bush hides behind pro-war mom

still unanswered is the question: if this war is so noble, why doesn't Bush send his own children to fight in it? why does he have to hide behind some random person who's content to have her offspring die in the war --- why doesn't he trot out Laura to say how proud she'd be if her twins died for this great cause? Bush calls on the nation to continue making sacrifices, but what has he sacrificed? he's on a freaking 5-week vacation. surely this is why he steadfastly refuses to meet Cindy Sheehan. he dare not allow anyone to ask him these questions publicly. there'd be no hiding the hypocrisy.

August 25, 2005
The Times
Bush fights back over mother's Iraq protest
From Tom Baldwin in Washington

GEORGE BUSH sought to neutralise Cindy Sheehan’s summer peace protest yesterday by highlighting the case of another mother who has four sons serving in Iraq.

Speaking at a rally of 10,000 servicemen and their families in Idaho, the President quoted Tammy Pruett, from Idaho, who has also seen her husband and a fifth son serve in Iraq, as saying: “If something happened to one of the boys, they would leave this world doing what they believe, what they think is right for our country. And I guess you couldn’t ask for a better way of life than giving it for something that you believe in.”

To loud cheers, Mr Bush declared: “America lives in freedom because of families like the Pruetts.”
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