FORGET THE POLITICS, MEET WITH DEAD SOLDIER'S MOTHER


The Miami Herald joins the chorus of thousands of newspapers across the county and tens of thousands of Americans calling for Bush to meet with Cindy Sheehan. The paper states:

The point is that when a president asks people to go to war, there is no separation by politics among those who serve. Our soldiers are conservative and liberal, black and white, atheist and religiously devout. In combat, those labels are irrelevant. The goal is to defeat the enemy and survive.

The president alone makes the final decision to ask each American soldier to make the ultimate sacrifice. He does so because he thinks the cause is just. Thus, it is his duty and obligation to console those who have made the sacrifice. President Bush owes it to himself and to all Americans to put politics aside for a shared moment of grief with a mother who has lost her son. That's what this is about -- nothing more, nothing less. President Bush has done it before. He should do it now.

And that is a major point here, isn't it? At least one that boths sides must consider. This is about war and peace, life and death, not Democrat and Republican. Our politicians have become so wrapped up in the politics of everything, that they forgotten about people. They are careless and curt, they never answer the real questions or provide any real motives. Everything is for the benefit of the pocketbook, not the voters. Dan Frookin, of the Washington Post looks into what this Sheenan phenomenon all means. And the politics still remain. He quotes his colleague: "The White House thinks this whole story is a silly obsession of bored reporters with nothing better to do during the slow August."

That is what we have come to expect from this Administration and this government...