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Bush Refuses To Meet With Sheehan

by Open-Publishing - Monday 8 August 2005
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Aides say ’Bush really cares’ [about avoiding her]

CRAWFORD, TX - Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004, met with two Bush administration aides Saturday after president George W. Bush refused to come out to meet her.

Sheehan, 48 (shown here), traveled to the president’s Crawford ranch after Bush said that fallen U.S. troops had died for a ’noble cause’ and that the mission must be completed.

"I want to ask the president, ’Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?" Sheehan told reporters. "Last week, you said my son died for a noble cause’ and I want to ask him what that noble cause is?"

A group of approximately 50 supporters made their way toward Bush’s ranch, chanting "W. killed her son!" as they walked. The protestors had marched approximately one half-mile down the country road leading to Bush’s compound before police stopped them at a bend in the road, still nearly five miles from the ranch’s gate.

Capt. Kenneth Vanek of the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office said the group was stopped because some marchers ignored instructions to walk in the ditch beside the road, not on the road.

Eventually, national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy White House chief of staff Joe Hagin were sent out by the president, who refused to meet Sheehan.

After the meeting, Sheehan said: "They (the advisers) said we are in Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that the world’s a better place with Saddam gone and that we’re making the world a safer place with what we’re doing over there."

"And I said if he does care, why doesn’t he come out and talk to me." Sheehan said she planned to continue her protest until she gets to talk to Bush.

"They were very respectful. They were nice men. I told them Iraq was not a threat to the United States and that now people are dead for nothing. I told them I wouldn’t leave until I talked to George Bush," Sheehan added.

CCNWON

(OfficialWire)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/1673557.html

Forum posts

  • Finally, an anti war point of view in mass media!! Thank God for you, Cindy Sheehan from a Vietnam vet against the war

  • I read today that there were 800 war protests recently over the war in Iraq, but none of the major media outlets thought it was newsworthy!

    • Its not that the news media didn’t think it was important enough to cover it, it is just that they have to obey the Propaganda Ministry branch of the Bush administration or get fired.....

  • We invaded Iraq on a carpet of lies and deception, we murderously stay there while more Iraqui
    men, women and children are murdered and our brave young Americans needlessly die...for what? They were sent to murder and to fight, but without adequate training, transportation, armor and without a valid reason.

    Who financially profits? Giant corporations. Follow the money; very often it wends its way right back to the bank accounts of our highest gvernment officials.

    Stop the madness. Bring our troops home. Stop the charades regarding the debacle of the Twin Towers and other buildings that collapsed, the lack of evidence at the Pentagon and the site of the downed aircraft. Our hate crimes against Iraqui citizens in ther homes and places of business has created more hate against America than is imaginable.

    If this obscene drama were a play it would have to be rewritten into a more believable format!

    • I can not for the life of me understand why anyone feels sorry for the USA murders in Iraq. Didn’t these volunteer killers sign up to get the ultimate thrill?????????? And when they get a taste of their own medicine they cry like a bunch of school girls, and the ignorant citizens here cry foul and blame the fool we have been stuck with for the president when in fact these natural born killers can’t wait to shoot or bomb some defensless brown person because they are still fighting the civil war for the confederacy and have something to prove.

      Look at the places these little murders come from. They are almost exclusively from southern states and Ohio where the rednecks rule.

      So stop feeling sorry for these animals, they are only getting what they are dishing out and not even in equal proportions. If there was any justice in the world, there would be 100,000 of the little killers dead and in "transfer tubes" going home to the likes of Cindy Sheehan or other brain dead parents who love the idea of their kids being murders until they get wiped out themselves, then it is a big boo hoo and let’s all feel sorry for the loss....yeah right.

    • Tell ya what... You go down and join up, go through basic, get sent to Iraq and spend time there.. then come back and see just how much of an inane statement that is. Or do you have "Other Priorities" fighting the "War of Ideas". You are a chickenhawk just like our president.

  • Thousands of soldiers in Iraq and the innocent men and women and children of Iraq have died and are dying because of the lies of our president and his henchmen. In previous administrations a little ’bit on the side’, a cigar and the prerequisite lie were sufficient to initiate the impeachment of a president. Yet, today, in the new-Bush-era of deceit our Congress will not act.

    Likewise, our courts are up the backside of the president. Their rulings seek to take our property and our rights. Future Courts will seek to reverse previous rulings of choice (Roe v Wade) and that is only the beginning.

    It is really time for The People to act. I don’t suspect there are enough police or military to stop The People from pulling Bush’s sorry-ass from the White House, if one The People would recognize that unless something is done; our way of life is finished, forever. The time for talking, writing and reading is past. The time for action has begun. — Brian Richards (Author of the above article on OfficialWire)

    • Bush is a coward. When 9/11 happened, he went and hid under the bed until Cheney told him it was safe to come out. I think that Bush should send Rumsfeld or Conddlllsszzzzmaillooprr Rice out to shoo Cindy away from his ranch because he is obviously afraid of her.

    • >>our way of life is finished, forever<<

      You don’t seem to understand. That’s the plan. 2 Classes of people - eliminate the middle class.The American Dream died years ago. There is only one party in this country and it has 2 faces. Read PNAC for the complete details - authored by Cheney and Rummy.

      Voting is no more than a placebo. The voting machines are controlled and programmed to give the tallies to the peson already intended to win. You have no voice in government. It’s a big party in Washington at your expense. And you’re not invited.

      What the country needs is a second party. Failing that, a revolution. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Ashcroft should be hung in public, after being led through the streets on dog leashes, with sand-bags over their heads, in orange jump-suits. Then and only then will justice be served.

      The America we knew is gone and Bush had nothing to do with it. He is only a cardboard cutout figure. The real power brokers are in Congressm the SC and the World Bank. Terrorism is being used to keep the public scared enough to support these atrocious acts.

      The public still believe that 19 men with box cutters took down the WTC - 5 of which have already been found ALIVE in other countries. You think Bush has blood on his hands with Iraq or Afghan? How about the 3000 people he and Cheney killed in the WTC DEMOLITIONS. Silverstein benefitted tremendously from that and so has Israel

      This poor women who’s son has been murdered by BushCo wants to talk with George? Why would she want to speak with the murderer? Bush hasn’t attended a single militery funeral to date. Why would we want the murderer in attendance? We hould just give Texas back to Mexico -with all it’s inhabitants.

  • The Secret Service has been telling protesters that if they stay there they may be hit by Secret Service vehicles. Cindy says, "They’ve told us this at least ten times. There isn’t much room between the side of the road and the fence, and they go zooming by far over the speed limit." Cindy reports the Secret Service already ran a mother and her six year-old off the road.
    http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7417
     

    So THIS is the "freedom" that George Bush, the antichrist of our age, is fighting to protect - the freedom to murder women and children who disagree with him, even those women and children of his own minions who died in what they thought to be the service of their country.

    What an asshole.