Reaching for peace [Cindy Sheehan writes an editorial]

The Reporter ^ | Aug 8, 2005 | Cindy Sheehan

[upchuck]

Cindy pingers.

Poor, abused woman!

[samadams2000]

The US should reach....for the button that launches all the MOABs and Diamond tipped Nukes we got.

[eastsider]

One day, her brother, who was at that time in training as a chemical specialist, was sitting in class when FBI agents came in and hauled him off to prison.

As opposed to the MPs? This doesn't sound right.

[D1X1E]

And the reason dear Cindy that you have any freedom or liberty at all is because of men like your son.

[Sonny M]

it shouldn't sound right, she sounds like she has totally lost her mind.

[The Phantom FReeper]

I'm getting quite tired of the MSM fawning all over this woman. She's sickening.

[Mister_Diddy_Wa_Diddy]

Someone is paying this whacko woman a lot of money to BS like this.

[crazyhorse691]

Same recycled claims and comments and attitudes found in all moonbat propaganda. But, with feelings.

[Republican Wildcat]

and in the process, tell the truth

Yeah, whatever. I guess if the "truth" is both flexible and relative that case could be made - but it isn't, dear.

[rocksblues]

They have found a new voice for their agenda. 9/11 widow beware!

[TheDon]

Nothing worse than a mother tap dancing on her son's grave.

[Alia]

I want to hear the recruiter's side of the story.

[genefromjersey]

Look: It's easy to view this through a "political prism",and to be critical of this woman.

Losing a child is a horrible experience - as many of you already know - and surviving parents often go through emotional storms that stretch the boundaries of reason.

The people who reached out to Ms Sheehan did so coldly and deliberately: manipulating her hurt and grief to their own ends;tearing at her scars and turning them into fresh wounds.

For the sake of all that's holy,let this poor woman grieve-in her own way-for as long as it takes.

[45Auto]

I sympathize with this poor woman on the loss of her son. But a couple of things come to mind, one of which may seem cold. The first is that the United States currently has an all-volunteer military; no one held a gun to her son's head and said he must join. The second is that it looks like Cindy is having a mental breakdown and/or she is being paid to do this by "un-named" sources, like the DNC.

[summer]

Did she respond to the "The President Did Not Kill Your Son" essay yet, written by someone in the military?

[Alia]

She hasn't lost her mind. It's a common syndrome among liberal mothers. Do not deal with the grief -- "make the personal political!" (feminist mantra of the left). It's been going on for over 30 years. It's nothing new, at all.

[small voice in the wilderness]

The Sarah Brady of the war. There is so much more to say, but I won't.

[Alia]

The problem is, she's not grieving. She's in denial. And using the "politics of meaning" to keep her grief afloat. She can't heal or move to the next stages of grief and healing as long as she keeps on doing this type of behavior (her son voluntarily enlisting, his brave sacrifice -- she obviously doesn't accept these facts).

Therefore in sum, and ergo, she can't "move on". And the cycle of pain continues in her head. She hasn't let her son "rest in peace". She's made his death "personal". She's emotionally stuck there. When for most parents, it's initially "personal", but with solid and substantive grieving that pinch moves on, giving way to the standard steps of healing and recovery.

[Sonny M]

She hasn't lost her mind. It's a common syndrome among liberal mothers. Do not deal with the grief -- "make the personal political!" (feminist mantra of the left). It's been going on for over 30 years. It's nothing new, at all.

Check the drudge story out.

She has done a total 180 spin from when she met Bush.

That said, is the saying actually "make the personal political"?, One of my old lefty college profs use to say the opposite with "Make political personal!!!".