Daniel Pearl family asks Cheney not to use reporter's name

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON (AFP)

The family of Daniel Pearl, a US journalist who was beheaded in Pakistan two years ago, urged US politicians not to use the reporter's name for political reasons after Vice President Dick Cheney invoked Pearl's name during a campaign event.


"The family of Daniel Pearl respectfully requests that his legacy remains non- partisan," The Wall Street Journal reporter's relatives said in a statement responding to Cheney's comments.

"We would like him to be remembered for what he was in his life, a passionate American and humanist who rose above political, religious and cultural divisions," the family said. ..

Cheney used Pearl's name in Ohio last week as he derided Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's pledge to wage a "more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations." ..

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[LuLu550]

1. Notice Cheney did not name

Berg, because Berg's father was very much opposed to the war.

[a_random_joel]

2. I did notice that!

Kudos to the Pearl family.

[malachi]

7. Berg's father to meet with Pentagon officials

What a surprise, the Bergs getting jerked around by the pentagoon!

After months of delays, the father of Nick Berg, the Chester County businessman slain in Iraq, has a meeting with Defense Department officials today in Washington.

But controversy and disappointment plagued the effort through yesterday afternoon.

The Bergs' congressman, Republican Rep. Jim Gerlach, had sought a meeting with several departments - defense, state and the FBI - and it had been scheduled for midday today.

But Michael Berg, a retired West Chester teacher, said yesterday the meeting had been postponed at the last minute.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/9387221.htm

[stickdog]

15. Or was it because Berg's beheading was a more obvious black op?

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Thanks, family of Danny Pearl --

[gatlingforme]

4. What next? How 'bout if the pope dies, they will say he endorsed

Bush and Co as well. Cheney is a classless act

[saigon68]

5. Cheney is a Thuggish War Criminal

And a First Class DRAFT DODGER.

[LauraK]

10. He must have a mechanical heart.

Or maybe he's dead.

[saigon68]

13. The pacemaker keep s DARTH- Going n/t

[wicket]

16. The mechanicization process is near complete.

:evilgrin:

[AndyTiedye]

19. Cheney's Kind Cannot Die...

...unless he falls on a wooden stake or something.

[BeHereNow]

20. Holy water?

Have we tried that yet?

"I'm melting...I'm melting!"
cried Cheney as he vaporised on the floor of his bunker.

Let's re-write the Wizard of Oz!
Cheney can be the witch, Snotty Scotty can play a
flying Monkey, Medea Benjamin as the good fairy, Glenda.
We'll cast Bush as the bumbling wizard, his adminstration
can play the evil chanting guards.
John Kerry as the Scarecrow, Dennis Kucinich as the Tinman,
Al Sharpton as the Lion.
And Cynthia McKinney as Auntie Em.

I like it!
BHN

[Geo55]

6. Well,

Shrubby DID meet him recently....good 'nuff for Unka Dick I suppose.

[gratuitous]

8. I wonder if Crashcart . . .

will be sensitive to this request?

[Eurobabe]

11. <giggles> thanks to who ever started Crashcart!!

that makes me howl whenever I see it...

[Bluebear]

9. Cheney says too bad, it made him "feel better".

And maybe some other choice words for the grieving widow.

[Eurobabe]

12. bet he'll tell her to G.F. herself

[54anickel]

17. Damn, beat me to it!

:toast:

[Pachamama]

14. Thank you Pearl family for telling them to stop using him!

Yes, its shameless how Bu$h and FUCheney will use the names of people and events to further their agenda....

Glad the Pearl family doesn't stand for that....

[CBHagman]

18. I alawys heard Daniel Pearl was a true mensch...

...and that his wife was a very brave soul. I don't blame the family for wanting to prevent anyone from using Pearl in a political speech. God knows the family's been through enough.

[Catfight]

21. Cheney tells Pearls family to go fuck themselves and he issued

a statement he feels much better after saying it AGAIN.

[arwalden]

22. OH MY GOD!! The Man Is A Monster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Catfight]

23. He's a very big Chucky Doll, only scarier.

[wildeyed]

24. It made me cringe a little when I read

Cheney's original statement. He was so obviously trying to wring political gain out of a family's tragedy, kind of like when they used the 9/11 footage of the dead firefighters for a political ad. No shame, no shame at all.

Also, isn't Daniel Pearl's widow French?