Cindy Sheehan: Go Home and Take Care of Your Kids

[Raster]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cindy-sheehan/go-home-and-take-care-of-_b_6039.html

I have received dozens of emails with this heading: Go Home and Take Care of Your Kids. I think of all the name calling and unnecessary and untrue trashing of my character, this one offends me the most. What do the people who send me this message mean?

First of all, it offends me because it is so blatantly sexist. Would anyone think of emailing George Bush when he is out and about (now he is going on a vacation away from his vacation to make speeches in Idaho and Utah defending his killing policies), telling him to go and take care of his kids? Does anyone write to ANY man and tell him to go home and take care of his kids. I have news for all of these people, my children are adults and their dad is home to take care of them if they need any taking care of.

The second reason this command from the self-righteous right offends me is that I believe that what I am doing is for my children, and the world's children. I think that the strategy of eternal baseless war for corporate profit and greed is bad for all of our children: born and unborn. We heard a few weeks ago that Rummy said that we would be in Iraq for at least a dozen more years, and we recently heard over the weekend that the military is planning for four more years of this occupation, at least. If Rummy is correct, then Soccer Safety Mom Susie's kindergartener will be fighting and dying in the harsh sands of the Middle East and if the military is correct than NASCAR Dad Nick's middle-schooler should start boot camp now. I hate to be the one to break it to America, but constant war is not a positive family value and this administration's policies are not making us more secure.

We as mothers need to stop buying into the load of misogynistic crap that our children need our constant presence in their lives so they can thrive and grow. What we need as families are strong support systems that allow each family member to grow and achieve his/her full potential as human beings. What we as Moms need to stop doing is giving our children to the military industrial war complex to be used as human cluster bombs: to kill innocent civilians and to perhaps die enriching and feeding the gluttonous war machine.

It is up to us Moms to make sure our children are whole and safe. We can start doing this by always opposing the wars that bury our kids before us. So what I am saying to the people who want me to go home and take care of my kids: I AM taking care of my kids, and yours, too.
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Right-the-fudge On!!! This woman has more balls than all of the * misadministration put together!!! Talk about courage!

[ChowChowChow]

1. I think Cindy is BRILLIANT!

[henslee]

6. I agree. She has a wonderful voice in her prose. And on camera

she is telegenic, calm and natural. Words coming out of her mouth always seems calm and direct. She has IT.

[rosesaylavee]

2. kicked/nominated

You know, the older I get, the more I think Moms should take over the world...there would certainly be less killing.

I really like this woman and admire her guts.

Thanks for the post -

[neuvocat]

3. Those people need to take care of their kids too

before more of them wind up buried.

[Lindacooks]

4. WHY doesn't somebody send this to Phyllis Schafly?

Some man needs to tell her to shut the fuck up and sit down, because that's what she preaches.

Cindy is a true patriot trying to SAVE lives.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

7. Freeper assholes are smearing her on the comments page,

calling her un-American. Idiots.

[rodeodance]

15. so--what is her email address?

[flyingfysh]

5. Bush's war killed her kid

[Hissyspit]

8. That's the best they can come up with?

"Go Home and Take Care of your Kids?"

I've got a news flash for these people. Cindy Sheehan could become a cloistered nun, fly to Mars, whatever, and it wouldn't change the facts that the Iraq War was a huge scam pulled on the American people, who are complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

[Raster]

10. the worst part is this war was completely unnecessary. It's a war of

vanity and greed. Can you imagine, killing people to enrich the coffers of bechtel or halliburton or brown & root? KILLING PEOPLE!!! Stop the f'ing insanity NOW!!!

[Pretty_in_CodePink]

9. I love this part ...........

snip<If Rummy is correct, then Soccer Safety Mom Susie's kindergartener will be fighting and dying in the harsh sands of the Middle East and if the military is correct than NASCAR Dad Nick's middle-schooler should start boot camp now. >snip

I see so many war supporters in my community and they go about their lives oblivious to the possible consequences of their support. None of them think their babies will be over there fighting. I know it just doesn't occur to them. If I talk about people think I'm nuts. No way my baby is going!!

[mconvente]

12. Yeah...

It's fricking poor-ass Donyell in Flint, or Pedro in El Paso, or Manuel in Paterson, or Billy in Gary, Indiana.

What, my kid, from white suburbia going to Iraq?? Please...

:banghead:

stupid fuckers...

[mikehiggins]

11. Its all falling apart, isn't it?

Could there be a more insulting smack at ALL American women than the idea that Cindy should stay home and take care of her kids?

Just think about that for a moment. What rocket scientist in the Bush cabal came up with this one? I can only hope that it was Rove because that would mean that the wicked witch of the west was finally begining the long awaited meltdown.

Do you think they want her barefoot and pregnant, too?

Keep up the good work, Bushoids. You're doing onto yourself as you are used to doing onto others.

[kineneb]

13. ooh- I saw the title and thought "Kinder, Kirche, und Kueche"

Wiedermal sehen wir den scheisskopfigen Schweinehund. "Geh' mal ins Kueche, Maedchen!"*

*Once again we see the shit-headed pig-dog. "Go back to the kitchen, Miss!

[rodeodance]

14. nominated. and kick for Cindy