Posted on 02/01/2006 2:25:45 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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So, last summer, we met Cindy Sheehan, whose protest outside President Bush's ranch made her a cause célèbre. Her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, had died in the liberation of Iraq. She opposed the war and believed he had died in vain. The media portrayed her as a grieving everymom; Maureen Dowd wrote in the New York Times that "the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute."
Ms. Dowd didn't really believe this, of course. The parents of fallen servicemen are a diverse group, but it seems safe to surmise that on average they are more pro-war than the public as a whole. In fact, if the Sheehan protest was news, it was because of the man-bites-dog aspect of it: Her position was at variance with what you would expect from someone who had lost a son in the war.
The problem, though, is that her views were at variance with those of any sane person. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Cindy Sheehan is an anti-American crackpot--and "anti-American crackpot opposes Iraq war" is a dog-bites-man story if ever there was one.
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July 2003 - Lynn Woolsey campaigns for women's rights, BUT when the son of one of her staffers brutally rapes a 17-yr-old and stuffs a rag--soaked in toilet bowl cleanser--down the girl's throat, Woolsey sends a letter to the judge asking for leniency for the rapist; She insisted he could "change".
Lynn Woolsey is a member and an officer of the Progressive Caucus, a communist group within Congress founded by Bernie Sanders in 1991. [Congress's Red Army] About 60 representatives in congress are members of the caucus. Until 1999,the Progressive Caucus was openly partnering with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Their toned-down mission statement can be found here: All in One (pdf) or The Progressive Promise (html).
Her also big baby is hating the Boy Scouts of America.
Cindy Sheehan is the gift that keeps on giving. If the Left ever needed to honor an all-time poster child of intellectual and moral bankruptcy, they've found their traitor.
Cindy was arrested by the DC police and charged with a misdemeanor of "unlawful conduct" - i.e. no protesting allowed within the Capitol building.
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