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To: geode00 who wrote (164180)	6/14/2005 2:39:36 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

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. Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., accused President Bush of lying to the nation about a war which has consumed tens of billions of dollars and claimed more than 1,700 American lives -- including the life of Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan. Sheehan was one of more than a dozen activists who were scheduled to speak at yesterday's anti-war rally at the Red Mile, which was organized by the Clergy and Laity Network and co-sponsored by dozens of liberal religious organizations. 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. Since her son's death, Sheehan has made opposition to the Bush administration a full-time job. "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.

To: geode00 who wrote (164180)	6/14/2005 2:49:17 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

comments from the Congressman Conyers Blog... conyersblog.us <<...#437: Kymberlyn Reed said on 6/12/05 @ 10:01pm ET... As of today, we have lost 1700 men and women in Iraq. That's 1700 of our best and brightest. That's 1700 young people who will never enjoy their young adult years with friends and family. 1700 young adults who will never experience the joys and pains of falling in love. 1700 mothers and fathers who will never see their children grow up, graduate from high school or marry. That's 1700 sons and daughters who will never marry or have children or grandchildren. That's 1700 beautiful lives wasted, cut tragically short, plus countless numbers of family and friends who mourn them. That's 1700 men and women who have given their lives for a lie. And how many other lives are shattered and torn apart from those who have returned from Iraq wounded either physically and emotionally? I sure hope all the right-wing Bush supporters can sleep easy at night knowing the blood of the innocents stains their hands. But hey, those of us who have never supported the war, well, we're the un-Americans here. Someone please explain to me just how Christian it is to support a lie while thousands die. Hmm...and we're still no safer now than we were before 9/11. Let's hope and pray that by next year we will see the end of the Bush/Cheney murderous regime...>>