[SiliconValleyGuy]

A son should be allowed to divorce his mother.

[armymarinemom]

This mom's leftist views make me sick but her actions do make me wonder. As a mom I have been actively supporting our troops but does that make me right? I'm having serious doubts to just how much parents speak out. Our sons and daughters are grown and our opnion shouldn't matter a hill of beans either way. Recent events with some miltiary red tape is beginning to sour my support of our military but not our troops.

[Some hope remaining.]

Her children hung out with the progressive thinkers she met while working for a food policy organization. But Galleymore's activism faded as her children entered adolescence, her time eaten up by the demands of single motherhood.

I'm not sure I even need to say anything.

[The KG9 Kid]

Just goes to show that Liberalism isn't genetic. Those who wonder why the political pendulum swings back and forth from generation to generation need look no further than this story.

This young Ranger -- jumpmaster and sniper -- probably packs his own chute while his mother is still trying to change his diaper.

We must give this lefty mother credit for raising one Hell of a fine soldier.

[mississippi red-neck]

In one essay, Galleymore asked for others to appreciate that the soldiers are in a dilemma, "caught in a military culture that encourages the numbing of most emotions but anger. Whip up enough anger in young men emotionally isolated, denied friends, family, lovers, even civilians clothes, physically exhaust them, nourish them inadequately, expose them to extreme temperatures and violent behavior, confine them to base and portray everyone else as murderous and you create impossible stress." Nick told his mother that wasn't his experience.

This woman's mind is a closed door. She does not live in the world as we know it. She lives in a little world of her own creation. She does not see or hear anything are anybody that does not agree with or support her preconceived version of reality. Even to the point of taking the word of an Iraqi woman over that of her own son. The situation she seen in Iraq is exactly what she needed it to be. A bunch of mean U.S. trigger happy children killing a bunch of innocent Iraqi children and if our children would just take their marbles and run home then everything would be fine and everyone would be happy.

The blinders she has been wearing since her early years has cost her the chance of having any kind of lasting and meaningful relationship with anyone including her son, her daughter,and apparently her children's father.

[BurbankKarl]

Okay, I have never met the woman....but really, does she speak Arabic too? Why couldnt she just go visit her son, and not try to inflict the shame over her South African upbringing onto everything. Just like Teresa Heinz.


>>>Galleymore was devastated by the story she was told by an Iraqi mother: The woman, pregnant at the time, had been riding in a car with her family when, she says, U.S. soldiers shot and killed three of her four children and her husband.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

What is missing? The mother sought ought purported, even improbable, victims of American atrocities, eagerly provided, with no proof by the way, by politically motivated groups she agrees with. But there is no mention of, and therefore complete indifference to, those murdered and tortured by Saddam who number at least in the hundreds of thousands and those killed and maimed by Jihadist bombs and other untold ways since the overthrow of Saddam.

[Mr. Silverback]

When I first started reading this, I was coming up with all sorts of responses to it. For example, I was going to comment on how she wants credit for being anti-Apartheid from way back, but she fled the country at first opportunity and left the Blacks to find freedom on their own.

But you know what? All that needs to be said here is this:

Nick is a hero proved in liberating strife.

Nick's mother is not just a useful idiot, but just a plain garden variety idiot as well.

[Soylent Democrats]

Hey lady, the umbilical cord has already been cut!

[weegee]

I was thinking, 'My kid is going to get killed for something I don't believe in,

But he DOES believe in it. She is being selfish because he is putting American safety ahead of his own life (and America is safer since Qadaffi saw the writing on the wall with regards to WMD). There may still be terrorists in Iraq but they are no longer sponsored by the "state".

Having Iraq neutralized as a potential combatant (and safe harbor for fleeing officials/terrorists) makes it easier to deal with other Middle Eastern nations.

[zip]

ping

[Sicon]

She couldn't sleep at night, "because I was thinking, 'My kid is going to get killed for something I don't believe in, and I don't think he knows what he's getting into.' "

Yep. She's a liberal, alright. She arrogantly assumes that her college-educated, 26-year old son doesn't know what he's doing. Like all liberals, only SHE knows what's going on.

[zip]

In one essay, Galleymore asked for others to appreciate that the soldiers are in a dilemma, "caught in a military culture that encourages the numbing of most emotions but anger. Whip up enough anger in young men emotionally isolated, denied friends, family, lovers, even civilians clothes, physically exhaust them, nourish them inadequately, expose them to extreme temperatures and violent behavior, confine them to base and portray everyone else as murderous and you create impossible stress."

Nick told his mother that wasn't his experience. She doesn't know how they'll get along when he returns.

This says it all. She is nothing but an ANSWER worshipping, anti American, Bush hating idiot and is embarassing her "real American" son. She is parroting the pro Saddam, pro terrorist line just like the leftists in Columbia MO that we counter protest every Saturday. I honestly don't understand how people can hate our country so much.

[techcor]

But Galleymore's activism faded as her children entered adolescence, her time eaten up by the demands of single motherhood.

What she means to say is that Bill Clinton became president and it became "un-hip" to protest anything he did. I have yet to find a liberal you even has the vaguest guess about how many civilians died in Kosovo. They don't really care unless a Republican was in charge.

[Spruce]

The son's proper response to his mother at the gate should have been a note stating "Go home. You are making a fool of yourself. Grant my wish and go home."