Posted on 08/11/2005 12:16:12 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., gathers herself as she recounts stories of her son to a reporter by a tent that she is staying in on the side of the road that leads to President Bush's ranch, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. Her simple, quiet protest of the war that took her son's life is gaining momentum as dozens joined her Wednesday at the site.
Cindy Sheehan Quotes
In addition, my son was killed after L. Paul Bremer inflamed the Shi'a by taking away their tv station and newspapers. The Abu Ghraib scandal was about to break in America...but it was well known by the Iraqi people that their citizens were being tortured and defiled in the prisons. My son was a sitting duck by the time 04/04/04 rolled around.
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full-well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by a George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11. We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy...not for the real reason, becuase the Arab-Muslims who attacked us hate our middle-eastern foreign policy. That hasn't changed since America invaded and occupied Iraq...in fact it has gotten worse.
I will live in unbearable pain until I die. First of all, because my first born was killed violently, and second of all, because he was killed for a neo-con agenda that only benefits a very chosen few in this world. This agenda and their war machine will chew up and spit out as many of our children as they can unless we stop them now.
...Please use your forum to expose the lies and the devastation this invasion/occupation is causing. We should not stay. We should not let Israel/USA invade Syria or Iran.
http://tinyurl.com/avwer "And the other thing I want him to tell me is 'just what was the noble cause Casey died for?' Was it freedom and democracy? Bullshit! He died for oil. He died to make your friends richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East. We're not freer here, thanks to your PATRIOT Act. Iraq is not free. You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism," she exclaimed."
http://electroniciraq.net/news/printer2098.shtml
We began the killing as soon as we stepped foot on these shores and the
killing has gone on unabated for over 200 years.
There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or
valid.
“George Bush and his neo-conservatives killed my son,” she said tearing up a bit. “America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.”
“They’re not waging a War on Terror but a War of Terror,” she said. “The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.”
“9/11 was Pearl Harbor for the neo-conservatives’ agenda” and declared the U.S. government a “morally repugnant system.”
We have no Constitution. We’re the only country with no checks and balances. We want our country back if we have to impeach George Bush down to the person who picks up the dog sh-t in Washington! Let George Bush send his two little party animals to die in Iraq. It’s OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons but we are waging nuclear war in Iraq, we have contaminated the entire country. It’s not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. Hypocrites! But Israel can occupy Palestine? Stop the slaughter!
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915
Is there anyone in America who cannot yet see that Donald Runsfeld is a liar...that he, as with Hitler and Stalin....will say anything so long as he thinks it will help shape the world to his own liking? Is there even one, sane adult among us who cannot see that Donald Rumsfeld is a threat to our nation's security and to peace on our beloved earth?
As soft-spoken and sincere-sounding as Paul Wolfowitz is, is there yet any sane adult in this country who's skin does not crawl when this murderous liar opens his mouth and speaks? Am I the only person in this room who clearly sees that Paul Wolfowitz is a threat to our nation's security...and to peace on our beloved earth?"
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs....gangsters who lust after fortunes and power; never caring that their addictions are at the expense of our loved ones, and the blood of innocent people near and far. We've watched these thugs parade themselves before the whole world as if they are courageous advocates for Christian moral values....and for the spread of democracy. Yet we all know that they are now putting in place, all across this country, a system of voting that provides no way to validate the accuracy of the counting of the votes. Our loved ones have been buried in early graves even as these arrogant thugs parade themselves before the entire world, insisting that democracy is worth dying for, killing for, and destroying entire cities for, all the while they are busy here at home overseeing the emplacement of an electronic voting system that invites fraud at every turn, an electronic vote-counting system that provides no way to validate the votes cast, and that, by it's very design, prohibits recounting the votes.
For these men to not see to it that our own system of voting and vote-counting is accurate, understandable and verifiable...all the while sending our loved ones to kill and to die so as to establish a democracy in some far away place......this is just one more staggering piece of evidence that the US government is now ruled by murderous hypocrites...criminals who should be arrested, charged appropriately, confined behind bars, and then tried in a court of law...not only here in our own country, but also in all the other countries which have suffered their incomprehensible greed. In their secret hiding places, while celebrating newly won fortunes with their fellow brass, these men must surely congratulate themselves with orgies of carnal pleasure as they mock the dwindling multitudes who are yet so blind as to mistake them for God's devoted servants.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8502.htm
Hundreds of thousands of people? My immediate reaction watching her interview.
the Bloviator exposed Kesterson for the fake, phoney fraud she is.
I have really taken a dislike to O'Gasbag recently, but he did a good job with this one and let her hang herself.
As an aside, I would like to say that even if you ignore their hateful rhetoric, the people involved with Ms. Sheehan and Ms. Sheehan herself are decidedly unpleasant people.
So she's paranoid too.
Or her son is dead and Bush's kids is not. Or when Terry Schiavo was alive, that she was being kept alive and her son was dead. It takes a very sad individual to wish someone else dead. She really needs to get some professional help.
