Posted on 08/18/2005 5:56:27 PM PDT by Nachum
The warmongers will stop at nothing. If you hear these lies, please be forearmed with the truth: (This from the website of Rep. John Conyers:
http://johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={00BD10CF-C087-4EBD-A7D3-C9EE6B68B214}
Rebutting the Lies of the Right Wing Smear Campaign
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There are plenty of lies being spread about Cindy. Here’s a little help sorting through the fiction. Feel free to cut-and-paste and share these with others.
Cindy is a being manipulated by liberal activist groups.
Cindy went to Crawford on a moment’s notice without discussing or coordinating her plans with any organization. She was accompanied to Crawford by a handful of dear friends. Cindy is a compelling and sympathetic figure who has attracted a lot of support from a wide range of people. She has struck a chord with the American public who have been waiting for a voice like hers seeking the truth. It is callous to dismiss the Camp Casey visitors as opportunistic activists – many of them are grieving parents drawn to Cindy and her message as a means to work through the tremendous loss their families have suffered. Cindy has asked that the new camp be restricted to military families and those who have lost loved ones. (It is helpful to mention by name some of the grieving parents – Bill Mitchell, Nadia McCaffery, Michelle DeFord, Lynn Bradach, Mary Ann MacCombie)
Cindy previously praised Bush, but has now changed her story to embarrass the president.
The Vacaville Reporter, Cindy’s hometown paper, rejected this Republican claim originating from Matt Drudge. Here is a quote from the original article dated June 24, 2004: "We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled," Cindy said. "The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached."
Here is the article addressing the Republican misrepresentations of Cindy’s statements.
http://timesheraldonline.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2925951
And here is the full text of the original June 24, 2004 article.
http://www.thereporter.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2923921
Bush is the president. He’s got important duties to attend to. He doesn't have time to meet with everyone.
The president has been filmed bicycling around the neighborhood and he has personally attested to spending time fishing and attending little league baseball games. The president has no official events planned for this week. Keep in mind, also, that White House press secretary Scott McClellan recently proclaimed about the president's vacation in Crawford, that "Spending time outside Washington gives the president a fresh perspective of what's on the minds of the American people. It's a time, really, for him to shed the coat and tie and meet with folks out in the heartland and hear what's on their minds." Possibly, you may have to actually talk to people to find out what's on their mind.
Cindy is dishonoring her son and those who are serving in this war.
Sheehan: "To me it's so ironic that I'm accused of dishonoring my son's memory, by doing what I'm doing, by the other side, and then somebody comes and does this [runs over the crosses planted to honor the Iraq war dead]."
In Cindy’s Own Words (Huffington Post):
The Divorce
My divorce was in the works way before I came out to Crawford. My husband filed the papers before this all started. It just recorded last Friday. My husband didn't know that it would become public record, and public knowledge. He had told his lawyer not to serve me with the paperwork or even bother me while I was at Camp Casey. He was trying to do the right thing. He didn't want me to find out.
Anti-Semitism
The lie that I had said that Casey died for Israel. I never said that, I never wrote that. I had supposedly said it in a letter that I wrote to Ted Koppel's producer in March. I wrote the letter because I was upset at the way Ted treated me when I appeared at a Nightline Town Hall meeting in January right after the inauguration. I felt that Ted had totally disrespected me. I wrote the letter to Ted Bettag and cc'd a copy to the person who gave me Ted's address. I believe he changed the email and sent it out to capitalize on my new found notoriety by promoting his own agenda.
This woman could not tell the truth about what she had for breakfast.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Well, there are two possibilities...
Either Cindy Sheehan is being manipulated by activist groups, or she isn't.
Either way, what she has been saying proves that manipulated or independent, she's still a lying idiot.
Another lie.
Cindy's lie, that is.
Let it boil...
The more the far left fans the flames the more ground they lose. First the House, the majority of Governors, the Presidency, the Senate, soon the Supreme Court. Great strategists these libs, short memories, no future vision, no depth to problem solving. Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la live for today...
Cut and run Cindy because mom is ill, now thats deep commitment and conviction.
Nice to see the traitors helping each other out. Conyers is beneath contempt.
Oh my! Looks like somebody's trying to do some damage control. LOL! Cindy Sheehan lies like a prayer rug. She's been dismissed and she's too dumb to know it... yet.
"Can't stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen"
For all of the things that I do fault her for, this isn't one of them.
I would say it's time to dump your liberal "friends".
I'm glad Cindy is fessing up. Her shameless smear campaign against President Bush, the USA, and our military has got to stop.
She should put a sock in it. I wonder how her son would feel knowing his mother is out there whoring herself in his memory.
