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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go back to DU
I see that you signed up today to set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. She placed herself into the arena of public comment by inviting this debate. Her words and deeds are counter to those her son fought and died for. What about her DISHONOR of her son?
Go back to DU.
"A child dies and his mother grieves. Ms. Sheehan is no different."
Sheehan IS different....but I think you really know that. Expressing grief specifically by spewing every cliched leftist talking point seems like an awfully strange way to express grief. What does calling Bush "selected" have to do specifically with the war? She's not expressing grief; she's expressing her RABID LEFTIST HATE. Anyone who thinks this woman WASN'T a kook leftist before the war is naive....and now she has taken the opportunity to exploit her son's death in order to obtain the lofty position of liberal sainthood.
I prefer the term "Leftist Tool" myself.
This person displays, all the trappings of a single female (with a large dose of male hatred ) parent....
"IN MY OPINION"
Wish I had a nickel for every time one of my opinions has turned out to be dead wrong.
There have been 401 terrorist attacks WORLDWIDE, this year alone, as of August 10, 2005.
The Terrorism Research Center
www.terrorism.com
It's so hard for me to think of him as a liberal: he makes sense and he has a sense of humor.
Folks her image is a DNC talking point.
Her image is being shown on CNNinternational.
Her image is on foreign media.
The democrats are tryig to rehab their donations from OUTSIDE the USA.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Cindy's entire family can be found on Michael Moore's website. Moore and the rest of the America hating anti war types are milking them for every drop of bile they can suck out of them."
NOT SO!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461314/posts
The email is from Cherie Quarterolo, who is speaking for the family and is Casey Sheehan's godmother. The email, with the statement contained, follows:
Hello again Melanie,
Our family has been so distressed by the recent activities of Cindy we are breaking our silence and we have collectively written a statement for release. Feel free to distribute it as you wish. Thanks – Cherie
In response to questions regarding the Cindy Sheehan/Crawford Texas issue:
Sheehan Family Statement:
The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.
Sincerely,
Casey Sheehan's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.
WOW !!!!!
THat is AMAZING!!
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THAT!!!
That makes her even MORE despicable.
This just begs for a counter protest there HOWEVER, it would just draw attention to her.
What should happen is the other side of the family needs to go on TV and say nothing but the good things they feel about the grandson's service and merit of the cause they see.
Just ignore the wacko.
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