Cindy Sheehan: On the Road to Jericho—On the Road to Crawford

By Sara S. DeHart
August 16, 2005—Last Thursday, George W. Bush emerged from the
Crawford, Texas, White House, a former pig farm, with Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice at his side to present a carefully scripted response to
Cindy Sheehan's public dissent against the Iraqi war that was dutifully
reported in the Washington Post as news. The script expressed sympathy,
but it lacked what Cindy Sheehan has, authenticity.

Why do Bush's words "I grieve for every death" sound false and contrived?
Or when he says, "It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over
the loss of a loved one," I do not take him at his word. When he says, "I
understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes
place," It sounds like another lie.

According to Sheehan, Bush bounced into the room on the occasion of her
first audience with him shortly after her son Casey was killed saying, "Who
are we honorin' today?" This doesn't sound like a man capable of real grief.
Perhaps if Laura or the twins were among the "fallen" he would shed a
genuine tear, but there is growing public doubt that he has the capacity for
genuine sympathy, empathy or grief.

Even his use of the term "fallen" for killed speaks to his lack of genuine
emotion.

Cindy Sheehan does not ask for Bush's faux sympathy, she demands the
impossible—the truth. She knows, along with the rest of the world, that her
demands will not be met because those afflicted with Narcissistic
Personality Disorder are incapable of truth or empathy. <1>

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(standing with Dr. Frank: "if his actions revealed an unacknowledged–even sadistic—indifference to human suffering, wrapped in
pious claims of compassion, I would worry about the safety of the people whose lives he touched.")