October 23, 2005
Repost: Go To Hell, Cindy Sheehan
[The American military is on the eve of losing its 2,000th soldier in combat in Iraq after well over two years in action. In that time, 26 million Iraqi people have been given a say in the future of their country, and two rounds of national voting have proven that democracy has a chance in a part of the world that detractors said it would never take root.
In this environment, a vengful, spiteful woman would still sacrifice it all -- 26 million Iraqi lives, and the sacrifice of 2,000 American soldiers-- in hopes of some sort of twisted revenge against the one man she holds responsible for her son's death. For one man, she would sacrifice nations. Her name is Cindy Sheehan.
This post was originally released August 9, 2005.]
Let me make this perfectly clear: I loath Cindy Sheehan.
I despise everything she stands for, and love the ideals she stands against. I hate how she dishonors her brave son's memory. I cringe when she utters stupid talking points—“why did the president kill my son?”—and I cannot stand the fact that she egotistically thinks she is more important than the tens of millions of people she would undermine in her quest for vengeance. Clearly, her arrogance knows no limits.
The most important mother in the world.
Cindy Sheehan thinks she is the most important mother in the world.
She is holding a vigil to speak to the president—again—even though she has made it abundantly clear in her comments to the news media that she has nothing new to offer other than clichés. She wants the troops to pull out of Iraq now, no matter the future costs or the wasted sacrifices. She wants Bush to personally account for her son's death. She wants Bush to personally tell her why her son died. She, she, she. Well guess what Cindy?
You are not the only mother who has sent a son off to war. You are one mother of the more than 1,800 troops who died serving their country in a military they volunteered to join, knowing that they could be sent off to war. There are thousands of other mothers who have had their sons and daughters wounded in combat. There are mothers for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, from more than a dozen nations, that have served in Iraq in an effort to bring democracy and hope to that region.
Nor are you more important than the mothers of the 25 million Iraqis that your son Casey was trying to bring freedom. You didn't understand his courage or commitment, and you can't understand why someone who lay down their life for a stranger. That is your problem Cindy Sheehan, and you dishonor your own son's memory every time you open your mouth to fight against everything he gave his life for.
Nor are you more important, Cindy Sheehan than the mothers of the tens of millions in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and other nations tasting freedom for the first time because of brave men like your late son.
Despite what you think, Cindy Sheehan, you are not more important than any of these millions of other mothers, though you would make all their sacrifices in vain to bring down a President.
Vengeance, not Justice. Hatred, not Hope.
Your son died trying to bring freedom to an oppressed people. I can think of no more noble sacrifice. But you, Cindy Sheehan, you want revenge for your heartache, and you don't care who gets hurt in the process.
That is why you, Cindy Sheehan, can go to hell.
You decided, in a mind warped by your association with head cases like Code Pink and Veterans for Peace, that George W. Bush made your son patriotic and gave him the heart to serve his country, and that George W. Bush made him volunteer for military service, and that George W. Bush forced him to want to make the military his career, and it was George W. Bush that made him re-enlist. And of course, George W. Bush pulled the trigger on the RPG in the Sadr City slum that took his life.
Cindy Sheehan doesn't give a damn about the millions of Iraqis her son was trying to bring freedom. Cindy Sheehan doesn't give a damn about the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that have rotated in and out of Iraq in that same quest. Cindy Sheehan doesn't give a damn if Iraqis are ruled by themselves or if they are tortured by tyrants. She is petty. She is vengeful. She wants revenge, and she doesn't care who gets hurt or who dies in the process.
I am ashamed for Casey Sheehan. He understood that there are things in this world worth giving up your life to create, and he made that sacrifice. His mother Cindy, full of hate, seeks only seeks to destroy.
I can understand her grief, but I cannot forgive the fact that she is willing to threaten the lives of others and give our enemies hope to satisfy her need for revenge.
A terrorist RPG killed the body of Casey Sheehan. It took his mother to try to kill his legacy.
If I edited your post to make it in line with my feelings... nothing would be changed. Your post perfectly describes all my feelings about this horrible, irrational, selfish woman.
On a side note, I'm glad she started saying all those crazy things, or else the MSM would still be following her around and putting her on the news every night.