It's really too bad these types fall for the bs of Soros and the others.
While it is possible that the Liberal Left is using Ms. Sheehan, that possible fact does not excuse her from personal accountability. She has choices, and she has continued to make bad ones.
She is LEADING such a group!
Is she accusing one of the MSM icons of RATHERING her?
I wouldn't rely on this woman to tell me what time it is. The lies in this e-mail alone are shameless.
IMO, she is certifiably insane and getting worse every day. It's a pity and if the left had any compassion whatsoever they would find a way to get her the mental health help she desperately needs.
BTW, I DO believe personally that Ms. Sheehan IS being used by the Liberal, anti-war people, but again, I do not think that this should give her a "pass".
According to thesmokinggun.com, poor Mr. Sheehan signed the divorce document of Aug. 8th and filed Aug. 12. ( http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0815051sheehan1.html )
Sheehan started her fiasco on Aug. 6th ( http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/News/2005/31-40/31news02.htm )
Can this lady tell the truth about anything?
Cindy Sheehan, Military & Political Science Doctorate & Theorist.
Sun Tzu & Patton agree. Cindy knows best for the Nation.
Not to mention MSG Otis T. Piggie.
He was obviously a bonehead.
Yeah, that's feasible... after all, everyone I know is capable of hopping on a school bus painted in patriotic colors with the words, "IMPEACHMENT TOUR" on the side without a moment's notice to anyone (especially not to the other members of the Veterans For Peace.org group!). AND, not only was *she* able to do this at the drop of a hat, but she also grabbed her friends for an impromptu road trip which has no end date; after all, everyone knows that the children, spouses, jobs, community responsibilities, etc. can just be put on hold w/out a moment's notice!
I believe you, Cindy!! Bwahahahahahahaaaaaa!
I believe her foil's wrapped a little too tightly... After all, any sane person would have the email saved in their SENT file to prove their wild conspiracy theory, right? Wait... I'm receiving a brainwave that says.. yes... oh, man! Who could have guessed it? Her SERVER crashed so she no longer has the email!! LOL
Tom Bettag
Executive Producer, ABC News Nightline
Everything "Absolute Moral Authority" St. Cindy has said for the past several months and at Camp Soros has been a SMEAR. She turns out to be a classic, glass jaw linguine spined liberal crying foul when challenged.
Her actions could have easily caused the stroke. It may really be all her fault.
Her daughter acting like a fool daily on TV must have put a tremendous amount of stress on her mother. I know that if my daughter did this it would seriously affect me.
If my wife went nuts and planned this I would divorce her too. I'll ping her for confirmation.
Bump to that!
I disagree that things are heating up. I think it's about over. I've yet to come across one person (friends, family, business associates) that agree with what she is doing. They're tired of it and have very little sympathy left.
Yeah the poor thing! Just one makeup artist. {Wonder how bad she looked before the makeup?}
That's entirely possible. Sorry if I was unclear - My comment was directed more at chastising her for leaving Texas to be with her mother. That's what I can't fault her for.
If Conyers didn't make Bernie Goldberg's list of "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America" he should have. Perhaps he doesn't have enough credibility to make even that list.
Gotcha. I agree with you on that.
Hopefully we will both disagree if she is back in 48 hours as her publicist has stated. Stroke patients are very rarely evaluated in 48 hours. More like a week.
Take care,
"Cindy is a being manipulated by liberal activist groups."
"I never have bought into this. She's as liberal as they come on her own."
I don't buy that either, and it gives her a pass. I'm surrounded by libs who hate Bush and think the war is for "oil" etc., but none of them consider Bush a terrorist or think we're committing genocide or that a Jewish cabal is behind the war, etc. She's out on that limb of her own accord, the groups are just adding enough weight to make it (and maybe her) snap.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let the RATS embrace cindy Sheehan and adopt the 'pull out now' meme as policy.
It worked so well in 2002 and 2004.
I think her roots are on the "social justice"/communist Catholic Left. This woman is a Kool-Aid drinker--she sees only what she wants to see. Note how one dude fired a shot gun in the air and she makes it sound as if it was aimed at her head.
I think you hit the mark there. I can't remember the term for the Catholic priests who were communist sympathizers out of a desire for "peace". And it's Texas, that guy could probably hit a commie from a thousand yards if he wanted.
This woman thinks she's as important as the President of the United States. It's positively psychotic.
NO WAY WAS SHEEHAN SPONTANEOUS.
FROM DAY ONE of this dog and pony show she has had an entourage and professional photographers.
The email is full of fakery.
