Posted on 08/14/2005 1:41:29 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
If you criticize the Queen of Peace, Cindy Sheehan for her publicity stunt in front of President Bush’s home, you get called a neo-con.
If you criticize President Bush for looks so far as misleading or false reasons for invading Iraq, you get called unpatriotic.
Somewhere in the dust of Crawford Texas and in the minds of most thinking and caring Americans there is reality.
The fact that Cindy Sheehan feels overwhelmed by the support she is getting and is even receiving some rock star coverage is not going to bring back her son. Even musicians who are planning to do concerts to support her efforts won’t return her precious.
She has a reason to dissent. She has a reason to mourn. And, she has a reason to think that she is doing good for the rest of America including the soldiers currently fighting in Iraq.
But, in reality, she is doing harm. Real harm.
Regardless why we are in Iraq, we’re there.
It was not Americans who risked their lives walking around with purple fingers of democracy, it was Iraq citizens.
But, more importantly, even thinking of pulling our troops out of Iraq right now literally endangers those troops currently trying to help Iraq build a democracy, and it gives energy to the insurgents and confidence to the terrorists who did attack America. Most importantly, calling for pulling out of troops now makes the United States appear weak.
Sheehan and Camp Casey might have been well-intended. Who knows why we’re in Iraq, but we’re there and the reasons we need to be there are justified. The more that United States loses its nerve to finish a job it started the closer the terrorists will be at our front door and they won’t care one bit if they knock over Camp Casey.
I think most people have already gotten the point that this is a woman with emotional problems. Not much else to write about it, other than the obvious ideology vultures who have reinforced her wandering over into poor mental health.
I think most people have already gotten the point that this is a woman with emotional problems. Not much else to write about it, other than the obvious ideology vultures who have reinforced her wandering over into poor mental health.
A big question is: When is Cindy Sheehan travelling to Iraq to address the insurgents as Jane Fonda did in Vietnam?
Which GUARANTEES further and larger attacks, which the anti-war idiots will not admit.
When that useful idiot is no longer useful to her old hippie handlers, they will drop her and go on to some other cause.
And when the mainstream media realizes that people all across the country are getting tired of the coverage they will go on to another story.
There's a real Camp Casey in Korea with real soldiers serving on it within artillery range of the DPRK.
According to the website that collected American casualty figures for all major American wars, in WW II there were 292,131 soldiers killed, and 115,185 wounded, for a total of 407,316 total. To compare with Sheehan, there were approximately 292.131 mothers in the same position then as Sheehan is today.
Now, keep in mind that most of the American military in WW II were drafted, not volunteered. That should have made many more "Cindy Sheehans" from the quarter million Gold Star Mothers then, than from the 1,800 mothers of today's all-volunteer military.
TV did not exist in WW II, but most of the radio, newspaper, and magazine outlets that were available then, are still in existence today. So, any honest reporter, backed by an honest editor, in any of those media outlets can look into their OWN records to see what kind of coverage they gave to the "Cindy Sheehans" then, compared with the one or two today.
Then, the modern reporter can, if me doesn't mind getting fired from his job, can propose an article or broadcast pointing out the huge discrepancy, and speculating on why this difference exists. (Can you say, "Press bias?" I knew you could.)
Here is the website address for the comparative casualties statistics on all major American wars. These numbers need to be stuffed up the nose of the MSM on every major opportunity, to put this war in clear, historical context: http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm
Congressman Billybob
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The Joooooooooooooooz did it.
My precious-ss! 
Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776:
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
With all of the Funerals in Ohio of the Marines killed have you heard of one Parent demanding to speak to the President?
Have you seen the media camped out there? Why not? Because they are privately grieving, support the Mission and know their love ones died an honorable Death.
This will come to naught. But it will damage the credibility of CNN, and the Media whores more than Bush. How can he govern if he must meet every Parent of a Soldier that dies in combat? How. This is pandering to a hysterical Media and Attention Whore. Cindy your 15 minutes of Fame and Marriage is up go home and grieve. Shame on the Left for using this Woman.
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