Cindy Sheehan quote: "This country is not worth dying for"

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[Jazzman1]

Interesting quote from Cindy.. Agree??

"I take responsibility partly for my son’s death, too. I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people, like my sister over here says, since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted. I’m going all over the country telling moms: “This country is not worth dying for. If we’re attacked, we would all go out. We’d all take whatever we had. I’d take my rolling pin and I’d beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq. {applause} We might not even have been attacked by Osama bin Laden if {applause}. 9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through and, if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have. The people are good, the system is morally repugnant." Quote from Cindy Sheehan in SF at anti-war rally - April 27th, 2005

[Jazzman1]

with LIBERALS like these afoot, the IRAQIS may not have a prayer at freedom.

[My2Cents]

Well, I'm not sure she's worth dying for.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If there is nothing you would die for, then there is nothing worth living for.

Maybe she ought to move to a coutry that she believes is worth dying for.

[msnimje]

People like Cindy Sheehan are not worth dying for.

[Free Baptist]

Thus far she sounds to me like both a fraud and a traitor.

[N. Theknow]

Cindy Sheehan quote: "This country is not worth dying for"

How France got started.

[oyez]

I just wish MS Sheehan could spend a month in China, India, Kenya, or even Iraq.

[kempster]

There are so many "good countries" that these people could go to. Why do they have to stay here and be so miserable everyday? Get some guts people! Move On!

[Gator101]

I would have taken him to Canada

NO YOU WOULD NOT HAVE, you crazy woman!!! Casey wouldn't have gone to Canada. Casey was a hero who doesn't deserve his mother c***ing over everthing he fought and died for!

[manwiththehands]

Cindy Sheehan is not worth dying for ... but thousands of Casey Sheehans have already died for scum like her.

[My2Cents]

If I were wealthy (I mean stinking philanthropic kind of wealthy), I'd hire my own PR firm and make a formal offer to Cindy Sheehan to fully fund a tour of Iraq so she could meet our troops, meet the Iraqi people, see for herself what we've accomplished, hear from the Iraqis themselves the horrors they lived with under Saddam, and show her that our effort there is worth the sacrifice. Of course, she wouldn't take the offer, but someone should come forward and make it and call her bluff.

[Republic]

I expect that there are more than a few thousand troops, faces burned with sand, tired and anxiety ridden from never knowing where the next road bomb will explode or where the next bullet will be coming from, hungry for the love of their nation, who, after hearing Cindy say this, wonder why their fellow Americans at home would not rally to their side, shouting down Cindy with their patriotic crys.

It has to be the hardest thing in the world to know you are risking your life for the the freedom to speak, knowing the abusive way cindy has chosen to opine upon her political leaning.

[Argus]

I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good

Well not to worry Cindy. The liberals have fixed that since you were a girl.

[Tired of Taxes]

if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go

That sounds pretty controlling. What was she going to do? Kidnap him? He was a grown man, capable of making his own decisions. He was not a little boy.

[Grampa Dave]

[AmishDude]

If she were on fire, I would urinate on her.

Then I would get out some gasoline...

[Rca2000]

I think she needs to go to one of those peace-loving countries, (like Iraq, or Syria), and see how well she is treated there.Maybe we could get a drive together, to pay for a (one way) plane ticket for her?

[ClaireSolt]

Just what every young man neads, a smothering mother!

[HarleyLady27]

This nut case isn't worth the air she breathes. She belongs on a boat headed OUT of here!

[Americanwolf]

I feel sorry for Casey in heaven having to listen to his mother make this commentary.

I beg to differ with Cindy...

This country is worth dying for... I made that commitment in my life as well as millions of others.

I realize for her it is hard to understand that dedication and commitment to an ideal it takes to serve your country. As a liberal her idea of commitment is donating to the aclu every year.

I hope that she appreciates that commitment that thousands of soldiers are still making on shores far away to guarantee her right to spout her rhetoric and drag her son's service through mud.

I hope those in the peace movement appreciate that people have died on foreign shores to guarantee their right to live and act freely on these shores.

I hope those that are lost in their world of small thinking that we can survive in a world with out conflict appreciate the sacrifice of those that died in combat, that allow them to live in their small world.

I get sick every time I hear another comment out of Cindy's mouth. She lost the respect that a grieving mother is afforded when she decided to turn this into a political event. The fact that she uses her son's service as her badge of honor and respect and invokes her rhetoric in her sons name is appalling.

This is the level at which we conduct our political discourse with the war?
To evoke rhetoric and political grandstanding on the graves of our own dead?
Don't get me wrong there are those on the right that have been guilty on both sides of the fence. But it has been the left that has had no compunction about using the war dead as their political hammer.

The left and the media are sick. I agree that the news on the war should be reported accurately and honestly, but to constantly run stores on it to generate public sentiment against the war is vile. I have no illusion that the reporting being done and the media frenzy surrounding Cindy is nothing more then trying to build political capitol for the democrats and the left.

This leaves me with two questions that concern me about the future of America and our political process.

How far do we let the pendulum swing before a stand is taken calling for the end of this type of disrespect and base rhetorical political discourse?

How much damage permanent or otherwise does it do to the fabric of American society and American politics?

For those with a eye for history... Could this be a watershed event for recent history?

Thanks for the rant space! This issue is going to blow up this weekend in Crawford. I predict a showdown between the pro troops and pro Cindy groups and the media will have a field day.

Thanks again for the rant space. hope that it all makes sense.