Mother of dead soldier vilifies Bush over war

[Gunit_Sangh]

This appeared in our local paper this morning. I LOVED it!


Posted on Tue, Jun. 14, 2005
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.

<snip>

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.

<snip>

(My favorite paragraph in the article follows)

"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.


Rest of story
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/11888623.htm

[BlueManDude]

1. why does this woman hate America?

this should be read by every citizen of this country.

[nine30]

66. Oh just another Lib Leftie Loony who hates Murika.

[katty]

72. Agree-This should be on the Front Page across the country

[AverageJoe]

2. Way to go, Herald-Leader!

And thank God for this couragous woman who is telling her story and bringing light into an awful darkness.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

19. That's typically a pretty conservative media outlet, isn't it?

[AverageJoe]

33. I've always thought the H-L was more or less fair

I don't live in Kentucky anymore, but when I did I read the Herald-Leader most every day. They used to have a great political cartoonist named Joel Pett who often skewered the repubs. I hope he's still there!

[axe2grind]

91. Your right on!

Cindy Sheehan is a brave women. How many more mothers are going to feel this execrating pain before this worthless war ends?

[whistle]

3. Now this is what President Bush needs to see and hear over and over....

...and over again: "Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life ...".

[lonestarnot]

40. I'm still pounding at the stake! He has so many layers to him!

[xxqqqzme]

71. no layers just hard 2 find a heart

of any color.

[lonestarnot]

92. layers and layers of simply shit w/o heart!

[kitkat65]

43. "There's a stake in your fat, black heart

And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always *knew* it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through."

Last stanza of Sylvia Plath''s Daddy

Somehow this one stanza majorly reminds me of the Bush aministration

[Justice]

4. This Woman Speaks for Me, yet I don't feel worthy to carry

her bags. Very very tough to read "Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both"

[RedCloud]

52. Exactly. I needed windshield wipers on my eyes for that quote.

It really hit hard.

[wtmusic]

61. Yep

Pow. :cry: Got to find a way to turn this into something positive...

[Megahurtz]

67. That's for sure.

:cry:

[Lochloosa]

5. What a powerful statement.....Nominated

My heart goes out to this women and all the other mothers that have suffered at the hands of a War Criminal


<snip>

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."

Edit: to nominate

[MaineDem]

6. May you find peace, Ms Sheehan

You have the support of more people than you know. People whom you have never met. People who agree with your every word.

And you have my deep sympathy.

[Tesla]

12. You broke my heart!!!

I don't know how * sleeps at night!

He needs to hear from these broken people........LOUD!!!!!

[quaoar]

15. He sleeps like a log

He never goes to funerals and I'd be willing to bet he has yet to personally write a letter to the family of a dead soldier. He just avoids contact with any of the consequences of his arrogance, stupidity and gross incompetence.

I doubt he has even wondered whether he made the right decision. How can you send young men and women off to die -- even in a just war -- and not be haunted by it?

[AngryOldDem]

26. Your subject line explains why Bush can sleep at night

He doesn't have a heart. He doesn't have a conscience. He has no moral integrity whatsoever.

It is about time that the parents of these dead soldiers start saying what this mother has said. As much as I grieve for everyone killed, it really grates when the old patriotic excuses are trotted out: "He died for a noble cause." "He wanted to make the sacrifice."

No. These kids have died, are dying, and will continue to die for a lie, as well as for people in power who could give less than a shit about them. It angers me to the bottom of my soul everytime I hear of another death in Iraq.

It's about time the truth be told. This lady did it magnificently. May God be with her and her family.

[Bhaisahab]

7. ""Beating a political stake in your black heart ..."

strong words. but i'm afraid a little too refined for bush to comprehend. he'd understand something like - "i'm gonna kick your ass you cowardly MFer!"

[B3Nut]

9. Maybe, but I *love* that line.

Very darkly poetic, and as such as you note most likely beyond the comprehension of *.

Grace, peace, and blessings be unto the soldier's surviving family.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[Momgonepostal]

81. I loved that line too! nt

[AnnitaR]

111. Wow!

"Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life ... ,"

That is a powerful statement indeed!
I applaud this woman's courage to speak out!

