Cindy is a Grizzly Bear Mama----a great read

[mopaul]

http://www.antiwar.com/whitehurst/?articleid=6912

For some, Cindy Sheehan's lonely journey through the shock and sorrow of her son Casey's death in Iraq is of no interest. What, they ask, is the big deal? One soldier killed, one mother grieving – so what? Mothers have no business meddling in the manly business of war, or expressing inconvenient, disloyal, unpatriotic feelings like grief or anger. Get over it, critics command, and think about "the mission" instead, a mission that "we should see through" so that other people can't make fun of us for "cutting and running."

Instead of focusing on one poor misguided woman, or on how many more Americans and innocent Iraqi families will be killed in this war, we're told to think about how great it will be when other people admire us for killing every terrorist and future terrorist in the whole wide world. Instead of thinking about the new fundamentalist Islamic "democracy" that Bush's war has ushered in for the poor girls and women of Iraq, think about "the good news" way, way down the road when they get used to wearing the burqa and live happily ever after. In short, Americans should focus on "the big picture."

But for mothers – even those who've tried valiantly to believe the president when he exclaims that the war on Iraq is a "noble cause" – there IS no big picture. For mothers of slain soldiers, there are only little pictures: their lost child smiling at 10 months in his high chair; riding his first bike without training wheels; opening Christmas presents (Hot Wheels, Transformers, or GI Joe); and making silly faces for the camera.

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A large male grizzly came upon two adorable little grizzly cubs, who looked up at him with wonder and naivete; clearly, they didn't realize the danger they were in. To my great surprise, however, the male grizzly stood bolt upright as though startled, then starting running away from those harmless little cubs. Why on earth did he do that, I wondered. The narrator explained that the male knew instinctively that there's nothing more dangerous than a mother grizzly who senses that her cubs may be harmed.

[Tsiyu]

1. Gives deserved new meaning to the term "feminine"

:patriot:

[BrklynLiberal]

2. As a mother, and as an American who was always against this "war"

This article brought me to tears. Thank you so much for posting it.
It is going to everyone on my email list.
:cry: :thumbsup:

Nominated, and I hope it makes it to the front page. It sure deserves to be there.

[jojo54]

3. Mothers have no business meddling in the manly business of war

They absolutely do have business meddling when the men who started the war are cowards.

Nominated.

[YOY]

4. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" - Shakespeare

There is an aggressive side to the maternal instinct. It is nice to see it being put to good use.

Of course in contemporary film terms this scene comes to mind:



"Get away from her YOU B****!"

[knitter4democracy]

6. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male."

Kipling had it right, too. Interesting poem.

http://www.heretical.com/miscella/kipling1.html

[knitter4democracy]

5. I e-mailed this to my dad.

He's not a freeper, but he's pretty darn close. Even he has started questioning things, though. Maybe he'll look into this, as I hardly ever e-mail him.

He used to be a Dem, but Clinton for some reason made him rabidly Republican. I don't get it, personally, but it had something to do with disgust. Even he's starting to not like Bush, though, which means that Bush is in trouble.