Posted by: Kevin at October 24, 2005 04:18 AMThe Iraqis want democracy, let them fight for it themselves like everybody else. By the way, thanks for supporting the Soviets in WW2. I guess democracy wasn't so important to you back then.
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.
- Joseph de Maistre
Wow, Freedom, is that left-handed support for the Sheehan types? I read your comments as obviously anti-US involvement in Iraq. Was it okay for Saddam to stately sponsor terrorist training that would probably find its way into the US (remember the airliner training site)? Is it truly okay for any national leader to exterminate hundreds of thousands of his/her own citizens because of opposition paranoia (remember the WMDs employed on the Kurds)?
As a Vietnam and Desert Shield/Desert Storm veteran and a veteran of covert ops in Central America, I have a personal and professional disdain for the Cindy (Jane Fonda) Sheehan types that denounce our country and give comfort to our enemy... all while claiming the attribute of patriotism. To me that's kind of like a rapest claiming the attribute of virginity, or an athiest claiming the rights of Heaven. No matter how many times Cindy or Jane lay claim to patriotism, it is something they just cannot possess while espousing hateful rhetoric about their country, and their country's warriors.
By my 31 years of military service alone I have ensured that the Cindys and Janes have the free right to say what they wish and I still support that liberty. But freedom of speech does also bear a freedom of consequences. If you callously speak ill of the country I love, I've earned the right to speak ill of you and your hateful rhetoric. Fortunately, today there are more folks who agree with me than with the Cindys and Janes. It wasn't always that way... just review national mood of the 60's and 70's.
It pleases me that Cindy's rhetoric is not receiving the MSM coverage that it once received. Unfortunately, where the MSM is involved, it just means they have moved on to something more timely that they think will smear the current presidency and conservative movement.
Posted by: Old Soldier at October 24, 2005 08:51 AMCasey Sheehan's mother doesn't give a damn about him either. He stood, and died, for everything she opposes; her debasement and deceit is evinced in the very act of holding him up as HER sacrifice, supposedly imposed on her by the President.
Loathing is too mild a term for the repulsion I feel toward her.
Posted by: Cindi at October 24, 2005 09:11 AMAs Tammy Bruce would say...
Cindy Sheehan is in the depths of malignant narcissism. She does not want to move to the stage of reintegrating into society; she only wants to harm society as she believes she herself has been harmed.
The woman is a waste of skin and mentally sick. The woman would make a great nazi (both are leftist).
Posted by: William at October 24, 2005 09:20 AMJust hazarding a guess, but maybe Casey enlisted and re-enlisted in part to get away from his lunatic mother, in addition to being a patriot.
Posted by: SicSemperTyrannus at October 24, 2005 10:42 AMSicSemper: I would too. :)
Posted by: Abbie at October 24, 2005 12:37 PMTry to download and watch this documentry. It is very interresting it is called 'The Power Of Nightmares'by BBC
http://ia300024.us.archive.org/1/items/ThePowerOfNightmares/
Posted by: Tony at October 24, 2005 02:21 PMThere's nothin' quite like the family values crowd wishing a woman to hell.
I love the smell of fresh indictments in the morning.
-D
Posted by: Denise at October 24, 2005 03:07 PMDenise, Whether or not Cindy should end up in Hell will be entirely upon her own shoulders. All the well wishers in the world cannot put her there.
Posted by: Old Soldier at October 24, 2005 05:06 PMSir you have put into words exactly how I feel about this communist 'liberal' traitor...as a vet with 3 honorable discharges and years of service and killed communists in many places, seems to me it should start here too....a liberal is a closet communist...
Thank you
Posted by: BlackWatch at October 24, 2005 06:49 PMTo freedom and denise...."what a bunch of maroons"
Bugs Bunny
Posted by: Jerry at October 24, 2005 08:45 PMUnfortunately the 2000th soldier to die in Iraq misses the fact that the military refuses to list the almost 8000 soldiers who died of wounds suffered in Iraq but died out of the country.
Still more unfortunate is the need to loath anyone in regards to Iraq. As senior officials continue to make clear, the administration the war was a mistake on many levels. Because we lost young people for nothing; intelligence was bent for political purposes; Iraq totters into civil war; and would be terrorists blossom in the chaos. Meanwhile here at home we turn on each other (even a mother who, regardless of her politics, is stricken with grief)and become less like a proud moral nation and more like a bickering 6th grade class.
