KY Herald-Leader: PRESIDENT RIDICULED AT INTERFAITH RALLY

[Stephanie]

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

June 13, 2005.
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. <more>

[shraby]

1. That's really heartbreaking testimony. n/t

[xchrom]

2. she said it all, didn't she.

i would hardly call that ridicule.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. It's so sad and horrible

Damn Bush and his croones to their own personal and private hell. :mad: I hope they get what they deserve for all the pain they have caused this country.

[im10ashus]

4. Heartbreaking!

Since when did * comfort ANY of the widow's or parents of a slain soldier? It's unconscionable that he would even make that statement.

[Shallah Kali]

21. He claimed to during a debate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/debatereferee/debate_0930.html

BUSH: You know, every life is precious. Every life matters. You know, my hardest -- the hardest part of the job is to know that I committed the troops in harm's way and then do the best I can to provide comfort for the loved ones who lost a son or a daughter or a husband or wife.

You know, I think about Missy Johnson. She's a fantastic lady I met in Charlotte, North Carolina. She and her son Bryan, they came to see me. Her husband PJ got killed. He'd been in Afghanistan, went to Iraq.

You know, it's hard work to try to love her as best as I can, knowing full well that the decision I made caused her loved one to be in harm's way.

BUSH: I told her after we prayed and teared up and laughed some that I thought her husband's sacrifice was noble and worthy. Because I understand the stakes of this war on terror. I understand that we must find al Qaeda wherever they hide.

SNIP

Missy understood that. That's what she told me her husband understood. So you say, "Was it worth it?" Every life is precious. That's what distinguishes us from the enemy. Everybody matters. But I think it's worth it, Jim.

[Maraya1969]

22. ARRRRHHHHHHH Basshole!

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[fob]

5. All that TRUTH and Frank Lockwood goes with a bush*apologist

headline like that? What a fucking asshole you are, frank suckbush*!

[BurtWorm]

6. Those are funny words to describe excoriation.

She didn't villify or ridicule Bush. She put him in his friggin' place.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. The comment she made that I liked the most was......

"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.

[slor]

8. It should say "justifiably ridiculed"...

may the chimp burn in hell for what he has done.

[Tim4319]

9. This president wouldn't know hard work if it smacked him in the face!

What do he know about hard work? Everything he got he had handed to him!

[barbaraann]

10. I wouldn't call that "ridiculed." I'd call it destroyed.

There is no way to spin or discredit what that brave, heartbroken woman said.

Perhaps this is the BFEE "Have you no decency" moment. We can only hope.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html

[trogdor]

25. I think Neil Cavuto tried once.

Something about how they should "get over it" or something.

[liberal N proud]

11. My heart goes out to her,

She is one of the strongest Americans today.
Loss of a child and is not going to take it laying down.

[CottonBear]

12. * has never done hard work in his entire life. He has a black heart.

<snip>

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.

more...

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

[0rganism]

13. "Ridiculed", "vilifies": such editorially unbiased terms, eh?

Hey, it's almost like they were jumping up and down, making monkey noises and calling him names.

I'm somewhat surprised Lockwood didn't claim Sheehan threatened to murder bush by saying, "Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life."

[RBHam]

14. It's hard work killing and dying for Halliburton...

Cheney should really cut these kids in on some of the action.

[gordianot]

17. Not a bad idea.

Sell Halliburton and subsidiaries and give the proceeds to families and soldiers who seved in Iraq after a War crimes tribunal.

[goclark]

15. Bet they won't put her on TV! nt

[Nite Owl]

20. Remember how after

Somalia they had parents all over tv saying Clinton shouldn't be CIC. Some liberal media we got!

[PennyK]

16. On Thursday...

...I believe she and her group will be with Congressman Coyers' group as they walk to the White House.

[Stephanie]

28. Really?

I think there are some members here at DU.

[gratuitous]

18. Hmmm, the Clergy and Laity Network

Some of them liberal Christians standing up for an interpretation of the Bible where Jesus doesn't wear combat fatigues and face paint and sneak up behind "the enemy" under cover of darkness and slit the guy's throat.

There was a thread just yesterday demanding to know where these Christians are. Just where they've always been, it appears. But for some reason, they don't get nearly the favorable wide media coverage that Pat or Jerry or even Fred do. And that fact that I don't have to mention last names should provide an inkling of where the real problem lies.

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. Her words give me goosebumps.

[in_cog_ni_to]

23. Powerful! I'd like to hear a freeper attack that poor woman

for voicing her opinion of the idiot and this administration. They wouldn't DARE! This says it all:

"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 voice of a MOM who has lost her child because of the idiot's LIES....is a force to be reckoned with.

Make him pay, Cindy! :grr:

[stanwyck]

26. Oh, she'll be attacked

the politics of personal destruction have become the trademark of the Bushies. These people will destroy anyone, anytime. And Bush is like a Mafia boss. It can't ever be traced directly to him. He'll act all statesmanlike and solemn. Very sage and dignified. Meanwhile, his henchmen will be out to discredit and dismember this mother of a slain serviceman.
Barbara and George Bush raised some very nasty sons.
They just don't like to get their hands dirty.
They have people for that.

[Imagine My Surprise]

24. What is MOST encouraging about this is...

that this tour is entering "the heartland" -- entering a sea of yellow ribbons and fish symbols on cars. This is great! And you can't very well call the mother of a soldier killed 'fighting for freedom' "un-American" now, can you? (evil grin!)

[Octafish]

27. "One Fodder Unit"

OFU is how George Herbert Walker Bush is reported to refer to the common citizen.

In other words, the electorate votes to "throw out the bums," only to replace them with a new set of bums. The "bums," themselves, have contempt for the populace and have pet acronyms for them, such as "OFU," coined by George H. W. Bush, Sr., which stands for "one fodder unit." (2)

SOURCE: http://www.swans.com/library/art9/rmac14.html

The turd doesn't fall from the bush.

[Karenina]

29. Kick!

:kick:

[slor]

30. Anyone have the full text of her speech? n/t