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Protest by a grieving mother gains momentum - Cindy Sheehan
Houston Chronicle ^ | August 11, 2005 | Bennett Roth

Posted on 08/11/2005 12:28:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: easonc52
she felt that if sadham were so important, he should have been taken care of in the first Gulf War, or after Bin Laden and company were taken care of

Did you notice her comment about Saddam being "allowed" to fly the helicopters that gassed the Kurds? This woman was so ignorant that she doesn't know that Saddam did that before the Gulf War. Wow, what ajn expert on middle eastern affairs, I'm sure following her advice.

she would now maybe blog on michael moore's web site, because she though maybe O'Reilly was putting words in mm's mouth

I would bet that's a talking point. I've heard more than one liberal say that ("putting words in Moore's mouth") when a conservative mentions Moore's comments. I even recall one person who said that about the Minuteman comment.

Of course, if it's not a talking point, one has to wonder how low into the two digit range these people's IQs go, because it would mean they see this nasty person and just take him at his word solely because he shares their disagreement with Bush.

101 posted on 08/11/2005 8:30:51 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Terrorists started with the AK-rifle-monkey-pump...American snipers killed everybody with a weapon.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Protest by a grieving mother gains momentum

Not where it counts, it hasn't.
The MSN is irrelevant for the obvious reasons.

Among the moonbats, the "interest" peaked among all of them in the first 24 hours. All 15% of them

Among normal people, it's become a *yawn*...

102 posted on 08/11/2005 8:33:46 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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Bennett Roth

File this name in your memory. Another example of a "Journalist" writing the story they WANT to happen instead of reporting the News.
103 posted on 08/11/2005 8:37:03 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Brick by brick, stone by stone, the Revolution grows)
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To: dadokane
After all, she lost her son in combat while in contrast you will not honor her First Amendment rights. Have you given as much as she? Can't you give her a break? And wouldn't that be simply observing the great instruction rendered two-thousand years ago, love thy neighbor as thyself -- no exceptions

From the AP story.

***[AP]........Her 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, in April 2004 just five days after he arrived. Two months later, Sheehan was among grieving military family members who met with Bush at Fort Lewis, near Seattle, Wash.
---Snip
Using her son's life insurance money, Sheehan has traveled around the country protesting Bush and the war, including at an October fundraising visit by Bush to St. Petersburg
--Snip
Can you not hold this woman accountable for her actions. Why must you make excuses and rationalizations for this woman's deliberate misrepresentation of what she is up to?

This woman is using her son's death as a political propaganda tool. That is sick and disgusting.
104 posted on 08/11/2005 8:45:02 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Brick by brick, stone by stone, the Revolution grows)
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To: airborne
Good luck Freeping this Berkeley media whore.

I'll be at my rock pile, but I hope a lot of other folks show up for the Freep.

It burns me up that the media never mentions that, not only did her son enlist voluntarily, he reenlisted!

Just so. But of course it doesn't fit their marching orders which is, if they can't dig up any dirt on conservatives/Pubbies, they make their own. They have taken a less than non event and with their incessant carnival barking, turned it into a thing of beauty(in their eyes). Sortof like throw-down dirt if you will.

The three ring media circus' zeal is a something to behold, eh?

FGS

105 posted on 08/11/2005 8:47:03 AM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Satan certainly is making a stand here.


106 posted on 08/11/2005 8:47:34 AM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: ForGod'sSake
The three ring media circus' zeal is a something to behold, eh?

And the media will jump ship as soon as it's apparent that Cindy's story no longer holds water.

107 posted on 08/11/2005 8:52:44 AM PDT by airborne
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To: dadokane
You are way out of line.

The FReeper you are attacking did not attribute a quote to Ms. Sheehan.

He also did not express any disregard for her 1st Amendment rights, or even suggest she curtail her speech.

Your question asking if he has sacrificed as much as her...I'm sorry, I didn't get the memo where the right to speak only applies to people who have buried a child killed in a foreign war. I thought it applied to all Americans.

But to take the cake...Posting the Golden Rule in defense of this woman who at best is a mouthpiece for human maggots who get fat off our honored dead is quite despicable. What's your take on Cindy Sheehan loving her son so much she'll dishonor the cause he fought for? What's your take on her loving her Neighbor GW Bush so much she lies about him, portraying him as a grinning ghoul when he really showed her family every kindness and respect? What's your take on her loving her Iraqi neighbor so much she demands to know what "noble cause" her son died in, apparently believing that liberating 25 million people from a torturocracy doesn't qualify as "noble." What's your take on her loving her neighbor the American soldier so much? Let's take just one group she has allied herself with--Code Pink. In just the last year they have done the following to the American soldiers who Casey Sheehan served with, and died trying to protect:

They have called them killers in numerous protests.
Every Friday night they protest the soldiers being wounded for oil mere yards from their sickbeds at Walter Reed.
They sent $600,000 to terrorists and terrorist sympathizers in Fallujah.
They endorse a statement/manifesto calling our soldiers' actions war crimes that require a Nuremburg-style tribunal. Note that this petition is also endorsed by another group of Sheehan-supporters, Veterans for Peace.

