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

To: sandintoes who wrote (701232)	9/10/2005 12:54:59 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

lol The lef won't even argue that. They don't want people to read it.

To: sandintoes who wrote (701232)	9/10/2005 1:15:57 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

As more true information comes out about her...those that pretended to know her and supported her on the threads...should be ashamned of themselves... "We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect."

To: sandintoes who wrote (701232)	9/10/2005 1:54:04 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Sample Letters Dear Mr. President… I hope that some day women will have the same rights as men. Like women football and baseball leagues. Maybe even a women president. If that happens, do you think one of your daughters could become president like you? - Lisa Castore from Oak Lawn School, RI ====================================================== worldslongestletter.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think you should help the people that were in the tsunami so they can have food and shelter. Maybe you can have a coin drive. Morrice Elementary, my school, had a coin drive. We collected eight hundred dollars! - Hannah from Morrice Elementary, MI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wish there was no violence in this country. When I look at the news, and it's about people killing other people, it makes me sad. People should try to be nicer to each other. - Kwesi from 74th Street Elementary School, CA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I eat cheesy grits for breakfast. If I could visit you in Washington, do you have grits? If not and you want us to visit, I will bring my grits to share. - Prentice Aiken from Homeland Park Elementary, SC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who chooses your clothes everyday? I don't think the Secret Service does, and I think you may do it yourself. You always look nice. - Nathan Ambrose from Homeland Park Elementary, SC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm wondering if you think about adding a dinner hour to our school, and I would be delighted to stay until 6:00 pm. - Rebecca Ines from Homeland Park Elementary, SC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Being a teacher is hard work. She gets really happy when we do our class and homework. Sometimes she feels real tired. She even skips lunch to correct and revise our homework. I think she needs an aid who can help her with all this work. Can you pass a law that allows teachers to teach and someone else to do the paper work? - Nicole from Public School #360, NY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Love is a universal language. We can sing, pray and talk to these people (people affected by the tsunami) and show them that we care. - Noemi Almonte from Public School #360, NY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like for you to make more softball teams for women so when I grow up I can still play softball. Some of my friends and I play together. - Sami Story from Verner Elementary, AL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hopefully I will also be a Cancer doctor because children are dying from cancer and I don't like that. - Bailey from Verner Elementary, AL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope that gas prices would go down and that people rode in horses and buggys instead of cars. - Julia from Verner Elementary, AL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My main concern is that you can have good schools in the future so that my little sister, brother, and other little children will have a good education. - Keadra from Broadmoor Elementary School, LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wish you could support stem cell research so people that get paralyzed and have other kinds of physical injury can get healed faster. - Cody from Broadmoor Elementary School, LA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Bush I also think you should get rid of silly laws. You should replace or just get rid of them. An example of a silly law is: in Kentucky it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket, isn't that silly? - Alicia Persaud from Fairview Elementary, DE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like it if you would make the world stop selling tobacco. It kills people. I know a lot of people that have died because of lung cancer from tobacco and cigarettes. - Ben Petifde Manoe from Fairview Elementary, DE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wish a president can be elected three times so he or she can finish the changes they want to make for the country. - Tyler Dunning from Fairview Elementary, DE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am concerned about the war in Iraq. My uncle might have to go there if the war goes on for a couple more months. I am concerned about his safety because I love him very much. - Jaimie Hayes from Pleasant Hill Elementary School, KS I plan to be a police officer to enforce the laws of not to litter or pollute. - Morgan M. Cunningham from Falling Creek Elementary School, VA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to ask you if kids could vote? Because all of us are just itching to vote. - Tyler from St. Elizabeth Setony Elementary, SD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My dreams for America are for us to win the war in Iraq and for the US army to be safe. I want my dad to have a safe trip back and to be able to come back soon. I feel sad about war because people are being killed, but I am happy because they are fighting for freedom. - Tanner Shults from Fletcher Elementary, OK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want people to treat others the way they would treat themselves. You should always remember you can have more than one best friend. Everyone should be your friend even if they're unkind. Always forgive them because you don't know what is going on in their lives. This letter is for anyone who is willing to make people understand that this world is here for everyone and anyone to enjoy. - Laura Barzottini from Highland Park Elementary School, CT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My dream is to start the Women's National Football League. I would like to show people that girls are equal to boys. Girls can do anything boys can. - Erin Kilpatrick from Highland Park Elementary School, CT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm thinking about my community. I live in a rural area, lots of farmland is being turned into subdivisions and industries. This is a problem because this act destroys farms that grow crops and food for people. You understand how important farms are because you own a ranch in Texas and raise beef cattle. Hopefully you realize how little farms help support the US by raising food for the American people. - Joshua from Lakewwod Elementary, KT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have a word of the week that teaches us good character traits. These character traits help us to be good citizens. You could use the character traits to help America be a better place. Kindness helps America, kindness helps the people in America to be a better citizen because if Americans are kind then they wouldn't be mean or hateful. - Mary Sam Jaggers from Lakewood Elementary, KT