I think it's the other way around, she is using them and now is being called the head of the anti-war movement. As for the email where she states my son died for PNCA and Israel, Here it is...If you haven't already seen it. I tried to send a copy to that dup anderson cooper, but for some reason it wouldn't go through imagine that...mmmm
----- Original Message -----
From: SCINDY...@aol.com
To: ter...@mweb.co.th ; bullyard@googlegroups.com
Cc: skee...@ksc.th.com ; jwa...@cox.net ; h...@bfranklin.edu ; steppenwo...@msn.com ; Kurn...@netscape.net ; m...@loxinfo.co.th ; TQMN...@aol.com ; zpbr...@cox.net ; sharinpa...@hotmail.com ; v...@netium.com.br
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Nightline Tonight Mon., March 14, 2005
That was my son's unit. He was killed on that day 04/04/04. Here is a letter that I wrote to NightLine about the broadcast:
Love
Cindy Sheehan
March 15, 2005
To Whom it May Concern:
Imagine my distress when I turned Night Line on last night and I was confronted with the gory details of my son's murder in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq on 04/04/04. Imagine, also, my sorrow and rage at the side of the story that you presented to the American public.
I was on the Night Line Townhall Meeting in Washington, DC on 01/27/05. After I spoke (which I think was a fluke), Ted Koppel dismissed me as being "emotional." First of all, how can I approach this discussion without emotions, MY SON WAS KILLED, AND KILLED FOR LIES? Second of all, that show was not fair and balanced and I think the conclusion "Should we stay" was foregone.
The show last night was also not fair and balanced. To see all the wives being interviewed who had not lost their husbands and to hear what "hard work" it is to be left behind when their husbands are at war. How hard to you think it is to have a child killed in an illegal and immoral war? In this "wonderful" group of families left behind, we had exactly ONE of the wives call us..she is Diane Rose who was my son's Colonel, Frank Rose's wife. The last time we heard from Diane was in October and we feel we have been left behind by anyone connected to the 2-5 Cavalry. Is support only given if your loved one stays alive? One wife was quoted as saying that Sundays were the hardest for the families left behind. My son was killed on Palm Sunday last year..how does anybody think Sundays are for my family?
A distraught father who lost his son was shown telling how much his life was so adversely affected. Why wasn't a mother (like me) who has been an outspoken critic of this war and of the President's policies interviewed for this piece? Why wasn't I given a chance to talk about 04/04/04 and the series of lies, mistakes and miscalculations that led to my precious oldest child's death??
General Chiarelli was quoted as saying that 04/04/04 was a "wake up" call to the 2-5 Cavalry. If he thinks it was a "wake up" call, let me tell you how having 3 Army officers come to my door on 04/04/04 and tell me that my darling son was KIA. I have learned so many details of that day and of my son's experience in Iraq.
The very first thing that went wrong happened in November at Ft Irwin, California...the 2-5 Cavalry went for desert training. They received open desert warfare training and my son was killed in an urban guerilla attack, which he hadn't been trained for. Also, he was wearing an inadequate helmet and a Vietnam era flak jacket. Casey was stationed in a very dangerous place, like the General said: FOB War Eagle. I have subsequently learned that the soldiers of the 2-5 Cav who were stationed outside of Baghdad had Kevlar body armor. I have also found out that Casey slept in the back of his Humvee for the last 2 weeks of his life because there wasn't any room on post for him to have a cot. How tired and overworked was he before he went into that battle on 04/04/04?
In addition, my son was killed after L. Paul Bremer inflamed the Shi'a by taking away their tv station and newspapers. The Abu Ghraib scandal was about to break in America...but it was well known by the Iraqi people that their citizens were being tortured and defiled in the prisons. My son was a sitting duck by the time 04/04/04 rolled around.
The very worst thing of all, is that my son was sent to rescue some fellow soldiers trapped in an ambush in the back of a LMTV..which is basically an open air trailer. It would be the equivalent of driving through Dallas on 11/22/63 in a Convertible. The troops stationed at FOB War Eagle were sent ahead of their tanks and Bradleys!!! They had to go into battle in the back of LMTV's and non-armored Humvees. This is just proof to me that our troops are as important to their leaders as bullets are. It is a small miracle that only 7 of them were killed in the ambush. Luckily for the rest of the moms, it was dark. After my son's murder, there was an article in Stars and Stripes that quoted one of Casey's superior officers as saying. "04 April taught us a lesson. We won't send soldiers to battle without their armor any more." How do you think that made me feel? It was like "OOOPS, your dear son was killed. Life happens. Oh well, you live and learn." The General was also quoted as saying that the insurgency "surprised" them. Why? Has there ever been an invasion/occupation of a sovereign country that hasn't been resisted? Anyone with half a brain and an even rudimentary understanding of history would know that all occupations are resisted. The Pentagon and the Army brass did not plan adequately for an occupation.
