Cindy Sheehan is not alone. Other mothers are questioning the waste of their sons' lives for NOTHING worthwhile. We just lost the first soldier in the county where I live.
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“He told me things were getting worse every day,” his sister said. “He told me the Iraqis didn’t want us over there and they tried to kill the Americans every chance they got. His exact words were, ‘This is not a war we should be fighting.’
“But the soldiers are there because they have to be there. It is their job, and they are going to do their job. I just hope no other families have to go through this.”
His mother wants an opportunity to speak with President George W. Bush.
“I would give him a piece of my mind,” she said, sobbing, “and he wouldn’t like what I would tell him.”
She blames Bush for the tragedy – a senseless death in a pointless war, she contends.
“There is no way to describe the pain we feel,” she said. “There is a hole in our lives that will never be filled.
“And for what?”
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