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Quote by: trueheart Mark Steyn puts the events in Crawford in perspective.
It helps to remember that Mrs. Sheehan's son, Casey, was not 5 or 9, and that he volunteered to go in the military; he came home and then volunteered to go back to Iraq two months before his death.
Casey also volunteered for the mission on which he was killed.
His opinion evidently was markedly different from his Mother's.
This weekend a really silly CNN reporter on tried to get her interviewee (unknown to me) to declare that Casey didn't go into the military far war......... "he didn't want war"........ She couldn't have been more wrong.
In this column Mark Steyn points out that Ms. Sheehan also now opposes the toppling of the Taliban from Afghanistan and destroying the terrorists' training camp there.
He believes she's having a public nervous breakdown and that she is being used by the most radical of the Democratic party, while the mainstream party members, for the most part, are staying away.
Full article is here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=6501&page=1 |
I've met Cindy Sheehan, at Crawford. She is a grieving mother who opposed the war before Casey was killed. She is not unbalanced -- that is a lie circulated by the right, which has nothing useful to contribute but knows that Cindy has helped shift the debate against it. She is a dedicated person who was at the right place at the right time. (By the way, I was among the one-hundred-or-so who first marched to and through the ditches with her on August 6.) If you want to single out someone who has gone over the mental edge, I advise you to look at Dubya whenever he makes speeches or other appearances -- I really do believe that the man has become unbalanced, even beyond the ideological nonsense that he has represented since recovering from the drunk tank.
I don't know how Casey felt about the larger issues of the war, but from what I heard, he felt he was doing the right thing to return to Iraq and be with his unit. He did NOT die in vain -- when he died, he was protecting those who were searching for WMDs. Yes, they were searching in vain as a result of Bushista lies, but they were doing their duty in searching, and Casey was doing his duty in protecting them.