Who Does Cindy Sheehan Hate?

FrontPage magazine ^ | 08/26/2005 | Michael Reagan

[BJClinton]

Sigmund Freud had a concept he called “projection, which has been defined as a defense where the ego deals with unacceptable impulses and/or terrifying anxieties by attributing them to someone in the external world.

In many ways I think that explains the behavior of the media’s current patron saint, Cindy Sheehan, whose hate rhetoric aimed at President Bush is really meant for someone else who she can’t admit even to herself is her real target. To do so would represent one of those “unacceptable impulses” Dr. Freud was talking about.

In this case it could well be that Cindy Sheehan is projecting her rage at George Bush when the one she really despises is her late son Casey, who died as a hero in Iraq, precisely because he did die a hero in Iraq.

The more I listen to Cindy Sheehan and consider her past actions and her past words, it occurs to me she has always been a liberal, she’s always been anti-military, and she’s always been anti-Republican. It appears that she raised Casey in such an environment, yet despite that what does he do? He not only joins the military engaged in a war she bitterly opposes, but to add insult to injury when his enlistment runs out, he re-enlists although he knew that by so doing it meant he would be sent to Iraq where a war his mother despises is being fought.

Think about that. What Casey did was to reject not by words but by deeds his mother’s most closely-held beliefs.

Then, to make matter worse in her eyes, this son volunteers to go on a dangerous mission even his superiors warned him against, and dies as a result. Casey Sheehan's sergeant asked for volunteers. Sheehan had just returned from Mass. After Sheehan volunteered once, the sergeant asked Sheehan again if he wanted to go on the mission. According to many reports (and according to his own mother) Casey responded, "Where my chief goes, I go."

He went, and it cost him his life. You can almost hear her saying to his spirit, “How dare you spurn me and turn your back on me? How dare you go join the military, and then how dare you volunteer to fight against the innocent Iraqi freedom fighters and get yourself killed?”

Casey Sheehan’s heroic action has embittered Cindy Sheehan. And her actions have embittered her family who bitterly resent her exploitation of her son’s heroic death in behalf of her political extremism. Here’s what they wrote to Matt Drudge:

“The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the expense of her son’s good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our president, silently, with prayer and respect.”

Cindy Sheehan says she wants to ask the president, “Why did you kill my son?” She knows that George Bush did not kill her son. The butchers she supports with her far-out liberal activism killed Casey Sheehan and that activism is now resulting in the deaths of other young Americans because she is giving aid and comfort to our enemies and encouraging them to persist in their terrorism, giving them hope that if her views prevail the U.S. will lose its will and pull out. And so the fight goes on, and more Casey Sheehans die as a result.

And she says of her son, "He died for oil. He died to make your friends," Bush’s friends, "richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East."

How dare he?

Cindy Sheehan doesn’t need to talk to the president. A talk with a therapist would be more appropriate.

[Northern Yankee]

You're welcome!

[Calpernia]

I pray you get a better night sleep!

Yuck, talk about a bad bedtime story!

[Northern Yankee]

You betcha!

[JFC]

she hates you she hates me......... she hates hates hates

[nutmeg]

LOL... thanks. I really gotta stop staying up so late, reading silly stuff like this.

[BJClinton]

That poor woman. She reminds me of a Tolkien character, Wyrmtongue whispering in her ear.

[Calpernia]

I do it too.

Not many freepers here don't.

[Zechariah_8_13]

I think she IS self-indulgent. And being surrounded by the queens of self-indulgence isn't going to give her any kind of a wakeup call.

What is liberalism about, if not self-indulgence? Doing whatever makes you happy right now? Removing all traces of anything you disagree with, or you don't like?

Liberalism is the Party of Self-Indulgence(r).

[MizSterious]

Interesting set of keywords on the article, too.

If she has thousands of angels supporting her, I think they're all fallen angels. She should be careful which whispers she listens to in that regard. The devil must be doing a happy-dance, she's so easy to lure into the dark side.

[Paloma_55]

Things that we know, but dare not say out loud...

1) Not all mothers are saints
2) Some mothers are absolute idiots
3) Just because your child is a hero does not give you moral authority

The media has ascribed moral authority to Cindy Sheehan because it WANTS to give her message some added authority.

It ignores the parents of heroes who support the war.

Cindy Sheehan, while I sympathize with her loss, is an idiot!

[Personal Responsibility]

I read this and realized that we almost never hear about our war heroes accomplishments as singular events. The only singular soldiers we ever hear of are ones who did something wrong.

Are we the only society in history to shun the stories of the heroes in favor of the stories of the miscreants?

[Republic]

That Cindy has accepted support from a group who FINANCED the terrorists in the Fallejuh battle (CODE PINK group), she is demonstrating not only her own hatred of her nation, but a deep and horrific lack of love for her son.

She is supported by groups who have financed the people who KILLED HER SON.

Therefore Cindy, had no real love for her son, but rather, has a real love for terrorists.

She dishonors and stomps on her son, every time she opens her mouth. He would NOT be honored by surrender, SHE would be honored by surrender.

This is about Cindy and her poliltical beliefs and her son has been a most useful tool in providing her with a bully pulpit.

But Cindy has done one amazing thing for all of America, and you can see it everywhere (notice the increase in flags flying, at least here in Indianapolis, anyway), she has helped millions to without doubt recognize the leftist agenda of the mainstream media. There is no doubt. Enough stories are circulating about military families horrified and sickened about Cindy's anti-military stance that the biased blob of the mainstream media is simply, laid bare.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[syriacus]

Nice column. Thanks for posting it.

[syriacus]

Cindy didn't want the US to go into Iraq. The US did anyway.

Cindy didn't want Casey to go to Iraq. Casey did anyway.

Loser Cindy is now doing her darndest to scuttle US efforts in Iraq, in order to "prove" to herself that she was right.

[BJClinton]

My pleasure.

[tertiary01]

Ms Cindy acts like classic Borderline Personality Disorder and she needs to get back on her meds pronto before she carries this farce to the next level (suicide attempt or other self destructive way to get attention).

[tertiary01]

Also does anyone else see it as unusual for an adult woman to talk in a little girl voice all the time?

[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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[afraidfortherepublic]

...the adopted Reagan son inherited more insight and sense than the biological children ever did.

Maureen was pretty sharp! God rest her soul.