'Peace Advocate' Cindy Sheehan: "Our Country Has Been Taken Over By Murderous Thugs"

Speech Transcript ^ | April 4, 2005 | Cindy Sheehan

[Sam Hill]

Notice that she is really from Berkley:


Jul. 12, 2005
Military recruiting targeted by activists
MEASURE WOULD FOCUS ON HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES
By Lisa Leff
Associated Press

Among those standing outside San Francisco City Hall as
campaign organizers prepared to submit 15,000 signatures
they had gathered to put the measure before voters was Cindy
Sheehan, a Berkeley resident whose 24-year-old son, Casey,
died on April 4, 2004, five days after he arrived with his
Army unit in Iraq.

Wiping away tears, Sheehan said that the recruiter who
persuaded her son to join the Army four years earlier
promised Casey he would never see combat and reneged on most
of the signing bonus he was guaranteed.

"I believe if that recruiter had not taken advantage of my
trusting and trustworthy son, he would be alive today,"
Sheehan said. "The kids need to know the truth."

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Apparently this is Cindy's full-time job. She is clearly being paid by someone, probablly George Soros through Moveon.org.

[avid consumer]

her statements are not seditious. sheehan does not advocate the violent overthrow of the the US Gov't. she merely states what she thinks about the war, its supporters and its causes. so what? q.v. USC TITLE 18,CHAPTER 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.


Why are there so many people here freaked out by mere words?

[avid consumer]

don't you mean "statist"

[Sam Hill]

"Why are there so many people here freaked out by mere words?"

Much of the law you just cited is about "mere words."

[cwb]

Sheehan: "I implore you to read Scott Ritter."

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Yes...please do read Scott Ritter. Especially the Scott Ritter who was most intimately familiar with the facts in 1998, rather than the Ritter who has been disconnected from them for over 6 years. Notice, Cindy...how you and Scott have a lot in common since your original positions:

From The New Republic, Dec. 21, 1998:

"As a member of UNSCOM since 1991, and its chief inspector responsible for investigating Iraq's concealment mechanism from July 1995 until my resignation on August 26, 1998, I know that this is hardly the first time Saddam has pulled such tricks. In fact, they are at the heart of his strategy for preserving his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and, eventually, getting rid of U.N. economic sanctions (which he has largely succeeded in eluding anyway).

Through skillful manipulation of the situation on the ground in Iraq, international public opinion, and rifts among the members of the Security Council, Saddam actually aims to cap his comeback by getting UNSCOM to issue a clean bill of health. It is an audacious plan, but it may succeed, thanks in no small part to the mistakes of U.S. policymakers themselves.

If it succeeds, the consequences could be dire. The Baghdad regime-- strengthened by having retained the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction and psychologically fortified by having outlasted the world's sole remaining superpower--will rapidly restore its internal and regional constituencies and reemerge as a force to be reckoned with.

Since his defeat in the Gulf war, Saddam has built up eight years' worth of resentment and frustration that can only be released through renewed efforts at territorial expansion through armed aggression and blackmail, both economic and military. Even today, Iraq is not nearly disarmed. UNSCOM lacks a full declaration from Iraq concerning its prohibited capabilities, making any absolute pronouncement about the extent of Iraq's retained proscribed arsenal inherently tentative.

But, based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents.

Iraq probably retains several tons of the highly toxic VX substance, as well as sarin nerve gas and mustard gas. This agent is stored in artillery shells, bombs, and ballistic missile warheads. And Iraq retains significant dual-use industrial infrastructure that can be used to rapidly reconstitute large-scale chemical weapons production.

Meanwhile, Iraq has kept its entire nuclear weapons infrastructure intact through dual-use companies that allow the nuclear-design teams to conduct vital research and practical work on related technologies and materials. Iraq still has components (high explosive lenses, initiators, and neutron generators) for up to four nuclear devices minus the fissile core (highly enriched uranium or plutonium), as well as the means to produce these.

Iraq has retained an operational long-range ballistic missile force that includes approximately four mobile launchers and a dozen missiles. And, under the guise of a permitted short-range missile program, Iraq has developed the technology and production means necessary for the rapid reconstitution of long-range ballistic missile production. Iraq supports its retained prohibited capabilities with an extensive covert procurement network operated by Iraqi intelligence.

While images of starving Iraqi children are beamed around the world by American television, Iraqi front companies have spent millions of dollars on forbidden material related to all weapons categories--in direct violation of existing sanctions and often under the cover of the humanitarian "oil for food" program.

Finally, Iraqi security forces have kept critical documentation, including the vital "cookbooks" that contain the step-by-step process to make chemical agent, outline the procedures for producing weapons-grade biological agent, detail the final design of the Iraqi nuclear weapon, and provide the mechanical integration procedures for long-range ballistic missiles."

[cwb]

With what I'm reading about this mother, it is becoming clearer to me that what she hates most, is herself. Not only does she feel responsible for not being able to stop her son from enlisting...but if she's held these same attitudes (being from Berkeley) her entire life, she may have helped push her son to the career he chose.

Children are often rebellious; and it wouldn't come as a surprise to me if this was Casey's way of showing his independence from his obviously opinionated mother. Only Cindy knows the truth; but if there is any truth in this, her outrage is about what she did...not Bush or anybody else.

[airborne]

[airborne]

Why are there so many people here freaked out by mere words?

Why are you freaked out by Sam Hill's questions? They are, after all, just words.

(Rush Limbaughs' example of illustrating the absurd by being absurd)

[VaGunGuy]

I suggest you read some caselaw, or simply look in Black's Law Dictionary. You can indeed provide aid and comfort to the enemy without actually fighting for them in the field. That's EXACTLY what Sheehan is trying to do...she's trying to destroy the American will to fight. That is an action that benefits the enemy.