They say they'll await Bush meeting

[leftchick]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050810-9999-1m10protest.html

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Neither of the two women knows Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, an Army specialist, was killed in Baghdad in April 2004. Neither has a child, much less one who has been killed in Iraq. And neither had been active in the anti-war movement. They hadn't attended any "protests or peace rallies or anything like that," Strause said. "Both of us are very busy."

But they share with Sheehan the firm belief that the war is a colossal mistake. And when they heard about Sheehan's story, "it was like the straw that broke the camel's back," said Strause, 29, who works as a consultant in the computer industry.

"We just want to do something," she said. "We're so sick of being on the sidelines. Being busy isn't an excuse anymore."

She called the war "this generation's Vietnam."

After reading the news article, Decker, 40, a health care executive, tracked down Sheehan with her cell phone number, obtained from the Associated Press reporter who wrote the piece. Decker asked what she could do to help.





Sign the petition....http://elandslide.org/elandslide/petition.cfm?campaign=cindy

[ninkasi]

1. I admire them

I admire Cindy Sheehan. To lose a child has got to be the most painful loss any woman can bear. The least the cowardly chickenhawk can do is to show common decency, and talk to her now. But no, he only wishes to talk to people who slavishly agree with him, or those who can enrich him even more.

Casey was just a tool for him to use. The other men and women who have died there are nothing to him. The ones who return broken in body, or spirit, or both, mean nothing to him. Nothing means anything to him unless it helps prop up his massive ego, or will reward him financially.

America is paying a price for having a sociopath, and an unintelligent sociopath, at that, "leading" the country. He is ruining our country, destroying lives and careers, and our reputation in the world.

Any person with any compassion at all would have met with Cindy the first day she arrived. A real man would have had the courage to look her straight in the eyes, and answer her questions. I admire her, and all who are going to stand with her.