Cindy Sheehan
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- mrdobolina
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08…
Man, the creepy right-wingers are showing their true colors on this one.
- anzelina0
i thought this said cindy sherman.
can we talk about her instead?
- mrdobolina0
read a newspaper.
- kld0
she my current hero, I love the press shes gotten recently.
I hope its ruining bush's vacation and eff those haters
- ********0
Yeah there was some kind of protest here in Pittsburgh outside the Federal Courthouse. They were basing Santorum too.
lol
- mrdobolina0
I love what is going on right now. Its about fucking time.
- mg330
The photo of her touching a cross, looking solemn that you see EVERYWHERE is making me sick.
It's as if she's in some kind of alternate reality where she thinks that is her son there that she's touching.
Look, I lost my only Sister 10 years ago, it was very, very hard to move on from that. Obviously, even harder for my Mom. Even I don't 100% know what it's like for her, and she and I are extremely close and open with each other.
So on the loss part, I understand what she feels. But turning it into a big political crusade is pointless.
Besides, whether this war is right or wrong, the bottom line I hope everyone can understand is that when someone joins the military, they do so fully knowing it could put their life in danger. If he joined during the war, even more reason to respect that simple fact.
She does not respect this. She does not respect the choice her son made, and the risks he understood were involved. In some ways she is making a mockery out of his service, and the loss of his life performing a duty for his country - and again, it doesn't matter whether that duty is right or wrong.
- mrdobolina0
mg, you have a point. BUT, what ever happened to the president being presidential?
I wonder what the Vegas odds are on how low Bush's approval rating will go.
- mrdobolina0
she blames this admin for her son's death. Which she has every right to do. It wouldnt be a political thing if Bush would just be a man and talk to her, what a fucking coward.
- mg330
The thing is, (and it was frequently mentioned when the war started) Bush chose not to attend ANY funerals of ANY soldiers killed because it would be disrespectful to the famalies of soldiers whose funerals he didn't go to.
She's not the only mother grieving over losing a child in the war. I bet many others want answers too. But he can't meet with all of them, not to mention the children, spouses, fathers, brothers and sisters of fallen soldiers.
I think it's the obvious choice to not talk to her.
- mrdobolina0
dude, he is on vacation for 5 weeks AND he is not the king of the united states he is a public servant.
peaceful protest is a big part of america. whatever brings attention to this fucker being the shittiest president ever is all good in my book. This admin bullies everyone, it's time the table have turned.
- mg330
Also mrb, I don't see anything 'presidential' about meeting with a woman making a spectacle of herself on your front lawn for all the media and world to see so as to further her cause - a cause against the very government he works for.
What does she expect him to do or say anyways if they did meet?
- ********0
The really interesting thing I thought is tha tthis is the ONLY antiwar protest that has gotten conventional media play. At the run up to the war millions gathered in DC, NY, etc. and on the nightly news you got one line "Protesters Gathered today. Blah blah. Now more about Paris Hilton..."
What's interesting is this is the EXACT opposite of the 60's mass protests. This is one woman standing in a ditch in Texas with a simple ass question - "What did my son die for."
It's interesting that THIS is what the media focuses on. Maybe politics and the theater thereof has changed for good...
- mg330
I agree with anything being brought to attention about how badly things are screwed up.
It's a mess, a total and complete mess. I seriously think our country is at one of the lowest points in our history because of what our administration has done.
Now, and especially now, no wonder terrorists want to destroy us.We both know it, but there is so much corruption and (man, what are the words??) in Washington D.C. at the hands of our president and his people.
- CyBrainX0
The simple fact is Bush has blood on his hands and he STILL, this morning even, says leaving Iraq would be unsafe for our country. He's a lying mass-murderer.
Blaming this woman for anything is like a bully blaming a geek for punching his fist with the geek's face.
- mrdobolina0
what did her son die for? the reason has changed at least 3 times since the war started.
he died so that the anthrax drones wouldn't be flying over chicago, or so that the smoking gun wouldnt be a mushroom cloud, or to liberate the iraqis.
- planet010
vacation for the president is obviously not vacation.
you think there is anything he can't do from texas? this isn't 1965.
- Grey|Death0
Thing he hasn't even come out of hiding and answered her questions?
"I don't want his compassion or his sympathy, because I know it's not real," Sheehan said. "What I want is answers to my questions."
Answer the questions (whatever they are) and hug and kiss and enjoy his 49th trips to his ranch this year.
- mg330
Her son died for a myriad of reasons, all of which are wrong and make me sick.
But please understand that he knew the risks, and the potential of losing his life. If society can't understand and respect that aspect of being a soldier, especially in the case of a volunteer military, then that is a problem.
- ********0
Well, we all know that her son died so that there could be a civil war in Iraq, and then the Iranians step in giving us an opportunity to nuke their nuclear facilities.
That way Georgie W would not only feel like a man for finishing what his daddy couldn't do in Iraq, but also take some revenge for the Iranian hostage crisis and show that he's more of a man than that pussy carter was.
i figured it'd be obvious.
- mrdobolina0
planet - what does that have to do with the price of tomatoes?