Posted on 08/12/2005 4:03:22 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
Dear George,
You don’t mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis.
George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend: Casey. It has been seven months since your ignorant and arrogant lack of planning for the peace murdered my oldest child. It has been two days since your dishonest campaign stole another election…but you all were way more subtle this time than in 2000, weren’t you? You hardly had to get the Supreme Court of the United States involved at all this week.
You feel so proud of yourself for betraying the country again, don’t you? You think you are very clever because you pulled the wool over the eyes of some of the people again. You think that you have some mandate from God…that you can “spend your political capital” any way that you want. George you don’t care or even realize that 56,000,000 plus citizens of this country voted against you and your agenda. Still, you are going to continue your ruthless work of being a divider and not a uniter. George, in 2000 when you stole that election and the Democrats gave up, I gave up too. I had the most ironic thought of my life then: "Oh well, how much damage can he do in four years?" Well, now I know how much you have damaged my family, this country, and this world. If you think I am going to allow you another four years to do even more damage, then you truly are mistaken. I will fight for a true vote count and if that fails, your impeachment. Also, the impeachment of your Vice President. The only thing is, I'm not politically savvy, and I don't have a Karl Rove to plan my strategy, but I do have a big mouth and a righteous cause, which still mean something in this country, I hope.
All of this lying, fooling, and betraying must be “hard work” George. You really think you know what hard work is?
George, let me tell you what “hard work” really is.
Hard work is seeing your oldest son, your brave and honorable man-child go off to a war that had, and still has, no basis in reality. Hard work is worrying yourself gray and not being able to sleep for 2 weeks because you don’t know if your child is safe.
Hard work is seeing your son’s murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you’re enjoying the last supper you’ll ever truly enjoy again.
Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son…your first born…your kind and gentle sweet baby.
Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big “baba” into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both.
But, Dear George, do you know what the hardest work of all is? Trying to digest the fact that the leader of the country that your family has fought for and died for, for generations, lied to you and betrayed your dear boy’s sense of honor and exploited his courage and exploited his loyalty to his buddies. Hard work is having your country abandon you after they killed your son. Hard work is coming to the realization that your son had his future robbed from him and that you have had your son's future and future grand-children stolen from you. Hard work is knowing that there are so many people in this world that have prospered handsomely from your son's death.
George, I must confess that I and my family worked very HARD to re-defeat you this time, but you refuse to stay defeated. Well, we are watching you very carefully. We are going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people into a disastrous war and for mis-using and abusing your power as Commander-in-Chief. We are going to scream until our last breath to bring the rest of our babies home from this quagmire of a war that you have gotten our country in to: before too many more families learn the true meaning of Hard Work. We know it is going to be an uphill battle, knowing how Republican Congress is, but thanks to you, we know the meaning of Hard Work and we’re not afraid of hard work at all.
The 56,000,000 plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda. Also, thanks to you and your careless domestic policies, I am unemployed, so this will be my full-time job. Being your political downfall will be the most noble accomplishment of my life and it will bring justice for my son and 1125 (so far) other brave Americans and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis your lies have killed. By the way, George, how many more innocent Iraqis are your policies going to kill before you convince them that you are better than Saddam? How many more of their cities are you going to level before you consider that they are liberated? If you really had any moral values, or if you were an honorable man at all you would resign. My son was a man who had high moral values and true courage. Humanity lost a bright light on April 04, 2004. I will live the rest of my life missing Casey desperately. Thank you for that, George. Have a nice day.
God Bless America!! We surely need it!
Cindy Sheehan
Her son volunteered, and according to other members of the family, knew exactly what he was about. My guess is that, because of his mother's activities, there must have been some fairly siognificant disagreement between the tow. Now she is using his loyal service and HIS DEATH...to promote causes which he showed by his own service and sacrifice that he stood four square against...how utterly disgusting.
"It is sad to watch a human being melt down in public and be "used" by the liberals to meet their "air time" anti-war/Bush agenda."
Please stay out of Crawford, TX. Nothing to see move on!
this IS photoshop, right? Not that he probably hasn't felt like giving those reporters the one fingered salute.
Perhaps her only son. She may have a couple of daughters.
She has gotten her meeting with the President, her meeting with administration heads, her letter from the President and a public statement from the most powerful man in the world recognizing her grief- during a time of war... and she can not stop there?!
I think the President of the United States has a stalker on his hands- and she may be more dangerous than most because the Media is apparently in cahoots with her over it.
If this were happening to Oprah or Bruce Springsteen I am sure the left and the public would insist upon cindy's arrest.
blah, blah, blah...
I'm starting an open letter to Cindy.
"Hi Cindy,
On behalf of myself, please SHUT THE "F" UP!
Sincerely,
kx"
Exactly... We can't let this woman and the MSM get away with anything.
Casey Austin and Nick Berg must be related somehow.
Dear Mrs. Sheehan,
God has blessed America and George Bush. But He has cursed you and the 56 million who voted against him.
We have faced many enemies over the centuries, but none so brutal and so murderous. How can the likes of Cindy Sheehan possibly advocate a win for the very ones that killed her son?
Where are these so called human right's groups? Are they really only concerned about Abu Graab, or is their hatred of George Bush, Condi Rice, and Dick Cheney made them so blind they cannot see what they are actually advocating?
Again, this was all brought out by Christopher Hitchens.
I'm convinced Cindy Sheehan is crazy. My feelings of compassion and sorry have morphed into rage and a terrible fear that her treasonous mouthings will cost some other American soldier his or her life. I see pictures of her with that ragtag group of crackpots demonstrating in front of the WH, and it's as clear that other than running around begging for attention, she has no life whatsoever. Her dearest wish will be granted soon, no doubt, when she appears on Al Jazeera. Her darkest moment will come when she wakes up to all she's done and realizes she's put the country in danger. The Leftists using her, however, aren't crazy, they're simply evil and powermad. So they're worse than Cindy. A lower run in Hell awaits that crowd.
Every once in a while Christopher Hitchens makes great sense, and even when you're pulling your hair out reading him, he's entertaining and a fine writer.
Grieving mothers are sometimes also very emotionally disturbed individuals, having nothing to do with the loss. This one appears to want to blame somebody for her misfortunes (note that she mentions she is unemployed -- wonder how that came about?) and she's fixated on our poor Prez, who has enough to worry about already. Too bad for everyone.
ohh yeah it is :)
Just like that supposed video of the President walking past the press pool and flipping them off, this one is of that vein...
Has anyone seen any statements from Casey's siblings? Or his father? I am curious about this omission.
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Here I found this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/20/INGIGBNC46129.DTL
Ah, I was just about to post the exact same link. Carly does the same "it's all about oil" schtick her mother does, but not much is given about the politics of brother Andy or sister Jane (or dad Pat, for that matter). They're not the grandstanders that Cindy is, obviously.
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