Mother of fallen soldier on "The Problem With Karl Rove's Phone"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3122

Yesterday I tried to call Karl Rove at the White House. You will not be surprised to learn that they were insulting and snippy to me and I could not get through to his office. The comment line was as close as I got and they were clueless as to why the switchboard would not transfer me to the public servant known as Mr. Rove.

If I had reached him I would have asked him as he blathered about how anxious and proud the conservatives were who jumped at the chance to have a war -- where are they now on the streets of Baghdad? My son was a very liberal Democrat, when he signed up for the National Guard no one asked, when he was deployed no one asked his opinion or his politics, and after he lost his life protecting the people looking for those weapons of mass destruction no conservative hawk came forth to take his place. Nor have they lined up at recruiters offices to answer the needs of our exhausted Army.

I hope Mr. Rove will show his true colors and sign up for a guard unit, no one is too old now, Pennsylvania guards men in their 50s are serving. If he is too busy slandering half the people in this Country perhaps he could send a child he loves dearly to take my Sherwood's place?

I hope others will ask these questions of Mr. Rove and his friends, maybe their calls will get through.

Sincerely,
Celeste Zappala, Philadelphia
Mother of Sgt. Sherwood Baker, KIA 4/26/04

[catnhatnh]

1. Your signature line is....

...amusing-but not even close....I bet I feel more for this woman's loss than the asshole in chief has ever felt for anyone....

[MissWaverly]

2. If anyone wants to take a collection for a NY times ad

I'll donate, I think an ad with the banner, Dear Mr. Rove, since you are
a federal employee who considers himself not answerable to the American people by holding all calls, we have the following message for you:

and show letters like Celeste Zappala

[wolfgirl]

3. great idea....we, the people, need to be heard

loudly and often!

[Eloriel]

6. That's a great idea -- why not float it to

some of the military/bet anti-war groups?

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Kick

Nice response from her. Sad what Rove has done.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. That's the part the "Bush Supporters" either don't see...

...or don't care about.

I mean, seriously...if Karl Rove says something bad about Ted Kennedy, Ted's a big boy now and he's heard much worse, and part of the territory is to expect cheap shots from pigs like Rove.

So if Rove or his ilk say something bad about Kennedy or Dean or any other prominent Democrat, I may not LIKE it, but I don't give much thought to how they're going to "cope."

But to have a chickenhawk coward POS like Rove...or Cheney...or BUSH...start dishing out the "Dems are THIS, Dems are THAT" crap...even if they attempt to cloak it by calling them "Liberals"...

...well, you stop for a minute and think about people like this soldier's mom. Good men and women who died a senseless death while Cheney was auditing his Halliburton stock and Bush was getting the latest scoop from Pappy on how well the Carlyle group is doing.

:grr:

[Cha]

7. This so truly SAD!

I would make a fundraiser and rent a freakin' zepplin and have those words pouring out of the SKY!

RIP! O8) Sgt Sherwood Baker

Thank you, Celeste Zappala, for telling us about your son and for speaking out against the insanity of karl rove.

[NightOwwl]

8. Wow. I wish some of our Dem leaders had asked Karl...

why he doesn't sign up to go fight in Iraq instead of asking for an apology. I think that would have caught Turdblossom off guard.

[FlyByNight]

9. Age aside, Karl is probably a...

coward too. That gene seems to be prevalent in a lot of neo-con circles.

"We'll fight to the last drop... of THEIR blood."