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8/11 Dubya: "I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan ... She feels strongly about
her position. She has every right in the world to say what she
believes. This is America. She has a right to her position. And I've
thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from
others, which is, 'Get out of Iraq now.'"
Mrs. Sheehan: "All we're asking is that he sacrifice an hour out of
his five-week vacation to talk to us, before the next mother loses her
son in Iraq."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/11/bush.ap/index.html
Strawman = Mrs. Sheehan wants Dubya to pull out troops now.
I love politics!
\_ Sheehan already talked with Bush. Why do you care what she says?
\_ As facts change, opinions change.
\_ Typical flipfliping homosexual fraceophile democrat.
\_ Typical flipfloping homosexual franceophile democrat.
\_ Typical flipfliping homosexual franceophile democrat.
\_ Francophile
\_ wrong. its franceophile.
link:csua.org/u/d0t
\_ Bzzzt!:
http://tinyurl.com/8zsp3
http://tinyurl.com/bt9zf
http://tinyurl.com/7twjr
http://tinyurl.com/9mbbt
link:tinyurl.com/dbkas
\_ What is your point?
\_ I bet BUD DAY
wouldn't have to
ask!
\_ mice was eaten
by a troll.
\_ Er? -mice
\_ Can't I be
eaten by a
grue? That
sounds much
more fitting.
-mice
Eternal values never change!
Like, there were WMDs! We can win! Good, let's get Saddam.
There were no WMDs! Um, can we win? Get Dubya to level with us.
\_ Was her son a volunteer soldier? Reservist? National Guard?
\_ Volunteer marine. Had reenlisted.
\_ Um, wow, no. He was Army.
\_ So what's she complaining about? He wanted to be there. |
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| www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/11/bush.ap/index.html CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- President Bush said Thursday he sympathizes with war protesters like the mother camped outside his Texas ranch demanding answers for her solider-son's death, but he said he believes it would be a mistake to bring US troops home now. "Pulling the troops out would send a terrible signal to the enemy," the p resident told reporters between meetings with his military and foreign a ffairs advisers. Outside his sprawling ranch, California mother Cindy Sheehan sat on the r oad with a growing group of war protesters who have pitched tents in sha llow ditches. Sheehan's son, Casey, was killed five days after he arrive d in Iraq last year at age 24. Sheehan began her standoff on Saturday, declaring she would stay for the entire month that Bush plans to stay in Texas if he won't meet with her. Since then, dozens of other activists have traveled from across the cou ntry to join her, including at least three other parents who have lost c hildren in the war. "The president says he feels compassion for me, but the best way to show that compassion is by meeting with me and the other mothers and families who are here," Sheehan said. "All we're asking is that he sacrifice an hour out of his five-week vacation to talk to us, before the next mother loses her son in Iraq." The protesters put a human face on Americans' increasing opposition to Bu sh's handling of the war. An AP-Ipsos poll early this month showed just 38 percent of respondents approved of his handling of Iraq. More than 1, 840 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the wa r in March 2003 "I sympathize with Mrs Sheehan," Bush said. She has every right in the world to say what she believes. "' "And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the abili ty to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so, " the president said. The White House put out an accounting of all the meetings that Bush has h ad with families of the war dead -- 900 relatives of 272 people who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sheehan met the president in June 2004 bu t said she deserves another visit since there have been so many revelati ons about faulty pre-war intelligence since then. Bush said reports that the Pentagon may increase or decrease troop levels in Iraq next year are simply "speculation and rumors." He noted, though , that the United States had sent more soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan before elections and was considering doing so again before another round of Iraqi elections in December. George Casey, the top commander in Iraq, has said repeatedly that "f airly substantial" reductions are expected after the election if the pol itical process stays on track, if the insurgency does not expand and if the training of Iraqi security forces proceeds as planned. Bush said he would make any decision to remove troops based on recommenda tions by Casey, who gave a briefing by videolink during the president's ranch meeting with advisers. "My position has been clear, and therefore, the position of this governme nt is clear," Bush said. "Obviously, the conditions on the ground depend upon our capacity to bring troops home." Bush said Casey reported that Iraqi security units were becoming more cap able, although he acknowledged they were not ready to work alone without support from US forces. He described the Iraqis' progress as improvin g from "raw recruit" to "plenty capable." "I know it's hard for some Americans to see that progress," Bush said. Bush reiterated that the United States sees no reason that an Iraqi commi ttee working to draft a new national constitution cannot finish its work by a Monday deadline. On another Mideast topic, Bush indicated that the new Iranian president w ill receive a US visa to attend an annual United Nations gathering nex t month. Bush said US investigators still have not yet determined what role Iran ian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have played in the 1979 takeover o f the US Embassy in Tehran. Six former hostages have identified Ahmadi nejad as one of their captors. Even so, Bush said, the United States has separate obligations to other c ountries as the host nation for the United Nations, which is headquarter ed in New York. "We have an agreement with the United Nations to allow people to come to meet, and I suspect he will be here to meet at the United Nations," Bush said. As host, the United States is obligated under UN rules to approve visas to foreign leaders irrespective of political considerations. Bush said he welcomed the UN nuclear watchdog agency's warning to Iran about the consequences of its nuclear ambitions. The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of directors exp ressed "serious concern" Thursday over Iran's resumption of nuclear acti vities that could lead to an atomic bomb. |
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