[flakey_foont]

8. Very touching article

thanks for posting

[QuettaKid]

10. Day-um!!

powerful,powerful words.....

[calimary]

44. Truly. And Welcome to DU!

If this article, and this woman's resolve, aren't marching orders enough for us, I don't know what would be. Glad to have you with us. Now Get To Work!

If we can help this woman in her new quest, it will mean that her son and ALL the other casualties of this war will not have died in vain.

[TahitiNut]

11. This is what I mean when I say "Support The Troops"!

Where's the "Support" magnet that looks like a wooden stake?? That's the magnet I'll use.

[Lochloosa]

Try one of these....

http://www.troopsribbon.com/

[Cha]

22. That's a Good Ribbon

site..I have a Magnetic Blue Ribbon coming to me that says "Protect The Troops!" But that could mean "Bring Them Home" the way Hell has been unleashed over in the Middle East by the bushmen & women.

[Massachusetts]

31. Where

is the OUTRAGE of the American public??????

[Paul Dlugokencky]

98. it's growing

http://www.cafepress.com/kickindemocrats

[Botany]

13. Blessings & prayers on his spirit, family, and friends.

Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan. :patriot:

:cry:

[Wright Patman]

14. I can't help thinking Casey Sheehan

would be embarrassed at his mother's efforts even as Pat Tillman would be at his parents' high dudgeon.

I really think once soldiers are committed to a war, particularly one as unjust as this one obviously is, they begin to lose their souls. So everything after that becomes an attempt to justify their sacrifices. It's also why 80 percent of them voted to reselect *. They have become one with their insane leader.

I watched this unfold year after year w/r to Vietnam. The following refrain was repeated several million times across this country: "We can't pull out or else the (fill in blank)thousand who have died to date will have died in vain." The number in the blank grew larger and larger with each passing year, of course, to where it eventually reached around 58,000.

So we've got a long way to go yet. The only thing I see shortening this is the lack of a draft. Those who haven't joined still have souls. But once you cross that line and subject yourself to the most effective mind control program the world has ever seen (not even the Nazis had it down like this administration), it is over for you.

[Oversea Visitor]

18. It is very hard to accept

your fellow soldiers die for nothing. However when the acceptance of this facts sink in b.... better be more creative than saddam in hiding from them.

[Cha]

23. Nah, I don't think he would

be "embarrassed" by his mother's actions..he'd be DAMN PROUD of her!

RIP~Casey Austin Sheehan O8)

[RedCloud]

53. All lives are in vain when the president deceives us!

We really need some quick bumper sticker come backers.

[ElectroPrincess]

74. GOOD PEOPLE never lose their souls, however, in order to

survive in a combat zone (and keep serving) you have to "detach" from what you "feel" and what is traditionally considered "morality."

No, there are many beautiful souls who have done "ugly things" in order to survive. When the truth of all the death and destruction touches these people's souls, they suffer immeasurably. It's called PTSD.

Remember the "1000 yard stare" demeanor of many combat veterans returning *to the world* (USA) during the Vietnam era?

No, those who enjoy killing were always of that sort of nature. The rest of the Soldiers return home and suffer ... emotional pain that neither you nor I can even begin to fathom. No one is ever the same after seeing combat ... some semblance of "the innocent child within" has been robbed from them forever.

On Edit: I do NOT concur with your 80% active duty vote going to *. As I recall it was a 60:40 split *:Kerry. Still, every enlisted member should have voted for Kerry if he/she cared about their best personal/economic best interest.

[Paul Dlugokencky]

97. do we really know that 80 % voted for shrub?

I heard second hand about a near riot occurred on at least one base when the election results were reported. What do we really know? (I'm including my second-hand info in this question as well.)



http://www.cafepress.com/kickindemocrats

[JNelson6563]

16. Lots of emotion in there

Zowie! Now that is some righteous outrage! (Unlike the Repugs' self righteous outrage.

Julie

[xxqqqzme]

73. that 'crybaby democrat'

should B a button.

[whosinpower]

17. She has the right to

If anyone does, she does. My sympathies go out to her and all the families of lost ones.

[Cha]

20. This boy's mother is so tragically

eloquent and it makes my heart break for her. I'm thinking about my son when I read that..and how fortunate I am that he's not involved in that mass genocide scheme of the bushreich.

