"Dead soldier's mom aids foe with protest" WARNING- ANGRY

[KarenInMA]

By JIMMY W. HALL
Published on: 08/11/05

Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. Now, to add insult to death, his mother is embarrassing herself and his memory by protesting the Iraq occupation near the ranch of President Bush, her deceased son's commander in chief.

My heart aches for this man's memory and what his mother is doing to lessen it following his death.

Cindy Sheehan evidently thinks little of her deceased son, his sacrifice or of those left to do the noble work in his absence. How could she? Is the proper answer to her bitterness really to belittle and undermine public support for the efforts of those still serving?

The insurgents were Casey's enemy. The president of the United States is his mother's. What is wrong with this picture? Would he be proud of her near-treasonous actions? Hardly.

This woman is a representative example of typical, illogical anti-war activists. She thinks Bush, not the terrorists, killed her son. She supports those who killed Casey by wanting to pull out and let them kill more innocent people, unhindered. The lady is on the wrong team. She's disgraceful.

If Sheehan wants to continue to make a fool out of herself, I suppose that is her business as a free American. Her son and our brave troops have given her even the right to orderly protest against the very actions providing the freedom that allows her to speak out.

My suggestion to her, however, is that she think about the lives of those still in Iraq. Undermining public support for our efforts in Iraq helps the enemy, her son's murderers. They love people like her, but hate those like her heroic son.

We all can feel bad for the loss Sheehan has experienced. But it is unthinkable that anyone with a child or relative in Iraq should make statements such as she has. Sheehan has said, "I want to ask the president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?'"

Imagine having had a loved one thousands of miles away in harm's way, and being so disinterested in what he was doing before his death that you did not even know why he was there. She obviously didn't care about the occupation while he was alive; why now? I don't get it.

I suppose I should be more understanding in this matter, yet I am not. Thousands of other mothers have sons and daughters overseas, and I am unwilling to let this particular woman do and say things, unhindered, that might lessen their chances of ever returning home safely. The relatives of those in Iraq, and of those who have perished there, should explain a thing or two to this woman. It is disgraceful to support the enemy, especially when they killed your son.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0805/11edmother.html

[peace frog]

1. I'd love to hear Cindy's response

to this pompous jackass know-it-all. PUTZ.

[Wickerman]

2. Its "unthinkable" to ask "What did my son die for"?

Perhaps in the author's dream homeland of Nazi Germany but not in the USofA that I know, love and proudly spent 6 years in service of.

Her son died to protect her RIGHT to stand up and ask just those very questions.

[AlinPA]

12. Casey died for a lie. Casey died so Bush** could get re-elected.

It was in Rove's "battle plan" for the election; have a war and people will vote for the "Commander - In- Chief".

[deutsey]

3. Conveniently overlooks the Downing Street Memos

Minor detail in possibly explaining why the fuck Sheehan is angry with Bush and the lies he told that killed her son.

Fuck you, Jimmy W. Hall.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. Jimmy...you ignorant, raving POS.

Casey Sheehan joined the service to be a CHAPLAIN.

No one is an enemy to a chaplain. They do their best to provide comfort and succor to everyone.

Instead he was made a HUMVEE mechanic. He DIED for a LIE, and he was lied to, as was his mother. How DARE you question anything this woman is doing.

I think he WOULD be proud of his mother's activity. I know I would be if she were MY mother. The fact that you and hundreds of others just like you PRESUME to know ANYTHING about this son (whom you've never met), and who this woman nursed and raised is FUCKING DISGRACEFUL!

And "disinterested in what he was doing?" Do you fucking HEAR yourself? His own mother? If I could punch you for saying that I would. How DARE you, sir?

Bush sent her son to fight an illogical war. But you are STILL too stupid and too blind to realize it.

:eyes:

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Send it on it.. including title!

[Imagevision]

5. KarenInMA? - countless millions support Ms. Sheehan even in Iraq!!

LINK: Mother's Protest at Bush's Doorstep Raises the Stakes
CRAWFORD, Texas — For more than a year, a modest bungalow known as "Peace House," located a few miles from President Bush's ranch, has served as a headquarters for antiwar activists.
http://www.iraqdaily.com/

[KarenInMA]

6. um..I know.

I was posting this so those of you that live in Atlanta can write a response.

I'm actually going to cross post this in the GA section..

[Bellamia]

13. Hey, its O.K. KarenInMA.........

It is, after all, just another point of view. Stupid and unfeeling, but then, hey, some Murkins aren't any smarter than the Craven Coward in Texas.

[GOPFighter]

8. Jimmy?

If you still support our Commader in Chief after all the lies he's told, contact me, I've got a bridge for sale...

[Midlodemocrat]

9. Wonder if Jimmy boy is planning to enlist?

Or send his kids? What a POS.

[revree]

10. THE ENEMY DID NOT KILL HER SON. BUSH DID

My god, are we living in an alternate reality or what?
Nothing makes sense to me anymore.

[SemperEadem]

11. I take it that Jimmy a) has never served

and b)doesn't have children.

He does not have the authority or credibility to speak about what Ms. Sheehan is or isn't doing to the memory of the son SHE gave birth to, watched grow up and watched get on a plane to leave the US--never to return alive.

Until he has, he needs to STFU.

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. "her near-treasonous actions"

That says it all right there. A citizen's right to protest is 'near-treasonous' in this guy's eyes.

The hyperbole is really getting old. They need some new material.

[rumpel]

15. quite notable that all "supporters" ignore the fact that this war is based

on lies, with mounting evidence of an illegal war launched by this PNAC administration.