"Momma Moonbat" Cindy Sheehan has written a piece at Buzzflash where she goes on her typical anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-anything she does not agree with rant. The article contains, as does anything ever written about or by her, the information that her son was killed in Iraq. We are always made aware of that as if it is supposed to give legitimacy to her activities. Her protests stopped being about Casey and started being all about Cindy quite some time ago. I think Cindy is guilt-ridden because, as I previously pointed out, she is responsible for the death of her son. She is blaming it on Bush but that is merely transference, a simple way for her to redirect to someone else (in this case, George Bush).
I usually ignore Sheehan because she is as irritating as a swarm of gnats but not nearly as attractive. But, I read the piece and it has a number of typical moonbat rantings, most of which are ridiculous. Her claims that the war in Iraq is about oil (where is all this oil?), the claim that there were no WMD in Iraq, something the Duelfer report indicates can not be ruled out, and of course the obligatory references to Bush and his disregard for the Constitution and all things decent. She even threw in a few headlines about "peaceful" anti war protesters being arrested. It has been my experience that anti war protesters are not peaceful and when they are they break other laws like trespassing and destruction of property. They seem to think that the right to peacefully assemble means they can break other laws in pursuit of their goal. Hell, look how Cindy used a straw man to purchase property so she could be near Bush and skirt around laws designed to keep the place peaceful.
I probably would not have known about this particular piece she wrote if it had not been for Sonnabend who made me aware of a certain part of her article that is particularly disturbing. In the article Cindy Sheehan tells this story:
I have a story to share. When I was in Jordan with the peace contingent, meeting with Iraqi parliamentarians, we heard the testimony of a Sheik who is also a respected mullah in Iraq. He told us that members of the US Army broke into his house, raped his wife, beat him severely, and took him to prison where he was further tortured in compliance with George‘s barbaric and cruel policies. All of this happened in front of his teenage son.
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— go to most recent comments1 - RJ Elliott
Heh...I think you'll get some nasty replies to this one... :-/
2 - Big Dog
Ya think? I know, it is against the moonbat credo to attack a victim....
3 - Matthew T. Sussman
This is amazing free publicity for a website I've never heard of. Oop, I've already forgotten the name of the site in question. So I guess we're back to where we started.
4 - JP
Wow. Way to counter the description of anti-war activists as peaceful--they're trespassers! Oh my!
Granted, property is property. However unless they're committing property damage, it's peaceful.
5 - JustOneMan
Its obvious Cindy has a gang rape fantasy and this is a way for here to share it with her flock of followers....
6 - McNab
So Poppa Lamebat has his panties in a knot over Cindy Sheehan. What's new!
7 - Dr. Kurt
Honestly, I think that the burden of proof is not on an American citizen exercising her right to free speech, however much it may annoy you; rather, it is on those who are responsible for upwards of 100,000 deaths, many more mutilations, blowing the limbs off of children, bankrupting our nation & selling the note to the Chinese. I don't think you can hold Ms. Sheehan to a higher standard of proof than you do our elected servants. Let them back up every statement, claim, and action they have made in our names - then complain about the words of angry victims.
8 - Fellow Moonbat
I love it when people attack Cindy Sheehan like Big Bitch, er Big Dog did. It's a sure sign that Cindy is still being very effective.
As the monkey man said, "Bring it on."
Ha ha ha ha.
9 - JustOneMan
Cindy Sheehan is a warped pig of a woman who shits on her sons grave every day that she walks the face of the earth - Thats the truth---"the burden of proof is not on an American citizen exercising his right to free speech, however much it may annoy you"
10 - Peter J
I'm pretty much over Cindy Sheehan too. It does get old talking about this damn war over and over again.
The thing is , we can turn off the news and forget about it, that's one thing Cindy Sheehan can't do.
I can hardly imagine the sense of loss and outrage one feels when a child is murdered. the one thing I do know is that I'd want my pound of flesh. I would find a way to get it and it woudn't be by holding up a sign.
My daughters life is my life, it's what I leave behind when I'm gone. Losing her son with no recourse available to her she has turned to the only way she knows how to extract her pound.
I think it's pretty chickenshit to attack a woman who has suffered such loss because she has found a way to justify her loss. Who the hell are any of you to question her motives or to diagnos her state of mind.
How many of you are weilding a firearm in Iraq or has an immediate close member of your family laying down their lives, and this doesn't mean "I know this guy...".
Cindy Sheehan is walking through the flames, every day when she awakens. I'm sure that others who have lost children, husbands, wives have found their way to deal with their grief, she has chosen a path to try to help end this charade that Bush calls a "war for our freedom"
to prevent another mother from suffering her loss, and if you believe that this war has a goddamn thing to do with your freedom I suggest you take that baseball cap off. It's probably too tight and it's cutting off the circulation to your brain.
Leave the woman alone and quit being so mean spirited and childish. Just hope that you never have to lose a child, a sister or brother or parent to Bush's folleys.
11 - JustOneMan
PeterJ....what about the thousands of men and women INCLUDING HER OWN SON ---who died believing that this is the right thing to do....and this BITCH now accuses US soldiers of rape...fuck her....she is offending all the other mothers who really care about their sons and daughters
12 - Clavos
Without minimizing Ms. Sheehan's loss, we need to remember that her son, Casey, was on his second enlistment in the Army when he was killed in Iraq.
