Posted on 05/06/2007 1:44:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
KENT - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan would like to see today's college students become more active against the war in Iraq.
``I wish college students cared enough about what's going on in Iraq and our country to be as committed as the students were in 1970,'' Sheehan said in an interview an hour before she was to address a crowd at Kent State University on the 37th anniversary of the Kent State shootings.
Sheehan, 49, whose son Army Specialist Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq in 2004, said she does not wish for any protest to become violent, but she said, ``I think we need a new revolution.''
The annual event marks the killing of four students and wounding of nine others by Ohio National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest on the campus.
Student Kara Kear, 19 of Toledo, a freshman studied for finals as she waited for the program to begin.
``It's important to be involved with May 4th activities and to remember all the people whose lives were lost,'' she said.
She said she's sorry there aren't more members of her generation who would do what the students of 1970 did.
The Sheehan event drew a crowd of several hundred.
Give her time. She’s not done dancing on it yet. Come to think of it, I doubt she ever will be.
Hmmm...Is she going to have lunch with Hugo Chavez soon? The verbiage sounds like two peas in a pod, in my opinon.
This Ghoul of 60’s Past, needs new bodies from
which to feed.
The Ohio National Guardsmen were poor shots.
Really, have any of these liberal idiots thought about the ramifications of withdrawal for more than a nanosecond?
Cindy “Mother Moonbat” Sheehan was 12 years old in 1970, how the hell does she know much more about the “Kent State Massacre” and anti-war riots than these young kids do? What a crock of bullsh*t!
We appreciate what you've 'tried' to do for our cause,
But, you're using up WAY to much oxygen.
Please understand that this memo is not directed at you personally
or in any personal way. We love you CS, It's just that 'well'
your too old. And you're of no use to our cause any longer.
Sincerely,
Head Bitch.
Oh, so maybe The Rocky Horror Picture Show did shape her views. She would have been a teen when it came out. That would explain a whole lot :-). Of course I have little room to talk. I was a drooling 1 year old in 1970. ;-) I remember when Star Wars came out though. Sorry, went off a little bit with my post here.
“The Ohio National Guardsmen were poor shots.”
Unfortunately so. It really stinks that they managed to shoot a ROTC cadet who was just walking through to boot. I mean, what’re the odds?
Vietnam was a mistake we made by giving it back to France after WWII was over. The French asked us to help them retreat out of there after the Vietnamese turned on them for being treated like dirt. If we had given Vietnam their freedom after WWII, they could have been our ally or at least made the choice based on right and wrong. We never really had the advantage in Vietnam and had our hands tied by our rules of engagement so we wouldn't slip into WWIII. After the mid 60's, our troops there were not all volunteers like we have in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of protests on our campuses were more against the draft, which represented a war we had a hard time justifying. Kent State was a very sad day in our history. Some of the students that were shot had nothing to do with the protest. Cindy Sheehan is an idiot who has no business going anywhere near Kent State and her comments there were wrong like everything she says.
James Michener wrote an incredible book on the Kent State shootings, and as you read it you're struck with how incredibly divided families were over these shootings.
If she had any brains at all she would never wish this time in history on anyone.
So many factors contributed to these shootings, including the radical SDS underground involvement, National Guardsmen who had just been on duty for a trucker's strike, the smashing of windows in downtown Kent, and the burning of the ROTC building.
An incredible series of events lead to a situation that should never have happened. The Guardsmen were exonerated, and rightly so.
This woman is insane.
The responsibilities rest with both parties.
Wherever she goes with her simplistic and stupid bromides, Sheehan is committing blasphemy against someone or some memory.
...and that’s exactly why the Socialists want the draft brought back.
Much of the Tet Offensive failed on the first night. The worst of it, at Khe San and Hue City, lasted a month. After Hue was retaken, the discovery of thousands of civilians murdered by the communists had little effect on the politics of the war. The North Vietnamese could not have dreamed of a better outcome. Militarily, their initiative was a dismal failure. They lost perhaps 45,000 troops killed. There is no accurate count of their wounded. They murdered thousands of civilians and their actions were discovered.
But the politically driven media, and the protestors in the U.S., never delivered that message. America saw only what a few people wanted them to see. So, a few useful idiots in the press and the American outposts of the CP were able to use Tet to turn public support for the war.
Some of the facts about Tet can be found at this link. In comparison to the popular (left wing) version of these events, the difference is quite shocking.
You'll also find allegations that the Kent State protest was organized, at least in part, by communist party loyalists who wanted to provoke a violent confrontation in order to make the U.S. government look bad. It worked.
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