| Mark Probert 2005-08-19, 5:59 pm |
| Ilena Rose wrote:
> http://mediamatters.org/items/200508160009
>
> Limbaugh baselessly compared Cindy Sheehan to Bill Burkett: "Her story
> is nothing more than forged documents"
>
> Listen to this audio clip Nationally syndicated radio host Rush
> Limbaugh equated the actions of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier
> killed in Iraq, with those of Bill Burkett, the retired Texas Air
> National Guard officer who provided CBS' 60 Minutes with
> unauthenticated documents regarding President Bush's National Guard
> record. Sheehan is currently staging an anti-war protest outside
> Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Limbaugh said that Sheehan's "story
> is nothing more than forged documents."
>
> Sheehan's "story" is, in fact, that her son died while fighting in
> Iraq. A Humvee mechanic, Spc. Casey Sheehan was one of seven U.S.
> soldiers killed in Baghdad's Sadr City on April 4, 2004, by
> rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.
>
> From the August 15 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
>
> LIMBAUGH: I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is
> nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's
> real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it. It's not
> real. It's nothing more than an attempt. It's the latest effort made
> by the coordinated left.
Thanks for making me nauseous, but, I will take this opportunity to
vent....
What is particularly galling to me is that George II wil not step down
from his Ranch/Throne and meet with the mother of a volunteer who died
in combat. George II is, as he did during Vietnam, hiding out so he does
not have to come to grips with the reality of sending men to war.
The most insulting part of this is that George II dishonors Casey
Sheehan by not hearing his mother's plea.
Casey volunteered to serve to defend the Constitution of the United
States including the rights to petition for redress of grievances. If
the only person who can address her grievances will not hear her, then
Casey died for nothing.
Utterly disgusting.
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