War MOM Villifies W

[Nbadan]

Posted on Tue, Jun. 14, 2005
PRESIDENT RIDICULED AT INTERFAITH RALLY
By Frank E. Lockwood
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States' "illegal and unjust war" yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington.

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Sheehan ridiculed Bush for saying that it's "hard work" comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in Iraq.

"Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you're enjoying the last supper you'll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son, your first-born, your kind and gentle sweet baby. Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big (brother) into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both," she said.

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"We're watching you very carefully and we're going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people," she said, quoting a letter she sent to the White House. "Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life ... ," she said, as the audience of 200 people cheered.

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Quoting scripture and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hinson suggested the nation is greedy and morally bankrupt and warned that America's fear of terrorism is excessive and unhealthy. Denouncing "fear that immobilizes, fear that causes you to lash out mindlessly, fear that prompts a nation to launch a preemptive strike against an imagined enemy, fear in excess," Hinson said, "Only God's love can bring that kind of fear under control."

Amen.

[mookie2001]

INTERFAITH means interchristian

[Medvedenko]

I emphasize with the mother....however her son understood that when you join the military this could be the result of your actions. It's sad really...but I guess this is ok for the "war" to continue when soilders on both fronts die everyday. I always forget what the "war" is about...some evil, or some corporate agenda fueled by religious zeal.

[Nbadan]

I emphasize with the mother....however her son understood that when you join the military this could be the result of your actions. It's sad really...but I guess this is ok for the "war" to continue when soilders on both fronts die everyday. I always forget what the "war" is about...some evil, or some corporate agenda fueled by religious zeal.

If her son was not already in the military before Iraq, I concur that her son knew the risks, but as America's lagging volunteer force shows, not to many people seem to agree with the ideology that the Iraq War was a war of neccessity.

[Clandestino]

anytime you join the military you know you can be put in harm's way in some way, shape or form. this mother should not taint her son's death(doing something he chose to do) by lashing out like this.

[mookie2001]

YOURE saying SHE tainted HER SONS death


i would disagree

[bigzak25]

poor lady murdered her son when she let him sign the papers...