemy, fear in excess," Hinson said, "Only God's love can bring that kind of fear under control."

Link (http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/11888623.htm)

Guitar Shark
06-14-2005, 03:01 PM
Did somebody hijack BBB's password? :confused:

Warham
06-14-2005, 03:03 PM
He's presenting fair and balanced news.

BigBadBrian
06-14-2005, 03:35 PM
Originally posted by Warham
He's presenting fair and balanced news.

Don't present that concept to Liberals, Warham. It scares them.

:gulp:

Guitar Shark
06-14-2005, 03:37 PM
Originally posted by Warham
He's presenting fair and balanced news.

There's a first time for everything, apparently... ;)

BigBadBrian
06-14-2005, 03:40 PM
Originally posted by Guitar Shark
There's a first time for everything, apparently... ;)

I've posted quite a few articles from antiwar.com in the past.

Guitar Shark
06-14-2005, 03:41 PM
So what are your thoughts on this mother's opinions BBB?

DLR'sCock
06-14-2005, 07:21 PM
So what we up to now? 300 Billion dollars and counting?

steve
06-15-2005, 12:41 AM
I wonder if she had those same opinions prior to her son's death?

If there are that many Americans that won't wake up to the hipocracy, incompetance, and habitual lying by this administration until one of their own family members DIES... then we're in a heap of trouble.

As it is, the "War on 'Terror'" is by its' own logic never-ending, but folks still seem to be under the illusion that if we just keep pressing (militarily) then eventually everyone will like the United States. That is not to say no military action is needed to solve problems...but there will always be "terror". Whether in the form of a gang in a poor neighborhood or on a larger scale...violence (supposedly) justified by politial gripes will always pop up from time to time.

The police are ALWAYS on a war against "crime", but we don't let them use that as an ends to justify any means. Yet, that is what we are doing with the Bush administration right now with the Patriot Act, Gitmo, and letting them slide over manipulating info to launch the Iraq war.

Yet just enough of the populous continues to let the administration slide...until of course a son or daughter is killed. However, to Karl Rove and Co., family members and friends of 1700 military personel is like a gnat in the tide of political opinion.

FORD
06-15-2005, 01:04 AM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
I've posted quite a few articles from antiwar.com in the past.

The fact that antiwar.com is anything but a "liberal" site should tell you something. Conservatives have had enough of this shit also.

Cathedral
06-15-2005, 06:34 AM
I have to admit, I agree with the mother on this because it has troubled me that Bush has made mention of "How tough it is to tell a mother her son or daughter has been killed" when there clearly is nothing worse than burying your own child before yourself.

Anyone who has ever lost a child knows this to be true, and it is overwhelmingly true.

I'd like to see our troops all come home now.
The Iraqi's have got to make their own stand, we took out Saddam, let them re-build their own fucking country on their own.
If they drop the ball and it turns into something much worse than it was, OH FUCKING WELL!

We did what needed to be done. but the longer we remain there things will only get worse at this point.

Two words need to start coming out of Washington, "Exit Strategy"....

Nickdfresh
06-15-2005, 07:26 AM
The idiocy of the BUSH Administration has been apparent throughout all of this!

If war is hacking off a limb with a chainsaw, then counterterrorism is conducting brainsurgery with a scapel!

The BUSH Administration just wants to use the chainsaw, and they made many brain-dead in the operation. After initial success in AFGHANISTAN, they fundamentally threw out everything that worked in that theater, and broke out the chainsaw if tanks and infantry!