Cindy Sheehan Still Doesn't Get It!
This entry was posted on May 29, 2007 6:05 PM and is filed under Freedom.
JOE - Below is an article that I read from a news source I subscribe to.
I have injected my comments in bold print. Please remember these are my personal comments, ... I am a musician and a patriot. What I have to say isn't really important, but since my record label has given me this blog and the opportunity to voice my opinion, I will.
FORT WORTH, Texas (May 29) - Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized an anti-war movement with her month-long protest outside President Bush's ranch, says she's done being the public face of the movement.
"I've been wondering why I'm killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush," Sheehan told The Associated Press by phone Tuesday while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.
JOE - Cindy, ... you still don't get it! Nobody "caved in!" The American people pressured their elected leaders to support the troops. Now, men and women, like your son Casey, know that their country is still behind them.
"I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal," she said.
JOE - Hummmmmmmm, ... we'll see.
In what she described as a "resignation letter," Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the "Daily Kos" blog: "Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it.
"It's up to you now."
JOE - Do you think she'll actually leave America because she doesn't like it here any longer? Or is this another "I hate America," statement, like Barbara Streisand, or Alec Baldwin always makes when their political candidate loses and election. ... You know, the kind of "I've finally had it" statements that gets attention in the press. (The Who has quite 7-times so far) Of course, nobody ever hates American enough to actually leave because this is the greatest country in the world.
Sheehan began a grass roots peace movement in August 2005 when she set up camp outside the Bush ranch for 26 days, asking to talk with the President about the death of her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan. Casey Sheehan was 24 when he was killed in an ambush in Baghdad.
JOE - People seem to forget that Cindy did, IN FACT, meet with President Bush, ... he attended a service for her son. She even spoke with him.
JOE - Cindy, ... you still don't get it! Nobody "caved in!" The American people pressured their elected leaders to support the troops. Now, men and women, like your son Casey, know that their country is still behind them.
"I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal," she said.
JOE - Hummmmmmmm, ... we'll see.
In what she described as a "resignation letter," Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the "Daily Kos" blog: "Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it.
"It's up to you now."
JOE - Do you think she'll actually leave America because she doesn't like it here any longer? Or is this another "I hate America," statement, like Barbara Streisand, or Alec Baldwin always makes when their political candidate loses and election. ... You know, the kind of "I've finally had it" statements that gets attention in the press. (The Who has quite 7-times so far) Of course, nobody ever hates American enough to actually leave because this is the greatest country in the world.
Sheehan began a grass roots peace movement in August 2005 when she set up camp outside the Bush ranch for 26 days, asking to talk with the President about the death of her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan. Casey Sheehan was 24 when he was killed in an ambush in Baghdad.
JOE - People seem to forget that Cindy did, IN FACT, meet with President Bush, ... he attended a service for her son. She even spoke with him.
Cindy Sheehan started her protest small, but it quickly drew national attention. Over the following two years, she drew huge crowds as she spoke at protest events, but she also drew a great deal of criticism.
JOE - Yes, she drew huge crowds. Most of those crowds were there to protest her!
"I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement," Sheehan wrote in the diary.
JOE - You are the self-proclaimed "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Kind of like the same way Michael Jackson is the self-proclaimed "King of Pop." Those kinds or titles really carry less weight when it's you that actually makes the proclamation!
Cindy, America didn't hate you for protesting the war. People actually understood why a Gold Star mom would protest, ... it's the fact that you misrepresented yourself. You didn't raise Casey, his father did, ... you had no part in his decision to join the Army to proudly serve his country. You partied with American traitor-"Hanoi" Jane Fonda and Dictator Hugo Chavez during your "mourning process." It seemed you would rather support a man who suppresses his own people over the country your son died defending. That's is what pissed everyone off! And that is why nobody supports you.
On Memorial Day, she came to some "heartbreaking conclusions," she wrote.
When she had first taken on Bush, Sheehan was a darling of the liberal left. "However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the 'left' started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used," she wrote.
"I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of 'right or left', but 'right and wrong,'" the diary says.
JOE - Cindy, ... you are so wrong, ... everyone was paying attention to you. I'll never forget the photo of you standing behind Hugo Chavez in New York; hugging him from behind with a huge, dumb, smile on your face as your head was leaning on his shoulder. That was right after he made his "bin-Laden-like" statement and called for the down-fall of the American government! At that point, you had become a "joke." Who could take your statements or your "cause" serious after that?
Sheehan criticized "blind party loyalty" as a danger, no matter which side it involved, and said the current two-party system is "corrupt" and "rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland."
Sheehan said she had sacrificed a 29-year marriage and endured threats to put all her energy into stopping the war. What she found, she wrote, was a movement "that often puts personal egos above peace and human life."
But she said the most devastating conclusion she had reached "was that Casey did indeed die for nothing ... killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think".
JOE - Cindy, This isn't Vietnam. We are fighting a real terror. They attacked us and their cowardly leaders keep telling us that they will keep killing Americans. You were trying to convince America that if we take our ball and go home, the game is over, while al Qaeda keeps telling us they are still trying to attack us on our shores. You had "selective-hearing," and only listened to what you wanted to hear. We are fighting a sick, oppressive ideology, ... the battle field just happens to be Iraq.
