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Ventriloquizing the dead - Would Casey have wanted his mother to say all this nonsenseon his behalf?
National Post, Canada ^ | August 17, 2005 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 08/17/2005 1:46:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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On his Monday talk show, radio personality Rush Limbaugh noted that Sheehan's son volunteered for the Army. He disparaged the "squatters" in Sheehan's entourage.

"There's no meaning to what she's doing. She's a pawn, she's a tool of a bunch of fellow crackpots upon whom we couldn't depend if our lives were at stake, and that's why they are so few and far between. Thankfully, they are not anywhere near the majority of people in the country," Limbaugh said.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3313878

1 posted on 08/17/2005 1:46:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This qualifies her to be described by Dowd as "a 48-year-old Californian with a knack for PR"

She's definitely qualified.

2 posted on 08/17/2005 1:49:48 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a [Project for the New American Century] neo-con agenda to benefit Israel.

Cindy has denied ever saying this (about her son dying for Israel) and ABC (imagine my surprise) now says they can't seem to find the document that would verify that she did.

3 posted on 08/17/2005 1:55:27 AM PDT by airborne
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Rush read a post from a left-wing-wacko site yesterday saying they need to call Cindy a mother. That it would play better than calling her Cindy. Well, it looks like the msm has fallen in line:

'Peace mom' Cindy Sheehan, left, president of Gold Star Families for Peace, hugs supporters on the morning after a pickup truck tore through the rows of white crosses at her anti-war protest camp near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005. Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq, is camping near the Bush ranch this month in an effort to speak with the president about her opposition to the war. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ABC News: Husband of 'Peace Mom' Files for Divorce

AP:'Peace Mom' Demonstration Gets New Home

Daily News Transcript:Locals to join 'Peace Mom' in vigil tonight

USA Today: Media escalation unnerves protest mom

AP:Ex-FBI Whistleblower to Join 'Peace Mom'

MSNBC (Reuters) Crosses vandalized at antiwar mom’s campsite

4 posted on 08/17/2005 1:57:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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"The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute."

Does Casey's father cancel out Cindy's "moral authority"?

He disagrees with her stance.

5 posted on 08/17/2005 1:57:46 AM PDT by airborne
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PR:

***.....TrueMajority, an antiwar group founded by Ben Cohen -- one of the creators of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream -- hired Fenton Communications, a Washington public relations firm that has worked intermittently with Sheehan over the past year to coordinate media coverage.

With this help, Sheehan has courted coverage from the traveling White House press corps with a news conference. A schedule of when relatives of other military casualties in Iraq are expected to join Sheehan in Crawford was distributed to reporters. Her team coordinated an antiwar rally attended by hundreds in Crawford yesterday.

Sheehan also launched a television ad campaign yesterday, hoping to achieve what her roadside vigil so far has not: a second chance to directly tell Bush about the devastation she has experienced since her son's death. Source

6 posted on 08/17/2005 2:00:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: airborne

Cindy said this again at a peace convention right before she went to crawford.

Cindy is a compulsive liar she at first said her meeting with bush was sincere and brought her happiness and then later he went nose to nose with her.

She came in on an impeachment bus but says she didn't bring up impeachment when she has called for it many times.

She says the rally was spontaneous and yet she has been following bush around for the last 9 months crashing a fundraiser in florida, complaining about the inauguration in washington to good morning america.


You can go to google and type in cindy sheehan israel and look for the va monthly article of her speech at the convention.

She also goes after bush's daughters calling them party animals, says america is not worth dying for, how america should stop the killing, not paying taxes, she calls bush several expletives.


7 posted on 08/17/2005 2:01:49 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
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To: airborne

I have personally seen on her website her going after Israel and seen her posts on DU and dailykos going after Israel what a tool she is. She has said that all of israel is palestine and the pnac agenda, neo cons, called paul wolfowitz one of the most evil people ever.

On and on she goes.


8 posted on 08/17/2005 2:03:48 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
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Would the "peace mom" prefer her son died for an anti-American cause? So many of these left-wing activists do.

