WP: Bush Says Sheehan Doesn't Speak for Kin of Casualties

[DeepModem Mom]

Bush Says Activist Doesn't Speak for Kin of Casualties
By Sam Coates
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 24, 2005; Page A03


BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 23 -- President Bush, confronted by antiwar protesters on his travels, Tuesday renewed his refusal to meet with high-profile activist Cindy Sheehan, asserting that she does not speak for the majority of families who have lost relatives in combat.

Bush dismissed demands from Sheehan and others to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq. "I think immediate withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake," he said. "I think those who advocate immediate withdrawal from not only Iraq but the Middle East are advocating a policy that would weaken the United States."

The vacationing president called reporters to a mountain resort 100 miles north of here to address efforts in Iraq to reach agreement on a constitution. He issued a blunt warning to the Sunni minority, which has yet to agree to a draft of the constitution. "The Sunnis have got to make a choice," Bush said. "Do they want to live in a society that's free, or do they want to live in violence?"

He praised the "tough decision" by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for pushing through the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from Gaza and repeated his wish for two democratic states to coexist. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas "has made a commitment to fight off the violence because he understands a democracy can't exist with terrorist groups trying to take the law into their own hands," he said.

Bush's quickly scheduled appearance came against a backdrop of antiwar protests that have sprung up during his three-day visit to Utah and Idaho, two politically Republican states. The president's sojourn from Texas suggested the protests threaten to bracket his appearances in ways that could complicate the White House's ability to argue for the Iraq policy and maintain support for it....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/23/AR2005082301281.html?sub=AR

[C_U_L8R]

1. BUSH DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Bush doesn't speak for anyone

His numbers will be in the 20's in a week or 2.

[deutsey]

5. The Haves and the Have-Mores

He speaks for them...the uninformed, ignorant, and reactionary...he speaks for them too.

:eyes:

[BlueEyedSon]

7. I stand corrected!

[acmejack]

8. Oh, you mean his "base"?

[TahitiNut]

13. Bush* Speaks For The Unspeakable

Human slime, bottom-feeders.

[Judi Lynn]

22. He also speaks for the incoherent. n/t

[MaineDem]

9. Ditto

That was my first thought as well! He's not acting in my name.

[Zuni]

2. No, but she speaks for herself

a mother who lost a child in Mr. Bush's little fiasco

[mattclearing]

3. Bush's carefully screened families all support his killing of their kids.

nt

[Dhalgren]

6. The "withdrawal of troops" won't "weaken" the US;

Bush's illegal war has weakened the US! The only way to restore our strength is to first PULL OUT OF THIS UNJUST WAR!

[patdem]

10. I looked for a contact for this person but no email addy listed

Dana Milbank in the WP talked about 'support' for the war

Poll Finds Dimmer View of Iraq War
52% Say U.S. Has Not Become Safer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060700296.html

And this idiot's crappola:

"The president's sojourn from Texas suggested the protests threaten to bracket his appearances in ways that could complicate the White House's ability to argue for the Iraq policy and maintain support for it."

For support to be 'maintained' it first must exist...the word should be 'regained' :crazy:

[Spangle]

16. Well THAT is at least admiting the REAL fear

Any "non-agrement" would complicate their ablity to argue and maintain ANY of their positons. Which is why they are so forceful in preventing ANY disagreements to be Voiced publicly. And if they are voiced.. the person who speaks must be banished.

[patdem]

18. Yes, I have addressed this OVER compensation to that of a wrestling

fan, but have been told by a wrestling fan here that although they cheer heartily they do not believe it to be real..but that does not dis prove my argument:

A wrestling fan fake cheers-on a fake wrestler who answers to a fake referee...now here is the analogy..so the freepers do not BELIEVE the lies..they just cheer on as if they are true..and the pundits (referees) continue to cheer on the reight wing..and the wrestlers(reight wing politicians) yell very loudly about their positions.

Well here am I (a person who does not know about politics..just watching from the sidelines) thinking there must be something to the bravado and brew haha or else why go to all that trouble?

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

11. But Pat Robertson obviously speaks for the Republican Party

:wtf: Bush said. "Do they want to live in a society that's free, or do they want to live in violence?"....maybe he should ask Pat what he thinks about this matter.

[asjr]

12. Basically he just called those of us who

want us to get out of Iraq unpatriotic. Unpatriotic means we do not support that poor excuse for a human being. Unpatriotic means we do not trust that man to go to the corner grocery store to get a loaf of bread. Somehow he would screw it up. Unpatriotic means we do not want any more of our military dying for him. That is what it is all about--HIM.

[Supersedeas]

14. the protests threatened to frame his appearances....ahhhhhhhhhh

[rodeodance]

15. All 3 biggies out yesterday--Bartlett, Bush, Rummy--The WH is out

in full force to bash anything camp casey/left/anti-war/ect.
they all had 'press conferences'--to get their message out.

[genieroze]

17. Bush Says Sheehan Doesn't Speak for Kin of Casualties

Oh really? How many of his kids died in Iraq? None? Oh well, I guess he doesn't speak for them either.

[katinmn]

19. They are protesting him in Red States and he looks like shit!

exerpt from the WaPo article:

Bush's quickly scheduled appearance came against a backdrop of antiwar protests that have sprung up during his three-day visit to Utah and Idaho, two politically Republican states. The president's sojourn from Texas suggested the protests threaten to bracket his appearances in ways that could complicate the White House's ability to argue for the Iraq policy and maintain support for it.

You can run but you can't hide you little Bushitler!

[mittenlandgirl]

20. kin?

The headline, as usual, is BS. "Bush Says Activist Doesn't Speak for Kin of Casualties" ???

She IS kin of a casualty. jeez.

[progressivebydesign]

21. Bush doesn't fucking KNOW who feels what...

That is such a wrong thing to say!!!!

[confludemocrat]

23. From a mountain resort, the killer thug pronounces Cindy unworthy

because he says so. Now, he doesn't want to make a "mistake". The Demo party establishment sides with the man on this score: withdrawal would be a mistake they both say.

[BenDavid]

24. Well hell, excuse me, but

I have never heard Cindy Sheehan say, she is speaking for other families. She is speaking about the loss of her son. Yes, she says she does not want any other parents of a soldier to have to go through what she has suffered. I myself, believe that is a noble expression of compassion for others. I do not know Cindy Sheehan, but I respect her for using her voice to ask questions that maybe the Dems in Congress should have been asking all along. No, we had to have Kerry to fall right into the trap laid out for him, when he answered the question, "If you knew then what you know now would you still vote to go into Iraq" Of course Kerry said yes, and there you had the loser of the 04 presidential race.

As i said in an earlier post, Bush has acomplished exactly what he intended to do. I am not talking about iraq or 9-11. look around at America. See how this country has changed. Not because of 9-11 we changed, but because Bush and the Republicans in Congress have in effect caused prices to increase. Cost to increase. Cuts in programs. Deficits have soared. Debt has increased. This is now the face of America that has changed, and even if the Dems were to take the Senate back in 06 or the presidency in 08, things will not change for a decade or more, because of Bush.....

It is a shame......

[struggle4progress]

25. Afraid to say this in Crawford, he sneaks off to Idaho to thump his chest.