George Bush wants military families to fight with each other so that he doesn't have to answer difficult questions.
There are few things more difficult in life than seeing a loved one go off to war, and here in Idaho, a mom named Tammy Pruitt...knows that feeling six times over.
Tammy has four sons serving in Iraq right now with the Idaho National Guard -- Eric, Evan, Greg, and Jeff. Last year, her husband Leon and another son Aaron returned from Iraq where they helped train Iraqi firefighters in Mosul.
Tammy says this -- and I want you to hear this -- "I know that if something happens to one of the boys, they would leave this world doing what they believe, what they think is right for our country. And I guess you couldn't ask for a better way of life than giving it for something you believe in."
America lives in freedom because of families like the Pruitts.
Bush wants military men and women to fight his war in Iraq and he wants their families to fight his war in America.
Update [2005-8-24 19:58:53 by Chris Andersen]:
Please don't direct your fire against the Pruits. Bush is deliberately using one military family as a surrogate to fight his battle with Cindy Sheehan (he is such a coward).
If we start attacking the Pruits then we will do exactly what Bush wants: turn this into a conflict between military families.
Remember what Cindy Sheehan did when a Bush supporter and father of someone who died in Iraq drove up and start criticizing her? She didn't yell back. She asked questions. She showed him his son's cross. They hugged. They cried.
Yes, that man later publicly attacked Cindy. But Cindy did not attack him back because she knows that that would make "Military families fighting with each other" the main story on the news.
Honor the Pruits for their sacrifice. Praise them for using their freedom to express their support for Bush.
Condemn Bush for using military families to fight his battles for him.