Posted on 08/29/2005 10:15:45 AM PDT by RightWingReader
Cindy Sheehan has returned to Yasgur's Farm south, formerly Crawford, Texas, to continue the peace vigil and folk festival near Bush's ranch. Soon she, her supporters, and other media moths attracted by the TV lights will embark on a bus caravan to Washington, D.C., to continue to tell the world exactly how dumb U.S. soldiers are. That's right: Dumb. Brain dead. Morons. Dopes.
The reason why they believe that the U.S. soldier is an empty-headed dupe isn't tough to figure out. Take Casey Sheehan for example. He joined the military on his own accord, willingly re-enlisted during this conflict, and fought and died for something he obviously believed in. Casey's mother has said he died "for nothing," and, therefore, the rest of them are dying for nothing, too.
To use the deaths of U.S. soldiers who joined willingly as an anti-war statement is to discredit their beliefs and judgment, not to mention their intellect.
Still don't think the pro-peace crowd thinks the U.S. soldier is stupid? How about the protests by the group called Code Pink, so named because of all the Pepto Bismol you have to drink to keep them from turning your stomach. Code Pink members have been hanging around the Walter Reed Army Hospital, which houses many wounded soldiers, and waiving signs such as "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton." This sounds like a bunch of people who obviously respect the soldiers, doesn't it? You'd be hard pressed to find another group of people who are more abusive than those who seek peace for a living.
Adding fuel to the left's "they're so stupid" fire is the fact that, not only were these soldiers "maimed for lies" and "enlisted and died for Halliburton," but they're also overwhelmingly pro-Bush. To the left, the U.S. soldier has discovered an entirely new level of dim-wittedness, and one deserving of the mockery taking place at the Walter Reed Army Hospital. To be led into an unjust war by a moron is one thing, but for those same people to vote for that moron in droves makes the military reprehensibly imbecilic in leftist eyes.
One would have to assume that taking under advisement the opinions of those who are actually placed in harm's way would take priority over the rest of us, since they have the most on the line. The anti-war left can't win in this category, so there's nothing they can do but to point out that these brave men and women simply don't know any better. This is why we've heard the word "children" thrown around so much lately. They aren't soldiers – they're kids who have been ordered to play on dangerous monkey bars by a sadistic school principal.
In the meantime, Yasgur's Farm south is attracting more weasels than an open-air chicken coop. Last week, the Reverend Al Sharpton announced that the anti-war protest in Crawford, Texas, has finally gained the focus of enough TV cameras to satisfy the media coverage rider in Sharpton's contract. Sharpton arrived in Crawford this past weekend, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, to deliver his own words, which may go down in history as the "Vermin on the Mount."
In addition, groups such as MoveOn.org and True Majority are helping finance the base camp at Yasgur's Farm south, where the effort to point out that U.S. soldiers are the dumbest animals since prehistoric turkeys continues. True Majority is a group set up by Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, the company that displays a pretty exterior of socialist idealism, all supported by the camouflaged joist of fierce right-wing capitalism. Shhh ... don't tell.
There's an unprecedented insult directed at the U.S. military occurring here. The most disturbing part is that it was all kicked off by the mother of a soldier, who is now being puppeted by people who have her convinced that her son and everybody like him were too stupid to know that they were taking part in an illegal and immoral occupation.
Sheehan's bus caravan will be on the road around the same time Jane Fonda's bio-diesel '60's time machine hits the anti-war trail. Fonda has a proven history of supporting the troops – provided they're on the other side.
In the coming months, we can only hope that all the people who actually support the troops, not to mention respect their intelligence and beliefs, can make more noise than those protesters to whom the only "just war" would be one that confronted a direct and immediate threat to their freedom to be ignorant.
People wired that way will just never "get it".
OMG. I am so weary of this person.
ROFL! I didn't see a "sarcasm" tag but I did see the smile. I'm hoping you know that I was kidding. I have an ultra-Liberal sister who is a constant reminder that the mental disease, known as Liberalism, is a plague upon our nation. I know it's not contagious though because she's the only one in our family who has it.
