Why Bush Can't Answer Cindy

[Jon8503]

By Marjorie Cohn - t r u t h o u t | Perspective - Thur 18 Aug 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.

Long before 9/11, the neocons proclaimed that the United States should exercise its role as the world's only superpower by ensuring access to the massive Middle East petroleum reserves. To accomplish this goal, the US would need to invade Iraq and establish permanent military bases there.

If Bush were to give an honest answer to Cindy Sheehan's question, it would be that her son died to help his country spread US hegemony throughout the Middle East.

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

[mhr]

1. Something That Many At DU Have Been Saying For Years Now

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[Skittles]

3. YUP

many of us here in the DU have never been fooled by this piece of shit misadministration

[seabeyond]

2. because of mushroom clouds, nope. because of wmd's, nope

because of freedom to iraqi people......have you seen the new constitution that takes away womens rights. nope. because they use to be tortured and raped and unfairly imprisoned, nope

all the things for the reasons we are there are hollow.

the only reason is because we created a huge ass mess with our invasion and now we dont know what to do to fix it.

[DanCa]

4. Another oppurtunity to unite the country is being missed!

I want a President to respect, if not to like. I want to be behind this war, I really do, and I want reasons of depth rather than the mememetitcs, catch phrases, and mindless platitudes. Mr. President please take this oppurtunity and listen to the second half of your team, your country needs you to lead. So please I am asking you to call of your attack dogs, stop throwing democrats out of churches, stop taking away the rights of gays, and women, dismanteling social security and explain the reason why we went to war. It's what Jesus would do.

[Mr_Spock]

5. Can't be said any more directly than that.

He won't answer her question because he would then have to go to prison for war crimes.

[leftchick]

6. He said "completing the mission" is the cause today...

and all of the other we are fighting them their horseshit. I really think he believes it myself. It is the neocons in charge that know the real reasons. Chimpy is out of the loop....and loopy.

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Now we must finish the task that our troops have given their lives for and honor their sacrifice by completing their mission. We can be confident in the ultimate triumph of our cause, because we know that freedom is the future of every nation and that the side of freedom is the side of victory.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050820/dcsa003.html?.v=8

[Generic Other]

7. Thanks for this article! I posted a link here:

8/20 All DU Cindy threads DAY 14
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4405756

[Jon8503]

10. Hey, thanks to you for doing that.

[gratuitous]

8. And yet when we said that in 2002 and 2003

Such media worthies as The Oregonian newspaper called demonstrators "naive" for saying that the then-prospective invasion was all about oil.

The Oregonian has changed its tune since February 2003 on the war, but it has never retracted or apologized for its "naive" comment from that time.

When it could have made a difference, what were people doing? Some were marching in the streets, arguing against a wasteful, destructive foreign policy. Others simply sat on their pasty white butts, believing the corrupt Bush administration without looking too closely or carefully at its proffered rationales.

The pages of the Oregonian are stained with the blood of thousands.

[Al-CIAda]

9. PNAC plan in action. nt

[lonestarnot]

11. Hegemony and Hubris and Hell!

[ladjf]

12. He certainly can't tell her the truth. And, he's run out of lies.

[Dulcinea]

13. What's he going to say?

"Sorry, Mrs. Sheehan, your son died for Big Oil, Halliburton's profits, Israel's financial future, & our continued presence in the Middle East?"

[ComerPerro]

14. Its a good point. What is the noble purpose?

"Freedom"

"Humanity"

"Liberation"

Why doesn't he just come out and say that?