Sunday, August 07, 2005
No, He Doesn't Understand.
Mom of Slain GI Holds Vigil in CrawfordHe doesn't understand, ma'am, because George W. Bush has never paid any price for anything he's ever done in his life -- ever.
By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press Writer
August 07,2005 | CRAWFORD, Texas -- The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who is holding a roadside peace vigil near President Bush's ranch shares the same grief as relatives mourning the deaths of Ohio Marines, yet their views about the war differ.
"I'm angry. I want the troops home," Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., who staged a protest that she vowed on Sunday to continue until she can personally ask Bush: "Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?"
Sheehan was among grieving military families who met with Bush in June 2004 at Fort Lewis, near Seattle, Wash. That was just two months after her son, Casey, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004.
Since then, she said, various government and independent commission reports have disputed the Bush administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had mass-killing chemical and biological weapons -- a main justification for the March 2003 invasion.
"I was still in shock then," Sheehan said in a telephone interview.
"All of those reports prove my son died needlessly," said Sheehan. "This proved that every reason George Bush gave us for going to war was wrong."
Sheehan, who formed a group called Gold Star Families For Peace and has spoken out against the war across the nation, talked for about 45 minutes on Saturday with Steve Hadley, Bush's national security adviser, and Joe Hagin, deputy White House chief of staff, who went out to hear her concerns.
Appreciative of their attention, yet undaunted, Sheehan said she planned to continue her protest along the road during Bush's stay through the end of the month.
"If he doesn't come out and talk to me in Crawford, I'll follow him to D.C.," she said. "I'll camp on his lawn in D.C. until he has the courtesy and the integrity and the compassion to talk to somebody whose life he has ruined."
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"He doesn't understand, ma'am, because George W. Bush has never paid any price for anything he's ever done in his life--ever."
Well stated. Bush's detachment from the cost of the war encapsulates the vast majority of the American people's detachment from the war. Our military is making the sacrifice. We are getting tax cuts and sticking yellow "Support the Troops" reibbons on our SUVs. The war is not real for 97% of the population -- just something we wisely declare we cannot "cut and run" from. Support for the invasion was broad (at first), but quite shallow. It is no wonder Americans have lost faith in the Administration.
Well stated. Bush's detachment from the cost of the war encapsulates the vast majority of the American people's detachment from the war. Our military is making the sacrifice. We are getting tax cuts and sticking yellow "Support the Troops" reibbons on our SUVs. The war is not real for 97% of the population -- just something we wisely declare we cannot "cut and run" from. Support for the invasion was broad (at first), but quite shallow. It is no wonder Americans have lost faith in the Administration.
Well stated yourself. Actually, yours is a more relevant point than ours. We were just being snarky--referring to the fact that:
George Bush walked away from his military service and paid no price;
George Bush walked away from failed oil companies and paid no price;
George Bush sold stock under very suspicious circumstances and paid no price;
George Bush drove drunk and paid no price;
George Bush was a party monster who paid no price;
George Bush was given a huge uncollateralized loan from a bank and paid no price;
George Bush was used as the front man for the real owners of the Texas Rangers then was given a larger share of the team in exchange for who-knows-what and paid no price;
George Bush has been the political beneficiary of countless appalling smear campaigns and paid no price;
George Bush may well have used a wire in a presidential debate and paid no price;
And this is before we get to the questionable rationales for war in Iraq. The point is, while the rest of us pay for our mistakes--and let's be fair, we all make mistakes--George Bush seemingly never has. So how could he possibly understand what it feels like for someone ELSE to have their life ruined by his actions?
We could be wrong. If anyone knows of any price George Bush ever paid for a mistake--the way anyone else would have--please write and let us know.
George Bush walked away from his military service and paid no price;
George Bush walked away from failed oil companies and paid no price;
George Bush sold stock under very suspicious circumstances and paid no price;
George Bush drove drunk and paid no price;
George Bush was a party monster who paid no price;
George Bush was given a huge uncollateralized loan from a bank and paid no price;
George Bush was used as the front man for the real owners of the Texas Rangers then was given a larger share of the team in exchange for who-knows-what and paid no price;
George Bush has been the political beneficiary of countless appalling smear campaigns and paid no price;
George Bush may well have used a wire in a presidential debate and paid no price;
And this is before we get to the questionable rationales for war in Iraq. The point is, while the rest of us pay for our mistakes--and let's be fair, we all make mistakes--George Bush seemingly never has. So how could he possibly understand what it feels like for someone ELSE to have their life ruined by his actions?
We could be wrong. If anyone knows of any price George Bush ever paid for a mistake--the way anyone else would have--please write and let us know.
Your comment was a post unto itself.
His price will be his legacy. History will remember Bush as a divider, not a uniter.
His price will be his legacy. History will remember Bush as a divider, not a uniter.
The Sob already said he doesn't care about history because "we'll all be dead" Worst, President, Ever.
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