You Can Protest the War until You Turn Blue But Never Slur a Dead Soldier

Whatever is in your mind when you protest a war is your own business. You may claim your freedom to protest, and cry out your loudest complaint to high heavens against this war in Iraq until your lungs burst out, or until hell freezes over, whichever comes first, in which case I wish you luck.

Just don’t smear a dead soldier who fought and died for this country even as you flaunt your right to protest, for if you do, this nation will step down on you as an imp more treacherous than a rotten scoundrel.

Definitely, that’s neither good for you nor it is for all of us. If you shame a dead soldier, obviously you become a national problem, which is everybody’s business. It is time to tell you that the swinging elbow of your freedom to protest is landing on someone else’s nose.

The dead soldier I am referring to is Casey, the son of Cindy Sheehan who died while on active duty in Iraq.

Like many of our fallen heroes, Casey loved this country like we all do; he chose this opportunity to die for his country like all of us would chose given the same opportunity, except for a few of what one of my upset readers -- who endorsed my editorial insight on this subject -- called a bunch of anti-war loonies more screwy than Casey’s mother Cindy.

This opportunist mom and her sycophants that beat the drum of protests in the streets, dishonored her son’s death in war, brought shame to this nation’s finest tradition on soldiery, disgraced American soldiers that are now turning in their grave, and undermined our national resolve to win this war on terror. I shall deal with each of these one by one shortly in subsequent short paragraphs.

But first these significant trivia: The anti-war loony comment I received after the American Chronicle and affiliates published my article -- Sheehan Not a Grieving Mother But Only a Caricature of a Silly Idea -- Aug. 23, 2005, was one of those “noxious” reactions directed against Casey’s mother Cindy who allowed left-wingers and liberal Bush-bashers to reportedly use her personal TV-covered war protest in exchange for an unidentified fortune, purposely to demonize Bush and embarrass his administration in preparation for the next 2008 presidential election.

Sheehan has no anti-war perspective when she and President Bush were seen embracing each other in a previously published picture. The President was expressing in public his condolence and sympathy to the mothers of our fallen war heroes in Iraq.

About six months later, Sheehan turned berserk on Bush. Suddenly, she became eloquent with a crappy anti-Bush verbal abuse and very articulate in mouthing a scripted left-wing liberal war protest, and very moving even in philosophizing the death of her son in Iraq as “murder”. There is no doubt that Bush’s political opponents had successfully devised a scheme to use Sheehan against the President for a purpose toxic to our national interest. If the planned anti-war Washington March of the misled marked next month materializes, history will record this publicly organized infamy.

Surprisingly, a number of those harsh comments on counter war protests came from liberals themselves who had been scandalized by a mother’s betrayal of her son’s supreme sacrifice for the fatherland – some kind of a mother which in the eyes of those outraged, has been possessed by the evil spirit of the radical left, and now needs to be exorcised by the holy well of reason.

As Cindy’s carnival of anti-war protest goes on near Bush’s ranch in Texas even as I am writing this piece, I continue to receive those conservative counter protests like spits directed upward in the sky that fall flat on the face of everybody that is hard to wash off with soap and a clean towel or difficult to deodorize with antiseptic perfume of civility to calm down the most disquieted.

They have their strong reasons to ostracize Sheehan and her manipulators who pull the strings of this anti-war puppetry in Texas, while the Sheehan campers themselves have their reasons to demonize and demoralize Bush for some envisioned political gains. Who are the victims in the firing line? We are.

To begin with, in this imbroglio, I find Sheehan’s war protests as a liberal-left-wing commercialized pageantry laced and decorated in its ugliness with an obvious clandestine political purpose. They fire their canons of protests like cannons of war that have no relevance to our national security, except that it aggravates the danger of international terrorism as it gives aid and comfort to the enemy.

I am almost certain, perhaps as you are if you are, that the enemies of freedom, notably Al Qaeda and their cadre of terror are celebrating at this moment as they watch on stage this choreographed Sheehan anti-war media production unfolds right before their eyes.

On the other hand, because it is inimical to our national interest, I find the counter pro-war protest against this tinseled but dangerous anti-war protest that is transpiring in Texas, as a possible antidote to this mental affliction that infects others and now spreading nationwide as some kind of a political plague.

