Posted on 08/11/2005 6:55:57 AM PDT by WackySam
Casey Sheehan was a re-enlistee with the Army's 1st Cavalry. He knew he was going to fight. He understood that. He embraced it. He fought like a soldier. And like a soldier he died, killed in April of 2004, in Sadr City, Iraq.
Casey's mom, Cindy, doesn't quite get it. She is a mother who has lost her son to a war. Convinced she knows more about the costs of war than other parents who've suffered similar loss, she has parked herself outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Full of judgment and hate, calling him "selected," not elected, blaming him personally for the death of her son, this clueless woman is going to sit there until the President comes out. She's going to set him straight.
Cindy Sheehan is another bereaved parent that the anti-Iraq War movement has run its game on. Manipulating her in her sadness and anger, they've created a self-righteous ignoramus. Casey Sheehan was cut down by foreign insurgents, the same Saudi-Iranian-Syrian animals that carved up Nick Berg. But to Cindy, the man who killed her son is George Bush. Cindy believes Bush lied about our reasons for going to war and thus led her son to his death through outright deceit.
The "Bush Lied" theory has been debated and discredited but Anti-War Mom hasn't noticed. Cindy Sheehan isn't outside the Bush ranch as a truth-seeker. She's there for her public-relations potency. "I want people to know the real costs of war," she says. A mother grieving her loss. The inhumanity of war. Oh, the wickedness of it all. It's the anti-Iraq War Propaganda Machine working the sewer again.
The philosophy of the September 10th movement can be boiled down to this: "If we hadn't started anything....... then nothing would have started." Like a parent encouraging a child to avoid bullies by walking 2 blocks out of the way, the September 10th movement believes that avoidance and non-engagement would have been the way to avert 9/11, the Gulf War, Beirut...maybe even World War Two. Since that didn't happen, the anti-Iraq war Poseurs set out to revise history so they can shore up politically. "Clinton had nothing to do with any of this. It was all Bush and he (just to add a touch of true malevolence) LIED!!" No proof is offered of course. Proof means truth. And the truth is this war was unavoidable, brought on by an historic clash of culture and ideal, powered by the American people themselves, rising to meet the future, pissing off the rag heads.
Anti-War Mom raised her children in the American culture of struggle, progress, success and failure. Like many, she refused to take ownership of her government, preferring the platitude of loving her country. No people own their government more than the American people. And no other people in the world more strenuously disassociate from it when the going gets tough. And the going is always the toughest when times are good and war arrives. For Cindy Sheehan and millions of other moms the inconvenience of this could not be overstated. While she was busy chasing the good life, made possible by the millions of backstairs deals cut globally everyday through American corporations and politicians (not to mention enforced by an international security apparatus) her good life was coming up against other considerations authored in the caves of Pakistan.
At first, since it was a question of country, not government, Anti-War Mom supported the war although her loyalty to one and not the other began to impede her ability to understand things clearly. When news arrived of her sons death, her tenuous line to reality snapped. Not only was she not at all responsible for her government, she didn't much like the country either, lecturing her fellow citizens on the costs of war, arrogant in the depths of her ignorance about the prices others have paid.
Anti-War Mom might be powerful had she any ideas of her own. But since she is a mouth-piece for the September 10th movement her guns are empty. The Anti-War movement in America continues to lack anything approaching ideas or answers. But it does encourage Anti-War Mom to live in the past. It's where her son lives, they tell her. So she joins the other wayfarers in the desert, nomads whose camels follow the camel ahead, all going in a circle.
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Churchhilldisruptor is still at it! Find an issue to use it to divide.
Here's another thread for you.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461505/posts
Go beat up on this retired Marine for awhile.
If I called your mother a cow, would you sit there and smile? No normal human being would. If you're saying Casey would be ok with that, you're defaming him. I notice you couldn't answer my question - you can't give me an example of anyone who would be OK with having his mother called a cow.
Disruptors are also pigs, but their mothers are cows.
My oldest son.
Your move, clown.
The word "COW" puts its mildly, to describes what a blind fool that she truly is. Maybe if she would've spent more time listening to her son while he was still alive, she would've realized that he died for what he believed in...Yet, she still is so into HERSELF and what pain SHE is feeling, she doesn't realize that she is embarrassing her entire family as well as her American Soldier, fallen Hero child- because she appears to selfish to think of her son and WHY he lost his life. If I were Casey, I would be turning over in my grave right now in anger at her defiant actions towards the US and its leader. She is an American who supports our country when it is "CONVENIENT" for her to do so. So Cindy- Go Home!!! You are doing anything but making yourself look like a complete whack job.
HOOAH!!!!!!
There are enough words in our language to express yourself without insulting the rest of the female gender by calling her "another ignorant cow". Makes me want to serve your pair up roasted slowly--got it? Don't lose half your audience with your ridiculous name-calling. Does'nt serve your higher purpose, in fact it reminds me of the fanatics we are fighting in the way that they degrade their women.
WHATEVER YOU GODFORSAKEN FEMINISTS!!!! They aren't saying any comments towards women at all!!!! I am a woman and I'm not offended....Give it up
I am sure if "The anti-Bush protester" was a man, they would still be making some sort of offensive comment to degrade him as a person too! Nobody picked the word "COW" just to insult her personally for being a woman.
You don't know a damn thing about me--I'm as Republican as they come, I just don't like people stooping to the depths of the depraved we are fighting. Calling names accomplishes absolutely nothing. I'm angry with that woman, yes she is being used and despictably so. I just need you to quit drooling and spitting with your counter-hatred, ok?
Whatever his ultimate motives may have been, he felt it worthwhile to re-up. who knows? Courage/loyalty/duty/honor or, even, a stupid, fat, ugly cow of a communist mother.
YO MAMA....fill in the blank, let's see was her name Betty Lou Thelma Liz? LOL Ok, I feel better now that I have insulted somebody
-----I feel that "supporting the troops" means never asking a soldier to make the ultimate sacrifice for something that is not worth their life IN MY OPINION.-----
And I'm sure you've sent your email address to Congress so they can ask for your permission to declare war next time.
"What is a disgrace is the use of the term "ignorant cow" to describe anyone's mother."
Miz Cindy sure doesn't pull her punches as she constantly slanders the president and other members of the administration and calls them names. I have no respect for her whatsoever. Not only is she an ignorant cow, she is also a braying jackass who has aligned herself with the worst elements of the anti-American Left, and who is dishonoring her son and embarrassing her family.
GWB says he is not going to bring the troops home, throw the Iraqis to the wolves, and give the Islamofascists a victory. Too bad for Cindy that she doesn't agree, but plenty of other Americans do, and our opinions count just as much as hers.
You are being very kind to Madame Sheehan. And I will bow to your judgment. Thank you for serving in Vietnam. Because of how poorly the U.S. Military was treated then, I am making an extra effort today to support our troops. Again, thank you for your service.
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