Another Grieving Mother...Another Dead Son...Even More Irony

Elton John Had It Right. Sorry Is The Hardest Word.

Published on August 26, 2005 By kingbee In Politics

like cindy sheehan, linda will mourns a dead son.

like ms sheehan, ms will wants something she's not gonnna get from the older men whom she considers responsible for her son's death.

like ms. sheehan's son, ms will's boy believed he was doing the right thing. casey sheehan was a volunteer who'd re enlisted. ms will's son had to do more than merely volunteer. he had to compete against thousands of others in order to prove himself one of a relative handful who are accepted for training.

like ms sheehan, ms will blames the men at the top of the organization--who devised the strategy, approved the mission and delegated responsibility to the men to whom her son reported--for his death.

like ms sheehan, ms will might easily be seen as irrational for refusing to accept less than she demanded. like ms. sheehan, ms will would not just sit down and shut up. like ms sheehan, there have been suggestions ms will was purposely being intransigent and badly served by those who support her.

like ms sheehan, ms will has exhausted her legal options. hoping to force officials to apologize, she'd been demanding a jury trial and a memorial to her son.

on august 15, 2005, a judge ordered her to accept the $16 million dollar settlement ms will had previously refused when offered without an apology from northwestern university.

there will be no apology from northwestern's executive, its directors, heads of several athletic departments, the coach who ordered her son, rashidi wheeler, to engage in a drill outlawed by the ncaa, other coaches who continued to time wheeler's team members rather than stop to help him, the doctor who somehow 'accidentally' destroyed rashidi's final physical examination results nor is there going to be an apology from the trainers who knew wheeler was asthmatic but were seeming unable to recognize he was having a deadly asthma attack until it was too late.

northwestern spokesperson al cubbage, speaking for the university, said "We are truly sorry this unfortunate, tragic incident occurred"

cubbage then opined, ""That, in my mind, is an apology."

that. in my mind. is the statement of someone who's really fulla shit.

like cubbage, president george bush may suffer from the same condition.

jak sie masz

Comments (Page 2)

ParaTed2k

on Aug 29, 2005

Kingbee... Most of what we have discussed we can go back and forth on. No, I don't give CNS a pass on my criticism of the press, but just because I think even you are wrong at times doesn't mean I wouldn't agree with you at others.

The chain of command is there for good reason. By the time it gets as high as the civilian leadership it is basically advisory information. Gen. Abizaid is looking for an "approve/disapprove" answer. By that time all the field commanders have given their opinion, based on the situation and it is Gen. Abizaid who runs the show (not anyone in Washington). Micromanagement is not a good system of leadership.

We can agree to disagree on sources and opinions, that is what makes politics so much fun to discuss! ;~D

Cindy Sheehan has come out in support of those who killed her son

not at all.

The minute she started thinking of the bacteria that killed her son as "Freedom Fighters", she chose sides... and not the side her son fought and died for. Apparently she would rather see the terrorists have free reign over the people of Iraq than see them build a Constitutional government.

Afterall, what does anyone in the "Bring the Troops Home Now" crowd expect will happen if we leave before the people and government of Iraq are prepared to be independent?

Like I said before though, you did a great job of writing an interesting article.

Now excuse me as I go walk my Betta. ;~D

Lee1776

on Aug 29, 2005

the invasion could have as easily taken place 6 months later if that was the amount of time required to do it properly.

It could not have taken place six months later. From personnel experience of the area, I know first hand that any military maneuvers (let alone war) conducted during that time of year in the Iraqi Desert would have killed scores more of Allied soldiers, do to heat causalities alone. The heat that bakes that Iraq is worse then "Death Valley" in August. Add in the knocking down of Iraqi power grid during that heat, would cause a humanitarian disaster.

Also, try keeping near 200,000 western troops bottled up in Kuwait, Turkey, or any other Arab country (at that time) out of political trouble for six months would be imposable. Add in the suicide bomber fact (yes they would of attracted them too), and auto accident rates (remember most of the first wars causalities was by accident). Let alone the cost of maintaining an Army in a air conditioned tent city.

Then lets give Saddam another six months of building defenses. How many more would have died from that?

Six more months was not an option, militarily speaking. All the military Generals had advised an invasion that had to happen then and not later. That even includes the left's darlings Gen. Shinseki, who by the way is one of the most hated Army Chief of Staffs by the common soldier in resent history.

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