A recipient of the Bronze Star for Valor, he was a hero.
Further, he had volunteered for the operation in which he was participating when he died. As a mechanic is an armored unit in the First Cav, he was not a combat soldier. However, when a column of soldiers from his unit was attacked and pinned down in Sadr city he volunteered to join the rescue force that was sent out.
In short, Sheehan demeans the memory of her hero son when she terms his death a "murder" and portrays him as a victim.
Casey Sheehan was a proud volunteer soldier who died tragically, but heroically. His mother should quit using his memory to further her political agenda.
13 - JustOneMan
Clavos...well said!
14 - MCH
"Cindy Sheehan is a warped pig of a woman who shits on her sons grave every day that she walks the face of the earth - Thats the truth...."
- JustOneMan
And of course, your parents will never have to experience what Cindy Sheehan is going through, JOM, since that would mean you'd actually have to serve first...
15 - Peter J
JOM,
I'm in 100% agreement with you. Her son was indisputably a hero and now she's a crackpot.
Like I said, I can't imagine what losing my child would be like but with my ability to empathize it has to be mind shattering.
Casey joined voluntarily, I don't know how Cindy felt about this but I do know that when a loss like this occurs a parent has to have something to hold on to, some reason that her child was "murdered". If she objected to the war in the first place then there was no place else to go than the Army. It must have been their fault, even though he volunteered in her eyes.
This is probably the only glue holding this woman together at this time. Her grief is obviously overwhelming as everyone reacts differently in these cases. I would bet tha this woman cries herself to sleep every night of her life.
Granted, people are using her as a platform to spread their form of propoganda as was the case in this article. There is no proof of these acts ever taking place, no names mentioned, no charges filed, no reason to publish it. In a situation like this where Sheehan is obviously so vulnerable it is the responsibility of the publishers to provide proof before it is printed. The fact that this was not done discredits the publisher who has their wits about them and chose to engage in sloppy reporting.
I feel very sad for Cindy Sheehan, I wish she could finally come to grips and find peace within herself.
16 - Arch Conservative
"I love it when people attack Cindy Sheehan like Big Bitch, er Big Dog did. It's a sure sign that Cindy is still being very effective.:
Effective at what?
When was she ever effective at anything.
The woman is a joke!
17 - Donnie Marler
As the father of a U.S. Marine, I have come to know several Gold Star mothers and fathers. I'm humbled by their strength, decency, courage, and caring as they reach out to comfort each other, and to support those still serving. An overwhelming majority of those I know do not agree with Cindy Sheehan.
I believe Ms. Sheehan's son was a hero. I disagree vehemently with Cindy Sheehan's viewpoint, but her son died for, and my son fights for, her right to express it.
I don't have to dignify it with a response.
18 - Big Dog
Cetainly, anyone is entitled to an opinion. But if a person makes accusations then they should be able to prove what they say.
Her story casts a bad shadow on the valiant men and women in the armed forces who do the right thing each and every day. She is no better than John Kerry who said our troops were breaking in to homes in the dead of night and terrorizing Iraqi families.
She could have made her point in one of two ways. Say it and provide the evidence or leave it out of the story. I too served this country so that others may speak but after 24 years I also know I will not sit idly by while our troops are accused of crimes without proof.
19 - Donnie Marler
I agree this sort of allegation begs proof. If she can't provide it, which I absolutely believe she cannot, then she is further marginalized as a serious voice of opposition.
I must say, I stopped listening a long time ago.
20 - Peter J
Everybody's RIGHT,
my point is that she is totally distraught, severely heartbroken and has quite possibly suffered a mental collapse. All she's surrounded by are anti-war agitators who are using her as a platform. In her mental state she welcomes the validity to her feelings these people provide.
Every person reacts differently to absolute grief; her prior mental state, the people who surround her and response from her accused.
It appears that her world is falling apart, I doubt seriously that she enjoys this but she gets validation from those around her and they are the scoundrels. They are the people who are taking advantage of her fragile mental state and using her as an apparatus and they are the ones who should be brought to task.Perhaps too, if Bush had the humanity to meet with her while on his vacation she may have felt vindicated and gone home.
21 - RJ Elliott
"I think it's pretty chickenshit to attack a woman who has suffered such loss because she has found a way to justify her loss. Who the hell are any of you to question her motives or to diagnos her state of mind."
This is exactly what Ann Coulter was talking about in her recent book. The Left builds up some "victim" who then makes outrageous statements, and whenever someone DARES to criticize the moon-bat for her statements, people pop up and denounce them for even questioning the "victim" ...
22 - RJ Elliott
"if Bush had the humanity to meet with her while on his vacation she may have felt vindicated and gone home."
Bush had already met with her PRIOR to her little squatting episode in Crawford...
23 - Frank
My comment is that I agree with the writers whos article is found here onBlogcritics. Cindy Sheehan Needs to Prove This.. October 01, 2006 Big Dog" where it said quote: Next time Sheehan goes over there can we send her to the area where they kidnap Americans and lop off their heads? It might give her a better perspective on the kinds of folks we are dealing with and, who knows, it might just shut her up.
24 - McNab
If Sheehan was as fucked up and crazy as the right wing shit eaters think she is she'd be over in Iraq looking for those weapons of mass destruction we heard so much about.
25 - Big Dog
No, she'd be in Syria where they were moved to.