Posted on 08/13/2005 5:26:52 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002
Crocodile Tears
By Christopher Orlet
Published 8/12/2005 12:06:48 AM
Cindy Sheehan has now been squatting in a roadside ditch near President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch since August 6. And every day more aging hippies, professional grievance-mongers, and underemployed liberal arts majors show up with their backpacks and banjos to join her. Squatting in ditches, sleeping in pup tents, and sitting around a campfire at night yodeling "This Land Is Your Land" is after all the anti-war protesters idea of nirvana...
By Christopher Orlet
Published 8/12/2005 12:06:48 AM
Cindy Sheehan has now been squatting in a roadside ditch near President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch since August 6. And every day more aging hippies, professional grievance-mongers, and underemployed liberal arts majors show up with their backpacks and banjos to join her. Squatting in ditches, sleeping in pup tents, and sitting around a campfire at night yodeling "This Land Is Your Land" is after all the anti-war protesters idea of nirvana.
Sheehan says she is particularly upset -- not so much about her son's death apparently -- but by two statements the president recently made: "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." And "the families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause." Sheehan calls these statements asinine and hurtful. It is doubtful her son would have agreed. Twenty-four-year-old Army Spc. Casey Sheehan had re-enlisted the August prior to his death, and had planned to make a career in the military. A year ago Sheehan's father told reporters that Casey "loved the Army because it gave him a chance to serve his country."
Speaking of asinine statements, Sheehan now demands that, "if George is not ready to send the [Bush] twins [to Iraq], he should bring our troops home immediately." Didn't Clausewitz say something similar in his chapter on war and hot-looking twins? Oh, yes, here it is: "Only if the leader is willing to send his young twin daughters to the front may a nation go to war. Otherwise he must hoist the white flag and surrender his sword."
Despite what the headlines say, Sheehan, 48, is more anti-war protester than grieving mother. She is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization that seeks to impeach George W. Bush and apparently to convince the U.S. government to surrender to Muslim terrorists. She has been joined at Crawford by similar peace groups including CodePink ("We call on mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters, on workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers, singers, poets and every ordinary outraged woman willing to be outrageous for peace") and The Crawford Peace House. So far Sheehan has been unsuccessful despite her best efforts to defeat Bush in 2004, to impeach Bush, or to get the president to meet with her in her ditch. In fact her only success has been in getting lots of fawning media coverage from the mainstream media, few of which have reported her radical background and ideas.
In fact rather than pitying her, the public should be disgusted how the mother of a dead serviceman is using his heroic death to push her anti-Republican political agenda.
Sheehan also says she only wants to ask the president why he killed her son, something she failed to ask during their first meeting at Fort Lewis near Seattle on June 24, 2004. "'I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis," she told the Reporter newspaper of Vacaville, California, after that visit. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith." Back then Sheehan asked the President to make her "son's sacrifice count for something." That was before Sheehan and friends figured out that an American defeat in Iraq would increase the Democrats' chances in the next presidential election.
President Bush told reporters Thursday that pulling out American troops now "would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run..."
Fortunately most Americans appreciate the sacrifice of our young men and women in Iraq. As one Gulf War veteran has noted, "[Casey's] death only becomes meaningless when we back home choose to NOT honor his mission and his sacrifice."
Christopher Orlet, a frequent contributor, runs the Existential Journalism blog.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8581
On America
"We began the killing as soon as we stepped foot on these shores [of America] 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."
http://tinyurl.com/7rzr3
"This country is not worth dying for.”
“America has been killing people on this continent since it was started."
"The U.S. government is a morally repugnant system.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915
On 9/11
“9/11 was Pearl Harbor for the neo-conservatives’ agenda.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915
The Jewish Plot
"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."
http://tinyurl.com/8jcbw
"My first born was killed violently for a neo-con agenda that only benefits a very chosen few in this world."
http://tinyurl.com/avwer
“George Bush and his neo-conservatives killed my son.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915
On Other Threats
"Is there yet an American who can not clearly see that Dick Cheney...will say whatever he thinks is required to ultimately cause wealth and power to move to himself and to his friends? ...need I defile this holy place with words like "Haliburton" and "Kellog, Brown & Root" and "torture" and "US weapons industry"?"
