Posted on 08/17/2005 4:23:15 PM PDT by Sam Hill
To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch. It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.
Call me old-fashioned, but a grief-stricken war mother shouldn't have her own full-time PR flack. After your third profile on "Entertainment Tonight," you're no longer a grieving mom; you're a C-list celebrity trolling for a book deal or a reality show.
We're sorry about Ms. Sheehan's son, but the entire nation was attacked on 9/11. This isn't about her personal loss. America has been under relentless attack from Islamic terrorists for 20 years, culminating in a devastating attack on U.S. soil on 9/11. It's not going to stop unless we fight back, annihilate Muslim fanatics, destroy their bases, eliminate their sponsors and end all their hope. A lot more mothers will be grieving if our military policy is: No one gets hurt!
Fortunately, the Constitution vests authority to make foreign policy with the president of the United States, not with this week's sad story. But liberals think that since they have been able to produce a grieving mother, the commander in chief should step aside and let Cindy Sheehan make foreign policy for the nation. As Maureen Dowd said, it's "inhumane" for Bush not "to understand that the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute."
I'm not sure what "moral authority" is supposed to mean in that sentence, but if it has anything to do with Cindy Sheehan dictating America's foreign policy, then no, it is not "absolute." It's not even conditional, provisional, fleeting, theoretical or ephemeral.
The logical, intellectual and ethical shortcomings of such a statement are staggering. If one dead son means no one can win an argument with you, how about two dead sons? What if the person arguing with you is a mother who also lost a son in Iraq and she's pro-war? Do we decide the winner with a coin toss? Or do we see if there's a woman out there who lost two children in Iraq and see what she thinks about the war?
Dowd's "absolute" moral authority column demonstrates, once again, what can happen when liberals start tossing around terms they don't understand like "absolute" and "moral." It seems that the inspiration for Dowd's column was also absolute. On the rocks.
Liberals demand that we listen with rapt attention to Sheehan, but she has nothing new to say about the war. At least nothing we haven't heard from Michael Moore since approximately 11 a.m., Sept. 11, 2001. It's a neocon war; we're fighting for Israel; it's a war for oil; Bush lied, kids died; there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. Turn on MSNBC's "Hardball" and you can hear it right now. At this point, Cindy Sheehan is like a touring company of Air America radio: Same old script and it's not even the original cast.
These arguments didn't persuade Hillary Clinton or John McCain to vote against the war. They didn't persuade Democratic primary voters, who unceremoniously dumped anti-war candidate Howard Dean in favor of John Kerry, who voted for the war before he voted against it. They certainly didn't persuade a majority of American voters who re-upped George Bush's tenure as the nation's commander in chief last November.
But now liberals demand that we listen to the same old arguments all over again, not because Sheehan has any new insights, but because she has the ability to repel dissent by citing her grief.
On the bright side, Sheehan shows us what Democrats would say if they thought they were immunized from disagreement. Sheehan has called President Bush "that filth-spewer and warmonger." She says "America has been killing people on this continent since it was started" and "the killing has gone on unabated for over 200 years." She calls the U.S. government a "morally repugnant system" and says, "This country is not worth dying for." I have a feeling every time this gal opens her trap, Michael Moore gets a residuals check.
Evidently, however, there are some things worth killing for. Sheehan recently said she only seemed calm "because if I started hitting something, I wouldn't stop 'til it was dead." It's a wonder Bush won't meet with her.
LOL.
Begone, troll.
The whole world thought Saddam had WMD..NOT JUST GW. Doesn't matter anyway..he would have gotten them and he was scum.
We don't have BL yet..so what? Have some faith.
We have been in a war against terror (Islamofacists) for more than twenty years..where have you been? They kill and bomb everything in site. Did you hear about Bangladesh this week?..I didn't think so.
We are freeing Iraqi's while creating hope for Americans..are you simply unable to get the big picture or are you just lazy..TROLL.
Why don't you sing us a little I love Saddam song...
Momomom.."I love Saddam..lalalala..You were a good man...lalalala..I's ok that you kill at the drop of a hat, I don't like Bush..and that is that."
Put some ice on it!
" When you lie down with dogs like Michael Moore... Well, you know."
Here I am reveling in another of Ann's excellent articles, and you come along and gross me out! /big grins
Her son was a hero who made his own choice to enlist. Cindy on the other hand, is a useless piece of trash. I am well past having any sympathy for her. I'm sure her family wishes the roles were reversed and Casey was still here and she was the one gone. I know I do.
That is how I see it.
Thanks for the ping. I've been looking forward to her takedown of the Sheehan Circus all week.
In the book she describes a mother who is overbearing and narcissistic to the point of being toxic to her children.
I's a personality disorder I tell ya.
Troll? Very likely. Imbecile? Absolutely!!
Best Regards,
From tonight's Drudge Report:
CINDY UNLEASHED: 'THE BIGGEST TERRORIST IN THE WORLD IS GEORGE W. BUSH'
Wed Aug 17 2005 21:51:56 ET
"We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We’re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!"
So declared Cindy Sheehan earlier this year during a rally at San Francisco State University.
Sheehan, who is demanding a second meeting with Bush, stated: "We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now."
Sheehan unleashed a foul-mouth tirade on April 27, 2005:
"They’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up..." Sheehan said of the Bush administration.
"If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullshit, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?"
"The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war."
"We want our country back and, if we have to impeach everybody from George Bush down to the person who picks up dog shit in Washington, we will impeach all those people."
END
Check the resolution that all your buddies voted for authorizing us to invade Iraq. It list all those and more. It is the Democrats and the MSM who keep changing Bush's reason for going to war.
I think Sheehan has gone off the deep end mentally. Her grief is unbearable to her, and to avoid feeling it, she obsessively seeks attention - which may be the only thing standing between her and suicide. When the liberal media and the lunatic fringe groups have packed up their circus tent and gone home there will be nothing left except Cindy and her pain, which will probably hit her with hurricane force. I wonder if Michael Moore and code pink will be there to pick up the pieces, but I doubt that the suicide hotline is part of their agenda.
OMG, Ms. Coulter has said what so many of us have been thinking. Thankfully, she has the gift of words and knows how to get a point across clear enough for anyone. Even a Liberal...IF they could get past their angry rants and actually listen to reason.
And here I thought the old hag didn't have any of the sense she was born with left in her scary looking head.
It is a testimonial to our liberal school system. They do not have to learn more than four letter words. Those who cannot get past four letters could be emotionally damaged for life. It's all about self-esteem. Lower the bar, and you get the sort of people that post on DU.
WRONG! It was about the UN Resolutions that Saddam refused to comply with. Does your heart not care about those brave men and women who lost their lives during Desert Storm? That war ended because Saddam AGREED to comply with the UN Resolutions. Should their deaths be in vain? It was until the U.S. and its Allies made Saddam accountable for the fact that he refused to comply. How many of our planes were shot at? Do you care?
Yes, those other reasons were important as well. But what started this war was Saddam's failure to comply with UN Resolutions. Don't you forget it.
NO, but Jihad Cindy uses up a lot of air time that could be used discussing the Gorelick wall, Able Danger, and Sandy Burgler, just for starters.
This is the Dems way of wagging the dog when they do not have the authority to bomb someone by themselves...
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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