I think she displacing her angry at Bush because she couldn't control her son. I wondering how many arguments they had when he was alive?
http://www.controllingparents.com/healthie.htm
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" I think she displacing her angry at Bush because she couldn't control her son. I wondering how many arguments they had when he was alive? "
We are on the same page. I posted this a few weeks ago:
"She lost control of him when he joined the military and I am sure the family won't admit it, but, I bet there were some major screamfests in the Sheehan house .
Especially after he reenlisted.
Cindy said that Casey had to ask her permission to stop being an altar boy- after he graduated from high school.
And she granted it.
Mom sounds like a major control freak and when you cross her,watch out.
Which is probably why Dad is hiding."
In addition,Casey's last letters home were posted on one of Cindy's websites.
They are obviously very sad, but, even sadder when you read what Casey wrote about his experience before shipping out.
Casey Sheehan to one of his sisters :
" The married soldiers had their families to see them off, and all I had was a call home the night before.
Mom cried her eyes out over the phone, not the first time it happened either."
I wonder- did Mom ever come to the family week ends prior to deployment ?
Since it appears that his unit had some type of deployment ceremony-why didn't she attend ?
Too bad she couldn't have sent Casey off without the burden about worrying about her mental health.
The soldiers are always most worried about the welfare of their loved ones back home. What a selfish, self centered mother.
And then this -
"I'm also glad I got to talk to Mom for a bit about a week ago. She probably doesn't remember because I woke her up."
Guess old Cindy couldn't summon much energy to talk to her son .And since the call was just for " a bit "- did sleepy Cindy cut it short ?
Oh and Cindy claims she didn't sleep for 2 weeks when Casey left.
Peut-etre, Vous parlez beaucoup?
"There have always been excuses for wars, but none of them have been good or valid "
Yup. None good or valid, except for those that have maintainted the rights of assh_les like her to bash America every chance she gets. But hey, whose counting...
Sounds like from The Ref: "Your husband's not dead lady, he's hiding."
Color me "stupid," then.
Oh yeah, I knew you were playing around.
I too have some family members on the Dark Side.
Nah, nah, I only have ONE family member on the Dark Side. teehee I figured you knew I was playing around, but I did have a teensy doubt. I have to run now, but you all have a great day and watch out for the crazies. :)
Oui, je parle assez bien... je suis dans la classe de francais a l'ecole, et c'est ma cinquieme annee. Moi, je parle aussi le latin et un peu de l'espagnol. Et vous?
Good one. ;*)
People say Cindy is grieving in her own way but I think there's something deeper going on. I think Cindy's husband just ran out of patience and after many years of going along with everything he decided to call it quits. I think this woman is selfish and self-absorbed. You noticed how Cindy and Code Pink call grown young men and women...children. They are not children. They are adults. If I was a young person, who wants to be treated like a little child and be unable to make decisions? I would find that belittling. She didn't want her son to grow up or let him go. She also feels she has exclusive rights to his memory. She so nutty she's changing his image to fit her needs. I noticed this 180 degree turn about when I read the newsletter: http://www.sweetness-light.com/. He was once a dedicated soldier in the CBS news clip and later on in http://darksyde.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/1/2161/52638
her son become the reluctant soldier who didn't want to go Iraq. Cindy has a selective memory too. She forgot to tell the interviewer her son already been in the army four years!
This is not a conflict with Bush but with herself. She is a willing participant for the the anti-war crowd because of her blind displaced angry. When Code Pink moves on to their next project, she won't be the media darling anymore. She will lose her support systems. She had already alienated her family. She will have a nervous breakdown. Maybe she is going through a manic-depressive episode right now. She needs professional help. http://www.thereporter.com/sheehan
Who corners the market for greiving? When I was young, my father died from lung diease. He was terminal ill for five years. I had to give up my teen years to stay home and take care of my father. My mother had to work to pay the bills. My father was bed ridden. When he died I was very devastated but I didn't try to sue the doctors for allowing my father to die. My father made a choice as a young man to start smoking.
I can't agree with those of you who call Cindy a puppet of the left. I believe that Cindy IS the left. She has their beliefs, and she is not being led down the garden path, she is a leader.
You make excellent points and thanks for the links.
My favorite line of your piece:
" Who corners the market for grieving?"
Saddam Hussein lost 2 sons, I'm sure he is grieving-in Cindy's world he should be released and absolved of all crimes against humanity.
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