Cindy Sheehan -- In Her Own Words

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[sauropod]

I saw that.

Hundreds of thousands of people? My immediate reaction watching her interview.

the Bloviator exposed Kesterson for the fake, phoney fraud she is.

I have really taken a dislike to O'Gasbag recently, but he did a good job with this one and let her hang herself.

[Miss Marple]

Yes, he did a good job. I especially like how he backed her into backing Michael Moore over the President.

As an aside, I would like to say that even if you ignore their hateful rhetoric, the people involved with Ms. Sheehan and Ms. Sheehan herself are decidedly unpleasant people.

[Peach]

So she's paranoid too.

[pepperhead]

Her basic gripe is that Casey is dead and George Bush is not.

Or her son is dead and Bush's kids is not. Or when Terry Schiavo was alive, that she was being kept alive and her son was dead. It takes a very sad individual to wish someone else dead. She really needs to get some professional help.

[sauropod]

Don't I know it. We counterprotest these people outside Walter Reed every Friday eve.

Some of the nutcases there do NOT make their side look good.

[pepperhead]

Didja see the snide little dig on page 2 from Tom Baldwin, the "reporter" that wrote this? About "right-wing websites" attacking a poor defenseless grieving mother?

What do you expect from journalist now days? But you got to like the fact that this woman and others out there like her, are so seething with rage, that they give statements like this to sympathetic reporters.

[Sam Hill]

Thanks.

[Rightly Biased]

That needs to be put every where I am sending it every where I can with the link.

Thanks
RB

[Sam Hill]

The Facts About Cindy Sheehan's Son, Casey

While one might dismiss some of Sheehan’s hyperbole due to grief over her son’s death, a little research about Casey Sheehan revealed that contrary to being tricked by military recruiters, Casey Sheehan had re-enlisted in the U.S. Army voluntarily when he was 24-years-old, after serving his first hitch successfully. Casey Sheehan was in fact a hero who received a Bronze Star. He was attached as a mechanic to the artillery division of the 1st U.S. Cavalry in Iraq. When a convoy of soldiers from Casey’s unit was attacked in Sadr City by insurgents, Casey volunteered to join a rapid rescue force to get them out. His commanding sergeant told him he did not have to go into combat, because he was a mechanic and not an infantryman. Casey was quoted telling his officer, “I go where my chief goes.” He was tragically killed during the rescue attempt. The source for this story? Cindy Sheehan herself.

I also visited an army recruiting office on my way home and asked about Casey being promised a job as a chaplain’s assistant only to be thrust into harm’s way. The recruiter explained to me that on re-enlistment, the Army’s B.E.A.R. program (Bonus Extension and Retaining) guarantees everything in writing. If Casey was a mechanic during his first hitch, that was the only thing he would have been guaranteed per his re-enlistment contract. Further research showed that a chaplain’s assistant is a combat infantry position, whereas Casey was deployed in a non-combat job as a mechanic. Casey Sheehan sought combat duty for his country and should be honored for it, not used as a symbol of how evil the United States is.

SFSU Hosts a Terrorist
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17915

[Sam Hill]

Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace:
“They died for a lie”

June 24, 2005 | Pages 6 and 7

CINDY SHEEHAN’S son Casey was killed in action in Iraq on April 4, 2004. Since then, she has tirelessly traveled the country speaking out against Bush’s war. Cindy is a founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization of family members opposed to the occupation of Iraq who have lost a loved one in the conflict. She spoke to Socialist Worker’s ERIC RUDER about the challenges of working to end the occupation.

[Excerpts, there is lots of moonbat ravings to choose from:]

THE IRRESPONSIBLE thing was going in there in the first place. Iraq is where civilization began, and to say that they can’t handle their own affairs is basically racist.

We have to give them the credit to be able to rebuild their own country--to get back on their feet again. They need the jobs. We have foreign contractors over there taking their jobs. And what does it mean “to finish the job?” What is the job? How can you “finish” imperialism? It doesn’t end--it just spreads.

Some people may think that we’re fighting terrorism over there. But when is that job ever going to be complete? Terrorism is just a new “ism.” It was “communism” when I was growing up...

I DEFINITELY think that we should support war resisters in the military. This war is not only illegal, but it’s immoral--in fact, some people might say all war is immoral. It’s our job as moral human beings to oppose it--and oppose it in any way that we can.

I know several people who are being court-martialed, and they need support--they need monetary support, they need our moral support, and they need to know that we’re with them.

We need to encourage more people to do this. The people who go public--like Kevin Benderman, Pablo Paredes and Camilo Mejía--are doing a public service to this country, by showing soldiers and our young people in the military that there is an alternative to going over, and killing and dying in an immoral war.

Even though the alternative might be prison, I wish my son was in prison instead of in his grave. I wish he didn’t have to die for a lie and for this immorality.

Casey never thought this war was right. He never agreed with the commander-in-chief. He thought the war was wrong. He was a follower of Jesus Christ, and it surprised the hell out of us when he joined the Army. But he did it to serve, not to go kill innocent people in a war that didn’t make any sense. I begged him not to go, but he said, “Mom, it’s my duty, my buddies are going, so I have to go.”

I’m hoping that if he had been over there for a while, he would have come to the same conclusion as Camilo and Pablo and Kevin--that, no, I’m not going to obey these orders.

http://tinyurl.com/dh7ev

[Sam Hill]

 

 

Cindy Sheehan, of Berkley, Calif., wipes away a tear Monday, July 11, 2005, at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, while discussing the death of her son Casey, who died on April 4, 2004, five days after he arrived with his Army unit in Iraq. Sheehan said that the recruiter who persuaded her son to join the Army four years earlier promised Casey he would never see combat and reneged on most of the signing bonus he was guaranteed. (AP Photo/John M. Harris)

[CharlesWayneCT]

Casey Sheehan joined the Army in 2000, while Clinton was still in office, and before 9/11. There was no war at that time.

And Cindy Sheehan was "devastated" that he joined at that time. She wasn't upset because she was against the Iraq war, she simply didn't want her son joining the military, even when there was no war to be fought.

She opposed her son voluntarily joining the military.

He re-enlisted after the Iraq war's major combat operations ended. I haven't seen a date for his re-enlistment.

[BigSkyFreeper]

So she's paranoid too.

Those who lie in the face of truth tend to be paranoid.

[BigSkyFreeper]

She opposed her son voluntarily joining the military.

Casey's views and her views have never changed. She's always been a anti-war nut, while her son died for the freedom of 25 million Iraqi's, even if his tour of Iraq had only been 5 days. The American soldiers and their coalition partners have spread freedom to 50 million people in 2 years in 2 separate countries.

[LADY J]

"TOOL"

She looks more like a hound dog!!

[Blackirish]

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[Pajamajan]

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