Because this mom Sheehan allowed herself to be used by the “grieving” malcontents of our highly politicized society, to commercialize in TV her son’s death as a soldier in a negative way, is the vilest wickedness a mother could ever do to the memory of her son who perished in combat. Instead of bestowing a medal of honor, the crown of dishonor that Casey’s mother gave, reminds us of that elongated tiara of thorns that the Roman crucifiers in Calvary hammered deep into Christ’s head to humiliate him as the King of Jews.

The weirdest sell out of an idea from the left that I have so far come across at this point in time is that those Sheehan disciples of protest are preaching that they should be the ones to select the kind of war that a soldier must die for. To them the war in Iraq is not to their liking, therefore the soldiers that died there should not be honored by this country but instead should be regarded as victims of “murder” because they believed those soldiers were sent out there not to die for the United States but for Israel…!

Casey’s mourners led by his ideologically corrupted mother, shed crocodile tears on this particular declaration of protest, which many including myself, noticed with noxious repugnance and unconcealed revulsion. In her own poetic eloquence for words, my journalist better-half described this macabre leftist liberal thinking as a mental atrophy unparalleled in its psychotic distortion.

Not only that this prostitution of the finest tradition of our national soldiery for a sell out TV coverage to assassinate the Bush administration brought shame into the resting ground of our dead soldiers but it also cast doubt in the minds of our combatants in the battlefront, and undermined their resolve to win this war on terror. This sick and rapidly growing anti-war idea contaminates the soldier’s bunkers, and like a new virus, invades the nation’s mental computers. The less educated are more vulnerable to joining this misguided protest that is spreading like wildfire.

One of my readers who reacted quite philosophically argued that we should pay more attention to one’s right to protest as an inimitable virtue of our Western democracy. He cited many authorities to prove the importance of protest in a democracy, among which was Voltaire who may not agree but would die for his opponent’s right to disagree.

I advised this gentleman not to waste his time on what he was arguing about because it was not about one’s right to protest that is in issue, but knowing what you are protesting against, and why. Does he know the issue of the day? He does not. Does he know how to argue? No he does not because he does not know what he will be arguing about in the first place.

For example, if you are protesting the war in Iraq because you only want to call President Bush all sorts of names to relieve a painful political neurosis since the defeat of liberal candidate Sen. John Kerry in the last presidential election, then you know nothing of this Iraq war that you are protesting against.

If only what you know is that we are in Iraq because you think Bush screwed up, then you have no idea at all how this nation has responded to the 9/11 carnage, and why. If you don’t know why more than 6,000 Americans died in New York and Washington, D.C., and many more will die in similar terrorist attacks if you don’t care because all you care about is to kick Bush out of office, then you really don’t know what you are protesting about.

It’s not about your right to protest, dud … I reminded this chap who admitted to have advanced in age, but impaired by insufficient education, is still growing up in many ways.

Reminiscent of our journalism days in philosophy and letters (Philets), I argued with my wife this chap’s right to protest before I wrote this article. I said It’s about how the anti-war protest reasons out that should catch everyone’s attention and respect, not the kind that earns disrespect and scorn because aside from being poorly argued, the argument itself is so stupid and brainless.

I capped it up with a reminder that when you don’t even care that the building where you work explodes or the mall where you are shopping or the subway you commute with, and many other similar places you are familiar with, blow up and people are dead because you think our war on terror that is now going on is just a joke that you are laughing at, then you are protesting blind like that proverbial bat, and to borrow my grandma’s favorite expression, may someone up there have mercy on your soul.

As long as you do not shame our dead heroes who forfeited their lives that you may live, with an excuse that you are a mother of a dead soldier and therefore you have the right to defecate on their grave, you are okay even though you took a piece of silver for it, and like Judas your presence can be ignored while you seek a tree to hang by the neck.

Just don’t call the death of our soldiers in Iraq “murder”, thus giving a psychological aid and comfort to the enemy. If you do, you owe the greatness of such treacherous remarks to their ruin.

