Posted on 08/15/2005 4:42:36 PM PDT by kristinn
If he had consulted mama I think he'd be locked in a room full of empty pizza boxes watching Farenheit 911 for hundreth time. ; )
Sounds like another bunch of sissy, Birkenstock sandal wearing people at Woodstock or something.
Right on!
They camped out in chairs the first night without a flashlight.
Then dozens more came, pitching sleeping tents and canopies along 8-foot-wide shoulders of two roads beside barbed-wire fence-enclosed cow pastures. The two side streets intersect with each other and with Prairie Chapel Road, which leads to the ranch.
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Someone said on another thread that (according to someone who saw her) she is staying at a hotel or something called Peace House in Crawford at night, and showing up at tent city in the morning before the camera crews get there.
LOL.......this is true.
How can we find out for a fact if this is true?
Cause the media sure ain't gonna mention this
Although it is clear from her own words that she was anti-Bush and anti-war before the death of her son, after his death and after a compassionate meeting with our President, she was trained for several months by a far left PR firm. She is being supported and egged on by the most virulent anti-Ameircan and anti-Bush groups. After all of this, she comes out with her hate-filled story against the President, spouting all of the far left taking points, and using her grief as a tool of the far-left, anti-American crowd. It is a perversion and desecration of grief that should outrage all Americans.
This is a contrived, made for MSM, event, that the far left and their MSM abettors feel is unassailable becuase of the grieving mother image. Well, hainvg lost my own father last year, and a brother last year too (not in the war), and having lost an only uncle on my Mom's side (my grandparents only boy) in WW II...I can empathize with her grief...but when that grief is turned to hate America and a tool for those who wish to destroy our nation and life style...I will not, I cannot be quiet about it or buy-into that Cindy Sheehan is somehow unassailable while she spouts this hate and garbage.
It is despicable what is happening and it needs to be put down...or at the very least, stood up four-square to.
This lady has admitted to wanting to defy US law and drive her enlisted son to Canada to escape his orders. She has admitted to offering to drive over is legs with her automobile to help him avoid service. Her patriotic son refused both of her dish and voluntarily re-upped with the military to go to Iraq, then while there, volunteered for a dangerous combat mission to help his comrades. He was killed on that mission and is a hero. Pardon the expression, but she is tinkling on his grave and trying to tell us that the moisture are her tears. She says our President killed her son, that the war is only about oil, that it only about defending Israel, that our nation is not worth dieing for, that the US and our President are the terrorists for heaven's sake!
Well, I will not be quiet and will call this exactly what I see that it is...a sham and a disgusting spectacle.
Sorry...I am very worked up about this.
Again, here's my open letter to Cindy Sheehan.
I figure this has all been said before, but her son volunteered to join the Army. He knew the risks, so did his mom. So why didn't she tell him no or try to talk him out of it? You never know what hell hole you will be sent to - men died in Somalia, we've been (and I guess still are) in Kosovo, there have been military actions over the years in unforeseen circumstances - Grenada, Panama, etc.
I wonder if she has even spoken to any of the people who served with her son - that might bring her comfort. It sounds trite and stupid, but she needs to go to grief counseling. From what I'm hearing and seeing, ol' Cindy there sounds like she's needing some serious help.
Maybe somebody from Texas can help us figure it out.
At the same time she is exhibiting signs that she is becoming emotionally unglued and needs some serious help. Meanwhile the media is reporting every word and 'flight of idea' that she is uttering. That members of the media prey on a sick woman is unethical but not surprising.
DarkSyde (DS): Your son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was deployed to Iraq in the spring of 2004. When and why did Casey join the military? What did you think about his decision?
Cindy Sheehan (CS): Casey joined the Army in May of 2000. I was devastated. He was 21, he didn't discuss it with us.
DS: Devastated? Why?
CS: Because he would be leaving home ... we are not a military family and we really didn't understand his enlistment.
http://brentrasmussen.com/log/node/117
So he joined AND re-upped without consulting her.
**And one of her relatives called a CA talk show and said she was a control freak and that he joined to get away from her.
hmmmmmmmm I wouldn't know how to begin.
Good .. because my youngest is bugging me to play playdoh with her ... *L*
I'll do some more research later
Not for nothing Mo, It didn't look like she was getting a foot massage in a tent! :-)
Right on,Kristinn Taylor!!!
