MOVE OVER, CINDY: BUSH SINGLES OUT OTHER MILITARY MOM

Wed August 24, 2005
16:53:27 EDT
NAMPA, Idaho --

President Bush today took direct aim at Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war protester who has set up camp near the Bush's 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!"