Smearing Cindy Sheehan

[steve2470]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/13/sheehan/

Conservatives are attacking her as a dupe of the left who’s exploiting her dead son. Some relatives have piled on too. But the grieving mother says her well-timed Crawford visit is "my idea, my mission, my vision."

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By Farhad Manjoo



Aug. 13, 2005 | August was supposed to have been a quiet month for George W. Bush. Last year, the president cut short his customary weekslong vacation in order to campaign for reelection, so this year, unencumbered, he'd planned to spend more than a month in the sweltering heat of his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Then, last week, Cindy Sheehan, a grieving Northern California woman whose son was killed in Baghdad, Iraq in April 2004, showed up on Bush's vacation doorstep. She refuses to leave until Bush meets her in person. Nothing's been quiet in Crawford ever since.

It wouldn't be quite right to say that Sheehan's stand has vaulted the war back to the forefront of the national consciousness. Fresh horrors in Iraq daily are enough for that. But Sheehan is clearly forcing Bush to personally and publicly confront the consequences of his choices. And she's forcing reporters to pay attention, too. On Thursday, Bush was asked to respond to Sheehan's protest. "I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan," Bush said. "She feels strongly about her position. She has every right in the world to say what she believes. This is America." But Bush also said that he disagrees with those Americans, like Sheehan, who want U.S. troops to pull out from Iraq. And he didn't suggest he'd be meeting with Sheehan anytime soon, either.


Sheehan insists that she's prepared to wait until Bush changes his mind. Sheehan, a founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, an antiwar group composed of families of troops killed in Iraq, has always been vocal in her opposition to the war. She participated in many rallies during the election last year, and even starred in an anti-Bush ad for MoveOn.org. She says that her late son Casey, a 24-year-old Army specialist who was killed in a rocket attack just two weeks after getting to the battlefield, felt the same way. And just as Casey went to Iraq to do his duty, Cindy Sheehan says she's got to take a stand in Crawford to do hers.

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[Why Syzygy]

1. of course he disagrees

with those Americans. No matter to him that we are of by and for the PEOPLE! .... Pay no mind.

Does the word "worm" mean anything? Personified.

more ~

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8909497/

and this ~

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002439315_mom13.html

[Luminous Animal]

2. Ratbastard Republicans

Ratbastards are connivers, liars, and cheaters. These Elite Republican Ratbastards have nothing to stand in regards to Cindy's positions so they attack her personally and they attack herf associations. McCarthyism is Dead. Long Live McCarthy.

Because DU allows little dissent, many people here are not aware of the intensity of the attack against Cindy. It's brutal and the Ratbastards will win if you don't take initiative and leave this DU bubble now and again to fight them on the front lines. And I'm not talking about real life front lines only, but online frontlines as well.

For a taste of Republican Ratbastard smears you can check this out:
http://www.upsizethis.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22407

[moondust]

3. Soulless screeching from Hell.

Any soul they may have once had was sold long ago to Satan for money and power.

[USA_1]

4. Bush suxx

A listened to a blurb that was presented on Air America Radio last night in which Bush dared to say that Mrs Sheehan "borders on treason". The Usurper is talking like Hitler and it is time for the Democrats to stand up and to demand his impeachment before he causes more political crimes.

[Karenina]

5. The attempt to smear her

has already backfired! The rethugs took a busload to Camp Casey and shouted to a mother who lost her son, "WE DON'T CARE!" That will go down well in every culture worldwide. NOT!!! :evilgrin: