Re: Cindy Sheehan Met With Bush Last Year



Horatio Fudruckerton wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:41:02 GMT, "Steven L."
> <sdlitvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> In the eye of a political storm
>> By Tom Hall/Staff Writer
>> TheReporter.Com
>> Last summer Cindy Sheehan got a face-to-face meeting with President
>> Bush, complete with kisses and condolences.
>>
>> Today the Vacaville resident is camped outside the president's Texas
>> ranch -- in the glare of the national media spotlight -- demanding
>> another face-to-face meeting, and ultimately his impeachment.
>>
>> Sheehan's son Casey, an Army specialist, was killed in Sadr City,
>> Iraq, in April 2004. Eleven weeks later, the Sheehan family traveled
>> to Seattle for a 10-minute conversation with the president, who met
>> with 16 other families who had lost love ones in Iraq.
>>
>> In the ensuing months, Cindy Sheehan has become a focal point in the
>> ongoing partisan battle over the Iraq war, drawing the praise of many
>> anti-war Democrats and the ire of Republicans who back Bush's
>> decision.
>>
>> Sheehan's role in that battle exploded Monday morning, when Matt
>> Drudge - the infamous commentator behind the popular Drudge Report, a
>> right-leaning online news site - accused Sheehan of changing her
>> tune to serve political purposes.
>>
>> Drudge's story, headlined "Protesting Soldier Mom Changed Story on
>> Bush' and posted in the highest slot on the Web site that receives
>> more than 5 million visits per day, pulled quotes from a Sheehan
>> interview published June 24, 2004, in The Reporter.
>>
>> That story, by staff writer David Henson, was an account of Sheehan's
>> visit with the president in Seattle.
>>
>> In Henson's story, Sheehan spoke of how she and husband, Patrick,
>> debated before the meeting whether to ask pointed questions about the
>> war and whether to vent frustration over their son's sacrifice.
>> Ultimately, the Sheehans decided not to criticize Bush in the
>> meeting.
>>
>> Afterward, Cindy Sheehan told Henson of a new-found respect toward
>> Bush.
>>
>> "I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis,' she
>> said in the story. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our
>> loss. And I know he's a man of faith.'
>>
>> Sheehan also said the trip to Seattle helped connect her family to
>> others that had lost a son or daughter in Iraq. Sheehan said sharing
>> their story with those families was rewarding, as was the time she
>> got to spend with her own family.
>>
>> "That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of
>> being together,' she said in the story.
>>
>> Drudge included that quote in his Monday morning report, but didn't
>> explain that it referred to sharing time with her familiy, not the
>> president.
>>
>> Drudge also included most recent quotes from Sheehan highly critical
>> of Bush and the 2004 meeting, including a statement the mother made
>> Sunday to CNN.
>>
>> "Every time we tried to talk about Casey and how much we missed him,
>> he would change the subject,' Sheehan told correspondent Wolf
>> Blitzer of the cable news network. "And he acted like it was a
>> party.'
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> Does the word *payoff* or *book deal* ring a bell ?
> It takes the lowest of human beings, especially a mother,
> to exploit their childs death for money.
>
> Don't know for sure, but my guess would be that she
> is a liberal.
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Verbatim quotes from when Clinton was committing troops to Bosnia:

"You can support the troops but not the president."
---Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're
going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
---Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come
home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
---Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a
foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has
yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not
informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from
home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy." ---Sen Rick
Santorum (R-PA)

"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the
administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."

---Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a
clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
---Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't
think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
---Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is
often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning
that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague
objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions
are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is
no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no
contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program.
There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no
explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was
no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there
still is no plan today"
-Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to
explain to us what the exit strategy is."

-Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)

>> Drudge's report fueled opinions on both sides of the political
>> spectrum Monday.
>>
>> Posters on highly visited liberal Web log Daily Kos said Drudge's
>> report was misleading, while right-wing bloggers, including the
>> popular Michelle Malkin, echoed Drudge's sentiments that Sheehan was
>> contradicting herself, perhaps for political reasons.
>>
>> The Reporter decided to post Henson's 2004 story on
>> www.thereporter.com today.
>>
>> "It's important that readers see the full context of the story,
>> instead of just selected portions,' said Editor Diane Barney. "We
>> stand by the story as an accurate reflection of the Sheehan's take
>> on the meeting at the time it was published.'
>>
>> The Sheehan family could not be reached for comment.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/agg8w
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>> If Cindy Sheehan cares so much for peace and humanity, I have a
>> homework assignment for her:
>>
>> She should use the Internet and other resources to learn about the
>> enemies we're fighting in Iraq: Al-Zarqawi with his hatred for
>> democracy and support from Osama, al-Zawahiri who supports mass
>> murder of civilians if it will advance his political aims, and
>> al-Sadr and his loony bin of radical Muslim nutcases.
>>
>> And then after she learns what mass murderers and war criminals and
>> homicidal maniacs and religious fanatics our troops are confronting,
>> she should ask herself if ANYONE, Iraqi or otherwise, deserves to
>> live under the rule of those radical Muslim assholes--and whether
>> she has any other way to get rid of them other than with U.S.
>> military force. ]
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