So take your own advice, and "Please refrain from engaging in personal attacks falsely leveled against a fellow citizen who dares to merely express via speech his opinion in America." Or at least get informed a bit about the kind of fifth-columnist scum Sheehan runs with.

108 posted on 08/11/2005 9:01:02 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Terrorists started with the AK-rifle-monkey-pump...American snipers killed everybody with a weapon.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; cambridge

Note: VFP has endorsed the World Tribunal statement, which advocates treating America's liberation of Iraq in the same legal manner the Holocaust was treated.


109 posted on 08/11/2005 9:02:58 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Terrorists started with the AK-rifle-monkey-pump...American snipers killed everybody with a weapon.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

I have read around and now see that I was wrong to be charitable and assume that she was a grief-striken mother. She is a willing tool of the MSM and a shame on her family and country.


110 posted on 08/11/2005 9:07:21 AM PDT by cambridge
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Some of the links on Sheehan's gold star website look really interesting and traitorous:

http://www.gsfp.org/


111 posted on 08/11/2005 9:09:58 AM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: eleni121

She's a LIBERAL activist.


112 posted on 08/11/2005 9:22:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If she was quiet we would all be much happier.


113 posted on 08/11/2005 9:30:43 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Isn't it ill-mannered an inappropriate to give an interview in a church in the middle of a prayer service? I wonder how the other people who were there mourning felt about this sacriligious act.

Note that she stopped when her own son was named. She probably would have been upset if the person next to her was chatting idly during that moment.

Of course, maybe nobody else was there.


114 posted on 08/11/2005 9:40:38 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You know, the more I think about this, the more it seems to me that she has already had her "honor" for the sacrifice of her son. Now she should be treated just like any other public figure protesting the war. We should be allowed to question her motives, to point out her false statements, and to judge her by the company she keeps.

There are protests in "solidarity" for her. What are the protesting about? The media sometimes says it is just for her "right" to speak with the president -- but there are millions of americans who would like to do that. She got her "meeting" because of her son's death. Now she should stand in line. Wouldn't every media personality want a one-on-one with the president?

If I were related to Rosa Parks, I would be upset. Rosa Parks was discriminated against her whole life. She took a stand for her own right to sit where she wanted to on a bus.

Cindy Sheehan is just a woman who wants to meet with the president. She already did it once, but she now wants a "do-over". Does the left really equate Cindy Sheehan not getting a 2nd meeting with the President with Rosa Parks putting her life in danger to sit on the front of a bus?

Where is the outrage of the black community?


115 posted on 08/11/2005 9:50:06 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Where to they make flag patches that are purposely backwards? Or is it just sewn on backwards? It doesn't look like the back of a patch to me.

How does disrespect for our country further their cause?

Are the mad at Bush, or at our country. They say Bush, but purposely wearing a flag backwards shows otherwise.

I hate seeing the flag displayed incorrectly. At least it isn't upside down.


116 posted on 08/11/2005 9:53:10 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Mr. Silverback
You have said it all. Being in that part of the world where Fort Lewis is nearby, we have been treated with description from local families of the meeting with the President that Sheehan has mischaracterized. The accounts that we have heard have shown our President as a truly compassionate, down to earth man of truth. Sheehan in her own accounts has flip flopped from a glowing account of the President to a despicable fabrication of lies. I say she has a personality disorder to so use her son's death to fabricate a pack of lies and a deceptive twisting of facts. This is a sociopath unleashed by the left as a pack horse for their agenda against the President and this nation's national security.
117 posted on 08/11/2005 10:05:17 AM PDT by jonrick46
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To: CharlesWayneCT

That patch is the way the flag patches are currently produced, if you look at photos of soldiers you'll see the same thing.


118 posted on 08/11/2005 10:08:05 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Terrorists started with the AK-rifle-monkey-pump...American snipers killed everybody with a weapon.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Isn't it ill-mannered an inappropriate to give an interview in a church in the middle of a prayer service?.....

Well, the reporter was kneeling too.....It's all such self-promoting, anti-American sewage.

119 posted on 08/11/2005 10:20:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: jonrick46
Thank you for your comments, and I apologize for not pinging you when I discussed you.

Maybe she's following the usual Marxist materialism and now that her son's gone she sees him as a tool to be used.

120 posted on 08/11/2005 10:21:04 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Terrorists started with the AK-rifle-monkey-pump...American snipers killed everybody with a weapon.)
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