[Davis Democrats] FW: AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH-from a gold star mother of Vacaville

Thu Nov 11 19:03:58 PST 2004

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From: jack <jackt at rcsis.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:21:22 -0800
To: jack <jackt at rcsis.com>
Subject: FW: AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH

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Subject: FW: AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH
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The following letter was written by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a young man
and soldier killed in Iraq . . . .

November 4, 2004

Dear George,

You dont mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter
offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan,
in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally
assume we are on a first name basis.

George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton
foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend: Casey.
It has been seven months since your ignorant and arrogant lack of planning
for the peace murdered my oldest child. It has been two days since your
dishonest campaign stole another election&but you all were way more subtle
this time than in 2000, werent you? You hardly had to get the Supreme Court
of the United States involved at all this week.

You feel so proud of yourself for betraying the country again, dont you? You
think you are very clever because you pulled the wool over the eyes of some
of the people again.  You think that you have some mandate from God&that you
can spend your political capitalany way that you want. George you dont care
or even realize that 56,000,000 plus citizens of this country voted against
you and your agenda. Still, you are going to continue your ruthless work of
being a divider and not a uniter. George, in 2000 when you stole that
election and the Democrats gave up, I gave up too. I had the most ironic
thought of my life then: "Oh well, how much damage can he do in four years?"
Well, now I know how much you have damaged my family, this country, and this
world. If you think I am going to allow you another four years to do even
more damage, then you truly are mistaken. I will fight for a true vote count
and if that fails, your impeachment. Also, the impeachment of your Vice
President. The only thing is, I'm not politically savvy, and I don't have a
Karl Rove to plan my strategy, but I do have a big mouth and a righteous
cause, which still mean something in this country, I hope.

All of this lying, fooling, and betraying must be hard workGeorge. You
really think you know what hard work is?

George, let me tell you what hard workreally is.

Hard work is seeing your oldest son, your brave and honorable man-child go
off to a war that had, and still has, no basis in reality. Hard work is
worrying yourself gray and not being able to sleep for 2 weeks because you
dont know if your child is safe.

Hard work is seeing your sons murder on CNN one Sunday evening while youre
enjoying the last supper youll 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
babainto the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and
having the earth cover you both.

But, Dear George, do you know what the hardest work of all is? Trying to
digest the fact that the leader of the country that your family has fought
for and died for, for generations, lied to you and betrayed your dear boys
sense of honor and exploited his courage and exploited his loyalty to his
buddies. Hard work is having your country abandon you after they killed your
son. Hard work is coming to the realization that your son had his future
robbed from him and that you have had your son's future and future
grand-children stolen from you. Hard work is knowing that there are so many
people in this world that have prospered handsomely from your son's death.

George, I must confess that I and my family worked very HARD to re-defeat
you this time, but you refuse to stay defeated. Well, we are watching you
very carefully. We are going to do everything in our power to have you
impeached for misleading the American people into a disastrous war and for
mis-using and abusing your power as Commander-in-Chief. We are going to
scream until our last breath to bring the rest of our babies home from this
quagmire of a war that you have gotten our country in to: before too many
more families learn the true meaning of Hard Work. We know it is going to be
an uphill battle, knowing how Republican Congress is, but thanks to you, we
know the meaning of Hard Work and were not afraid of hard work at all.

The 56,000,000 plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have
given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda. Also, thanks to you and
your careless domestic policies, I am unemployed, so this will be my
full-time job. Being your political downfall will be the most noble
accomplishment of my life and it will bring justice for my son and 1125 (so
far) other brave Americans and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis your
lies have killed. By the way, George, how many more innocent Iraqis are your
policies going to kill before you convince them that you are better than
Saddam? How many more of their cities are you going to level before you
consider that they are liberated? If you really had any moral values, or if
you were an honorable man at all you would resign. My son was a man who had
high moral values and true courage. Humanity lost a bright light on April
04, 2004. I will live the rest of my life missing Casey desperately. Thank
you for that, George. Have a nice day.

God Bless America!! We surely need it!

Cindy Sheehan

Broken hearted mother of a True American Hero: Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA
04/04/04 Sadr City, Baghdad

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth
and love has always won.  There have been tyrants and murderers and for a
time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it,
always."
- Gandhi

Jack Tracey
Placer County Coordinator
Veterans for Kerry
Roseville, CA
jackt at rcsis.com

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