Burnt Orange Report

UDems Going to Crawford

By Marcus Ceniceros

Fresh off summer vacation, UT's most outstanding young politicos are planning a trip to the Texas Whitehouse to support Cindy Sheehan and other military families. The trip is scheduled for Monday August 28. UDems will meet at 9:30am in front of the Littlefield Fountain and carpool to Crawford. They carpool should be back in Austin around 7:00pm.

Anyone interested in making the trip is invited to come along. Email Alex Hunt at president@udems.org to set up carpool details. For those who haven't been to Crawford, as little as there is to see, it's an experience. I highly reccomend you try to make the trip.

Although the visit is billed as a road trip, it should be pretty serious. The Iraq war is bringing men and women our age home with flags draped over them. Critics have said that Cindy Sheehan is trying to exploit her son's death and trying to become popular or use it for political reasons. I don't care what the background is- her son is DEAD. Other mothers' children are dead- 1,700 to be exact with another 13,000 wounded. Is it not her privilege as a mother and right as an American to look the man, our president, who sent her son war in the eyes and ask why? Shouldn't we all have this right?

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, has compared Iraq to Vietnam. Hagel was quoted saying, "Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."

With talk like this coming from the president's own party, it shows that what's happening in Crawford is not just a liberal stunt. The discontent, disbelief, and disgust is real. Try your best to get to Crawford with us next Monday.