Just in from Ace: Buddy said that it was HOT there today and that by the evening Annie (correction Annie and not Cindy, however Cindy is ill) started showing signs of heat exhaustion so Buddy talked her into going back to the Crawford Peace House. They got there but as we all know it was full so they went up to Waco to a motel room where Cindy and Annie and Buddy will be staying the night.
Didn't see a date;
http://dawnofnewamerica.blogspot.com/
Some information:
BuzzFlash: Your son Casey died April 4 in Iraq. Whom do you hold responsible for your loss?
Cindy Sheehan: George W. Bush.
BuzzFlash: Why?
Cindy Sheehan: I think he rushed into this war -–this invasion –- without having proper intelligence. And the reasons he went are so clearly wrong -–from his false claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to there being no connection between Iraq and Saddam and Osama bin Laden. He diverted attention and troops and resources from Afghanistan and Al Qaeda to Iraq.
I don’t think Iraq has anything to do with the war on terror, except now terrorists are crossing the borders to go and kill innocent Iraqis and our troops. So he went almost unilaterally, with very little international support, to invade a country. They didn’t have a plan for the peace or for the occupation of Iraq.
My son was killed by Shiite insurgents. I believe George Bush created the insurgency by his failed policies and that’s why my son was killed.
BuzzFlash: Tell us a little bit about Casey. What kind of a young man was he? I know he was only 24 years old when he died.
Cindy Sheehan: He was an amazing person. He has been an altar server for 10 years. He finally quit when he graduated from high school and asked me, "You know, Mom, can I quit altar serving? Can I be an usher or something now at Mass?"I was the coordinator of our youth Mass at our parish. And he was an Eagle Scout. He was a Eucharistic Minister, and he had trained to be a Eucharistic Minister in the field when they went to Iraq, to help the priest. But he was only there for two weeks before he was killed on Palm Sunday. He never missed Mass.
He had joined the Army because they promised him he could finish his college degree. He had already been going to college for three years before he joined the Army. My husband and I just went to Ft. Hood a couple weeks ago because the Catholic chapel he always went to was starting a new Knights of Columbus Council, and they decided to name it after Casey. It’s the Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan Knights of Columbus Council because they say that his love for his God, his church, his country and his family embodied what they want to stand for.
He was amazing. He was just the most calm and peaceful and gentle person that anybody would ever know. He was so quiet, but he had such an impact on everybody’s lives. And he was so brave. He saved American lives, but our question is, what are any of them doing there?
BuzzFlash: Casey, as I understand it, technically did not have to go to Iraq since he was a field mechanic. Is that correct?
Cindy Sheehan: He was a Humvee mechanic. He re-enlisted in August of 2003 because he didn’t want his buddies to do the job by themselves. It’s all about what they’re doing now -- our soldiers are trying to keep themselves alive and trying to keep each other alive at this point right now.
BuzzFlash: When did Casey receive news that his unit was being sent to Iraq?
Cindy Sheehan: I think it was probably around last October, 2003, because they went to the National Training Center (NTC) at Ft. Irwin in the California desert in November. So we knew before he went to Ft. Irwin that they were going to be deployed sometime in March. Casey knew the First Cavalry was going to end up going to Iraq when he re-enlisted.
BuzzFlash: Did you have any correspondence with Casey while he was in Iraq before he was killed? Did he say or did you hear about what the situation was like on the ground?
Cindy Sheehan: He called me one time from Kuwait. They still hadn’t gone to Iraq. And he never complained. He said that it was hot and he was really busy because he had to get their vehicles ready to go on the convoy from Kuwait to Baghdad. He was on his way to Mass, and we talked about when he stopped in Ireland to refuel. We’re Irish, so he found an airport employee that was telling him about the history of our name, the Sheehan name.
He started writing us a letter on March 31st, because we didn’t know where we could send him mail or presents or supplies or anything yet. They didn’t tell them until they got to Saudi City where we could send them things. But he started writing us letters. And he said the convoy from Kuwait to Baghdad was real peaceful, and it looked like it was going to be an easy year of deployment. He wrote that on March 31st, and he was killed April 4th.
We never got the letter. It was in his things that we got from Baghdad. He didn’t even finish it.
If she is staying a local motel it would have to be in Waco or some other spot as I don't think there are any in Crawford. I thought she maybe sleeping in the Peace House as I think they have rooms for that purpose.
I'm surprised that the locals don't take turns driving up and down the road all during the night just to keep them up. Their tents are just a few feet off the road surface based upon the pictures I've seen.
check out post #56
I bet she's been more than once!
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