To: sandintoes who wrote (701232)	9/10/2005 8:17:45 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Not that it matters to you, but you now realize that your post was full of demonstrably false information, right? ""Claim: Cindy Sheehan's son, Casey, was raised by her ex-husband after the couple divorced and both remarried. Status: False. Origins: Casey Austin Sheehan, a 24-year-old U.S. Army Specialist from California who served as a mechanic with the First Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, was killed in an ambush near Sadr City, Iraq, on 4 April 2004. Since Casey's death, his mother, Cindy Sheehan, has become an outspoken critic of U.S. military involvement in Iraq, most famously holding a 26-day vigil outside President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, while the President was vacationing there in August 2005. The piece quoted above, criticizing Ms. Sheehan's alleged lack of involvement in her son's upbringing after divorcing his father, is something fabricated out of whole cloth, evidently the product of someone's confusing a completely different family with the Sheehans. Cindy Sheehan and her husband, Patrick, were high school sweethearts who wed while both were in their early 20's and who have been married to each other for over 28 years. (Neither has ever been married to anyone else.) The couple had four children together, of whom Casey was the oldest. Both parents raised Casey together, first in the southern California community of Norwalk and later in the northern California town of Vacaville, where the Sheehans moved when Casey was 14. Ms. Sheehan has maintained that her recent political activities placed a strain on her marriage that caused her and her husband to separate, as she expressed in an August 2005 interview: Q: Have you lost any friends or family over this? Or, how do your husband and neighbors feel about your sudden rise to prominence in the media and the role you've accepted in those venues? A: I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died. My husband and I are separated, because he doesn't support my activities, although he knows the war is a lie. In fact, in August 2005 Patrick Sheehan filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the cause and stating that the couple had been separated since 1 June 2005. We're not aware of any interviews or news articles in which Mr. Sheehan has spoken publicly about his feelings regarding his son's death, his wife's political activities (and their effect on his marriage), or "the stance of America in Iraq and on terror." An interview conducted by Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Channel possibly contributed to the mistaken belief that Cindy Sheehan's son Casey had come from a previous marriage and was raised by her ex-husband. The 15 August 2005 segment of The O'Reilly Factor began with a brief statement about Ms. Sheehan's having separated from her husband of 28 years over her "radicalism," but quickly segued into a reaction piece to a spot aired the previous week about Delores Kesterson, another mother who, like Cindy Sheehan, lost a son in Iraq and was now opposed to U.S. military involvement there. That reaction piece consisted of an inteview with Clay Kesterson, the father of Chief Warrant Officer Erik Kesterson (who was killed in Iraq on 15 November 2003), and his current wife, M.J. Kesterson., during which the couple stated that Erik had lived with and been raised by them (rather than his biological mother, Delores), and that Erik "was 180 degrees on the other side of the position with his mom on anything political." Last updated: 6 September 2005 snopes.com