[A]bout Bill Clinton, you know, I really think he should have been impeached, but not for [having an affair with an intern and lying about it]. His policies are responsible for killing more Iraqis than George Bush. I don't understand why to rise to the level of being president of my country one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. |
[Bush supporters have rallied to defend the president. The Guardian reports on a group of] Bush loyalists ... will launch a new round of speeches to rally support for the war in Iraq. |
[Cindy Sheehan and President Bush have at least one thing in common: They're both busy people with hectic schedules who had the month of August off. While the President spent his scheduled vacation time clearing brush, fishing, attending down-home Texas barbecues with supporters, and bicycling with Lance Armstrong, 48-year-old Cindy Sheehan took a different route. Incensed by an August 3 speech President Bush gave to 1,800 members of the American Legislative Exchange Council at which he said,] We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission....The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause, ... until that jerk comes out and tells me why my son died. |
[Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother who lost her son in Iraq and who has spent the last month perched outside the Crawford ranch like Poe's raven, almost sounds like she pities George in her latest dispatch from Camp Casey.] Since the Freedom and Democracy thing is not going so well, ... and the Iraqi parliament is having such a hard time writing their constitution, since violence is mounting against Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down every day, he had to come up with something. |
[See Byron York's National Review account, at http://nationalreview.com/york/york200508111811.asp:] Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state, ... Our government is run by one party, every level, and the mainstream media is a propaganda tool for the government. |
[Sheehan, now on a cross-country bus tour to rally support for the Sept. 24 march on Washington, still recalls that moment in Crawford.] The other mothers coming helped a lot, ... It helped to know I wasn't alone, that I wasn't the only mother in America who wanted answers. |
[Sheen -- who portrays the Democratic president on N-B-C's] The West Wing ... the acting president of the United States. |
8,000 Guardsmen from Mississippi and Louisiana who might have helped, might have been deployed in the relief efforts are, in fact, in Iraq and not in Mississippi and Louisiana. |
a good meeting with the president, the end of August, or I get arrested. |
A kind gentleman from down the road offered us the use of his property. |
A lot of these people who are there are criminals, and we need to get them out of our house, |
After she met with me, she said she has to make sure our sons didn't die in vain. That is a totally Republican talking point. |
All I want is for President Bush to take one hour out of his vacation and meet with me before another mother's son dies in Iraq, ... You don't use our country's precious sons and daughters unless it's absolutely necessary to defend America. Mr. President, it is time to level with the American people. |
All of those reports prove my son died needlessly. This proved that every reason George Bush gave us for going to war was wrong. |
All those reports prove my son died needlessly. |