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President Bush Ditches Mother Of Slain Soldier
By Nathan Diebenow
Associate Editor
CRAWFORD --
The mother of a U.S. soldier slain in Iraq was denied a face-to-face
meeting with President Bush here Saturday after she walked through a
ditch-like path in the August heat to the President’s Prairie Chapel
Ranch.
"I didn’t come all this way from California to stand here in a ditch,"
said Cindy Sheehan, 48, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace,
attempting to continue her trek to the ranch.
Even though two of the President’s aides later agreed to deliver her
message to him, Sheehan said that she would remain in Crawford for the
whole month, if need be, until she is granted a private audience with
the commander-in-chief to ask him for what "noble cause" did her son
die overseas.
"If he doesn’t come out to talk to me in Crawford, I’ll follow him to
D.C., and I’ll camp out on his lawn," she said, to a round of applause
from her supporters.
"I’ll go to prison. I don’t want to live in a country where people are
treated this way."
Sheehan’s actions, she said, were sparked by President Bush’s comments
like those made last Wednesday in Grapevine to about 1,800 members of
the American Legislative Exchange Council:
"Our men and women who’ve lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and
in this war on terror have died in a noble cause and a selfless
cause."
"We all know by now that that’s not true, and I want to ask George
Bush, ‘Why did my son die? What was the noble cause that he died
for?’" said Sheehan.
"I don’t want [President Bush] to use my son’s name or my family name
to justify any more killing or to exploit my son’s name, my son’s
sacrifice, or my son’s honor to justify more killing. As a mother, why
would I want one more mother to go through what I’m going through,
Iraqi or American?
"And I want to tell him that the only way to honor my son’s sacrifice
is to bring the troops home now."
Her son, Casey Sheehan, 24, of Vacaville, Calif., died in Baghdad,
Iraq, on April 4, 2004, when his unit was attacked with
rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.
He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st
Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
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Hey, Bush, tell us, for what noble cause did Casey Sheehan die? For
what noble cause did 1,834 other Americans die? For what noble cause
were 13,769 Americans wounded, many maimed for life? For what noble
cause were tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children
killed and wounded? C'mon, Mr. Deserter-In-Chief, give us an answer.
What is the noble cause?
Harry
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