Posted on 02/01/2015 12:12:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ed. Note: The biggest Hollywood box office hit these days is American Sniper, the hagiography biopic of Chris Kyle, the sniper from Texas who had 160 confirmed kills and possibly many more in Iraq. Two of the most passionate antiwar activists in the country over the past few years have been Celeste Zappala, of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown and Gold Star Families Speak Out, whose son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad on April 26, 2004, and Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004. The following article was written last week by Cindy Sheehan as a response to American Sniper.
I only wish I had killed more. Navy Seal and American Sniper, Chris Kyle
I cant kill anyone. U.S. working-class soldier before his short deployment to Iraq, Casey Sheehan.
This is something that I dont want to revisit. I never want to relive the worst experience of my life. However, with the 11th anniversary of my sons death in Iraq on 04/04/04 approaching and the new blockbuster infecting movie screens around the world, I really must get this off of my chest.
Most citizens of this nation are without a doubt addicted to wars and war heroes without stopping for more than a few cursory seconds to count the costs or evaluate the propaganda. I despair that a movie like American Sniper grossed over $105 million at the box office over the weekend when we were supposed to be commemorating the birth of a man of peace, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything in American Sniper is taken for fact when the author and focus, Chris Kyle, already had been proven to be a blowhard and a liar, when the facts and political motivations of Selma are being questioned.
As the U.S. is addicted to its wars, it is also addicted to lying about them, and I know this because I have my own case about Casey for proof. We got the news about Casey about 14 hours or so after his detail had been ambushed in Iraq. After I lay on the floor screaming for I dont know how long, the three emissaries of death couldnt really tell us much except that he was Killed In Action (KIA). I still cant see a KIA brand car without my heart sinking.
Since Caseys murder, I have found out so much about the U.S. military I had no idea about, but when a group of troops (Battalion? Unit? Army? Murder?) get deployed to combat, some stay back as Funeral Duty. Two such persons came to Caseys funeral and regaled us with stories about what a wonderful mechanic he was and how he had volunteered to go on the mission that killed him.
Even though neither story rang true to me, I absorbed them like a dry sponge (as I was from all the tears I shed), wanting to hang on to some news of my son because he had only been there in Iraq a few days before he was killed. We didnt even know he was stationed at Camp War Eagle right in the heart of Sadr City, Baghdad.
Casey had joined the Army in the year 2000 for college benefits and with the promise from his lying recruiter that he could be a Chaplains Assistant. I knew from our many conversations that Casey hated being a Humvee mechanic, but that was the only MOS (military job) available when he got to boot camp.
Also, the very final time he was home (oh, how I wish I knew for sure it was the final time, I would have carried out my half-joking threat to run him with my car just enough to disable him) at Christmas of 2003, he told everyone he was just going to do his job and come home safely because, as a Christian and gentle man, he could never kill anyone. All of this didnt jibe at all with Casey volunteering.
By drips and drabs, the truth came out. Much has been written with the Imperial spin about 04/04/04 in Sadr City about how the First Cavalry (Caseys unit) was attacked by the residents of Sadr City, but from unembedded journalists we have found out that the 1st Cavalry went out to provoke a response to show the residents who was in charge now. April 4th was also right after the mercenaries of Blackwater had provoked the residents of Fallujah into an uprising that resulted in the highly publicized deaths of several mercenaries. Four years after Casey died, I received an email from one of his buddies who was right next to him on that fateful evening.
The vet started his email with, Sheehan was a great guy, but he was a lousy mechanic. Which made me smile because it rang true, but then he delivered the coup de gras: I dont know why you keep telling everyone it was Bushs fault, it was Sgt. (name withheld by me)s fault. He made your son go on that mission and in fact told him to get your goddamn ass on that truck after Sheehan had said, No, I am not going; I am only a mechanic.
Even though I sobbed when I read that, I knew it was true. Casey knew he could never kill anyone, and to me he is far more of a hero for not wanting to kill than is Chris Kyle for his self-proclaimed more than 250″ murders of what he called savages.
