Cindy Sheehan's Sinister Piffle - What's Wrong With Her Crawford Protest. (Great Editorial!)

Slate ^ | 8/15/05 | Christopher Hitchins

[areafiftyone]

Here is an unambivalent statement: "The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute."

And, now, here's another:

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 George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agendas 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, because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our middle-eastern foreign policy.

The first statement comes from Maureen Dowd, in her New York Times column of Aug. 10. The second statement comes from Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq last year. It was sent to the editors of ABC's Nightline on March 15. In her article, Dowd was arguing that Sheehan's moral authority was absolute.

I am at a complete loss to see how these two positions can be made compatible. Sheehan has obviously taken a short course in the Michael Moore/Ramsey Clark school of Iraq analysis and has not succeeded in making it one atom more elegant or persuasive.

[Mister Baredog]

Hitchins once again pointing out the obvious and unrefutable facts. Not bad for a lib atheist, he gets it.

[ozzymandus]

I would say that MODO and Cindy are about equally stupid, arrogant, and deranged.

[Huck]

That should be the name of a band: Sinister Piffle.

[gman992]

It just goes to show that the left's Anti-semitism is alive and well. Thank god for Christopher Hitchens. He's a godsend(and I think the male Ann Coulter)

[Minnesocold]

Finally, I think one must deny to anyone the right to ventriloquize the dead. Casey Sheehan joined up as a responsible adult volunteer. Are we so sure that he would have wanted to see his mother acquiring "a knack for P.R." and announcing that he was killed in a war for a Jewish cabal? This is just as objectionable, on logical as well as moral grounds, as the old pro-war argument that the dead "must not have died in vain." I distrust anyone who claims to speak for the fallen, and I distrust even more the hysterical noncombatants who exploit the grief of those who have to bury them.

Well said, Mr. Hitchens.

[shadeaud]

I wonder if her son join the Army to get away from her. If so, she's responsible for his death.

[JeeperFreeper]

Sheehan's shrill Kabuki theatre for terrorists is backfiring. Be advised, oh, Harpy of The Left, the MSM media dearly loves to build up people, then rip 'em to shreds.

[lormand]

No wonder Al Jazeera takes a liking to her.

[tophat9000]

Finally, I think one must deny to anyone the right to ventriloquize the dead. Casey Sheehan joined up as a responsible adult volunteer. Are we so sure that he would have wanted to see his mother acquiring "a knack for P.R." and announcing that he was killed in a war for a Jewish cabal? This is just as objectionable, on logical as well as moral grounds, as the old pro-war argument that the dead "must not have died in vain." I distrust anyone who claims to speak for the fallen, and I distrust even more the hysterical noncombatants who exploit the grief of those who have to bury them.

[clintonh8r]

Hitch hits another one out of the park.

[darkwing104]

Is it me or is the MSM beginning to look a lot like an thread from the FR.

[armyavonlady]

Very interesting read. I particularly liked the end:

"Finally, I think one must deny to anyone the right to ventriloquize the dead. Casey Sheehan joined up as a responsible adult volunteer. Are we so sure that he would have wanted to see his mother acquiring "a knack for P.R." and announcing that he was killed in a war for a Jewish cabal? This is just as objectionable, on logical as well as moral grounds, as the old pro-war argument that the dead "must not have died in vain." I distrust anyone who claims to speak for the fallen, and I distrust even more the hysterical noncombatants who exploit the grief of those who have to bury them."

I won't say anything negative about this woman, although I may think it really, really loudly in my brain.

I just hope time will bring her heart back to what's most important and she'll leave the podium in her past.

[drella8566]

What's PNAC?

[nuconvert]

Seems to be a popular paragraph.
It's a good one.

[Arrowhead1952]

I would say that MODO and Cindy are about equally stupid, arrogant, and deranged.

Just wanted to see a pic of CZJ?????

[My2Cents]

Hitchens is my favorite socialistic atheist.

[sarasota]

This is definitely working to our advantage. Many threads echo these sentiments today.

[I see my hands]

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Honest question here,I'm not doubting you. I just want to feel better. Who on the left has the msm ripped to shreds in the last six years. Can you name six?

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[Izzy Dunne]

the Arab Muslims who attacked us

I thought it was a Zionist plot to blame it on the Muslims - didn't she get the memo?