So what's new? Cindy Sheehan is just like all the other hardened leftists in the is country. Their job as enemy sympathizers is to weaken the moral and will of our country - same as they did during Vietnam.
Posted on 08/23/2005 7:48:07 AM PDT by kristinn
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq whose August antiwar vigil in Crawford, Texas has captured the nation's attention as she camped out on the side of a road leading to President Bush's ranch demanding a meeting with him, called the foreign terrorists in Iraq (AKA al Qaeda in Iraq) 'freedom fighters' during her first meeting with reporters when she arrived in Crawford, August 6--remarks that when unreported until now.
Mrs. Sheehan also expressed sympathy for Iraqis who have used car bombs and suicide bombings to fight the American-led coalition forces in Iraq.
Video of her incendiary remarks were found on a link from the website of Veterans for Peace, one of the groups that accompanied Mrs. Sheehan to Crawford.
Surrounded by reporters with notepads, tape recorders and video cameras, Mrs. Sheehan spoke freely in response to a question by CBS News' Mark Knoller.
Mr. Knoller asked, "You know that the president says Iraq is the central front in the war on terrorism, don't you believe that?"
Mrs. Sheehan replied, "No, because it's not true. You know Iraq was no threat to the United States of America until we invaded. I mean they're not even a threat to the United States of America. Iraq was not involved in 9/11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in and they (America) have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country, devastating the country and killing innocent people in that country. The terrorism is growing and people who never thought of being car bombers or suicide bombers are now doing it because they want the United States of America out of their country."
The video was shot by an unknown person who accompanied Mrs. Sheehan on her bus ride from the Veterans for Peace convention, held in in Dallas, to Crawford.
The video also contains footage of Mrs. Sheehan talking strategy on the bus ride from Dallas. In response to a fellow activist who mentions remarks by a woman from the Austin Peace and Justice Center that, "The polls are plumeting, people are dying--now's the time," a smiling Mrs. Sheehan says, "Momentum," and adds that they need to "press the advantage."
The end of the thirty minute video shows the confrontation between Mrs. Sheehan and sheriffs when the activist's march to the president's ranch was stopped because the group violated their agreement to march in the ditch along the road by walking on the road itself.
An emotional Mrs. Sheehan is seen pleading with the sheriffs to be allowed to continue, swearing repeatedly that she did not walk on the road, that she kept her promise to them to walk in the ditch.
Immediately after the confrontation, Mrs. Sheehan says she did walk on the road, but just a little bit, because she's afraid of snakes.
It was a performance any parent of an eight-year-old knows well, but rather pathetic coming from a grown woman.
As many observers know, Mrs. Sheehan has gotten a free ride from the mainstream media. Were it not for the research of Freepers that has been picked up by the likes of Matt Drudge, Bill O'Reilly and Christopher Hitchens, the public would not be aware of Mrs. Sheehan's radical politics and disingenuousness.
As documented by the video, the mainstream press knew of Mrs. Sheehan's remarks on her first day in Crawford where she called foreign terrorists entering Iraq (AKA al Qaeda in Iraq) 'freedom fighters' and expressed her sympathy for car bombers and suicide bombers, yet chose not to inform the American people about them.
There's a scandal here, and it's not just Mrs. Sheehan's sympathy for the terrorists.
Good post ping
Look at those people. What a bunch of stupid, uninformed flakes and nuts. That's probably New York City in the background.
Freedom fighters that murdered Sheehan's son. She only trots his name out when she needs the sympathy, though.
BTW..fearless prediction her that sometime before Labor Day, Sheehan will publicly call on the Senate to reject the Roberts nomination..
BTW..fearless prediction here that sometime before Labor Day, Sheehan will publicly call on the Senate to reject the Roberts nomination..
Great read Kristinn.
So she's siding with the very people who killed her own son???
So what's new? Cindy Sheehan is just like all the other hardened leftists in the is country. Their job as enemy sympathizers is to weaken the moral and will of our country - same as they did during Vietnam.
I wouldn't doubt it. The left is so pathetic these days that they are using this nobody twit to advance their agenda.
Another BIMBO Alert.
Fearless prediction: Before the decade is out, Cindy Sheehan will be caught actively helping al Qaeda in America.
I have a morbid fascination with watching protester videos - they are like train wrecks that you can't look away from.
Great find.
Bump!
Excellent reportage!
The slimey Frank Rich will say you're "swiftboating" this poor Gold Star Mother.
Well this Gold Star Brother says keep it up patriots!
She loves the people who killed her son.
Bush, however, she hates.
Does anyone kow who the man with the red sign is?
For some reason he looks familiar.
That picture has always astounded me. To actually endorse and encourage the murder of fellow Americans. I swear, if I had been anywhere near those people, I would have spit in their faces and happily gone to jail for it.
bump
Sounds like treason to me.
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