A Message from Nadia McCaffrey

I was in Belgium, on a speaking tour, that particular day, I was sharing a panel with Fadwa Barghouti (Palestinian woman-leader) the audience was large, intense and mixed with people from diverse part of EU and approximately a third Muslim. I was the "bad American" at first... and, someone, a mother, wrote this... while another mother hugged me...

WARRIOR WOMEN BLUES

Two faces of women
two faces of mothers
wearing marks of grief
wearing veils of pain
wearing scars of loss
coming from different worlds
bearing the burden of
different conflicts
one from Palestine
one from the USA
united in their strength
united in their struggle
united in their hopes
for a more peaceful world
I hold their hands and
inside weep with them
for I'm a woman
I'm a mother
they are my sisters

for Fadwa Barghouti & Nadia McCaffrey
   

(Stockton, CA) -- President Bush came to Northern California yesterday to help a pair of incumbent Republican Congressmen in their re-election efforts. The president spoke before a crowd in Stockton yesterday morning at a fundraiser for Congressman Richard Pombo. Bush claimed that Iraq is the "central front" in the struggle against terrorism. Outside of the event, there were a number of people who demonstrated against the president and his policies. Among them was Nadia McCaffrey, whose soldier son was killed while serving in Iraq. She told reporters she would turn her back on Bush if he tried to speak to her. In the afternoon, the president spoke at a fundraiser for Sacramento-area Congressman John Doolittle in El Dorado Hills. Representatives Pombo and Doolittle are facing tough competition to keep their House seats this November.Original message
Anti-war demonstrator meets * supporter in Stockton
 


Anti-war demonstrator Nadia McCaffrey holds up a photo of her son, U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Ryan McCaffrey, during a rally outside of a fundraising campaign breakfast for *Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Tracy) with President Bush in Stockton, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006. McCaffrey died in Iraq in 2004. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)


 




President Bush supporter Jim Mizener, right, holds a photo of his son, Jesse Mizener, as he hugs anti-war demonstrator Nadia McCaffrey, left, during a rally outside of a fundraising campaign breakfast for *Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Tracy) with President Bush in Stockton, Calif. on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006. Both McCaffrey's and Mizener's sons died in Iraq. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)