How much courage does it really take for a sniper to be given co-ordinates from a spotter and then firing from hundreds of yards away? To me that is the definition of cowardice, even forgetting about the lies that got both Casey and Kyle to Iraq and the ones who made billions in profits while Casey died thousands of miles away from his loving home, and a vet with PTSD would ironically end up murdering Kyle back here in the states.
I will always be proud of my son, who is a grand hero to me for refusing orders in the heat of battle and ashamed by a cold-blooded killer like Kyle and a nation that lifts him up as the standard of heroism. I find it supremely ironic and sad that NOT being a killer is frowned upon here while being a happy killer makes one a best-selling author and garners all kinds of award nominations and ticket sales for those who wish to exploit this nations bloodlust.
This truly makes me wonder if there is any hope to end the evil of the U.S. empire, or are we doomed to wash, rinse and repeat these stories of infamy and tragedy over and over again until the USA collapses from the weight of all the carnage.
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Cindy Sheehan is a co-founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace and the author of two books: Not One More Mothers Child and Dear President Bush.
Poor thing. She still doesn’t have the sense God gave a goose. Has to have a few more minutes of fame.
Let’s not forget how Kyle died.
“We have an idea that that’s why they were at the range, for some kind of therapy that Mr Kyle assists people with,” said Tommy Bryant, Erath County Sheriff.
Kyle started a military training company, Craft International, and in 2011 launched a charity, FITCO Cares Foundation, to help provide exercise equipment and counseling for veterans, especially those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Where’s the photo of her trying to dry hump Jackson?
Aint just her. A few rabid bastards on Facebook who proclaim themselves conservatives have bought the whole, Kyle is a liar crap, hook line and sinker.
So her son admitted to being a coward yet fraudulently joined the Army.
God almighty. Where does one start to decompose such absolute nonsense?
She built a career on her dead sons body, and threw away her family in the process. A very lonely and sad person.
I thought Cindy died of an Obamagasm.
No one listens to this twit aside from the main stream media. That tells you much more about the media than it does about this poor disturbed wretch.
Cindy Sheehan called “anorexic skank, blowharder.”
I doubt if her son actually said 10% of the words she puts in his mouth.
It’s a pretty good bet that crazy Jesse Ventura, who WAS decked by Kyle, and who sued the estate of Kyle (beneficiaries being his wife and son, btw) for payment for “injury” to his widdle iddie biddie ego (Not).
That Ventura who is a leftie tv conspiracy truther type, and definitely on the Code Pink side of the money— that he pretends conservatism and trashes our true serving military.
On many SEAL sites, the disgust with Ventura is palpaable. He was a UDT/Seal type in Vietnam, for true, and perhaps served with honor there (who knows), but his actions today speak to whom he really is.
i heard he wacked 255+.... he is AN AMERICAN HERO.... as is every member of the military... lets divert ebt and snap and welfare to the VETS..... let the illegals GO HOME and if you have kids out of wedlock with multiple partners .... go to a church nesar you for help... Where did the idiot in the white house get $5 billion of taxpayer money to bail a traitor??
And lets cut off the vacation and golf fund... Let this useless idiot do some work for a change... And take his pen and phine away too.
They’re probably gearing up for 2016. Sheehan was all over the news 24/7 when Republicans were in power. As soon as 0vomit got elected, you didn’t hear about body counts or anything else related to the war. If a Republican is elected in 2016 and we still have troops deployed, it will again be blanket coverage of antiwar stories. (or anti-anything they can blame on a Republican president.)
From that communist bitch? The media turned on her because she went against Clinton and Obama. Too bad she’s alive and her hero son dead.
“Everything in American Sniper is taken for fact when the author and focus, Chris Kyle, already had been proven to be a blowhard and a liar, when the facts and political motivations of Selma are being questioned.”
Cindy, I missed something. When was Kyle proven to be a blowhard and liar? And about what?
Help me?
“I doubt if her son actually said 10% of the words she puts in his mouth.”
Yep, liberals lie...even about their dead sons.
I would not hit a woman but I might piss on this one.
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