Then Gen. Chiarelli said the thing that upset me the most. He said that the loss of life was terrible, but at least Iraqis had elections on 01/30/05. With the continuuing insurgency and with Iraqis and Americans losing their lives everyday there, how can he be proud of that? I may remind you and the General, that Iraqi elections was not the reason that our President and his Neo-Con war mongers invaded Iraq with our precious human resources. I will give the two reasons given for the invaseion here: Saddam had WMD's and he was an imminent threat to America. Saddam could have WMD's on our shores within 45 minutes. Condoleeza Rice used fear as a factor when she said: Don't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud. Rumsfeld and Colin Powell pointed out to us where the weapons were on a map.
The second reason that America was given before the invasion was that Saddam was the biggest sponsor of world terrorism and he supported Osama Bin Laden! Oh really??? The hijackers were predominantly Saudi Arabian as was Osama (who is still at large, by the way). The theory that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11 was disproven by the 9/11 commission's report. A huge factor in Americans believing all this bull is that our media..the Fourth Estate didn't do any research and expose the lies for what they were: justifications for invading a country that posed no imminent or long-term threat to America.
One reason that the President DID NOT give for the invasion and occupation of Iraq was so that Iraqis could have elections. As a matter of fact, that was Ayatollah Ali al Sistani's idea..not Bush's. If the president in his lying and betraying in the lead up and rush to this insane invasion had told the world that we were going over there to give Iraqi's elections, would we the people have gone along with the invasion? Would we as compassionate Americans have thought that it would have been worth billions and billions of dollars; hundreds of our amazing children dead; tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi women and children dead: a country lying in ruins? I don't think so. I certainly didn't raise my son to be an outstanding citizen of the world to go and die so some people could have ink-stained fingers!!! If anyone reading this has children, would you think it was worth it?? Instead of some Congress leaders showing ink-stained fingers at the SOTU address they should have held up blood soaked hands.
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full-well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by a George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11. We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy...not for the real reason, becuase the Arab-Muslims who attacked us hate our middle-eastern foreign policy. That hasn't changed since America invaded and occupied Iraq...in fact it has gotten worse.
It would be so amazing if your show would put me, or another parent who lost their child on who disagrees with the war and this administration: to have just an entire show..without presenting the false side of the debate. That would take a lot of courage and integrity. I hope your program will exhibit these qualities.
I also think that Mr. Koppel owes me an apology for the rude way I was treated on his show. After I expressed myself about the war being based on lies and that the troops should be brought home immediately because the war was based on lies, I was not thanked for my comments, or my son's sacrifice. He just said to keep the discussion away from emotions. Then, the wife of a soldier who was killed was allowed to speak and she praised the policies of this deplorable and despicable administration, and she was thanked and praised by the panel.
Also, another aspect that Mr. Koppel refused to acknowledge was when a man walked up to a microphone and asked Richard Perle to explain PNAC..he was rudely ignored.
I am so glad the First Cavalry came home from this senseless and needless war based on the imaginations of Neo-Cons and fought with ignorance and arrogance by the Commander in Chief and the Pentagon. I am thrilled for the mothers whose children didn't come home under the cover of darkness in flag-draped boxes like my son did. I am sure that some of Casey's buddies were able to walk off the plane because of his sacrifice. I am just so deeply sorry that my son's blood had to be their leaders' lesson in how to occupy a country and fight an insurgency. My son is dead forever and my joy has been robbed from me for the rest of my life.
Your show needs to show both sides of this debate and stop being a propanda tool for this administration. This is my challenge to you from a true patriot who wants the lies exposed.
Love and Peace!!!
Cindy Sheehan
Mother of Hero: Spc Casey Austin Sheehan KIA 04/04/04
Casey's Peace Page
Co-Founder of Gold Star Families For Peace
http://www.gsfp.org/
This woman has a real problem
My guess is that Bernie Goldberg had to STOP at 100...
"My guess is that Bernie Goldberg had to STOP at 100..."
True. The Congressional Black Caucus could have taken up half the list all by themselves. Maybe he should have given them a group entry, you know, for Conyers, Mad Maxine, Crazy Cynthia Mac, Babs Lee, Stephanie Tubbs "We know he stole Ohio!" Jones and the rest of the gang.
What right-wing smear campaign?
Cindy's done this all by herself.
"Rightwing Lies and smears"
Translation from LibSpeak to English:
"Embarassing and inconvenient quotes from my past speeches and articles"
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