A Mother Misguided

Although I have not watched any TV news since April, a smattering of information about Cindy Sheehan has come my way: a few facts about her political sympathies, bereavement, family tensions, employment, etc.

On the other hand, I know next to nothing about Casey Sheehan, and it seems strange that his mother's feelings have so completely eclipsed the son's motivations, convictions, character, military service and manner of death. Is he so inconsequential?

Cindy Sheehan is using Michael Moore's Web site to express her thoughts about the war, and it is a fact that Moore honors the head choppers, car bombers and child killers as the Iraqi equivalent of the Minutemen of the American Revolution.

The thing that really gets me about Cindy is that she so obvioiusly hated everythng Casey stood for and worked for, and did everything she could to undermine him and his mission while he was alive. There were probably other very serious issues between Cindy and Casey before he joined the Army, an act that must have really galled her, let alone the extent to which she must have been infuriated by his re-enlisting contrary to her deepest desires. From her view of America, he'd basically married the Devil's daughter and started having children with the Devil's daughter. That being the case, it would be very easy for her not to feel much real grief at all, but to be anxious to parade as much false "grief" as possible and use it as a weapon to slime Casey's memory and mission, which is exactly what she's doing.

Now she fraudulently, loudly, and lugubriously "grieves" about his death every time a TV camera is pointed at her, just like Bill Clinton "grieving" over Ron Brown's death. Even more vile, she's crassly appropriated Casey's heroic death and twisted it to attack everything he honorably stood for. In effect, as a way to express her real hatred for him and get posthumous revenge on him for his patriotism, she's installed a toilet on top of his grave, copiously used it herself, and invited thousands of other traitors to do the same. Utterly contemptible.

Since Cindy was involved in every far left, anti-American cause she could find long before Casey enlisted, she did everything she could to undermine him and his mission and encourage the Islamofascists to murder every American they could, just the way Nick Berg's father did.

Surprise!! The Islamofascists took that encouragement by those two evil people and murdered Nick Berg and Casey Sheehan. Short of pulling the trigger herself, "Mother Cindy" couldn't have done much more to kill Casey. That puts her right there beside Andrea Yates. What's far worse, she's now trying to make sure lots more Americans, thousands more, get killed by the Islamofascist subhumans.

The Left with the complicity of the MSM wanted to find an icon, a sympathetic soul, a mother with whom the American people would identify, "feel" her pain and demand immediate withdrawal from a messy world, which includes Iraq.

The chose the wrong icon. They chose Sheehan, an already dedicated Leftist, an antisemitic woman, who babbles contradictory statements as two-year old children make up stories about imaginary boogie men when they're caught doing something they should not.

The difference is the two-year old lies in childlike innocence whereas Sheehan, the Left and the MSM lie with deadly, hate laced purpose.

Sheehan, by her actions and her commentary does not honor her son's memory with respect for his adult decision to enter military service. Therefore she must understand and accept why many of us do not respect her, either.

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