Tuesday, August 09, 2005

What is he afraid of ?

There is a lone woman camped outside President Bush's Crawford. Texas ranch as he enjoys his 50th vacation since taking office.
She is a Gold Star Mother which means she lost her son in Iraq.
She is also the co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace who are demanding the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
All she wants is to talk to the President. She gave her son. She wants a couple of minutes of his vacation.
W won't talk. She now faces arrest as a "threat to the President" if she doesn't end her vigil and drop her demand to talk about her son to her President whose orders sent him to his death.
So why won't Bush meet her ? It can't be the danger. The Secret Service can presumably prevent a Gold Star Mother from harming the President. The National Security Advisor and the Deputy White House Chief of Staff have met with her and survived.
Is Karl Rove so preoccupied with his own problems that he is unable to see that this one (a) won't go away and (b) won't get better with time ?
See the story at Truthout.og.

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