Casey did not died in vein. My cousin Ryan Cantafio along with Casey and the thousands of other brave warriors, died for what they believed in. They were not drafted. They proudly joined and served and died for their country.
Do you really think the US government controls what we think? You are a perfect example of "free thinking" Cindy. The fact that people are pulling away from you, especially the ones that originally supported you, again lends me to believe that we are a free thinking society. In a free thinking society you will never have 100% of the people on your side. History has shown that our democracy works. You are just in the minority now, ... suck it up and deal with it.
"Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives," she wrote. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most."
JOE - You didn't fail your son in this particular mission. Your son is an American hero, be proud of him as most of America is. Casey is a hero. Support his beliefs and what he fought and died for.
Our family takes pride in what Ryan means to us. Ryan fought and died for what he believed in, the same way Casey did. Ryan is a hero to us, the same way Casey is to you. From a cousin of a Marine who was killed in action in the same your son died, ... Thank you for giving birth to a great American.
Casey "got it!"
"I am going to take whatever I have left and go home," Sheehan wrote.
"Camp Casey has served its purpose. It's for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford, Texas?"
JOE -I'm sure you will finally be hearing from President Bush, ... with real estate on a slight down-swing, prepare to sell your five acres in Crawford, Texas for less than you originally paid for it to him.
JOE - Yes, she drew huge crowds. Most of those crowds were there to protest her!
"I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement," Sheehan wrote in the diary.
JOE - You are the self-proclaimed "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Kind of like the same way Michael Jackson is the self-proclaimed "King of Pop." Those kinds or titles really carry less weight when it's you that actually makes the proclamation!
Cindy, America didn't hate you for protesting the war. People actually understood why a Gold Star mom would protest, ... it's the fact that you misrepresented yourself. You didn't raise Casey, his father did, ... you had no part in his decision to join the Army to proudly serve his country. You partied with American traitor-"Hanoi" Jane Fonda and Dictator Hugo Chavez during your "mourning process." It seemed you would rather support a man who suppresses his own people over the country your son died defending. That's is what pissed everyone off! And that is why nobody supports you.
On Memorial Day, she came to some "heartbreaking conclusions," she wrote.
When she had first taken on Bush, Sheehan was a darling of the liberal left. "However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the 'left' started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used," she wrote.
"I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of 'right or left', but 'right and wrong,'" the diary says.
JOE - Cindy, ... you are so wrong, ... everyone was paying attention to you. I'll never forget the photo of you standing behind Hugo Chavez in New York; hugging him from behind with a huge, dumb, smile on your face as your head was leaning on his shoulder. That was right after he made his "bin-Laden-like" statement and called for the down-fall of the American government! At that point, you had become a "joke." Who could take your statements or your "cause" serious after that?
Sheehan criticized "blind party loyalty" as a danger, no matter which side it involved, and said the current two-party system is "corrupt" and "rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland."
Sheehan said she had sacrificed a 29-year marriage and endured threats to put all her energy into stopping the war. What she found, she wrote, was a movement "that often puts personal egos above peace and human life."
But she said the most devastating conclusion she had reached "was that Casey did indeed die for nothing ... killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think".
JOE - Cindy, This isn't Vietnam. We are fighting a real terror. They attacked us and their cowardly leaders keep telling us that they will keep killing Americans. You were trying to convince America that if we take our ball and go home, the game is over, while al Qaeda keeps telling us they are still trying to attack us on our shores. You had "selective-hearing," and only listened to what you wanted to hear. We are fighting a sick, oppressive ideology, ... the battle field just happens to be Iraq.
Casey did not died in vein. My cousin Ryan Cantafio along with Casey and the thousands of other brave warriors, died for what they believed in. They were not drafted. They proudly joined and served and died for their country.
Do you really think the US government controls what we think? You are a perfect example of "free thinking" Cindy. The fact that people are pulling away from you, especially the ones that originally supported you, again lends me to believe that we are a free thinking society. In a free thinking society you will never have 100% of the people on your side. History has shown that our democracy works. You are just in the minority now, ... suck it up and deal with it.
"Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives," she wrote. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most."
JOE - You didn't fail your son in this particular mission. Your son is an American hero, be proud of him as most of America is. Casey is a hero. Support his beliefs and what he fought and died for.
Our family takes pride in what Ryan means to us. Ryan fought and died for what he believed in, the same way Casey did. Ryan is a hero to us, the same way Casey is to you. From a cousin of a Marine who was killed in action in the same your son died, ... Thank you for giving birth to a great American.
Casey "got it!"
"I am going to take whatever I have left and go home," Sheehan wrote.
"Camp Casey has served its purpose. It's for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford, Texas?"
JOE -I'm sure you will finally be hearing from President Bush, ... with real estate on a slight down-swing, prepare to sell your five acres in Crawford, Texas for less than you originally paid for it to him.