"Your Son May Be Better Off Dead." ... Is That What He Means?

Cindy Sheehan may have a new ally - the mother of another dead soldier, shocked and grieved by an encounter with George W. Bush's heart of stone. Dolores Kesterson, whose son Erik was killed in Iraq in 2003, was treated with an amazing lack of grace by the Commander In Chief. During a recent meeting with military families, Bush met with Kesterson, who said that her dead son's favorite saying was, "Life is good."  To which George Bush replied with characteristic loose lipped candor and brusqueness, "How do you know his life would have been good?" !!!!   Another Gold Star mom callously dissed by our trigger happy president. Young men like Erik Kesterson and Casey Sheehan are just so much cannon fodder in the Bush administration's insatiable hunger for world domination.

(Bush's challenge to Kesterson ranks right up there with Ann Coulter's equally heartless and tasteless quip about the 9/11 widows of whom she said," "And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies?..."  Birds of a feather, indeed!)

Dolores Kesterson meets the president.

By Jeff Norman
August 11, 2005

Cindy Sheehan is not the only Gold Star mom who felt disrespected after a visit with George W. Bush. Dolores Kesterson, whose son Erik was killed in Iraq in November of 2003, was among several military families who last year were invited to meet with Bush as a group. Each family was allotted ten minutes with the president, but because she is divorced from her husband, Dolores asked to speak with Bush one-on-one.

Dolores reports exclusively for U.S. Tour of Duty that she waited alone in a small partitioned area, wondering if her request would be granted, before a Bush aide suddenly announced, "The president will now see you." As the commander in chief strode briskly toward her, it seemed to Dolores that he was trying to intimidate her. "He came marching in and got right in my face...eyeball to eyeball, and said, 'I'm George Bush, the president of the United States, and I understand you have something to say to me in private.'"

Dolores tried to give Bush a sense of what type of person Erik had been. She described her son as a "comedian" whose favorite saying was, "Life is good." The president replied, "How do you know his life would have been good?"

Dolores was shocked by Bush's eagerness to question the value of her son's life. She told the president, "Nobody wants to die."

Before he concluded their meeting, Bush proclaimed to Dolores, "We won't know in our lifetime whether or not Iraq was a success."

Here is an account of Kesterson's encounter with anothe right wing bully, Bill O'Reilly.

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[GhostRose]

George Bush is a certified I-D-I-O-T by royal appointment. And I'm not even American...