Metro Mothers Take Stand Against Iraq War

[steve2470]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/4844114/detail.html

POSTED: 1:55 pm EDT August 12, 2005
DECATUR -- Her voice suddenly steadying, Mary Ann MacCombie took a very public stand Thursday against the war in Iraq that cost her son his life.

Surrounded by TV cameras and reporters, MacCombie blasted the U.S. involvement in Iraq in honor of her son, Sgt. Ryan Campbell, who was killed in April 2004 in a car bombing in south Iraq.

"It's too late for my son, but not for his best friend and thousands of other soldiers," said MacCombie, who was part of a procession of mothers that protested the war outside a veteran's hospital.

"It is time to answer the call and say no more pain, no more false leadership and no more war," said Patricia Roberts, whose son, Spc. Jamaal Rashard Addison, was killed in Iraq in March 2003.

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1. one had to wonder how long it take cindy's stand

to give voice to other mothers whose lives had been ruined by bushco.

their courage has to give one pause -- i'm especially struck by the fact they protested outside a va hospital -- the site of another bushco legacy -- brutal cutbacks in the va's funding.

[Johnny Noshoes]

2. Looks like

its gonna take the moms to save us from this mess.