Sunday, August 14, 2005

 

News Bulletin: Bush Won't Waste His Beautiful Mind On Cindy Sheehan

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush, noting that lots of people want to talk to the president and "it's also important for me to go on with my life," on Saturday defended his decision not to meet with the grieving mom of a soldier killed in Iraq.

Bush said he is aware of the anti-war sentiments of Cindy Sheehan and others who have joined her protest near the Bush ranch.

"But," he added, "I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life."

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I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from the tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the Loved and Lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Letter to a Gold Star Mother

posted by Michael 4:50 PM