Bush is a coward. LBJ personally signed every fucking letter that went out to parents who lost children. He sat in his office and he sucked it up and he looked at the damage that his policy had wrought.

Bush won't even go to one fucking funeral, or - in this case - meet with a parent who wants to talk with him about why her son died.

He is just a fucking weenie. For all his moral posturing, he has not the slightest bit of courage. It is easy to be moral when your morality requires nothing of you.

Also, I find it amazing that he who has given so little of himself can ask so much of others.

The way out that he seems to be pursuing is arguably the most despicable of all - ignore her to her face and let the media attack dogs mount a smear campaign against her.

I think this serves to highlight one thing Bush has never understood about politics - people love apologies. If you come out and say "I'm sorry, what I did was wrong, but I've learned from my mistakes and it won't happen again" people will lap that shit up. It shows humility and is "statesmanlike." I'll bet if he did that in this case he'd get a 4-5 point bounce in is approval rating.

While I didn't expect the POTUS to give this lady a public forum under those conditions, I was still kind of disappointed that not even a spokesperson could be sent out to ask nearby residents to refrain from running over flags and crosses or using firearms for intimidation tactics.

Yeah, $20 says the assholes who drove a truck over the crosses in the ground with the names of dead servicement and women are the same people who get drunk and say "support or troops or get the fuck out!" to people who have an anti-war stance.

But in order to apologize, don't you have to be wrong? W is never wrong, ever! Besides, 1800+ apologies are going to get time consuming. Wouldn't be any time left for clearing brush.

BTW, why do you hate freedom so much?
<sorry, couldn't resist a little Bill O'Reilly humor>

...and didn't know her son's name, and called her "mom" the whole time. note the respectful tone in the letter above and compare the two instances.

Totally she really screwed the pooch and lost her "creditability".

Tell me again, as a result of Moore's lies, exactly how many troops were sent into harm's way? Wow, totally equivalent! I see your point.

By the by, it's the groups that are trying to hook up with her in this instance, not vice versa.

I had hoped it wouldn't and although I didn't vote for him either time nor do I realy have anything good I can say of him, I had also hoped that the president would give her five minutes, fuck, at least for the photo-op, the good press. I think I've realy lost all faith in him, even on a human level.

Well while I certainly don't think she's above reproach (hell, her marriage is ending over this and even her own kids are pleading with her to come home) it's not only a slap in her face but the whole country's that Dubya would rather take a leisurely bicycle ride than, oh I don't know...do his job!

And what are these "good, crisp decisions" he makes reference to?

[Edited on Aug 17, 2005 by It_Thing_Hard_On]

And it's important to note that she's never denied meeting Bush. She just says that their meeting was not satisfactory, and she has questions she wants him to answer.

Bush is a dick for ignoring her.

Using her own words against her?!?!? THE BASTARDS! How dare they point out she finds both her country to be a malign force for evil in the world?

What's next? Pointing out other admirers of Cindy Sheehan's moonbattery?

I dont feel like listing Duke's raving about how the Jew-run media that loves Bush and supports the war is tricking America into liberating the Iraqi people.

It needs to be brought to the attention of the public that Sheehan is for all intents and purposes, an anti-American nutcase. Her politics are very much in step with the extreme Leftist fringe of people like Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, and Michael Moore. However, by virute of the fact she lost her son in the Iraq war, her fellow travellers think that no one can dare question her or her message, given the pain she's gone through.

It just doesn't work like that. You can wrap Sheehan's radical politics in all the emotional fireworks you want. In the end, what's her essential message?

1. We deserved the 9/11 attacks because of our foreign policies
2. Israel and the Jews control American policy
3. Fighting back against terrorism, such as invading Afghanistan, is wrong because it results in innocent people being killed. Instead we should acquiesce to the terrorists' demands. That will bring peace.
4. George Bush only invaded Iraq (with the cooperation of the US Congress, US media, and the Pentagon) solely to enrich himself and his close friends, and protect Israel.

I know these views are typical of the anti-war Left. Why does the same anti-war Left get so bent out of shape when their true views and objectives are presented to the American public? Why is publicizing her politics considered "A new low"? Why don't you see such ferverent interest in the views of mothers who lost their sons in Iraq but support the cause their boys died fighting for and their faith in the leadership of the president?

You sure dont see them making self-serving spectacles of themselves.


[Edited on Aug 17, 2005 by stockula]

She has the support of Michael Moore and David Duke? That's credibility from one end of the spectrum to the other.


[Edited on Aug 17, 2005 9:02PM]

This post doesn't say the US deserved 9/11, just pointed out why it happened...big crime that.

Or that Israel has a disproportionate influence on American policy. Given the American preoccupation with all things Israel (and the amount of foreign aid money spent there) I can't say it doesn't have a stunning amount of influence.

Because it has been proven that Saddam Hussein was sponsoring terrorist groups that attacked the US. Oh, wait.......

I don't know why the US invaded Iraq, seriously. Every reason given by the government has turned out to be false or a radical change in direction from the reasons first given.