Hey People in Atlanta! Check out what your paper printed...

[KarenInMA]

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


Maybe a LTTE is in order?

Dead soldier's mom aids foe with protest

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.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Whoa! That's just not right!

Georgia, get busy! Make this jerk apologize!

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. "[H]er near-treasonous actions"?!

Since when has it been "near-treasonous" to demand presidential accountability? Oh, yeah: ever since Bush took office. During the Clinton administration, it was "near-treasonous" NOT to challenge the President at every possible moment.

[rock]

6. Her near-treasonous actions

What an interesting way for the paper to say, "NOT at all treasonous actions." Sorta like being pregnant.

[CottonBear]

3. Jimmy W. Hall is disgraceful, not Cindy. What a total ass this man is.

Jimmy W. Hall is a writer living in Douglasville

We need to research his background. I'll bet that he's never served in the armed forces otherwise he would've mentioned that fact in his letter.
:grr: :( :grr: :( :grr:

[EST]

9. I googled him and found more "Halls" and "James Halls"

in and around Douglasville than you can shake a stick at. By the picture, he appears to be VietNam-era. Anybody (even I,) can call itself a writer.
No great accemplishments that I have found, so far; typical ltte Freeper.
Pop up like mushrooms around a cow pattie.

[Missy M]

4. This man makes my blood boil.......

and he is a slime bag of the highest degree. How dare he talk of Cindy Sheehan in this way using the same old rhetoric about "supporting the enemy". I am against violence but I would punch him in the nose if I could.

[RubyDuby in GA]

5. I work two blocks from their offices

I'm on my way over there right now! This will not stand!
Asshats!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bos1]

7. this is up there

or down there I should say with when Fox's O'Reilly insulted the guy whose father died in the WTC, saying his father would be ashamed that the son opposed the war. How do people get off in speaking for the dead against the dead's own relatives? How can you presume to say what the dead person would have thought, over the family member who lived with him? And how can you dare to say such a thing? This hack has a Sheehan slap in the face coming.

[PeachyDem88]

8. What a bastard...

"My heart aches for this man's memory..."

Sure it does, Jimmy. Sure it does.

:puke:

I'll write them.

[EST]

10. Gotta' have a heart, right?

No, come to think of it, phantom pain is pretty common...

[RubyDuby in GA]

11. Update: went to their offices

What a bunch of candy ass pussies.
They wouldn't see me, but the woman at the desk told me they thank me for being a reader.

Asshats.

[CottonBear]

12. Thanks RubyDuby.

We should challenge him to a duel! (But first, a refresher course in fencing is in order!)

[RubyDuby in GA]

13. Ha! Or just wait until they're on their way to their cars

They park on Cone St. and one day I had Jim Wootton in a crosswalk right in front of me. I seriously thought about taking one for the team and running him down! I regret that I didn't at least clip him that day.

[CottonBear]

14. Oh man, I really hate Jim Wooten. Mr. Thinking Right my ass.

He's Mr. Thinking Wrong. What a jerk. :(

[kbm8795]

15. I hope one of you demands that the AJC

print an op-ed column taking this doofus to task. And you should start it off by asking why this man thinks anyone believes he feels badly about anyone dying, since death and violence is all neocons think about. . .

[BooScout]

16. As of press time today.....

The AJC had received more than 50 responses to this OP/ED........NOT ONE agreed with Jimmy Hall.

Those of you blaming the AJC for this should understand that it was an OP/ED piece and not their position on the issue. I have no problem with them printing this asshole's opinion.........it just proves how utterly ignorant Bush supporters are regarding what Democracy really means.

If Mr Hall thinks the War in Iraq is such a noble fucking cause he needs to get himself down to the nearest recruiting station and sign up.............but he won't do that because he's a coward.......hiding behind a poison pen.

[KarenInMA]

17. Good Job Georgia.

I'm still steamed about the UNFAIR ticket I got in Valldosta (sp?), but thanks for SMACKING this guy down!!

:bounce: :yourock: