[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: Mother of dead soldier vilifies Bush over war : President Ridiculed At Interfaith Rally

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>Mother of dead soldier vilifies Bush over war
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>President Ridiculed At Interfaith Rally
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>By Frank E. Lockwood
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>Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader
>http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/11888623.htm
>Herald-Leader Staff Writer
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>Posted on Tue, Jun. 14, 2005
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>The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother
>who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States'
>"illegal and unjust war" yesterday during an interfaith
>rally in Lexington.
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>Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., accused President
>Bush of lying to the nation about a war which has
>consumed tens of billions of dollars and claimed more
>than 1,700 American lives -- including the life of Army
>Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan.
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>Sheehan was one of more than a dozen activists who were
>scheduled to speak at yesterday's anti-war rally at the
>Red Mile, which was organized by the Clergy and Laity
>Network and co-sponsored by dozens of liberal religious
>organizations.
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>Sheehan ridiculed Bush for saying that it's "hard work"
>comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in
>Iraq.
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>"Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one
>Sunday evening while you're enjoying the last supper
>you'll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having
>three military officers come to your house a few hours
>later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son,
>your first-born, your kind and gentle sweet baby. Hard
>work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th
>birthday. Hard work is holding your other three
>children as they lower the body of their big (brother)
>into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave
>with him and having the earth cover you both," she
>said.
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>Since her son's death, Sheehan has made opposition to
>the Bush administration a full-time job.
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>"We're watching you very carefully and we're going to
>do everything in our power to have you impeached for
>misleading the American people," she said, quoting a
>letter she sent to the White House. "Beating a
>political stake in your black heart will be the
>fulfillment of my life ... ," she said, as the audience
>of 200 people cheered.
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>The "Freedom and Faith Bus Tour" -- which brought
>Sheehan to Lexington, has already visited New York,
>Chicago and Indianapolis. The next stops include
>Columbus, Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
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>Other speakers included state Rep. Kathy Stein, D-
>Lexington, Clergy and Laity Network executive director
>Rev. Albert Pennybacker of Lexington, Kentucky Council
>of Churches executive director Nancy Jo Kemper and
>Baptist Seminary of Kentucky Professor Glenn Hinson.
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>Quoting scripture and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hinson
>suggested the nation is greedy and morally bankrupt and
>warned that America's fear of terrorism is excessive
>and unhealthy. Denouncing "fear that immobilizes, fear
>that causes you to lash out mindlessly, fear that
>prompts a nation to launch a preemptive strike against
>an imagined enemy, fear in excess," Hinson said, "Only
>God's love can bring that kind of fear under control."
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>Reach Frank Lockwood at (859)231-3211 or 
>800-950-6397 x3211 or flockwood at herald-
>leader.com
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>© 2005 Lexington Herald-Leader and wire service
>sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.kentucky.com
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Paul Etxeberri

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