Posted on 08/28/2005 2:08:14 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
As most of you know, Cindy Sheehan is camped out near the President’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, demanding he meet with her and answer for her son Casey’s death in Iraq. I’d like Sheehan to answer some questions herself, and since the big media isn’t taking care of business (see my first question if you doubt me) I’d like a shot. If I could interview her, this is what I’d be asking:
I’d ask why, in an interview with Mark Knoller of CBS News, she said “But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in…” (Oh, and I’d ask Mark Knoller why that statement never aired. If Donald Rumsfeld called these guys “freedom fighters” we’d hear about it for months.)
I’d ask how people who call themselves “Al Qaeda in Iraq” and are led by a Bin-laden lieutenant qualify as “freedom fighters.”
I’d ask about the recent incident where these “freedom fighters” rolled an SUV filled with explosives up to a group of children getting candy from American troops and blew them all up. Specifically, I’d ask what freedom those men were fighting for when they killed those children.
I’d ask her to cite one of the lies she says the Iraq war is based on—a specific checkable quote by the President, his staff or cabinet. Since the anti-war Left claims this lying went on for years, she should have no problem identifying one.
I’d ask her to do the same for any statement where an administration member blamed Iraq for the September 11th attacks.
I’d ask about the two different stories about her meeting with the President. In June 2004 she told her hometown newspaper the following: "I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis. I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss.” In 2005 she told Chris Matthews of MSNBC that Bush was grinning and “acted like he was at a party.”
I’d ask why, if Bush was such a lout at the event honoring her son, she is leaning in for him to kiss her on the cheek in one of the photos taken at the event.
I’d ask why she told that same newspaper she asked the President to make Casey’s death count for something, but now advocates a pullout.
I’d ask why she told an audience at San Francisco state University that America is not worth dying for, and that any view that America is a good country is…well, we won’t use that word in a family newspaper.
I’d ask why she told them that the Bush administration may have engineered or failed to stop the September 11th attacks to push their “neo-con agenda” through.
I’d ask why she called Osama bin-Laden an alleged terrorist down in Crawford on Thursday.
I’d ask why she opposed the liberation of Afghanistan. Were the Taliban “freedom fighters” too?
I’d ask why she told the press that her crusade has nothing to do with impeachment. Then I’d ask why she rode from Dallas to Crawford in an “Impeachment Campaign” bus.
I’d ask why she accepts support from Code Pink (who describe themselves as “holding down the fort for her at camp Casey”) and Veterans for Peace, organizations that have signed a “World Tribunal Statement” supporting the Iraqi “resistance” that killed her son.
I’d ask her opinion of Code Pink holding a war protest at Walter Reed Army Medical Center every Friday night that is scheduled so that wounded soldiers will see it.
Sheehan has said Bush has no right to use her son’s name to promote his war, so I would ask her if she and her comrades have asked each soldier’s family for permission to use his or her name on the white crosses they’ve displayed near their camp. If not, why are she and her supporters doing the same thing to these other families that she claims George Bush is doing?
I’d ask why at least one man has had to come over and remove his son’s name three times, because the peace protesters keep putting it back up.
I’d ask why she allied herself with Michael Moore, who promoted his politics with footage of a funeral and wounded soldiers over the objections of the family and the soldiers. One had been wounded in a flightline accident that could have happened anywhere. Portraying him as wounded in combat was lying for political purposes. Why one standard for Bush, and another for Moore?
I’d ask her if she applauded when Moore compared the “resistance” to the Minutemen who fought in the American Revolution.
I’d ask her to define “terrorist state,” since she says Iraq never was one.
And then I’d ask who in the world she thinks she’s fooling.
A copy of this column will be on its way to the Crawford Peace House soon, though she'll probably be gone by the time it gets there...:-)
Extra personal prerogative ping for the Canteen troops supporters!
You are obviously not a member of the MSM - you have a brain and know how to use it. Great questions.
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I would ask Cindy why she is so divorced from reality that she'd think that her son was guaranteed to come back alright.
I would ask Cindy why she is so divorced from reality that she'd think that her son was guaranteed to come back alright.
I would ask Cindy why she is so divorced from reality that she'd think that her son was guaranteed to come back alright.
If there's two things I know in this world, it's that Cindy Sheehan is camped out near the President's ranch in Crawford, TX and that John Kerry is a Vietnam Veteran.
How I know these things is a mystery. I don't know where I get this stuff from.
BUMP!
Why, thank you! I am not in the MSM, but I suppose I should own up to being a media jackal. :-)
I would ask her to get in the nice ambulance for the trip to the nut house.
Oh hell, I wouldn't waste my breath or dignify this mindless twit with an "interview".
She simply isn't worth it. A pimple on the ass of history.
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Heh-heh! thanks for the bump. I must admit, I like that part, too.
Your question is better than any of mine! I sure hope somebody asks her that soon, for her own good.
Great post. Thank you!
Click here for a message to Cindy Sheehan from General Douglas MacArthur!
Make sure your sound is on and you will hear MacArthur's actual voice.
After hearng General MacArthur's comments, can you image what he would say to her?!?
I'd ask her who she would like to see become President in 2008.
Mr. S,
Unfortunately, you have a functional noodle and would not be allowed anywhere near Camp Casey. The Dims have this well-honed ability to detect superior beings (that would include most inanimate objects).
Good Post
GREAT questions...to which you know as well as we that you'll get no reply. Logic has no place in the media. Only hype. The mass media's a nickle freak show. (posting slowly...only up to 2,951 on the live Crawford Rally thread)
You must be "channeling" with Peter Jennings! He knew those things, too.
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