Marjorie Cohn: "Why Bush Can't Answer Cindy"

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081805I.shtml

Why Bush Can't Answer Cindy
By Marjorie Cohn
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Thursday 18 August 2005

Cindy Sheehan is still waiting for Bush to answer her question: What noble cause did my son die for? Her protest started as a small gathering 13 days ago. It has mushroomed into a demonstration of hundreds in Crawford and tens of thousands more at 1,627 solidarity vigils throughout the country.

Why didn't Bush simply invite Cindy in for tea when she arrived in Crawford? In a brief, personal meeting with Cindy, Bush could have defused a situation that has become a profound embarrassment for him, and could derail his political agenda.

Bush didn't talk with Cindy because he can't answer her question. There is no answer to Cindy's question. There is no noble cause that Cindy's son died fighting for. And Bush knows it.

The goals of this war are not hard to find. They were laid out in Paul Wolfowitz's Defense Policy Guidance in 1992, and again in the neoconservative manifesto - The Project for a New American Century's Rebuilding America's Defenses - in September 2000.

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1. Re:

Part of the problem being is Bush cant answer ANY direct question pointed at him, he takes a question asked and then tries to completely side-step it with his "sympathizing" with sheehan's position and saying he "understands" her view but he just cant give a straight out answer because in all honesty hes probably forgotten why there overseas.

The man has the IQ of a post hole digger. I listen all the time to NPR (National Public Radio) and everything he says makes no sense.

[Stuckinthebush]

2. That is offensive

My post hole digger is much smarter that Bush. Take it back!

:D

[teryang]

3. Oops! There it is!

The truth.

Thanks for posting.