Paratrooper's Mom Begs Obama: 'End It'

[Mari333]

Plymouth, Mass.

As family and friends mourn a fallen U.S. paratrooper on Veteran's Day, his mother made an emotional plea to President Barack Obama that it's time to either bring home the troops or end the war in Afghanistan.

The body of Benjamin Sherman, 21, was recovered in Afghanistan Tuesday.

"It's time we do something. This has gone on too long. They either need to come home or we need to end it," a tearful Denise Sherman said.

Sherman was on his second tour of duty when he disappeared in Afghanistan last week during a mission to resupply troops in the western part of the country. He was a paratrooper with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, based in Fort Bragg, N.C.












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[mucifer]

1. Hate to say it but there may be as many moms saying the opposite. I hope not.

But, I know there are some and they are lobbying the President also.

[Mari333]

2. good lord, any mother who wants her son to be in a war

is an insane bitch! and the worst mother in the world, period.

[mucifer]

3. I think of it more as generations of indoctrination. There are lots of military

families with generations of members who enlist and proudly die. It's very sad.

[Mari333]

4. I have met these people

they buy into the propaganda.
when my stepson was sent to Iraq in 2004, I was inundated by these people, who demanded I support the war. Instead, I protested and was roundly thrashed by them.
I wonder, now, how they are feeling about it all, because I WAS RIGHT, and its been shown they were wrong.
anyway I stand by my statement..the worst parents in the world would want their sons or daughters to go to war.

[Echo In Light]

9. They just keep on w/the same, tired rationale; "you just don't understand."

:wtf: hmmm...illegal admin installed ...long established "war" plans green lighted vis a vis conveniently timed "terror" attack...illegal invasion/occupation...you're killing in the name of corporate interests and it has ZERO to do w/"defending" jack shit ....so, sorry, but, what's not to fuckin get?

[excess_3]

5. Obama is weak

not enough strength,
for two hot potatoes at once.

health care is first

[Mari333]

6. um, soldiers are being blown to bits every day

that qualifies as health care, I think.

[excess_3]

8. the controversy a 'right-now' withdrawl from A'stan, would weaken ...

Obama's hand

[mod mom]

7. uh...I believe you are think of george bush.