Don't I know it. We counterprotest these people outside Walter Reed every Friday eve.
Some of the nutcases there do NOT make their side look good.
What do you expect from journalist now days? But you got to like the fact that this woman and others out there like her, are so seething with rage, that they give statements like this to sympathetic reporters.
Thanks.
That needs to be put every where I am sending it every where I can with the link.
Thanks
RB
While one might dismiss some of Sheehan’s hyperbole due to grief over her son’s death, a little research about Casey Sheehan revealed that contrary to being tricked by military recruiters, Casey Sheehan had re-enlisted in the U.S. Army voluntarily when he was 24-years-old, after serving his first hitch successfully. Casey Sheehan was in fact a hero who received a Bronze Star. He was attached as a mechanic to the artillery division of the 1st U.S. Cavalry in Iraq. When a convoy of soldiers from Casey’s unit was attacked in Sadr City by insurgents, Casey volunteered to join a rapid rescue force to get them out. His commanding sergeant told him he did not have to go into combat, because he was a mechanic and not an infantryman. Casey was quoted telling his officer, “I go where my chief goes.” He was tragically killed during the rescue attempt. The source for this story? Cindy Sheehan herself.
I also visited an army recruiting office on my way home and asked about Casey being promised a job as a chaplain’s assistant only to be thrust into harm’s way. The recruiter explained to me that on re-enlistment, the Army’s B.E.A.R. program (Bonus Extension and Retaining) guarantees everything in writing. If Casey was a mechanic during his first hitch, that was the only thing he would have been guaranteed per his re-enlistment contract. Further research showed that a chaplain’s assistant is a combat infantry position, whereas Casey was deployed in a non-combat job as a mechanic. Casey Sheehan sought combat duty for his country and should be honored for it, not used as a symbol of how evil the United States is.
SFSU Hosts a Terrorist
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915
Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace:
“They died for a lie”
June 24, 2005 | Pages 6 and 7
CINDY SHEEHAN’S son Casey was killed in action in Iraq on April 4, 2004. Since then, she has tirelessly traveled the country speaking out against Bush’s war. Cindy is a founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization of family members opposed to the occupation of Iraq who have lost a loved one in the conflict. She spoke to Socialist Worker’s ERIC RUDER about the challenges of working to end the occupation.
[Excerpts, there is lots of moonbat ravings to choose from:]
THE IRRESPONSIBLE thing was going in there in the first place. Iraq is where civilization began, and to say that they can’t handle their own affairs is basically racist.
We have to give them the credit to be able to rebuild their own country--to get back on their feet again. They need the jobs. We have foreign contractors over there taking their jobs. And what does it mean “to finish the job?” What is the job? How can you “finish” imperialism? It doesn’t end--it just spreads.
Some people may think that we’re fighting terrorism over there. But when is that job ever going to be complete? Terrorism is just a new “ism.” It was “communism” when I was growing up...
I DEFINITELY think that we should support war resisters in the military. This war is not only illegal, but it’s immoral--in fact, some people might say all war is immoral. It’s our job as moral human beings to oppose it--and oppose it in any way that we can.
I know several people who are being court-martialed, and they need support--they need monetary support, they need our moral support, and they need to know that we’re with them.
We need to encourage more people to do this. The people who go public--like Kevin Benderman, Pablo Paredes and Camilo Mejía--are doing a public service to this country, by showing soldiers and our young people in the military that there is an alternative to going over, and killing and dying in an immoral war.
Even though the alternative might be prison, I wish my son was in prison instead of in his grave. I wish he didn’t have to die for a lie and for this immorality.
Casey never thought this war was right. He never agreed with the commander-in-chief. He thought the war was wrong. He was a follower of Jesus Christ, and it surprised the hell out of us when he joined the Army. But he did it to serve, not to go kill innocent people in a war that didn’t make any sense. I begged him not to go, but he said, “Mom, it’s my duty, my buddies are going, so I have to go.”
I’m hoping that if he had been over there for a while, he would have come to the same conclusion as Camilo and Pablo and Kevin--that, no, I’m not going to obey these orders.
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Casey Sheehan joined the Army in 2000, while Clinton was still in office, and before 9/11. There was no war at that time.
And Cindy Sheehan was "devastated" that he joined at that time. She wasn't upset because she was against the Iraq war, she simply didn't want her son joining the military, even when there was no war to be fought.
She opposed her son voluntarily joining the military.
He re-enlisted after the Iraq war's major combat operations ended. I haven't seen a date for his re-enlistment.
Those who lie in the face of truth tend to be paranoid.
Casey's views and her views have never changed. She's always been a anti-war nut, while her son died for the freedom of 25 million Iraqi's, even if his tour of Iraq had only been 5 days. The American soldiers and their coalition partners have spread freedom to 50 million people in 2 years in 2 separate countries.
She looks more like a hound dog!!
Ping
bttt
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