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?"
http://tinyurl.com/bfpvw
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Our Elected Leaders
"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."
"The US government is now ruled by murderous hypocrites...criminals who should be arrested, charged appropriately, confined behind bars."
"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://tinyurl.com/bfpvw
"Every member of Bush's executive branch (past and present) and every member of Congress who voted to give George the authority to invade Iraq have innocent blood on their hands. For the next State of the Union address, maybe the hypocrites in Congress should shamefacedly display blood-soaked hands, instead of proudly wriggling fingers stained with ink to symbolize sham Iraqi elections."
http://tinyurl.com/9vudv
"Then we have this lying bastard, George Bush..."
"So anyway that filth-spewer and warmonger, George Bush was speaking..."
"We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done."
http://tinyurl.com/d8s7q
Civic Duty
"Another thing that I'm doing is - - my son was killed in 2004, so I'm not paying my taxes for 2004. If I get a letter from the IRS, I'm gonna say, you know what, this war is illegal; this is why this war is illegal. This war is immoral; this is why this war is immoral. You killed my son for this. I don't owe you anything. And if I live to be a million, I won't owe you a penny."
"And I want them to come after me, because unlike what you've been doing with the war resistance, I want to put this frickin' war on trial. And I want to say, "You give me my son, and I'll pay your taxes."
http://tinyurl.com/d8s7q
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On Terrorism
"You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism."
http://electroniciraq.net/news/printer2098.shtml
"When I was growing up, it was Communists'. Now it's Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything."
http://tinyurl.com/d8s7q
“The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915
Support For Troops
"I DEFINITELY think that we should support war resisters in the military. "
"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. "
http://tinyurl.com/dh7ev
Concern For Others
"Why does Terry Schiavo deserve to live more than my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan?"
http://tinyurl.com/9vudv
Cindy Sheehan Ad
There are some more of her insights collected here:
Cindy Sheehan -- In Her Own Words
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461469/posts
Now there's a hilarious "mental picture" for you. LOL! I love it.
This is the media continuing their smears from the 2004 election. This is just the next stage of attacking Bush. We just have to get used to the fact that this is going to continue. Of course, hardly anyone is listening and the MSM is in a suicide plummet.
Somebody needs to tell that moonbat and her geriatric hippie handlers that the sixties ended a long time ago.
Another BIMBO Alert.
Islamic Terrorists kill hippies....after they use them...
Yesterday I received an e-mail from a peace group here in Georgia announcing that our local media wanted to get one or more "grieving" family members from the Atlanta area to go out to Crawford and get on TV. Tonight on the radio I heard about some local soldier's relative (not the relative of a soldier who had died) out in Texas with Sheehan hollering about Bush. It's a sick joke.
LOL. That pretty much sums it up! LOL.
The presidents vacation will soon be over, and he'll head back to Washington as planned. These ditch dogs will still be wallowing in the own filth demanding to "be heard." LOL.
Yoi!
That pic makes me want to cry too.
Someone needs to confront this lunatic and ask her why her son REINSTATED in 2003. She is dishonoring her own son!!! He clearly believed in the cause or he would not have signed up to go back into Iraq.
Lying, disgusting, pos.
'Cindy Sheehan has now been squatting in a roadside ditch near President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch since August 6. And every day more aging hippies, professional grievance-mongers, and underemployed liberal arts majors show up with their backpacks and banjos to join her. Squatting in ditches, sleeping in pup tents, and sitting around a campfire at night yodeling "This Land Is Your Land" is after all the anti-war protesters idea of nirvana.'
ROTFLMBO has he desribed them perfectly or what?
This is all about her and her political desires. It has nothing to do with her sons choices. He doesn't count. It's all about Cindy and what Cindy wants.
Her family disowned her for a reason. They loved Casey.
Last time I heard her on the radio......she sounded higher then a kite........
Gee, then I guess that includes the last and (presumptive) next Democratic candidates for President and Vice President, John Kerry (who served in Vietnam), John Edwards (whose dad worked in a meel) and Hillary Rob' em Rodham Clinton...
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