9 Responses to “Cindy Sheehan”

1. Mike Says:
   August 6th, 2005 at 9:03 pm

   Any loss of a soldier, salior or a Marine is a terrible thing. But what is even worse is the way in which people like Cindy have responded to men and woman doing their duty to serve, protect, and defend America.
   It used to be considered honorable to serve your country and to die for your country if necessary. Now it is looked upon as being a “waste”.

   Instead of making the men and women who are serving feel like the duty they signed up to do is not worth anything, why don’t you try supporting them by encouraging them and rallying behind them as ONE to get them home AFTER the job is done?

   -Signed by a man who wishes he was still able to serve with the Men and Women in the Marine Corps, Semper Fi.

2. Aine Says:
   August 7th, 2005 at 12:51 am

   “Any loss of a soldier, salior or a Marine is a terrible thing.” (It’s sailor, btw, that’s what we have Comment Preview for.)

   Not half as terrible as asking even more soldiers, sailors, and Marines to go over there and die for the lies coming out of this Administration.

   Cindy is trying to prevent that, you asshat. She honors life by trying to protect our kids from getting killed over there in the name of Big Oil and the corporatists.

   Wake up! You’ve been brainwashed by the rightwing media.

3. Lisa Says:
   August 7th, 2005 at 12:58 am

   Mike,

   My poor misguided soul-friend. How exactly are you supporting them? How many magnets do you have on your car, or is that an SUV? Don’t lie now, you know we can see you! Two at a minimum. Cindy Sheehan is a patriot, and so was her son Casey. Stop and grasp that for a moment. I know it’s difficult.

   I’m not exactly clear on that “job” you think “they” are doing over there (and wtf that has to do with you, me or the price of buttons) … but a grieving military mother is a something we need to protect as much as we protect those soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen - that is a proud American Tradition — oh, but I guess you were absent the day they taught compassion in war school, weren’t you?

   Hey, guess what, Mike… Casey, his mother Cindy and his sister Carly are ten times more patriotic than you and your rhetoric ever will be. I suggest you take a long hard look at yourself, donate some money to a disabled or paralyzed veteran fund and get the fuck off your wobbling soap box before it collapses from the sheer weight of your bullshit.

   Love and Light -
   Lisa in Minnesota

4. Mike Says:
   August 8th, 2005 at 8:12 pm

   It is always interesting to see the reaction of those (yeah, that would be you) who haven’t and aren’t willing to take the sacrifice so that you can simply sit around talking about how awful it is that young men die serving OUR country. The men and women do it for you! Try complaining about the reality of life and war and attack the leader/president while living in the Middle East and see what might happen to you. (it wouldn’t be pretty…..)

   I don’t want it to sound like Cindy’s loss is “nothing” because she paid the ultimate price! I highly respect her and her son for what he did.

   Oh, guess what, I am a disable veteran! (imagine that…..)

5. Aine Says:
   August 8th, 2005 at 9:42 pm

   Oh, guess what, asshat, I’m a disabled veteran too. And I’ve got a son in Marine Corps bootcamp right now. So bite me.

6. William Leatherwood Says:
   August 21st, 2005 at 3:06 am

   I see a great contrast between her first comments about her meeting with Bush in her interview on June 24, 2004, that was just several months after her son was killed, and the latest comments she is making about that same meeting with Bush. Cindy Sheehan first said after her meeting with Bush, that she ” now knows that Bush is sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqi’s.” Then she went on to say and I quote, ” I know he’s sorry and feels pain for our loss.” She used two descriptions to describe her impressions of Bush after,Bush’s meeting with her, “Sincere” and ” He’s sorry and feels pain for our loss.” Now its quite the opposite description of Bush, if you were to listen to her new interpretation of that same meeting with Bush, you would think it was two seperate meetings. Cindy Sheehan now says about that meeting with Bush that ” Every time we tried to talk about Casey and how much we missed him, he would change the subject,and he acted like it was a party.” That statement indicates just the opposite of what she originally said about Bush, in that she even used the word “sincere” in describing Bush’s demeanor. So I’m to take it that she felt that “acting like it was a party” was sincere, and sincere was as she described Bush in her first interview? The question that now remains concerning her two completely different versions of that meeting with Bush, is, which one is the true story and which one is the lie? In her first interview with David Henson she stated that Bush felt “sorry” about the loss of her son,then Cindy Sheehan turns around and says just the opposite in her interview with Blitzer and I quote ” Yes, he came in very jovial, and like we should be happy that he, our son, died.” Excuse me but “sorry” and “happy” are not synonyms Mrs.Sheehan. Cindy Sheehan’s versions of that meeting with President Bush just don’t match, they are not remotely similar.

