Hey Cindy, I know a way to "soften up" that image...
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
it was probably sarcasm)
Posted on 08/22/2005 6:10:16 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 14); Hypocrites and liars
Saturday, August 20th, 2005
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan
The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. Now I am urged to use softer language to appeal to a wider audience. Why do my friends at Camp Casey think they are there? Why did such a big movement occur from such a small action on August 6, 2005?
I haven't had much time to analyze the Camp Casey phenomena. I just read that I gave 250 interviews in less than a week's time. I believe it. I would go to bed with a raw throat every night. I got pretty tired of answering some questions, like: 'What do you want to say to the President?' and 'Do you really think he will meet with you?' However, since my mom has been sick, I have had a chance to step back and ponder the flood gates that I opened in Crawford, TX.
I just read an article posted today on LewRockwell.com by artist Robert Shetterly who painted my portrait. The article reminded me of something I said at the Veterans for Peace Convention the night before I set out to Bush's ranch in my probable futile quest for the truth. This is what I said:
"I got an email the other day and it said, 'Cindy if you didn't use so much profanity. there's people on the fence that get offended.'
"And you know what I said? 'You know what? You know what, god damn it? How in the world is anybody still sitting on that fence'
"If you fall on the side that is pro-George and pro-war, you get your ass over to Iraq, and take the place of somebody who wants to come home. And if you fall on the side that is against this war and against George Bush, stand up and speak out."
This is what the Camp Casey miracle is all about. American citizens who oppose the war but never had a conduit for their disgust and dismay are dropping everything and traveling to Crawford to stand in solidarity with us who have made a commitment to sit outside of George's ranch for the duration of the miserable Texan August. If they can't come to Texas, they are attending vigils, writing letters to their elected officials and to their local newspapers; they are setting up Camp Casey branches in their hometowns; they are sending flowers, cards, letters, gifts, and donations here to us at Camp Casey. We are so grateful for all of the support, but I think pro-peace Americans are grateful for something to do, finally.
One thing I haven't noticed or become aware of though is an increased number of pro-war, pro-Bush people on the other side of the fence enlisting to go and fight George Bush's war for imperialism and insatiable greed. The pro-peace side has gotten off their apathetic butts to be warriors for peace and justice. Where are the pro-war people? Everyday at Camp Casey we have a couple of anti-peace people on the other side of the road holding up signs that remind me that 'Freedom isn't Free' but I don't see them putting their money where their mouths are. I don't think they are willing to pay even a small down payment for freedom by sacrificing their own blood or the flesh of their children. I still challenge them to go to Iraq and let another soldier come home. Perhaps a soldier that is on his/her third tour of duty, or one that has been stop-lossed after serving his/her country nobly and selflessly, only to be held hostage in Iraq by power mad hypocrites who have a long history of avoiding putting their own skin in the game.
Contrary to what the main stream media thinks, I did not just fall off a pumpkin truck in Crawford, TX on that scorching hot day two weeks ago. I have been writing, speaking, testifying in front of Congressional committees, lobbying Congress, and doing interviews for over a year now. I have been pretty well known in the progressive, peace community and I had many, many supporters before I even left California. The people who supported me did so because they know that I uncompromisingly tell the truth about this war. I have stood up and said: 'My son died for NOTHING, and George Bush and his evil cabal and their reckless policies killed him. My son was sent to fight in a war that had no basis in reality and was killed for it.' I have never said 'pretty please' or 'thank you.' I have never said anything wishy-washy like he uses 'Patriotic Rhetoric.' I say my son died for LIES. George Bush LIED to us and he knew he was LYING. The Downing Street Memos dated 23 July, 2002 prove that he knew that Saddam didn't have WMDs or any ties to Al Qaeda. I believe that George lied and he knew he was lying. He didn't use patriotic rhetoric. He lied and made us afraid of ghosts that weren't there. Now he is using patriotic rhetoric to keep the U.S. military presence in Iraq: Patriotic rhetoric that is based on greed and nothing else.
Now I am being vilified and dragged through the mud by the righties and so-called 'fair and balanced' main stream media who are afraid of the truth and can't face someone who tells it by telling any truth of their own. Now they have to twist, distort, lie, and scrutinize anything I have ever said when they never scrutinize anything that George Bush said or is saying. Instead of asking George or Scotty McClellan if he will meet with me, why aren't they asking the questions they should have been asking all along: "Why are our young people fighting, dying, and killing in Iraq? What is this noble cause you are sending our young people to Iraq for? What do you hope to accomplish there? Why did you tell us there were WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda when you knew there weren't? Why did you lie to us? Why did you lie to the American people? Why did you lie to the world? Why are our nation's children still in harm's way and dying everyday when we all know you lied? Why do you continually say we have to 'complete the mission' when you know damn well you have no idea what that mission is and you can change it at will like you change your cowboy shirts?"
