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Posted on 08/10/2005 11:52:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Aug. 9, 2005 | Cindy Sheehan, the angry 48-year-old mom from Vacaville, Calif., whose son died while serving in the Army in Iraq and who has been staging a lonely bring-the-troops-home vigil outside President Bush's ranch beneath the baking Texas sun, has clearly become a thorn in the president's vacationing side. Putting a public and empathetic face on the war's toll in America, Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was killed in April 2004, has posed a very simple request to Bush: Come out and talk to me about Iraq and why my son died. .........
Taking peculiar pleasure in trying to discredit the small-town mother, right-wingers have been in a tizzy over what they perceive as a flip-flop by Sheehan on Iraq. They excitedly reassure themselves that her alleged inconsistency about the war ought to disqualify her from being a legitimate war critic. Problem is, the oddly playful bloggers, busy mocking Sheehan as a "crazy," "exploited," "left-wing moonbat," aren't really staring down a lone mother who may or may not have shifted her opinion about Bush and the war since 2004.
.......Over the weekend conservatives at the Free Republic unearthed a June 25, 2004, article from Sheehan's hometown newspaper, the Reporter, which detailed Sheehan's visit with Bush at Fort Lewis near Seattle earlier that month. Portions of the article suggested Sheehan was grateful for her time with Bush, in contrast with her current complaints about him. Freepers then passed along the clip to Matt Drudge, who talked about it on his Sunday-night syndicated radio show. On Monday morning he hyped his analysis on his Web site, concluding that Sheehan "has dramatically changed her account about what happened when she met the commander-in-chief last summer!"
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
She is gorgeous.
I love your profile page.
I will include her and your family into my daily prayers for our troops and their families.
You've heard it many times before, but let me also chime and ask you to thank her for her service, and to keep up those gun-toting poses! ;^)
If you will Google her name and Berkeley, you'll see that she was often mentioned as being from Berkeley. Maybe Vacaville sounds better than Berkeley. Maybe she has moved.
In any case, a "small town" mom is hardly the most accurate description of her.
That would be really great if your daughter could post here on FR -
I'll be looking forward to that!
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Could please you have her kick John Kerry's sorry wimpy butt while she is home?
He needs another Purple Heart I hear.....
Just a thought!
It isn't about her "opinion" it is about her description of events changing so dramatically from 2004 to 2005 in relation to her meeting with Bush. Whoever wrote this article is trying to deceive his readers.
Sean Hannity is interview a father who lost his son in Iraq right now
He is saying the complete opposite of what Cindy has now claims
Freepers then passed along the clip to Matt Drudge
Freepers then passed along the clip to Matt Drudge
Freepers then passed along the clip to Matt Drudge
Freepers then passed along the clip to Matt Drudge...
...The left-wing-mainstream media NEMESIS strikes again!!!!
She's there with Wilson? So this is, indeed, ALL connected.
Of course the mainstream press doesn't report any of this when fawning all over this woman.
When someone is this blameful and angry, it reflects an unspoken and unacknowledged sense of personal responsibility. She had something to do with her son having been in harm's way, but she doesn't have the integrity to admit it to herself. As a result she projects the guilt and fixes blame on the obvious targets. Although she will quiet down after the spotlight fades she will probably remain in this defensive posture indefinitely. She will not seek counseling, it would be way too threatening.
How many flip flops can a flip flopper flip if he can flip flops?
A Different Version of a Military Family Meeting with President Bush-Vanity
See post #148 - it is more than that. She's part of the organized effort by the Democrats to trash Bush, Rove, etc. She's right there with Joseph Wilson at that phony "impeachment hearing" thrown by the Judiciary Committee Democrats.
Thats a good start. Hope someone on the side of the truth picks it up and runs.
AMEN..Needs repeating bump.
HE JOINED (VOLUNTARILY) WTF do they think joining the f***ing military entails - reprogramming software? It's like when someone joins the L.A.P.D and is assigned to some Fallujah-like ghetto. The pay sucks, you could be killed in duty but it's what you signed up for
LOL! She's earned expert on all her weapons. I'm sure a little grain of rice wouldn't stop her.
We'll see how the time issue is with the thread thing. It would be cool to have a 'talk to a soldier' thread. I send her fr threads to read, but the connection times are horrible over there. It takes about 5 minutes to load an email. I do tell her about every here and all the good wishes and prayers offered up to her and her group. It really means a lot to the troops to know people over here 'get it' and are thinking about them. Thanks everyone, you're making my eyes water with all this praise, and really, it's what she chose to do, it's her job, and all the troops there are fine men and women. They do it for the love of our country. What an excellent generation we've raised. Unlike the person we're discussing who can't see past her own agenda.
She's a total disgrace to her son and to the country, and quite frankly is undeserving of the fruits of freedom.
Drat, we don't get Hannity here. Good to know they're trying to find the majority who refute her claims.
:)
Should I get you a tissue?
We are only stating the truth and you did a great job raising her.:)
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