Posted on 08/26/2005 5:42:25 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
One caravan called “You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy” is expected to arrive in Crawford by Saturday afternoon after spending the past week snaking through the Southwest from California. Supporters of the president and the Iraq war also are holding separate rallies in downtown Crawford and across from the original Camp Casey, located on a right-of-way on Prairie Chapel Road about four miles from Crawford.
Organizers of the pro-Bush, pro-Iraq war events say that military families and families who have lost relatives in the Iraq war will attend Saturday's events.
Kristinn Taylor, spokesman for FreeRepublic.com, a conservative Web site helping coordinate some of the weekend's events, said Sheehan's protest has conjured up still-raw emotions from the Vietnam War era but with a difference.
“This time, (supporters of the war are) speaking out because they don't want to see happen to their sons and daughters what happened to the people in their generation who served in the military,” Taylor said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wacotrib.com ...
Goooooooooo gettem, boys and girls!!!
TIME TO ROLL!
They make it sound like he is still active duty. This is the guy who wrote/bragged about heavy Chapstick flirting with an Iraqi man on the street. Projectile vomiting here
How about "surrender mom" or simply "moonbat"?
bump that!
Cindy Sheehan has a blog on HUFFINGTON POST http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cindy-sheehan/camp-casey-day-18_b_6184.html Cindy speaks for Arianna Huffington!
Someone needs to do more backgrounding on this Jeff Key scumbag.
My name for Cindy is "Commie Mommie"
Whom Does Cindy Sheehan Really Hate?
Michael Reagan
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005
Sigmund Freud had a concept he called "projection, which has been defined as a defense where the ego deals with unacceptable impulses and/or terrifying anxieties by attributing them to someone in the external world.
In many ways I think that explains the behavior of the media's current patron saint, Cindy Sheehan, whose hate rhetoric aimed at President Bush is really meant for someone else who she can't admit even to herself is her real target. To do so would represent one of those "unacceptable impulses" Dr. Freud was talking about.
In this case it could well be that Cindy Sheehan is projecting her rage at George Bush when the one she really despises is her late son Casey, who died as a hero in Iraq, precisely because he did die a hero in Iraq.
The more I listen to Cindy Sheehan and consider her past actions and her past words, it occurs to me she has always been a liberal, she's always been anti-military, and she's always been anti-Republican. It appears that she raised Casey in such an environment, yet despite that what does he do? He not only joins the military engaged in a war she bitterly opposes, but to add insult to injury when his enlistment runs out, he re-enlists although he knew that by so doing it meant he would be sent to Iraq where a war his mother despises is being fought.
Think about that. What Casey did was to reject not by words but by deeds his mother's most closely-held beliefs.
Then, to make matter worse in her eyes, this son volunteers to go on a dangerous mission even his superiors warned him against, and dies as a result. Casey Sheehan's sergeant asked for volunteers. Sheehan had just returned from Mass. After Sheehan volunteered once, the sergeant asked Sheehan again if he wanted to go on the mission. According to many reports (and according to his own mother) Casey responded, "Where my chief goes, I go."
He went, and it cost him his life. You can almost hear her saying to his spirit, "How dare you spurn me and turn your back on me? How dare you go join the military, and then how dare you volunteer to fight against the innocent Iraqi freedom fighters and get yourself killed?"
Casey Sheehan's heroic action has embittered Cindy Sheehan. And her actions have embittered her family who bitterly resent her exploitation of her son's heroic death in behalf of her political extremism. Here's what they wrote to Matt Drudge:
"The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our president, silently, with prayer and respect."
Cindy Sheehan says she wants to ask the president, "Why did you kill my son?" She knows that George Bush did not kill her son. The butchers she supports with her far-out liberal activism killed Casey Sheehan and that activism is now resulting in the deaths of other young Americans because she is giving aid and comfort to our enemies and encouraging them to persist in their terrorism, giving them hope that if her views prevail the U.S. will lose its will and pull out. And so the fight goes on, and more Casey Sheehans die as a result.
And she says of her son, "He died for oil. He died to make your friends," Bush's friends, "richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East."
How dare he?
Cindy Sheehan doesn't need to talk to the president. A talk with a therapist would be more appropriate.
Makes a lot of sense.
Looks like Michael Reagan hit it on the nose.
Kristinn, you make us all so proud!
"No. I haven't seen you show any patriotism. When you get either the balls and/or brains to show some then I might question it."
What's the story on Cindy and her son not getting along and that he didn't even call her Mother?
Kudos to Michael Reagan. He's the first person I've seen with the courage to postulate this publicly.
Excellent points on Cindy's motivations. I would agree, her rage and resentment is directed more toward her son for disavowing her and her beliefs.
I do not know what kind of relationship Cindy had with her Son.
I do believe , however, that Cindy does not even speak for her own Son.
God Bless the Freepers and our friends who are making this trip!
Parrish Stevens, right, a supporter of President Bush, holds a sign supporting the troops as a bus drives between Cindy Sheehan's anti-war camp, known as Camp Casey and Camp Bush, a pro-Bush camp near Crawford, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005. (AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam)
You have got it absolutely correct!
"Commie Mommie" PERFECT!
Jeb Leutwyler puts up a sign supporting the troops and the Iraq war on a fence near U.S. President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas August 25, 2005. War supporters are planning a massive rally August 27 in Crawford to counter the anti-war protest started by Cindy Sheehan earlier this month. REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the difference between conservative and liberal protesters? Conservatives pay their own way; liberals have someone else paying their way.
Bethany Berry, a supporter of President Bush, ties yellow ribbons on a fence at Camp Bush, a pro-Bush camp that is gathering across from Cindy Sheehan's anti-war camp near Crawford, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005. Berry is a resident of Crawford and her father is serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam)
Man, can you imagine the smell of all those protestors out there for days/weeks at a time, in that heat, without bathing? Whoa!
Has Ben & Jerry's come out with a Mother Cindy flavor yet?
Don't worry about that, they have hotel rooms. They could shower of they wanted to.
Exhibit #3003 that the MSM is nothing more and nothing less than the mouthpiece of the left wing. Calling her "Peace Mom" or "Peace Mother" was one of the directives from one of the left-wing web sites, as is the change from "protest" to "vigil". There was a whole list of directives and I wish I could find it.
Note that the signs and chants of Code Pink outside of Walter Reed Hospital also do not make it a "protest"; it too is a "vigil". They simply write what the left-wing tells them to write, either at the event or in press releases, regardless of what it actually is.
CINDY , OUR SOLIDERS ARE HEROES, NOT VICTIMS!
I was on the DC Metro after an A.N.S.W.E.R. rally. I was sitting at one end of the car. I was surrounded by liberals sitting and standing. A group was complaining about their bus was not paid by the big groups. They can on their campus to get them to attend and told them it would be paid. When it came time to make the plans they got stiffed. I was the only one laughing as I them them all straight in the eye. The then noticed my Freeper buttons. Not a word was said and I was out numbered 15 to 1.
All as they would have to do is crap in a cup.
Some younger folks are tired of hearing about Viet Nam. One Freeper during last election said that s/he would be glad when the old people were dead so we could stop talking about Viet Nam.
Well, many important lessons from Viet Nam were about here in the U.S. not in Viet Nam.
We were dazzled by having in living color men who had earned their reputations during W.W.II report to us every evening, "the way it is." What we did not know then was that it depended up the meaning of is.
It would have to be mostly fruits and nuts, and bitter.
Articles about the caravan on the web
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_2726411.shtml
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/082505/new_2633312.shtml (subscription, registration is quick, good read)
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0824anticindy-ON.html#
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