Cindy Sheehan should be ashamed
In her politicized campaign to meet with President Bush, Cindy Sheehan has become the lightning rod for the liberals and their whining. All the while ignoring the fact that she had in fact already met with President Bush in June of last year shortly after her son Casey Sheehan was killed. Her husband is divorcing her and I suspect Casey would disown her as well if was he alive. I ran across a post entitled “SHE IS NOT WORTHY OF HER SON” that captures my feelings on her misguided crusade.
It captures what I believe to likely represent what would be Casey’s perspective on his Mom’s political pandering and I quote:
“Why can’t you be proud of me, mom?
Why can’t you be proud of what I did, what I believed in, the cause for which I gave my life? Why are you blaming my commander-in-chief? Why not affix the blame, if you must lay blame, upon the incarnate devils who killed me? They are the ones responsible for my death. I volunteered for this, dear mother. I knew what I was getting into, and I considered it worth any price, even my own life.
Why are you turning my sacrifice into a political playing card for anti-American fools who will never ‘move on’ from their hateful agenda, who love seeing the Iraq death toll—-miniscule compared to earlier wars’—-inch up every day, who would like nothing better than to see America retreat in dishonorable defeat, just so that they can say, We told you so? Is that was passes for patriotism to your evil masters—-gloating over their own country’s discomfiture? Not in my book, mom, and not on my watch.”
The full post is well worth reading.
Additional interesting background on this “tempest in teapot” is the wikipedia entry on Cindy as it factually captures the 180 degree flip flop that Cindy has taken on the war and President Bush. All in all quite enlightening.