Cindy Sheehan (HuffPost): This is George Bush’s Accountability Moment

[Dudley_DUright]

This is George Bush’s accountability moment. That’s why I’m here. The mainstream media aren’t holding him accountable. Neither is Congress. So I’m not leaving Crawford until he’s held accountable. It’s ironic, given the attacks leveled at me recently, how some in the media are so quick to scrutinize -- and distort -- the words and actions of a grieving mother but not the words and actions of the president of the United States.

But now it’s time for him to level with me and with the American people. I think that’s why there’s been such an outpouring of support. This is giving the 61 percent of Americans who feel that the war is wrong something to do -- something that allows their voices to be heard. It’s a way for them to stand up and show that they DO want our troops home, and that they know this war IS a mistake… a mistake they want to see corrected. It’s too late to bring back the people who are already dead, but there are tens of thousands of people still in harm’s way.

There is too much at stake to worry about our own egos. When my son was killed, I had to face the fact that I was somehow also responsible for what happened. Every American that allows this to continue has, to some extent, blood on their hands. Some of us have a little bit, and some of us are soaked in it.

People have asked what it is I want to say to President Bush. Well, my message is a simple one. He’s said that my son -- and the other children we’ve lost -- died for a noble cause. I want to find out what that noble cause is. And I want to ask him: “If it’s such a noble cause, have you asked your daughters to enlist? Have you encouraged them to go take the place of soldiers who are on their third tour of duty?” I also want him to stop using my son’s name to justify the war. The idea that we have to “complete the mission” in Iraq to honor Casey’s sacrifice is, to me, a sacrilege to my son’s name. Besides, does the president any longer even know what “the mission” really is over there? This is George Bush’s accountability moment. That’s why I’m here. The mainstream media aren’t holding him accountable. Neither is Congress. So I’m not leaving Crawford until he’s held accountable. It’s ironic, given the attacks leveled at me recently, how some in the media are so quick to scrutinize -- and distort -- the words and actions of a grieving mother but not the words and actions of the president of the United States.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/cindy-sheehan/this-is-george-bushas-a_5472.html

[H5N1]

1. She is the greatest thing since sliced bread

And I am c-r-a-z-y about sliced bread.
This is a cause I can whole-heartedly spend money on.

[fooj]

2. Demand accountability.

Cindy is George's truth. He can't avoid it. She won't let him.

Peace.

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Kick

:kick:

[opihimoimoi]

4. Triple kick

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[ClusterFreak]

5. This woman has bigger rocks than anyone I've ever heard of....

...she's just throwing haymakers at the little tinpot dictator down in Crawford, daring him to talk to her, and daring the police to hustle her away. And she presents her case with such clarity, taking no guff from any members of the right-wing smear machine. She is a stunningly effective, one woman George Bush wrecking crew and I absolutely fucking love it.

[Karenina]

6. Checkmate.

The *dauphin and the self-proclaimed "Übermenschen" he fronts for have NOT been held accountable for ANY the MANY atrocious crimes they have committed worldwide. There's always a "tipping point..."

[Dudley_DUright]

8. She is throwing his own words in his face since

Bush just after the election when asked about Iraq came up with this nausea inducing quote:

President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12450-2005Jan15.html

[sellitman]

7. If......

If a child loses its parents, then you call that child an orphan

If a person loses their spouse, then you call that person a widow.

If a parent loses a child... There isn't a word for that. Some things are too horrible to name.

I don't remember where I heard that, but it holds true.


Posted by: Joker Cross at August 11, 2005 03:35 PM
On The Huffington Blog

[jackstraw45]

9. Bravo....

Kicked...

[Dudley_DUright]

10. one more kick for Cindy

:kick:

[longship]

11. Recommended and kicked.

:kick:

[ben frank]

12. great quotes- she's been on fire lately

had to make a shirt/flyer with this one



download a full size image to print your own t-shirt transfer
http://www.benfrank.net/crawford

actually, can du have a thread where we collect t-shirt and flyer designs? Sure maybe most people don't want to iron on their own t-shirt- but flyers are do-able... if we're going to have numbers- we should make some good flyers then have teams of Camp Casey volunteers post them in every town in texas... and then oklahoma, new mexico... and everyone out here in other states can post them too..

You know, informative flyers explaining how bush lied,
and motivational flyers- $8 trillion debt & perpetual war --> get off your ass (- ;

why don't we harness the awesome power of du to create a bunch of flyers for every occasion (;

[jackstraw45]

13. kicking

email this around if you haven't already....