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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (696233)	8/11/2005 12:18:31 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

I certainly don't expect Bush to go out and speak with her. But I don't buy the rattle trap being offered here that she is being exploited by the left. What she does she does because she feels she needs to do something about this war. After 2000 dead, 10,000 wounded, 25,000 (or more) dead Iraqi civilians...and no end in sight...most feel that this war is done. Sheehan is just one of them. Orca

To: goldworldnet who wrote (696233)	8/11/2005 2:41:02 PM
From: Mana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

He has already seen her!! Now she is lying about it. Her two stories are complete opposites. Grief does not explain that. In June of 2004, in an interview with David Henson of the Vacaville Reporter, Cindy discussed the meeting saying the following: “...Pat [her husband] noted that Bush wasn't stumping for votes or trying to gain a political edge for the upcoming election "We have a lot of respect for the office of the president, and I have a new respect for him because he was sincere and he didn't have to take the time to meet with us." Sincerity was something Cindy had hoped to find in the meeting. Shortly after Casey died, Bush sent the family a form letter expressing his condolences, and Cindy said she felt it was an impersonal gesture. "I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis," Cindy said after their meeting. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith." The meeting didn't last long, but in their time with Bush,Cindy spoke about Casey and asked the president to make her son's sacrifice count for something. They also spoke of their faith... For a moment, life returned to the way it was before Casey died. They laughed, joked and bickered playfully as they briefly toured Seattle. For the first time in 11 weeks, they felt whole again. "That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together," Cindy said.” Roughly one year later, having been exposed to the Bush haters of the extreme left, she described the same meeting in a telephone interview with Greg Szymanski (of the Artic Sun) as follows: “...arrogant man with eyes lacking the slightest bit of compassion, a President totally "detached from humanity" and a man who didn’t even bother to remember her son’s name when they were first introduced. Instead of a kind gesture or a warm handshake, Sheehan said she immediately got a taste of Bush arrogance when he entered the room and "in a condescending tone and with a disgusting loud Texas accent," said: "Who we’all honorin’ here today?" "His mouth kept moving, but there was nothing in his eyes or anything else about him that showed me he really cared or had any real compassion at all. This is a human being totally disconnected from humanity and reality. His eyes were empty, hollow shells and he was acting like I should be proud to just be in his presence when it was my son who died for his illegal war! It was one of the most disgusting experiences I ever had and it took me almost a year to even talk about it," said Sheehan in a telephone conversation from Washington D.C. where she was attending a July 4th anti-war rally.”