``I hold you responsible for my husband's death . . . it's your responsibility to end this war''

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Bush Meetings With War Relatives Yield Tears, Resolve

Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Tears rolled down George W. Bush's cheeks. Twice, Hildi Halley handed him a tissue. Otherwise, she didn't let up on the president.

``I hold you responsible for my husband's death,'' she says she told him as they sat facing one another, alone in a teacher's lounge, their knees almost touching. ``You made a mistake, and it's your responsibility as a Christian man to end this war.''

``I'm really not here to discuss public policy with you,'' she says Bush told her at the meeting in August 2006, two months after her husband, Army National Guard Captain Patrick Damon, died in Afghanistan.


Another person who criticized Bush to his face was Elaine Johnson of Orangeburg, South Carolina. Her son, Army specialist Darius Jennings, died with 15 others when their Chinook helicopter was shot down near Fallujah, Iraq, on Nov. 2, 2003.

In her meeting later that month, she says, she repeatedly pressed Bush for a rationale for the war. She says he failed to deliver a satisfactory answer.

``Miss Johnson, you sound a little hostile,'' Bush said, according to Johnson, who was an industrial quality inspector.

``Of course I feel hostile. My only son was killed and I can't get an answer,'' Johnson, 44, says she replied.

Bush moved on to a different cluster of family members in the large meeting room at Fort Carson in Colorado. As Bush departed, Johnson says, she tried again.

``Could you tell me what is the mission?'' she called out. Bush didn't respond.


report: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apIosdMbcvBo&refer=worldwide

[KansDem]

1. "...you sound a little hostile"

Everyone should have been telling Bush this when he began his "Saddam is a bad man" drumbeat for war. Even the corporate media...

on edit: Especially the corporate media.

[TahitiNut]

2. Could the Fecal Fuhrer be any more condescending?

Somebody lock that turd up for life. Please!

[superkia]

6. Why lock him up, it looks like we may elect someone to continue...

his war business. I think too many people forget that only one candidate stood alone and said the war was about oil and voted no to the war and to all the funding bills. We must remember those who for some reason spewed the same propaganda that Bush did about Iraq, Saddam and Al Queda back in 2002. Why do so many voters continue to ignore the true facts and support these people? I think its very dangerous for our country's future to ignore the facts about these people as we vote for them. Why do we think we will go in a new direction by electing these same people? Its a shame that we will probably cast a vote that will kill thousands more and further the attack on our constitution.

I understand locking the bad ones up but only if we are going to vote to keep it from happening again. I know that many Americans haven't been affected by all of this shit and they really don't care but we cant do this and expect that it will not eventually hit home.

Good luck to us all!

[classof56]

3. Tears ran down GWB's face??? Crying over a dead soldier?

Could we have pictures, please? Or perhaps capture those tears in a little glass vase, sort of like the Emperor Nero used to do? (Or so I've heard...)

Sorry, but there's a reason I'm called...

The Tired Old Cynic

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

4. One wonders what he REALLY crys over or whether his "tears" are cries,...

,...for his own need to be loved no matter what the "poor rich boy" does to others.

I have to work really hard to believe he has any sincere compassion for anyone other than himself. Laura enables him to be a harmful human being. I doubt either of them are sincere.

[YOY]

5. What? "Freedom-Jesus-9-11-Terra" doesn't sate this woman?

Off to the oubliette with her!

[Cha]

7. WTF is that sociopath

dripping tears for? That he's being confronted by war widows? That he may not be the "war preztlenut" anymore?