Posted by: Paul at October 24, 2005 10:57 PMGot any credible sources for that claim of 8,000 troops who died out of country...the Lancet perhaps? Or was it from your friends in Code Pink outside of Walter Reed calling our troops baby killers and murderers?
It seems like a story that big would have been picked up by the NY Times or similar oganizations in a heartbeat, if they were real.
We lost young people for "nothing?"
The vast majority of 25 million Iraqis who are no longer under the thumb of Saddam might just disagree.
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at October 24, 2005 11:14 PMThank you, Confederate Yankee, for answering that last post by Paul the leftist, as well as for your entire column. You are a great American. Anyone that thinks that any one of our great military that gave his/her life for Operation Iraqi Freedom was a waste has a twisted world view. These leftist/socialist/communists are pathetic. They cry out about Hitler, oppression, civil rights violated, etc. when it comes to their own country but when some other dictator, whom they somehow praise and idolize (e.g.: Castro, Saddam, Chavez, Mandela), does all of the above and more, they turn their heads. Starve their own people, no complaint. America comes to help and 18 Marines get slaughtered, no problem. Hypocrisy at its best. They view things through their prism where if their hero Bill Clinton was doing the bomb dropping at 30,000 feet (Kosovo), they have no problem. Oh, the hypocrisy...
Hey, Paul, here's a bit of a civics lesson for you... one of the minor differences between our democratic republic and communism or totalitarianism is that people who speak out against the government in our country are protected by our constitution - they are NOT summarily executed.
“Still more unfortunate is the need to loath anyone in regards to Iraq.” Did you read the third comment? It’s mine. I said nothing about “loathing” when I wrote about Cindy-Jane. To loathe is to “dislike.” I specifically said “I have a personal and professional disdain for the Cindy (Jane Fonda) Sheehan types…” Disdain, Paul, is “extreme contempt or disgust.” “Loathe” just doesn’t represent the feeling. No matter the shade of glasses through which you wish to view Cindy, she is NOT a grieving mother – she is an opportunist who is using her son’s noble sacrifice as a platform from which she has launched into a political hack (or more appropriately “hag”.) “Greater love hath no man than to give his life for another.” Cindy is robbing Casey of the love he displayed to his fellow soldiers and countrymen, and she is robbing him of his nobility. Casey voluntarily served his country and fellow man; Cindy is voluntarily condemning and speaking hatefully against the country Casey gave his life defending. No, Cindy is not a grieving mother; she is a sad demented political hack who is defaming her son’s bravery by her sick motives and actions. She is snatching defeat from the jaws of her very own son’s victory!
Now, before you come at me with any kind of misguided “patriotic” claim, please do us both a favor and read or reread my previous post. After you’ve reread my post, come back and tell me how many miles you’ve walked in my shoes. How many people shouted “baby killer” and spat at you when you returned from Vietnam? How many people greeted you like royalty when you returned from Desert Shield/Desert Storm? How many years have you spent away from your family training for war and helping to protect other nations from communist aggression? How many months have you spent in extreme environments (from freezing cold to scorching hot) and how many 100-plus hour weeks have you spent practicing the art of defending your nation? When your boots and your body are as worn as mine, come back and talk with me about patriotism and love of country. Until then, you hollowly spew ideological rhetoric that you have no intention of physically defending at the possible cost of your own life.
I, on the other hand, loathe her. But not "in regards to Iraq". I loathe her because she gives comfort to our enemies worldwide, demoralizes our brave soldiers, and weakens American resolve at a time when unity is most important.
I also think her actions increase terrorist activity, causing additional deaths and casualties, but I have no proof.
Posted by: Kevin at October 25, 2005 08:18 AMPaul, Your comment about of soldiers dying in the states instead of in-country is a load of manure. Specifically, the Sgt. who died & is counted as #2000 died in the states from wounds rec'd in-country about 2 weeks previous.
How does that square with your preconceived notions?
I've got my mind made up, don't confuse me with the facts????
Posted by: Vet's Grateful Son at October 26, 2005 06:06 PM