A Mother's Letter To George.

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Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:21:23 -0500

A Mother's Letter To George.

 

 

 

Dear George,

 

You don't mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter

offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin

Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy,

so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis.

 

George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton

foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend:

Casey. It has been seven months since your ignorant and arrogant lack

of planning for the peace murdered my oldest child. It has been two

days since your dishonest campaign stole another election…but you all

were way more subtle this time than in 2000, weren't you? You hardly

had to get the Supreme Court of the United States involved at all

this week.

 

You feel so proud of yourself for betraying the country again, don't

you? You think you are very clever because you pulled the wool over

the eyes of some of the people again. You think that you have some

mandate from God…that you can " spend your political capital " any way

that you want. George you don't care or even realize that 56,000,000

plus citizens of this country voted against you and your agenda.

Still, you are going to continue your ruthless work of being a

divider and not a uniter. George, in 2000 when you stole that

election and the Democrats gave up, I gave up too. I had the most

ironic thought of my life then: " Oh well, how much damage can he do

in four years? " Well, now I know how much you have damaged my family,

this country, and this world. If you think I am going to allow you

another four years to do even more damage, then you truly are

mistaken. I will fight for a true vote count and if that fails, your

impeachment. Also, the impeachment of your Vice President. The only

thing is, I'm not politically savvy, and I don't have a Karl Rove to

plan my strategy, but I do have a big mouth and a righteous cause,

which still mean something in this country, I hope.

 

All of this lying, fooling, and betraying must be " hard work " George.

You really think you know what hard work is?

 

George, let me tell you what " hard work " really is.

 

Hard work is seeing your oldest son, your brave and honorable man-

child go off to a war that had, and still has, no basis in reality.

Hard work is worrying yourself gray and not being able to sleep for 2

weeks because you don't know if your child is safe.

 

Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one Sunday evening while

you're enjoying the last supper you'll ever truly enjoy again.

 

Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few

hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son…your

first born…your kind and gentle sweet baby.

 

Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday.

Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body

of their big " baba " into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the

grave with him and having the earth cover you both.

 

But, Dear George, do you know what the hardest work of all is? Trying

to digest the fact that the leader of the country that your family

has fought for and died for, for generations, lied to you and

betrayed your dear boy's sense of honor and exploited his courage and

exploited his loyalty to his buddies. Hard work is having your

country abandon you after they killed your son. Hard work is coming

to the realization that your son had his future robbed from him and

that you have had your son's future and future grand-children stolen

from you. Hard work is knowing that there are so many people in this

world that have prospered handsomely from your son's death.

 

George, I must confess that I and my family worked very HARD to re-

defeat you this time, but you refuse to stay defeated. Well, we are

watching you very carefully. We are going to do everything in our

power to have you impeached for misleading the American people into a

disastrous war and for mis-using and abusing your power as Commander-

in-Chief. We are going to scream until our last breath to bring the

rest of our babies home from this quagmire of a war that you have

gotten our country in to: before too many more families learn the

true meaning of Hard Work. We know it is going to be an uphill

battle, knowing how Republican Congress is, but thanks to you, we

know the meaning of Hard Work and we're not afraid of hard work at

all.

 

The 56,000,000 plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda

have given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda. Also, thanks

to you and your careless domestic policies, I am unemployed, so this

will be my full-time job. Being your political downfall will be the

most noble accomplishment of my life and it will bring justice for my

son and 1125 (so far) other brave Americans and tens of thousands of

innocent Iraqis your lies have killed. By the way, George, how many

more innocent Iraqis are your policies going to kill before you

convince them that you are better than Saddam? How many more of their

cities are you going to level before you consider that they are

liberated? If you really had any moral values, or if you were an

honorable man at all you would resign. My son was a man who had high

moral values and true courage. Humanity lost a bright light on April

04, 2004. I will live the rest of my life missing Casey desperately.

Thank you for that, George. Have a nice day.

 

God Bless America!! We surely need it!

 

Cindy Sheehan

 

Broken hearted mother of a True American Hero: Spc Casey Austin

Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04 Sadr City, Baghdad

 

" When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth

and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and

for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -

think of it, always. "

- Gandhi