Our dead soldiers dwell on the hallowed ground of our memory. They are sacred. We should not forget that this nation honored, sanctified and deified their immortality far beyond the reach of conniving charlatans and protesting zombies of the left. © Edwin A. Sumcad August 30, 2005

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Whatever is in your mind when you protest a war is your own business. You may claim your freedom to protest, and cry out your loudest complaint to high heavens against this war in Iraq until your lungs burst out, or until hell freezes over, whichever comes first, in which case I wish you luck.

Just don’t smear a dead soldier who fought and died for this country even as you flaunt your right to protest, for if you do, this nation will step down on you as an imp more treacherous than a rotten scoundrel.

Definitely, that’s neither good for you nor it is for all of us. If you shame a dead soldier, obviously you become a national problem, which is everybody’s business. It is time to tell you that the swinging elbow of your freedom to protest is landing on someone else’s nose.

The dead soldier I am referring to is Casey, the son of Cindy Sheehan who died while on active duty in Iraq.

Like many of our fallen heroes, Casey loved this country like we all do; he chose this opportunity to die for his country like all of us would chose given the same opportunity, except for a few of what one of my upset readers -- who endorsed my editorial insight on this subject -- called a bunch of anti-war loonies more screwy than Casey’s mother Cindy.

This opportunist mom and her sycophants that beat the drum of protests in the streets, dishonored her son’s death in war, brought shame to this nation’s finest tradition on soldiery, disgraced American soldiers that are now turning in their grave, and undermined our national resolve to win this war on terror. I shall deal with each of these one by one shortly in subsequent short paragraphs.

But first these significant trivia: The anti-war loony comment I received after the American Chronicle and affiliates published my article -- Sheehan Not a Grieving Mother But Only a Caricature of a Silly Idea -- Aug. 23, 2005, was one of those “noxious” reactions directed against Casey’s mother Cindy who allowed left-wingers and liberal Bush-bashers to reportedly use her personal TV-covered war protest in exchange for an unidentified fortune, purposely to demonize Bush and embarrass his administration in preparation for the next 2008 presidential election.

Sheehan has no anti-war perspective when she and President Bush were seen embracing each other in a previously published picture. The President was expressing in public his condolence and sympathy to the mothers of our fallen war heroes in Iraq.

About six months later, Sheehan turned berserk on Bush. Suddenly, she became eloquent with a crappy anti-Bush verbal abuse and very articulate in mouthing a scripted left-wing liberal war protest, and very moving even in philosophizing the death of her son in Iraq as “murder”. There is no doubt that Bush’s political opponents had successfully devised a scheme to use Sheehan against the President for a purpose toxic to our national interest. If the planned anti-war Washington March of the misled marked next month materializes, history will record this publicly organized infamy.

Surprisingly, a number of those harsh comments on counter war protests came from liberals themselves who had been scandalized by a mother’s betrayal of her son’s supreme sacrifice for the fatherland – some kind of a mother which in the eyes of those outraged, has been possessed by the evil spirit of the radical left, and now needs to be exorcised by the holy well of reason.

As Cindy’s carnival of anti-war protest goes on near Bush’s ranch in Texas even as I am writing this piece, I continue to receive those conservative counter protests like spits directed upward in the sky that fall flat on the face of everybody that is hard to wash off with soap and a clean towel or difficult to deodorize with antiseptic perfume of civility to calm down the most disquieted.

They have their strong reasons to ostracize Sheehan and her manipulators who pull the strings of this anti-war puppetry in Texas, while the Sheehan campers themselves have their reasons to demonize and demoralize Bush for some envisioned political gains. Who are the victims in the firing line? We are.

To begin with, in this imbroglio, I find Sheehan’s war protests as a liberal-left-wing commercialized pageantry laced and decorated in its ugliness with an obvious clandestine political purpose. They fire their canons of protests like cannons of war that have no relevance to our national security, except that it aggravates the danger of international terrorism as it gives aid and comfort to the enemy.

I am almost certain, perhaps as you are if you are, that the enemies of freedom, notably Al Qaeda and their cadre of terror are celebrating at this moment as they watch on stage this choreographed Sheehan anti-war media production unfolds right before their eyes.

On the other hand, because it is inimical to our national interest, I find the counter pro-war protest against this tinseled but dangerous anti-war protest that is transpiring in Texas, as a possible antidote to this mental affliction that infects others and now spreading nationwide as some kind of a political plague.

