British boy to Bush: "My daddy is in heaven."

[grasswire]

At the private meeting * had with some family of fallen British soldiers:


"Mrs Seymour had steeled herself for the meeting and took several breaths before she began talking. She told the President: "I have a three-year-old little boy who I have to bring up completely on my own now and the papers and the press are constantly reporting that there are no weapons of mass destruction. You and Mr Blair are constantly trying to reaffirm the fact that this isn't all in vain. I have to see that every day, on top of grieving for my husband." At this point, she said, "Beck chirped up and told him his 'daddy was in heaven', and Mr Bush's face just like fell, and he said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry'.

"I just said at the end of the day, my husband went away and his last words to his little boy were 'I'm going to make this a better world for other little boys and girls'. I said 'that's your duty now, you've got to make sure that happens'. And he's like 'I promise to do my best.' That was that really, he just went to talk to the others, and then came back for photos, which was very awkward."

The meeting was, she said, "very strange" and "bizarre". But the tense and sombre atmosphere was lightened by her son. "Beck was very much the ice-breaker. He lifted the spirit in the room. He was running around and looking out for helicopters and snipers up on the roof. He gave everyone something else to focus on. I don't think the President was expecting to see any children there. It's the true reality of the situation isn't it?"

The meeting was ultimately unsatisfactory, she said, since even the US President could not bring her husband back. Yet even she was disarmed by him. "It's really hard, I don't like to say this, but I actually think he was quite genuine. He seemed genuinely quite upset and quite emotional. His wife didn't say anything to me. I don't think I heard her speak once, and to be honest, she looked the disengaged one.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=466408

[drscm]

1. *Bush to little boy, "I'm sorry I'm never going to meet him." eom

eom

[NJCher]

2. if true, that's even more frightening than what I imagined

It indicates this is the first time he's ever considered the impact of his actions.


Cher

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

3. Hopefully

It might be a sign that our president actually has a consence and start making things right.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[7th_Sephiroth]

4. i think that bush might be

somewhat innocent, and a prisoner, he never hears anything for himself, and never sees protesters, i think dick and cark keep him in a bubble cause they know he has something of a concience and could be a danger to the agenda if he actually learned anything too damageing

[Cat Atomic]

5. I've no doubt he's sincere. So is Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and

all the rest. People at the top are often the most ideological of all. The problem is that their ideals are quite different from most everyone else, so they can't be honest about them.

Of course Bush thinks these deaths are tragic. He probably thinks they're in the service of a worthy cause. For Bush and his crew, control of oil reserves is a worthy cause.

[Classical_Liberal]

6. I don't think he is sincere

frankly.