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Updated: 4:27 PM Aug 25, 2005
Bush Supporters Turn To TV To Challenge Sheehan To Debate
A new TV spot began airing Thursday in Central Texas, challenging anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan to a debate. Posted: 4:27 PM Aug 25, 2005 |
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The father of a slain Central Texas Marine appears in a new TV spot that began airing Thursday, challenging anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan to a debate.
In the spot, Gary Qualls, whose son, Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Qualls, died in 2004 in Iraq, takes Sheehan to task for calling the President a liar and for erecting a cross bearing his son’s name as part of what he calls “your sick cause.”
“Cindy, how can you be so cruel?” Qualls asks in the spot.
“I am challenging you to a debate, “ he says. “I am waiting.”
Qualls is one of the Bush supporters who set up a camp over the weekend in Crawford named “Fort Qualls,” in honor of Louis Qualls.
The new spot hit the airwaves as a spot featuring Sheehan began to air nationally on CNN and Fox News.
Gold Star Families for Peace spent $67,000 to buy the national airtime.
The Sheehan spot has run in the Waco market as well as in Salt Lake City and Boise during the President’s visit to the two cities earlier in the week.
Meanwhile another group of Bush supporters pitched tents Thursday in the newly formed “Camp Reality” across from the anti-war protesters.
The new group, sponsored by the conservative advocacy organization Grassfire.org, is distributing some 500 pro-Bush yard signs, some of which had already showed up Thursday afternoon on fences in the area.
Click Here To Read What Central Texans Have To Say About The Crawford Protests
Attention shifted away from the protesters earlier in the week as President Bush traveled to Utah and Idaho where he delivered speeches in which he laid out the case for the war in Iraq and the need to ensure that Iraqi’s are prepared to provide security and stability before U.S. troops are withdrawn.
The President returned to Central Texas Wednesday night, about two hours after Sheehan arrived from California after spending a week with her mother, who suffered a stroke.
The number of protesters in Crawford is expected to grow over the weekend as a pro-Bush caravan arrives from California.
The Bush supporters, backed by the group Move America Forward, left San Francisco on Monday.
They plan to hold a rally and a vigil Saturday in Crawford.
Click Here For Louis Qualls Memorial Fund Web Site
Click Here For Move America Forward Web Site
Click Here For Gold Star Families For Peace Web Site
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