She is very brave sending her letter to warn bush of his impending doom.

[calimary]

46. No kidding. I'm not sure I could handle what she is now forced to

endure - for the rest of her life. Gee, THANKS, george. Ms. Sheehan, can I help you with that stake? PLEASE??!??!? No mother of good conscience could help but stand staunchly and unmovably beside you.

[soup]

64. Yes. Brave and tireless.

Don't know if I could find the strength it would take to just get up in the morning and put one foot in front of the other.

As a mother of sons, my heart is with her, too.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

21. She's experiencing the true cost of this illegal invasion and....

...occupation, part of an ever-widening circle of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, and children whose lives have been changed forever.

How many more people...US and Iraqi...have to die before the NeoCons are removed from the centers of US power?

[Cha]

24. And who will be The Last

To Die?

[NNN0LHI]

25. Please stay off of small planes Ms. Sheehan

I like the truth you speak.

I think we are about to see many more politicians emulating 'Freedom fries' Walter Jones in the very near future.

Don

[AFSCME girl]

27. Recommended!

I hope Mrs. Sheehan finds peace :cry:

[funkybutt]

28. Cindy Sheehan to Protest with us Saturday in New Orleans

www.newdemocracyrising.com

[Cha]

99. Another awesome protest

in New Orleans! Cindy Sheehan looks so sweet.

I salute you for your activism in Louisiana and around the country cause we all hear about it :patriot:

[Ikonoklast]

29. Ms. Sheehan, I'll hold the stake.........

.....and you can swing the mallet.

[llmart]

30. I'll even furnish the stake and the mallet.......

Bush is an evil coward.

[Ilsa]

32. People sleeping on cots in 120 heat trying not to get blown up

and Bush says his work is hard because sometimes they have to order in pizza. Bush has never worked hard a day in his life.

[Bark Bark Bark]

100. But Gawsh What About...

...all that "brush clearing" he does on his "working" vacations? IT'S HARD WERK!

Why do the Reight-wingers love Bush? It's so simple: he is their ideal. The look in his eyes that says "no one's home." The glazy smirk that says "facts, schmacts--I believe what I want to believe." The openly insincere "damn" he pretends to give about anything or anyone but himself and those he considers useful tools (in other words, his family). The utter divorce from reality. Look at these things and see the same person with which you're wasting your time arguing Left-vs-"Reich" politics with...

I truly believe that Bush--and his administration in general--giggled when he heard what happened to Pat Tillman. They saw a "sucker" who gave up his safety to go fight (he mistakenly believed) for a good cause, and paid a sucker's price.

It's how they view EVERY American citizen outside of their own circles--especially anyone who serves in the military. (Cheney made that abundantly clear with his own Chickenhawk defense.)

I hope I live to see them all pay the price for THEIR sins.

...and I think I just lived long enough to see us turn the corner.

YO, O'REILLY--CHEW HER OUT ON YOUR SHOW. I DARE YOU.

[Logansquare]

34. "in your black heart"

Well put, very well put. What is the face of Evil? It is cruel in its banality. It mocks Life.

[sinkingfeeling]

35. Cindy Sheehan is my hero!! She wrote such a powerful article for

Truthout during the Teri Schiavo thing, that I emailed it to all 100 US Senators.

[malmapus]

36. Recommended

Like most I'm moved by her choice of words, "political stake in your black heart" was really strong and moving.

[jmcon007]

37. wow

"Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life ... ,"

My feelings exactly. But, if I ever have the stake and the hammer in my possession, I will hand them both to you, maam.

[kittenpants]

79. exactly n/t

[madrchsod]

38. willam congreve (1670-1729) said this----

"heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn,nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" i think georgie boy is about to find this out....

[DinahMoeHum]

39. and how about that Baptist seminary professor? (scroll down to end)

(snip)
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."
(snip)

:kick:

[Beam Me Up]

41. I'm so sad and I'm so pissed off, I don't know what to say.

I'm sitting here drinking my morning coffee and I feel like crying--and I'm not a man who cries easily (unfortunately). And I'm VERY angry. I've gotten to the point where it is almost impossible for me to have a 'civil' conversation about what is going on in this country--about Bush and the neofascists. I keep telling everyone, "They aren't going to stop until WE stop them!"

