Iraqis showing solidarity with Cindy Sheehan

[Terran1212]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0922-05.htm

Published on Thursday, September 22, 2005 by the Los Angeles Times
American Mother Has Iraqi Audience
by Borzou Daragahi

BAGHDAD — Khalda Khalaf feels Cindy Sheehan's pain. She's been there, too.

Her 28-year-old son, Majid Khalid Kabi, died in 2004 fighting on the opposite side in the same months-long stretch of clashes between Shiite militiamen and U.S. soldiers in which Spc. Casey Sheehan perished.

"Of course, she's a mother and just like our people are hurting, she's hurting too," says Khalaf, a 52-year-old resident of Sadr City, the east Baghdad slum where Sheehan's son died in April 2004. "Just as she wants America out of Iraq, so do we."

Sheehan, the antiwar mom who is due to lead thousands of demonstrators converging on Washington on Saturday to protest the U.S.-led war, has become a minor celebrity in Iraq as well. The same satellite channels that bring quick, often gruesome coverage of the violence in Iraq to the nation's TV screens also gave regular updates on Sheehan's lengthy vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch.





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[benburch]

1. That popping sound you hear?

Freeper heads exploding!

[hiley]

2. LOL!

:rofl: very good ben

[rinsd]

4. Not really....

...this simply feeds into their Cindy supports the enemy mantra.

"Iraqi mother of son who fought against US agrees with Sheehan" would be the headline.

[benburch]

5. That's what I meant. nt

[rinsd]

6. Whew....flew right over my head I guess ;-) (nt)

[thereismore]

3. aiding the enemy...I can hear O'Really, "leader of the pack" of vultures

[SomewhereOutThere424]

7. It's good though

People may take it as the enemy, but any of them with a brain in their head will start to empathize 'why is our enemy suffering like one of our own american mother of a soldier? Is it possible they have feelings too?'.

You may not think so, but it strikes me along the lines of 'all's quiet on the western front', a movie and book which caused a lot of people's opinion to change about war. Epitomizing that we're causing needless suffering among anyone, and we have no reason to be at war, will be the start of people truly advocating our soldiers returning from war and not just complaining about it in private conversation.