...the countless treated as faceless...

President Bush Ditches Mother of Slain Soldier

You know, I never really regarded George W. Bush as a particularly brave man to begin with. It doesn’t take a lot of courage to hide behind an army full of other people’s kids and loved ones to fight a war, especially when you dodge, ditch, get out of, and hide from your OWN era’s wartime effort.

He proved this cowardice again during the presidential debates against Sen. John F. Kerry, by not being man enough to own up to his obvious mistakes about going into Iraq horribly ill-prepared at least, AT ALL at best.

And now, instead of facing Cindy Sheehan face to face, he hides on his little ranch, taking that wonderful five-week vacation of his. He can’t spare a single minute from his rest and relaxation.

Never mind the fact that this woman’s son is the one who died for a war he rushed us into, pushed us into. Never mind the fact that he was as disrespectful as can be to her during his “visit” with parents of troops who have died. Never mind the fact that his approval ratings are at an all-time low. Something like this would probably give him just a tiny jump in approval, meeting with this dedicated, true-American citizen, who ONLY wants to talk with him mano-a-mano. So why would he hide?

Because meeting with this woman and talking with her is admitting that he owes her something, like he made a mistake. And as we all know, the “great” George W. Bush would NEVER admit when he’s done something wrong, and he sure as hell wouldn’t do anything that he owes to these poor people.

After all – it was ONLY her son that DIED for a war HE started. It’s only a single citizen who is peacefully requesting a talk with the man who sent her son away to die for a cause.

The days of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt are over – the days of the truly great Republicans. We’ve moved from efforts to end slavery and create programs to help our citizens to treating the American people as jokes. Democrats are far from perfect; in the past, the Dems have had their share of transgressions…but right now, they care more about people than most Republicans you could name. This has to end. That woman, Cindy Sheehan, could be ANY one of us – ignored, disrespected, shrugged off.

This is the kind of man we’ve allowed to be our leader (well, not ME – I ferverently voted Democratic across the boards, but I digress)…a man who cares nothing for the people his actions are effecting; a man who only cares for his own glory and social status; a man who is digging his own political grave for his legacy.

People will not remember George W. Bush as a great president – they will remember him as the man who left us the biggest deficit in our nation’s history and trashed decades of foreign relations, the man who pushed his religious agenda on the entire populace, the man who worked against basic civil liberties, and most of all, the man who sent the countless away to war to risk death in total haste, and then treated them, and their families, as if they were completely faceless and unimportant.

Those of you who have loved ones who made it back from Iraq are lucky; because if they had died, they wouldn’t even be a footnote to any of this. Bush, and his administration, would do their best to hide their glory and honor from the world, and if that didn’t work, they would give them as little recognition and importance as possible, to keep morale up for their little war effort. How do I know? It’s been happening since the first casualties rolled in.