I don't want to live in a world like this. I'm sick of the pain and deception and greed -- it is all SO unnecessary. Mr's Sheehan has it right -- they ARE blood sucking VAMPIRES!

[Talismom]

51. So sad. . .

I feel exactly as you do, and being a woman who cries easily isn't helping to get rid of the anger either. The only things that help is knowing that I'm not alone with these feelings and doing EVERYTHING I can to help her drive that stake into their black hearts!

My tears have actually pretty much dried up since the 2000 election theft and I'm doing everything I can to use this buring anger to energize me and fuel my efforts. I agree with you, we have no choice but to stop these thugs and defend our country from their greed and abuses.

Chin up buckaroo!

[Festivito]

59. You are SO not alone, and so welcomed here.

Our eyes moisturized, we can work stonger and longer for our country.

[Beam Me Up]

115. Great name! Thanks, and welcome to DU!!

I've learned a lot here and I've taken this information with me out into my world of friends and family. Hope you find it as useful as I have. Together those of us who care -- and I think there are far more of us than they want us to know -- can push back the darkness that has overtaken our country.

:hi:

[Julius Civitatus]

42. I'm glad somebody called him on it. He keeps bragging about how

"difficult" and "hard work" it is to "comfort the families that have lost some loved ones" in this mess of a war. The guy goes around dropping that line when he has yet to attend a single funeral of a fallen one.

Given how the vast majority of the relatives of fallen soldiers feel about Bush, no wonder he didn't show up to any funeral.

[Dangerously Amused]

45. Bless you Cindy Sheehan...

... for enduring the ultimate grief thrust upon you by a corrupt administration, for finding enough courage in the pain to confront that administration head-on with its lies and corruption, and for the sacrifice it takes to make delivering your powerful and important message a full time, on-the road job.

You are a woman of strength, courage and integrity. Doubtless you taught these values to your son, and America lost one of its finest. You do justice to your son's memory. He would be SO proud of you. You are an inspiration to us all.

[calimary]

48. Nicely put. Welcome to DU!

Let's help her redeem her son's sacrifice - so he and the other war dead will not have died in vain. The only way to do that is to hold those who pushed this war on him and the rest of us accountable, and to bring them to justice.

CALL YOUR REPS! CALL YOUR MEDIA!! KEEP THE PRESSURE ON!!!

[damntexdem]

47. And even if its hard work comforting the widow or the mother ...

it's still hard work that Dubya has never tried his hand at.

[ROH]

49. She will be speaking at the Conyers' Hearing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3851704

[Ravy]

50. Wow!

Just Wow!

[southernleftylady]

54. Cant find server :( nt

[Festivito]

58. Try it again. I had no trouble. Also, try the refresh button. nt.

[southernleftylady]

60. ok must be my sucky computer because i still cant get it :( nt

[southernleftylady]

68. WOW... how horrible sad for her family!! go get 'em mom! nt

[Chicago Democrat]

55. This mother in her grief is the Word of God!

Amen!

[Festivito]

56. She is made to sound a little like a peace-nut.

So the right-wingers can feel comfortable. If she pointed out some of the more rediculous reasons people still want this war, those same right-wingers would feel uncomfortable as war-nuts.

She is articulate.

I wonder if the SS will visit her to see if she has a "political stake" to make the stupid law add insult to injury.

[JRob]

57. Hey snoops! Wake up! The next dead American might be yours...

Considering there is now proof of what we've believed all along the tragedy of death attributed to Bush's crime against humanity is all the more painful.

[ooglymoogly]

62. "its hoard work telling a grieving mother her son is dead"

"now watch this" and president idiot knocks another one out of the rough.

[baron j]

63. I've heard dumbya say many times over the years,

torture that it is to hear him speak, that he has to . I've gotten the impression that this is a mantra taught to him by rove or cheney, because he always states pretty much the same phrase. Sickening, that he has a script for talking about this subject.

[xxqqqzme]

78. it is one of the phrases he falls back

on when it is obvious he hasn't a clue what he is talking about. He is Xtremely articulate when speaking of death & destruction....... compassion?... now that's 'hard work'.

