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http://www.nikkanberita.com/
News & Features
2005/08/12 08:02:44 更新
息子はなぜイラクで死んだのか ブッシュ大統領に面会求め母親が抗議の座り込み
【コングレス（米アリゾナ州）１１日＝マクレーン末子】ブッシュ米大統領は、現在テキサス州クロフォードにある私邸の農場で５週間の休暇中である。その私邸近くで、２００４年にイラクで戦死した米兵士の母親シンデイ・シーハンさんが、６日から「何のために息子は死んだのか」と、道路脇にテントを張り抗議の座り込みを続けている。シーハンさんは、大統領に直接会って質問したいという。シーハンさんへの支援の輪は全米で大きなうねりとなって広がっている。（2005/08/12）
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以下は「反撃」英文記事：
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http://counterpunch.org/ferner08092005.html
August 9, 2005
Cindy Sheehan in Dallas
What One Mom has to Say to Bush
By MIKE FERNER
“That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of
war,” Cindy Sheehan told 200 cheering members of Veterans For Peace at
their annual convention in Dallas last Friday evening. She then announced
she would go to Bush’s vacation home in nearby Crawford, Texas and camp out
until he “tells me why my son died in Iraq. I’ve got the whole month of
August off, and so does he.”
Sheehan left the VFP meeting on Saturday morning and is now in Crawford with
a couple dozen veterans and local peace activists, waiting for Bush to talk
with her. She said in Dallas that if he sends anyone else to see her, as
happened when national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy White House
chief of staff Joe Hagin did later that day, she would demand that “You get
that maniac out here to talk with me in person.”
She told the audience of veterans from World War Two to today’s war in
Iraq, that the two main things she plans to tell the man she holds
responsible for son Casey’s death are “Quit saying that U.S. troops died
for a noble cause in Iraq, unless you say, ‘well, except for Casey Sheehan.’
Don’t you dare spill any more blood in Casey’s name. You do not have
permission to use my son’s name.”
“And the other thing I want him to tell me is ‘just what was the noble
cause Casey died for?’ Was it freedom and democracy? Bullshit! He died for
oil. He died to make your friends richer. He died to expand American
imperialism in the Middle East. We’re not freer here, thanks to your
PATRIOT Act. Iraq is not free. You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of
Palestine and you’ll stop the terrorism,” she exclaimed.
“There, I used the ‘I’ word ミ imperialism,” the 48 year-old mother
quipped. “And now I’m going to use another ‘I’ word ミ impeachment ミ
because we cannot have these people pardoned. They need to be tried on war
crimes and go to jail.”
As the veterans in Dallas rose to their feet, Sheehan said defiantly, “My
son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my
son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny...you give my son back and I’
ll pay my taxes. Come after me (for back taxes) and we’ll put this war on
trial.”
The co-founder of Gold Star Mothers for Peace objected to hearing that her
son was among the soldiers lost in Iraq. “He’s not lost,” she said
tearfully. “He’s dead. He became an angel while I was sleeping.”
She railed against the notion expressed by officials in the Bush
administration that bringing the troops home now would dishonor the
sacrifice of those who have died. “By sending honorable people to die, they
so dishonor themselves. They say we must complete our mission…but why would
I want one more mother to go through what I have, just because my son is
dead?”
The Vacaville, California resident said she first heard of Veterans For
Peace in early May last year, during a CNN report about an exhibit of white
crosses arranged in rows in the Santa Barbara beach. The exhibit was
organized by VFP Chapter 54 to memorialize each U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.
Her son had died the month before. “I decided there was only one place I
wanted to be on Mother’s Day that year, and it was Santa Barbara,” she
told the VFP members in Dallas.
Retired Special Forces Sgt. and VFP member, Stan Goff, today initiated a
“Talk to Cindy” campaign to get Bush to meet with Sheehan. Contact
information for the White House is: (202) 456-1111 or
comments@whitehouse.gov
Mike Ferner is a writer in Toledo, Ohio and a member of Veterans for Peace.
He can be reached at mike.ferner@sbcglobal.net
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