Mom Says President 'Personally Responsible' For Son's Death

[RaRa]

CHICAGO -- The mother of an Illinois National Guard pilot killed in Iraq says she holds President George W. Bush "personally responsible" for the death of her son.


http://www.nbc5.com/news/2635513/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65192

[0rganism]

1. Whaddaya bet there's some rightwing jerkoff who'll egg her house now?

Poor woman has just exposed herself to a world of hurt, and she doesn't even know it.

[Wickerman]

4. Yep, hope that phone number is unlisted

the drunken abusive phonecalls are about to start. Nevermind a person's pain and anguish - don't pick on Georgie B*. Friggin' 'pukes...

:puke:

[saigon68]

5. CIVILIZED FOREIGN POLICY

her son died because the United States lacks what she calls a "civilized foreign policy."

More like a Thugish Murdering Foreign Policy

[PROGRESSIVE1]

20. Will the "Country Music KKKlan" be coming around to "see" her...

like the did with the Dixie Chicks???

:puke: Country Music

[drewb]

21. Maybe that asshole Toby Keith will write a song demonizing her...

Unfortunately Johnny Cash is no longer with us to speak for the "poor and the beaten down"...

Actual lyrics from "Man in Black".

http://maninblack.net/lyrics/MAN%20IN%20BLACK.htm

[leetrisck]

2. Remember when the father of a young man

killed in Somalia blamed Clinton personally for the death of his son and the right wing thought that was "right on." Let's see what the reaction is to this - not that it matters really. Prayers for that family. One doesn't know what to say anymore.

[DerekG]

7. Our presidents are murderers of children...

I hold our commanders-in-chief responsible for the lives destroyed in the dick-waving adventures they help forge. In our history, we have 43 men (among many others) who will have to answer for the moans uttered by mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, wives and husbands, who have all felt the pangs of despair.

[TacticalPeek]

15. Love to have links to those old RW responses.

Bring 'em on?

[leetrisck]

23. Can't provide links but was lots of reports

in newspapers and on TV - discussion going on about it right now in that strange land of freepers

[everythingsxen]

3. Uh-oh

Sounds like she is grief-stricken. She might suicide herself after comments like that. :eyes:

[Cha]

6. I am so sorry for the loved ones of bush's victims..

Rosemarie Slavenas blamed Bush and said her son died because the United States lacks what she calls a "civilized foreign policy."

[UpInArms]

8. I am so sorry

for the loss of this woman's child (I don't care how old your kids get - they are your children).

No parent wants to see their children die before them - the children are our hopes for a better future. We know that our ability to change the world and its ways ends when our children can no longer be a part of it.

How very sad :(

[benfranklin1776]

9. She is right.

The buck stops with the one who so ignorantly bellowed "Bring Em On" after placing these people in harm's way when it is now abundantly clear this war could have been avoided.

I hope she finds solace for her deep pain.

[Rainbowreflect]

10. Is anyone else a little bothered by the Hummer & "bring it on"

that is the ebay ad below this article. Pretty tacky, if you ask me.

[maggrwaggr]

14. yeah that's just sick

but I guess they know their market.

How 'bout that hummer commercial where the little kid builds a fake wooden hummer and uses it to cheat in the race?

[Sequoia]

24. Yep, I'm bothered

and of course the girl gets to sit on the sidelines. Sit down and shudup woman!

[maggrwaggr]

11. if anyone can't understand why you hate Bush ...

well here ya go.

I hate Bush because he kills people. And made me complicit, as a US taxpayer, in his killing.

That's the bottom line and that's why I want to see him on death row where he belongs.

[dennis4868]

19. BETTER HOPE...

Rove does not see your post....

[ElementaryPenguin]

12. As well she should, the lying AWOL, Chickenhawk, War Criminal!!

:puke:

[BlackFrancis]

13. There was another local kid killed on the same bird

His brother said nearly the same thing when he died. Things are getting ugly for the hawks.

[ninkasi]

16. My heart goes out to her.

As the mother of three grown children, I certainly understand her anguish. I also agree that Bush is responsible for her son's death, and the deaths of all, American or Iraqi.

Perhaps the depth of her feeling will explain to some of the brain-dead right wing just exactly why more and more ordinary Iraqis are joining the ones Bush's stooges choose to call "insurgents" and "Saddam loyalists."

I believe they are, instead, people whose lives have been shattered by death, injury, and destruction. There are going to be increasing numbers of people hurt by this sociopath, and it is a global pain.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

17. Could a civil suit be filed here?

Bless this poor woman for standing up and voicing her opinion.

[ozymandius]

18. I have been hungry for one.

A "wrongful death" suit based on the lack of automacity of UN Resolution 1441 for military action would be a delicious thing. It would be a wondrous and lovely item to introduce to the courts. Discovery would be the stuff of lore.

[northernsoul]

22. oh good buddha yes!

maybe the National Lawyers Guild would be willing to take that one up?

[Voltaire99]

25. Sovereign immunity.

The sovereign has to let you sue him. Alas.

But that woman's suffering is felt far and wide. May it give birth to social change - and help get us out of this foul dishonest war.

[Bozita]

26. Bernie Ward just played a clip of the mom speaking

on KGO

http://www.kgoam810.com/