I wish I could find the clip of poppy, poppy seed & Clinton, after poppy & Big Dog returned from the tsunami tour. poopy seed is holding a framed citation, flanked by BD & poppy, and he is literally choking on the word compassion.

[Democracy White]

65. "Beating a political stake in your black heart...

will be the fulfillment of my life."

I hear ya lady. It would be mine too.
Such powerful words and I couldn't have articulated it more clearly.

This "Iraqinam War" has caused thousands to die in vain, both Iraqis and Americans have died and Bush doesn't care. All he and his fucked up adminstration care about is the goddamned oil.

I have a "cousin" actually a lifelong friend stationed over there right now.
Jeff and I have been friends since we were so little and if he comes back in a coffin... I don't know what I will do. I certainly don't know what his mother will do.

It's making my eyes tear up just thinking about it.

Dee

[pazarus]

105. such a vicious and emotional image

I don't think I've heard a better or more clear line that summarizes true rage than "beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life."

No ambiguity there.

[nonny]

69. Read, re-read, over and over............

"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.

How many other mothers does she speak for?

When will this nightmare end?

[Barkley]

70. Ms. Sheehan: A real mother for ya

Ms. Sheehan is right; Bush is going to be impeached!

Its really miraculous to read about someone turing tragedy into good.

[Chichiri]

75. "Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him..."

"...and having the earth cover you both."

Sometimes I have no words.

[Robeson]

87. Yep. Know what you mean.

[Barkley]

76. Cindy Sheehan: A Real Mother For Ya

"Lord, its a real mother for ya (yeah)
make you wanna run for cover
And if you look you will discover (yeah)
Lord, its a real mother for ya yeah."

- Johnny "Guitar" Watson
(c. 1977)

[ktowntennesseedem]

77. OUCH!!! That's gotta hurt!

If you get tired, I'll gladly bring my hammer to help out!

Very touching story, but a very promising one, too.

[Laughing Mirror]

80. In a free democracy she would be able to tell him this to his face

But in a free democracy, she wouldn't have to. The war wouldn't have happened. Her boy wouldn't have been killed there.

[ClintonTyree]

82. Not to nitpick....

but...

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 --

Tens of billions? Try HUNDREDS of billions! And not ONE of those lost lives was worth what we've accomplished, or rather NOT accomplished over there.

I don't blame this woman for being hopping mad. If I were in her shoes I'd do exactly the same thing. bush and his entire administration lied and over 1,700 American soldiers have died because of it. Extrapolate that number for family size and you're talking hundreds of thousands that have lost a loved one for bush's illegal oil grab.

I want Colin Powell to come on TDS again and tell us how everything was on the up and up. To brazenly lie like that is sickening, and I thought he was the only one in the entire administration with a modicum of decency and honor. There is no honor, among thieves or liars. And the bush administration is comprised of nothing BUT thieves and liars. :grr:

[marinemom2004]

83. I agree, Powell is no better than Bush...

As I posted on a different thread last night, I am a Marine mom. My son has been to Iraq and back twice. I also attended a memorial service for one of our local Marines last week. As I gave the new Gold Star mother a hug, all I could feel was gratitude that my son made it through two deployments but such terrible guilt that her son did not come back but mine did. What a tremendous loss, and now we have over 1700 of the fallen.

I can never forgive Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, etc. for what they have done to our country and to all the families that will never be the same. I am grateful for Ms. Sheehan that she has the strength to speak out. I was asked once by one of my co-workers who knew I was against Bush and the war, how could I not support the war, especially if my son was to be killed? I told her I am proud of my son, the Marine, but yes he will have died in vain. Afghanistan was one thing, Iraq was wrong. How many more will have to die because American pride will not allow us to admit that we made a mistake. By the way, this mother, a staunch Republican, said she would take her sons to Canada first. It was all I could do to swallow my anger. The anti-war Democrat's son goes to war and the pro-war Republican's kids stay safely home. How ironic but so typical.

People need to speak out. I proudly display a bumper sticker that reads "Another military family against Bush" right below "My son is a United State Marine".

[phylny]

106. Welcome to DU, and thanks to your son and your

family for the sacrifices you all made.