Parents mourn children killed during protests

Non-violent peace protestor Rachel Corrie shows her love of the American flag to a group of Palestinian children

9 posted on 08/17/2005 2:05:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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...but then so is my "moral" right to say that she is spouting sinister piffle

Ouch!!

I do pity Mrs. Sheehan, :-(

BUT,,,,

I REFUSE to be manipulated and this is what she is doing. She uses the "I'm a war widow, don't question me" tactics. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. I am sorry her son died, but her views are reprehensible. Folks can say she is being used by the various factions of moonbats, but she has CHOSEN to be used.
10 posted on 08/17/2005 2:08:03 AM PDT by kb2614 ("Speaking Truth to Power" - What idiots say when they want to sound profound!!)
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She also goes after bush's daughters calling them party animals, says america is not worth dying for, how america should stop the killing, not paying taxes, she calls bush several expletives.

Bush daughter is said to volunteer in S. Africa***CAPE TOWN -- At the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, children sit on their mothers' laps in waiting rooms, waddle down hallways, and wail inside the burn unit, where nurses carefully wrap gauze around their arms, legs, and heads.

It is here, say some doctors and nurses, that Barbara Bush, one of President Bush's twin daughters, has been working in near anonymity as a volunteer. ...***

11 posted on 08/17/2005 2:09:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Would the "peace mom" prefer her son died for an anti-American cause?

AS long as it provided her with media attention and money, I don't think she would mind how he died.

12 posted on 08/17/2005 2:10:10 AM PDT by airborne
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Maureen Dowd,David Duke,Joe Trippi,Tom Hayden,Al Franken,and on and on go the familiar names of people who embrace Cindy Sheehan.

As my mother told me many years ago;"you are known by the company you keep."

13 posted on 08/17/2005 2:12:48 AM PDT by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon Turtle Co.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All
Code Pinko-- the Cindy Sheehan affair ( click the picture )

14 posted on 08/17/2005 2:14:45 AM PDT by backhoe
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Media keeps portraying this as about being for the war in iraq or against it.

Sheehan is against the war in afganistan she wants to transform america from killing people to being peaceful.

In her dullusional world al queda are normal people that are freedom fighters and will stop killing if we go home.

Earth to cindy on 9/11 we weren't in afganistan or iraq.


The media would never point out that cindy wants us to withdraw immediately from afganistan because that would put her in a bad light.


15 posted on 08/17/2005 2:19:07 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
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To: backhoe

Cindy also said that she doesn't even believe bin laden attacked us that is was a pnac scheme for future wars.

The MSM has taken the cake with this one portraying a radical moonbat wacko as the face of a greiving nation.


I am so sick of soldiers believing in the mission and having this nut piss on their beliefs and the fallen ones.


16 posted on 08/17/2005 2:21:08 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
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.....As my mother told me many years ago;"you are known by the company you keep."

***.........As a student of the left, Jamie Glazov, has observed in an article about the middle-class defenders of recently captured Seventies terrorist Kathy Soliah: "if you can successfully camouflage your own pathology and hatred with a concern for the 'poor' and the 'downtrodden,' then there will always be a 'progressive' milieu to support and defend you."* Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bernadine Dohrn, Sylvia Baraldini, Rubin Carter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rigoberta Menchu and innumerable others have all discovered this principle in the course of their criminal careers. ....***Source

17 posted on 08/17/2005 2:26:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: backhoe

Bump!


18 posted on 08/17/2005 2:27:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: airborne
AS long as it provided her with media attention and money, I don't think she would mind how he died.

It's beginning to take on that air, isn't it?


Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, California, a mother who lost her son U.S. Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan who was serving in Iraq, holds a cross with his name on it as she poses for photographers during her vigil near the ranch owned by U.S. President George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas August 11, 2005. About 50 anti-war protesters have set up camp near the president's ranch, calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. REUTERS/Jason Reed

19 posted on 08/17/2005 2:37:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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"Earth to cindy on 9/11 we weren't in afganistan or iraq."

Oh can I use this idea in my tagline? Pretty ,pretty, pleeazee?

20 posted on 08/17/2005 2:41:36 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Earth to Liberals.... We weren't in Iraq on 9/11 so how did the war cause terrorism again?........)
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