MOVE OVER, CINDY: BUSH SINGLES OUT OTHER MILITARY MOM…

U.S. President George W. Bush (L) hugs Tammy Pruett, who has four sons currently stationed in Iraq, after speaking to members of the Idaho National Guard and their families in Nampa, Idaho, August 24, 2005.Bush continued to emphasize the need for the U.S. to maintain a military presence in Iraq until the country’s situation has stabilized.

Matt Drudge has MOVE OVER, CINDY: BUSH SINGLES OUT OTHER MILITARY MOM

NAMPA, Idaho — President Bush today took direct aim at Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war protester who has set up camp near the Bushes Texas ranch and purports to speak for military moms who, like her, have lost a son in the Iraq war.

Speaking to hundreds of Idaho National Guardsmen, the president singled out military mom Tammy Pruett of Pocatello, Idaho, whose husband and five sons have all served in Iraq.

“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 that you believe in. America lives in freedom because of families like the Pruetts.”

The crowd, made up mostly of military family members, broke into cheers and chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!”

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The Pruetts have four sons serving in combat in Iraq. Eric, Evan, Greg and Jeff are completing an 18-month tour of duty in Iraq with the Army National Guard. Leon and the couple’s fifth son, Eren, are just back from Iraq, and daughter Emily would have gone but had not completed her training when her brothers shipped out.

Why would one family be willing to risk so much for the war in Iraq? The Pruetts feel it is their duty to serve, that other people in the world have a right to some of the freedoms and privileges Americans have. And, as Tammy Pruett says, “If not my sons, then whose?”

Wow!

What a family and what a mother!

Cindy Sheehan – pack up your left-wing groupie bunch and go home.

After a four-month separation, Evan, Jeff, Eric and Greg Pruett, from left, met in Kirkuk in April

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