[Robeson]

90. And extrapolate the 100,000 plus innocent Iraqi's that died for this....

...oil grab, and BushCo., has affected millions who have lost a friend or loved one...

There is blood all over the place on this illegal war.

[stevietheman]

114. It's apparently clear...

that Powell and his family has been somehow threatened not to speak the truth on this matter. We heard from somebody (forget who) that if Deep Throat was found out in the early 70's, he would have been murdered by a Republican operative. I'm convinced the Republican Party has some kind of criminal organization embedded within it to force people to tow the line, esp. on matters like this. It's the only imaginable way how so many of the Bush lackeys are holding together on what the rest of us know to be The Big Lie.

[deadparrot]

84. Heartbreaking.

For her sake, and my sake, and the sake of the entire world, I hope she succeeds in her life's fulfillment.

[David Zephyr]

85. Kick This Story to the Very Top Where It Belongs.

Well, Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville here in the Golden State has my greatest sympathy and respect for her speaking out against this illegal war that took the life of her child. Reading her words broke my heart into pieces this morning.

I use the impeach word every day in every conversation I have. I urge all of you to do the same.

IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT NOW.

[BlueManDude]

86. ok

i've emailed this story to two people today.

[Barkley]

88. I've emailed this story to 18 people - nt

[gulliver]

89. Just checked over at FreeRepublic.

They haven't posted this yet.

[Bark Bark Bark]

101. When They DO...

...it's going to see the most unbelievable spectacle ever cached.

[Bo]

93. It is finally happening

Even people here in Georgia are realizing what a total waste of human life this war has been. They are now just waking up. To the disaster of the * war

[Kerrytravelers]

94. The Sheehan family is from my hometown. I am so proud!

[The_Casual_Observer]

95. bush is really getting to be one seriously hated dude

Iraq & Social Security are making things a little tough for him to go out in public.

[Broken_Hero]

96. Good post...

I love this post, it shows the anger/frustration that some/most of our troops families have to endure. President Monkey in Chief is a joke, and impeaching him on false info for the invasion of iraq will/would be a delight to see, if it ever comes to fruitation.

[levitating_dog]

102. Bless Her Heart

...and the hearts of all the mothers who've lost their children in this senseless farce.

I'm going to print dozens of copies of that article and leave them anywhere (locally) I think one would come across them. It's time the idiotic half of our country wakes up!

GO DU!

[Bark Bark Bark]

103. HARD WERK! (HarryShearer.com MP3)

http://www.harryshearer.com/clips/hard_work.mp3

It's a scream and a crying shame at the same time.

[Generator]

104. Black heart

Poetic words. Simple and will stay with me. The essence of Condi..Scumsfeld..Cheney..Bush Jr...Wolfowitz..all of THEM.

Black hearts all.

[chadk]

107. From half the globe away.....

I can tell the chimp is lying every time I see him on C-SPAN or video clips when he shrugs his shoulders and tilts his head to the right... :puke: ... the way he did during the last press conference he gave with Blair by his side. Am I the only one??? It really is a shame such a great nation like America has such a BAD president!!! :grr:

[kerry-is-my-prez]

108. Here's a site she posts on - she want's people to sign petition, etc.

They also have her e-mail address on there if anyone wants to thank her or cheer her on.

http://www.gsfp.org/

[AuntiBush]

109. Good for "Sheehan" & the "Herald" for Allowing her Voice to be Heard.

And I commend her for her courage to "say it like it is!"

[mermaid]

110. "Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment...

You GO!!!

Damn, Cindy Sheehan, :yourock:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

112. Too bad Junior will never read that letter.

Of course, that's not the point.

For me, the ultimate justice would be Bush self-destructing as the result of looking in the mirror...an "Ebeneezer Scrooge" form of justice.

Maybe the Republican fear over losing power in the 2006 elections will turn enough of them against the Boy King. We can only hope.

[stevietheman]

113. Well, the GOP is the Party of Economic Vampires...

so the metaphor fits perfectly. In fact, it would be cool if a really good graphic artist would created a new GOP symbol that creatively replaced the elephant with a Chimp-looking vampire.

[David Zephyr]

116. Kicking this story for another's day play.

:kick: