Stories like these make me sick, and it's a NYT front-page special to boot!
Fuck your fawning over that lying, law-breaking, mass-murdering, war-criminal shit!
"Bush and Relatives of Fallen Lean on Each Other" by SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Well, he certainly is building the base, isn't he?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — Late one night last year, while her husband was an Army scout in Iraq, Melissa Storey sat in the quiet of her bedroom to write President Bush a letter. She wanted him to know “we believed in him.” And after Staff Sgt. Clint Storey, 30, was killed by a roadside bomb, his widow put pen to paper again.
Mrs. Storey: “I felt like I needed to let him know I don’t hate him because my husband is dead that I don’t blame him for Clint dying over there.”
I do!
The correspondence did not go unnoticed. In May, Mrs. Storey received a surprise telephone call from the White House inviting her to a Memorial Day reception there. As she mingled at the elegant gathering, too nervous to eat, her 5-year-old daughter clutching her dress, her infant son cradled in her arms, a military aide appeared. The president wanted to see her in the Oval Office.
The Storeys, of Palmer, Mass., joined a growing list of bereaved families granted a private audience with the commander in chief. As Mr. Bush forges ahead with the war in Iraq, these “families of the fallen,” as the White House calls them, are one constituency he can still count on, a powerful reminder to an unpopular president that even in the face of heartbreaking loss, some still believe he is doing the right thing.
Since the war in Afghanistan began six years ago, Mr. Bush has met quietly with more than 450 such families, and is likely to meet more on Sunday, Veterans Day, in Waco, Tex., near his Crawford ranch. Mr. Bush often says he hears their voices — “don’t let my son die in vain,” he quotes them as saying — when making decisions about the war. The White House says families are not asked their political views. Yet war critics wonder just whose voices the president is hearing.
Wouldn't meet with Cindy Sheehan, so fuck him!!!!!!!!!
Like Melissa Storey, Bill Adams, who has been leading war protests in Lancaster, Pa., wrote Mr. Bush a letter — not to praise the president, but to question the military’s account of the death of his son, Brent. When Mr. Bush held a town-hall-style meeting in Lancaster last month, Mr. Adams asked a friend with a ticket to deliver his missive to the president. It worked, and a top aide to Mr. Bush later called Mr. Adams.
But when the president met families of the fallen that day in Lancaster, it did not escape Mr. Adams’s notice that he was not among them.
Mr. Adams: “I can’t help but be left with the suspicion that possibly his advance team screened those families for people who would be sympathetic. [Given the chance, he would have told Mr. Bush] that my son’s life was squandered.”
Of course it's all scripted. We all know that now!
That's why I never believe a thing this shit liar says!!!!
Polls show that two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way the president is handling the war in Iraq; in a recent New York Times/CBS News survey, a majority said Mr. Bush’s troop buildup was having no impact, or making things worse. The White House pays close attention to military families, an important constituency, yet surveys, including a New York Times/CBS News poll in September, have also shown an erosion of support for the war among them.
Yeah, EVERYBODY HATES HIS LYING, STINKING WARS!!!!!!!!!
Yet, White House aides and nine families who have met with Mr. Bush said dissent was rare in the sessions.
Cause asshole don't want to hear it, while we all gotta hear his shit mouth run!!!
The meetings are deeply private — the administration never reveals names of participants — and just one senior official attends, to take notes.
That official, who would speak only anonymously, said the “overwhelming number of families talk about the good their loved one felt they were doing.” This official said families were not screened; when Mr. Bush is traveling, the Pentagon finds local families for him to meet.
Fucking liars!
And not all the meetings are cordial; two years ago, one mother, Cindy Sheehan, emerged from her audience with Mr. Bush complaining that he had been dismissive of her, and went on to start a political crusade against the war.
I'm sick of the Times slamming her!
Yeah, she's on a political crusade to end the war, while the fucking mass-murderer you shits love is on a real-life, kill-em-dead crusade in the ME!
Which is what the Zionist controllers want ! Pfffffffffttttt!!!!
Other family members have expressed discontent, including Elaine Johnson of Spartanburg, S.C., who said she asked Mr. Bush in her meeting why soldiers like her son, Darius Jennings, were still dying in Iraq. She subsequently began speaking out against the war.
Another one! How come the shit MSM doesn't give them a megaphone, huh?
Pfffffffftttt!!!!!!
Mr. Bush also meets families in connection with Iraq-related ceremonies and speeches, where war supporters make up the audience. John Ellsworth, vice president of Families United, a support group that backs Mr. Bush, has been invited to three White House events in the past seven months; each time, he, his wife, Debbie, and their daughter, Jessica, 12, have met Mr. Bush.
Tears are a big part of presidential family meetings; Mr. Ellsworth, whose son, Justin, died in Iraq in 2004, called Mr. Bush “a big softie.”
Now I'm gonna puke!
Since the day in September 2001 that he stood on a charred fire truck with a bullhorn in the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center, much has been made of Mr. Bush’s role as comforter in chief. He has consoled victims of floods, wildfires and tornadoes. But in his family meetings, the comforting works both ways.
There the fucking stink NYT goes again! Un-frikkiin-believable!
Talk about spewing shit myths into Amurka's mouth! What a fucking shitrag!
Kevin Graves of the Northern California town of Discovery Bay waited two hours during a South Lawn picnic to tell Mr. Bush “it was an honor for my son to serve under you as commander in chief.” Amy Galvez of Salt Lake City told Mr. Bush that “as a mom who lost a son in this war, it’s easier for me to handle because I believe you are sincere.”
Did she also tell Bush she was an idiot? Un-frikkin-believable!
God is a frequent topic. Robert Lehmiller, also of Salt Lake City, says the president brought religion into the conversation, telling him, “If you truly believe the Scriptures, you will see your son again.”
What a fucking Anti-Christ bastard! Un-fucking-real!
Sometimes, gifts are exchanged. Maureen and Dan Murphy of Patchogue, N.Y., gave Mr. Bush a gold dog tag engraved with the likeness of their son, Lt. Mike Murphy, moments before Mr. Bush awarded him a posthumous Medal of Honor. They were stunned to see the president loosen his tie and slip the necklace under his shirt. Mr. Bush later remarked to Mr. Murphy that it had gone well “because I had Mike next to my heart.”
Did you eat it, too, asshole?
This piece of "journalism" is fawning, cockshit-sucking crap!!!!
The senior official said Mr. Bush often remarked that he gained “strength and comfort” from the encounters. But war critics say the sessions amount to little more than echo chambers to reinforce Mr. Bush’s views. Charley Richardson, a founder of Military Families Speak Out, which opposes the war, said about 100 families who had lost loved ones were members of his group, but just one, Ms. Johnson, had met Mr. Bush.
Mr. Richardson: “He doesn’t hear the other voices. If all the voices are supporting the war, it’s a powerful emotional addition to the chorus.”
That's because the guy is INSANE!! Really, I mean totally nutzoid!
The White House knows that if support for the war erodes among military families, Mr. Bush’s ability to pursue his policies in Iraq will suffer.
It already has, asshole! We HATE YOU and HATE YOUR LYING WARS!!!!!!!!!!
Bush, in a recent interview with conservative columnists:
“I am constantly trying to get a sense of the military, the people that are out there in the fight. And the question is, Are their families in the fight?”
Soon will be with that draft coming, kiddies!
To see to it that they are, Mr. Bush often plays the role of social worker in his family meetings, asking participants about issues like benefits and health care. Mrs. Storey said the president “seemed to get really upset” when she told him she was not getting her survivor’s benefits. Within a week, she said, “the checks began showing up.”
Oh, he can get action fast, huh? Then why the fucked-up governing, asshole?
And this piece of shit journalism is really gagging me now!
It has been nearly six months since their meeting, and sometimes Mrs. Storey still finds it hard to believe that the simple act of writing a letter brought her into the presence of the president of the United States. She still has the photographs from the session, the letters she and Mr. Bush exchanged.
Ms. Storey, living in the heavily Democratic state of Massachusetts, said it is not easy to be a Bush supporter:
“When I tell the people I met the president, a lot of people will give that look. I say, I don’t care what your opinion is of him. You have your opinion, I have mine, but I’ve met him and he’s a good guy. I cannot say anything negative about that man. He showed us nothing but kindness.”
Anti-Christ fooled you!
Kind by sending your son to war on a pack of lies?
That's "kindness?"
