Posted on 11/18/2005 4:36:51 PM PST by proud_yank
Dear Barbara,
On April 04, 2004, your oldest child killed my oldest child, Casey Austin Sheehan.
Unlike your oldest child, my son was a marvelous person who joined the military to serve his country and to try and make the world a better place. Casey didn't want to go to Iraq, but he knew his duty. Your son went AWOL from a glamour unit. George couldn't even handle the Alabama Air National Guard. Casey joined the Army before your son became commander in chief. We all know that your son was thinking of invading Iraq as early as 1999. Casey was a dead man before George even became president and before he even joined the Army in May of 2000.
I raised Casey and my other children to use their words to solve problems and conflicts. I told my four children from the time that they were small that it is ALWAYS wrong to kick, bite, hit, scratch, pull hair, etc. If the smaller children couldn't find the words to solve their conflicts without violence, I always encouraged them to find a mediator like a parent, older sibling, or teacher to help them find the words.
Did you teach George to use his words and not his violence to solve problems? It doesn't appear so. Did you teach him that killing other people for profits and oil is ALWAYS wrong? Obviously you did not. I also used to wash my children's mouth out with soap on the rare occasion that they lied... did you do that to George? Can you do it now? He has lied and he is still lying. Saddam did not have WMDs or ties with al-Qaeda and the Downing Street Memos prove that your son knew this before he invaded Iraq.
On August 3rd, 2005, your son said that he killed my son and the other brave and honorable Americans for a "noble cause." Well, Barbara, mother to mother, that angered me. I don't consider invading and occupying another country that was proven not to be a threat to the USA is a noble cause. I don't think invading a country, killing its innocent citizens, and ruining the infrastructure to make your family and your family-friendly war profiteers rich is a noble cause.
So I went down to Crawford in August to ask your son what noble cause did he kill my son for. He wouldn't speak with me. I think that showed incredibly bad manners. Do you think a president, even if it is your son, should be so inaccessible to his employers? Especially one of his bosses whose life George has devastated so completely?
I have been to the White House several times since August to try and meet with George and I am going back to Crawford next week. Do you think you can call him and ask him to do the right thing and bring the troops home from this illegal and immoral war in Iraq that he carelessly started? I hear you are one of the few people he still talks to. He won't speak to his father, who knew the difficulties and impossibilities of going into Iraq and that's why he didn't go there in the 1st Gulf War. If you won't tell him to bring the troops home, can you at least urge him to meet with me?
You said this in 2003, a little over a year before my dear, sweet Casey was killed by your son's policies:
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" (Good Morning America, March 18, 2003)
Now I have something to tell you, Barbara. I didn't want to hear about deaths or body bags either. On April 04, 2004, three Army officers came to my house to tell me that Casey was killed in Iraq. I fell on the floor screaming and begging the cruel Angel of Death to take me too. But the Angel of Death that took my son is your son.
Casey came home in a flag draped coffin on April 10th. I used to have a beautiful mind too. Now my mind is filled with images of seeing his beautiful body in his casket and memories of burying my brave and honest boy before his life really began. Casey's beautiful mind was ended by an insurgent's bullet to his brain, but your son might as well have pulled the trigger.
Besides encouraging your son to have some honesty and courage and to finally do the right thing, don't you think you owe me and every other Gold Star parent an apology for that cruel and careless remark you made?
Your son's amazingly ignorant, arrogant, and reckless policies in Iraq are responsible for so much sorrow and trouble in this world.
Can you make him stop? Do it before more mothers' lives are needlessly and cruelly harmed. There have been too many worldwide already.
Sincerely,
Cindy Sheehan Mother of Casey Sheehan Founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace Founder of Camp Casey Peace Foundation
When I get sick of my tagline, that is what I'm replacing it with. That was fabulous.
Great tag.. raughed my @ss off....uh oh.
She's off the chain and going to become a hazard to society soon. The woman needs to be evaluated and medicated before she hurts someone.
Ms. Sheehan is lucky that none of her children were ever accosted by a child predator. I think that would be at least one of those cases where she might want to make an exception to her rule.
LOL!
Nah. Now, a dramatic ATTEMPT wouldn't surprise me, sort of the 21st century version of a fit of the vapors. You know, swallow a few pills, make a few scratches on the wrist, talk about it on Oprah for years afterward...
I don't know you, so I won't, of course, refer to you by your first name. I do want to let you know that I believe your daughter Cindy requires an immediate committment in a qualified state or private mental hospital.
Great strides have been made for management of the mentally ill, and in a few short months, or perhaps a few short years, you may well have your daughter back as good as new.
I discussed treatment options with one doctor who is a family friend and emminent psychiatrist. He suggested the nurses get Cindy all dressed up each Saturday for several months with the announcement "Alright, Cindy, we're going to go see the President today!"
Then, amidst the playing of "Hail to the Chief" by the musical group that comes to play for the ward, Cindy will be made to feel real special as she walks in circles around the ward floor for several hours until she exhausts herself.
Then, and only then, in the distance, a cardboard mockup of the President will be seen by her. As her hopes elevate, and presumably she rushes towards the prop, her doctor will appear from behind the prop and say "No, Cindy none of us can meet with the President, he is very busy running the country for all 300 million of us."
Each week, the doctor said, this routine should be repeated, followed perhaps by electric shock (which he noted could help raise funds for charitable organizations by having an auction for the shocker of the week) until Cindy understands the President is not available for her to dishonor herself and her son's memory in front of.
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dittoes
She's got to be kidding!
hopefully the secret service and FBI have a permanent bead on this nut case, never know what she might do.
Maybe we should've given Saddam a time out. That always works with evil dictators. It worked with Hitler.
God forgive me, I HATE this woman. Deeply.
She has betrayed her son.
Is she still scheduled to squat in the Crawford ditch over Thanksgiving? Heard the Crawford law enforcement aren't going to be so easy going this time.
I agree with you....and I can't believe I missed this thread...this should be big news...
This is the most despicable excuse for a woman or mother, I have seen....since Hillary.
I don't know how....but we need to check that supposed quote that Cindy wrote that Barbara said on "Good Morning America"...I don't believe Barbara said anything like that.
Someone tell this airheaded bitch to just PLEASE STFU. Her 15 minutes were soooooooooo last month.
Which quote? I'll start digging...
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