Camp Casey has grown and prospered and survived all attacks and challenges because America is sick and tired of liars and hypocrites and we want the answers to the tough questions that I was the first to dare ask. THIS is George Bush's accountability moment and he is failing miserably. George Bush and his advisers seriously 'misunderestimated' me when they thought they could intimidate me into leaving before I had the answers, or before the end of August. I can take anything they throw at me, or Camp Casey. If it shortens the war by a minute or saves one life, it is worth it. I think they seriously 'misunderestimated' all mothers. I wonder if any of them had authentic mother-child relationships and if they are surprised that there are so many mothers in this country who are bear-like when it comes to wanting the truth and who want to make meaning of their child's needless and seemingly meaningless deaths?
The Camp Casey movement will not die until we have a genuine accounting of the truth and until our troops are brought home. Get used to it George, we are not going away.
That said, she has also told us the game plan of her handlers and users.
They want her to soften her rhetoric, soften her appearance, to put a "motherly look" on the Anti-American movement.
As Doctor Raoul said in his phone call to the Atlanta NPR radio show last night, the Leftists know that they can't push the anti-war movement like they did back in the 60s, with a bunch of hippies. They need to use families of dead soldiers.
Sheehan is a handy prop.
Now they just need to soften up her rough, angry, crazed anti-American and anti-Semitic public commentary.
If any of you all reading this can find a way to get to Crawford, Texas for the big Move America Forward caravan and troop support rally, your attendance and participation will be a great boost for the troops and a great blow to the Leftist Moonbats now holding Crawford hostage.
The jury's still out on that one.
I blew the link...
Save the pages before they get edited.
Same kind of deluded nonsense you'd get from micheal moore.
sounds likes a 'bot for Moore.
It's just Cindy and the MSM who still think she's truthful.
She's not polling too well.
Hey Cindy, I know a way to "soften up" that image...
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
The woman is a raving lunatic.
she's whining that she's being used by the loony left? without them she'd be a nothing.
it's all about her, ain't it? I mean without mother cindy, there would be no loony left (/sarcasm)
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Why is it that according to Ms. Sheehan everyone else, who is of differing opinions, is a liar?
She's one piece of work.
BTW... no one is pro/war. Most who support the war do so out of something worth fighting for. Obviously Casey believed that, but she hasn't gotten the message.
Hopefully this will put paid to the typical FR and NRO comments that this woman is just a "grieving mommmy being exploited" by the left.
Cynthia Sheehan hates America, always has. She is not the victim of manipulation - she was herself a skilled manipulator until she made the fatal error of buying her own press.
Maybe its the HS english teacher in me but shouldn't it be "The media IS wrong?"
why does she keep forgetting we have a VOLUNTEER military. There is no draft. Parents would be wrong to force their children to join the military. That's an individual decision. But the LW moonbats are not pro-choice on this one.
"Why are our young people fighting, dying, and killing in Iraq? What is this noble cause you are sending our young people to Iraq for? What do you hope to accomplish there? Why did you tell us there were WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda when you knew there weren't? Why did you lie to us? Why did you lie to the American people? Why did you lie to the world? Why are our nation's children still in harm's way and dying everyday when we all know you lied? Why do you continually say we have to 'complete the mission' when you know damn well you have no idea what that mission is and you can change it at will like you change your cowboy shirts?"
PING for Liberating Iraq - will answer the Qs later...
Well, they're pro-choice, as long as it's their choice that you're following.
As if there is some KinderArmy out there. Our soldiers are adults who have chosen to volunteer for service. No doubt that overbearing parents like Ms. Sheehan have helped the recruiting efforts.
"-- a message from Cindy Sheehan"
I wonder who writes and posts these messages from "her". I also wonder if she has actually ever been on the Internet.
Cindy the truth has been being told all along your just too bigoted to accept what is being said, just like all the rest of your islamofacist/communist loving friends.
My best advice to you totally misguided people is get ready to live in a ditch for a long time because your only hope is to get a complete change of the Presidency and the Congress. That's just not going to happen anytime soon........
The horse has left the barn. Mother Sheehan has been revealed for the Jewhating, America-hating leftwing loon she is. No handlers can unring that bell.
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