To ALL: It is important to remember this as Cincinatus' Wife wrote:
Casey Sheehan joined the Army of his own volition. Then he re-enlisted to serve in Iraq. His mother might have preferred that he join the American Friends Service Committee, a pacifist Quaker organization opposed to this and all other wars. He didn't.
Before he went to Iraq, Cindy Sheehan says she offered to take him to Canada, to desert the Army. As if a 23-year-old soldier, an adult, needs to be taken by his mother's hand to run away from his duty, his responsibilities and his country. Casey rejected her offer. The gesture, if it really happened as she claims, speaks volumes about Cindy Sheehan's ideology and state of mind. Her grief has metastasized into bitterness and rage as she turns her son's coffin into her own soapbox. Is that what Casey would have wanted? Or is this all about her?
Of course it's about her. While I do not agree with the whole Iraq mess, nor do I support Bush, I strongly believe that those that choose (the operative word) to serve do so with the full knowledge that they may be have to go to war. That is what the military does regardless of 'right' or 'wrong'...
Those are Rosen's words and he's right!