Because this mom Sheehan allowed herself to be used by the “grieving” malcontents of our highly politicized society, to commercialize in TV her son’s death as a soldier in a negative way, is the vilest wickedness a mother could ever do to the memory of her son who perished in combat. Instead of bestowing a medal of honor, the crown of dishonor that Casey’s mother gave, reminds us of that elongated tiara of thorns that the Roman crucifiers in Calvary hammered deep into Christ’s head to humiliate him as the King of Jews.

The weirdest sell out of an idea from the left that I have so far come across at this point in time is that those Sheehan disciples of protest are preaching that they should be the ones to select the kind of war that a soldier must die for. To them the war in Iraq is not to their liking, therefore the soldiers that died there should not be honored by this country but instead should be regarded as victims of “murder” because they believed those soldiers were sent out there not to die for the United States but for Israel…!

Casey’s mourners led by his ideologically corrupted mother, shed crocodile tears on this particular declaration of protest, which many including myself, noticed with noxious repugnance and unconcealed revulsion. In her own poetic eloquence for words, my journalist better-half described this macabre leftist liberal thinking as a mental atrophy unparalleled in its psychotic distortion.

Not only that this prostitution of the finest tradition of our national soldiery for a sell out TV coverage to assassinate the Bush administration brought shame into the resting ground of our dead soldiers but it also cast doubt in the minds of our combatants in the battlefront, and undermined their resolve to win this war on terror. This sick and rapidly growing anti-war idea contaminates the soldier’s bunkers, and like a new virus, invades the nation’s mental computers. The less educated are more vulnerable to joining this misguided protest that is spreading like wildfire.

One of my readers who reacted quite philosophically argued that we should pay more attention to one’s right to protest as an inimitable virtue of our Western democracy. He cited many authorities to prove the importance of protest in a democracy, among which was Voltaire who may not agree but would die for his opponent’s right to disagree.

I advised this gentleman not to waste his time on what he was arguing about because it was not about one’s right to protest that is in issue, but knowing what you are protesting against, and why. Does he know the issue of the day? He does not. Does he know how to argue? No he does not because he does not know what he will be arguing about in the first place.

For example, if you are protesting the war in Iraq because you only want to call President Bush all sorts of names to relieve a painful political neurosis since the defeat of liberal candidate Sen. John Kerry in the last presidential election, then you know nothing of this Iraq war that you are protesting against.

If only what you know is that we are in Iraq because you think Bush screwed up, then you have no idea at all how this nation has responded to the 9/11 carnage, and why. If you don’t know why more than 6,000 Americans died in New York and Washington, D.C., and many more will die in similar terrorist attacks if you don’t care because all you care about is to kick Bush out of office, then you really don’t know what you are protesting about.

It’s not about your right to protest, dud … I reminded this chap who admitted to have advanced in age, but impaired by insufficient education, is still growing up in many ways.

Reminiscent of our journalism days in philosophy and letters (Philets), I argued with my wife this chap’s right to protest before I wrote this article. I said It’s about how the anti-war protest reasons out that should catch everyone’s attention and respect, not the kind that earns disrespect and scorn because aside from being poorly argued, the argument itself is so stupid and brainless.

I capped it up with a reminder that when you don’t even care that the building where you work explodes or the mall where you are shopping or the subway you commute with, and many other similar places you are familiar with, blow up and people are dead because you think our war on terror that is now going on is just a joke that you are laughing at, then you are protesting blind like that proverbial bat, and to borrow my grandma’s favorite expression, may someone up there have mercy on your soul.

As long as you do not shame our dead heroes who forfeited their lives that you may live, with an excuse that you are a mother of a dead soldier and therefore you have the right to defecate on their grave, you are okay even though you took a piece of silver for it, and like Judas your presence can be ignored while you seek a tree to hang by the neck.

Just don’t call the death of our soldiers in Iraq “murder”, thus giving a psychological aid and comfort to the enemy. If you do, you owe the greatness of such treacherous remarks to their ruin.

Our dead soldiers dwell on the hallowed ground of our memory. They are sacred. We should not forget that this nation honored, sanctified and deified their immortality far beyond the reach of conniving charlatans and protesting zombies of the left. © Edwin A. Sumcad August 30, 2005

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