7. Aine Says:
   August 21st, 2005 at 3:26 am

   Do you fail to see a great disconnect between Bush’s first justifications for invasion and the 22 later justifications which have ALL been debunked as false?

   As for Ms. Sheehan… have you ever heard of post traumatic stress disorder? The woman was in shock during that meeting, she saw then what she wanted to see. In the meantime, between that meeting and now, we’ve had the disclosures of the Downing Street minutes and related documents, the proof that the Niger yellowcake documents were forgeries, and absolutely NO PROOF that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11… and yet this is the drum this president keeps trying to beat, to draw a connection where none exists.

   “Islam will be “the main source” of Iraq’s law and parliament will observe religious principles, negotiators said on Saturday after what some called a major turn in talks on the constitution and a shift in the U.S. position.”

   Americans just “freed” the Iraqis so they could live under Islamic law. That’s quite a goddamned achievement. You must be so proud. Are you proud of what you’ve done? You just “freed” 13 million women into second class citizenship — probably into hell. Are you now going to say to them — Tough luck ladies. Don’t worry, though, your granddaughters might get their rights back in their lifetimes. You can’t stop progress, you know.

   Iraqi women’s lives have already become demonstrably less free. This will codify it. And tough shit if you’re gay or secular or different in any way. Some fucking freedom.

   I’m making it my business to remind every Republican asshole I run across that it wasn’t the Liberals who turned Iraq into a theocracy. This is happening on YOUR watch, under YOUR auspices. We Liberals don’t believe in theocracy. YOU Republicans do. YOU do not believe in freedom. We do.

   I don’t think the world can take much more of YOUR brand of “freedom and democracy.”

   Let’s not forget Bush’s fiscal legacy. The porky Congressional Republicans have done their share of digging the hole and everyone who voted for them shares that legacy, but the Shovel-in-Chief gets the credit for transforming it into a near abyss. When we’re trying to climb out over the next few decades, the Republicans will try to refuse responsibility (as they always do!), blame it on Clinton or Sens. Byrd or Kennedy, “the liberals,” anyone but themselves. For a party that’s supposedly in favor of “personal responsibility” the Republicans certainly don’t walk the walk.

   I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the gall of those who attack Cindy Sheehan after news cycles are filled with a woman saying that everyone knows these claims about the “noble cause” aren’t true, and she just wants to know, really, why her son died. Attack the messenger and ignore the message, is that it?

   Well, fuck off, you desperate losers and start examining the lies of the president instead of the words of a mother in grief.

8. Gore_bites Says:
   August 21st, 2005 at 6:54 am

   Why do you hate freedom of speech? You post a long and tired statement at DU. But only your like minded Nazi thugs at that site can respond. Me being a middle of the road and balanced person can not post there. Why do you supoort a web-site that is only about hate and money? You have a $kinner gold star……how does it feel to support hate speech?

9. Aine Says:
   August 21st, 2005 at 7:06 am

   Clue for the Clueless Rightwing : The Nazis were rightwingers, not leftwingers. I recommend “Hitler : A Study in Tyranny” by Alan Bullock.

   If you were a middle of the road and balanced person, you would be permitted to post at DU, but if the above is any example of your writing, I can see why you would be banned from that site. You might also note that there are other forums online where Liberals are not permitted to post.

   As for my gold star at DU, generous anonymous Liberals donated in my name. I guess they like outspoken, intelligent women, rather than Republican Stepford wives.

   Notice I’ve permitted your hate speech to be posted here, even though it is completely off-topic. Don’t expect my generosity to be extended to the kind of hate speech you spew again.

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