by Cindy Sheehan

Tom Paine

12/21/04

[A letter to "Time" magazine]

Dear Time Editors: My son, Spc. Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq on 04/04/04. This has been an extraordinary couple of weeks of 'slaps in the faces' to us families of fallen heroes. First, the Secretary of Defense -- Donald Rumsfeld -- admits to the world something that we as military families already know: The United States was not prepared for nor had any plan for the assault on Iraq. Our children were sent to fight an ill-conceived and badly prosecuted war. Our troops were sent with the wrong type of training, bad equipment, inferior protection and thin supply lines. ... Besides the upcoming holidays and the fact we miss our children desperately, what else can go wrong this holiday season? Well let's see. Oh yes. George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to three more architects of the quagmire that is Iraq.

To top everything off ... what does Time Magazine do? Names George W. Bush as its 'Man of the Year...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp