You either are able to deal with it appropriately or you are not.

Nice. We’ve gotten to the point where no one bothers to comment on “liberal” rhetoric like that used to tee up the discussion.

Sheehan is most likely a mentally unbalanced woman (or just a liar) whose brave adult son gave his life for his country. There are thousands of such people walking the streets but we are hearing all about Sheehan only because it is a story that will make another few bucks for the “liberal” media conglomerates that “liberals” otherwise disdain. This whole non-event will be forgotten by Labor Day.

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“Through her own words, unreported by either Time or the Times, she makes clear that she has embraced a grotesque ideology that goes far beyond garden-variety Angry Left paranoia–though it includes plenty of that…”

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007110

Absolutely. At this stage, our troops are attempting to protect the fledgling government until their own police forces are strong and well-trained enough to prevent Islamofascist elements from destroying the work America did over these past couple years… eliminating the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, helping to establish a democratic government, etc. I consider this to be a worthwhile effort, but if you don’t, what *would* make our presence in Iraq worthwhile to you? Or do you call for an unequivocal pull-out?

I agree that there are other hotspots in the world. However, we should take responsibility for making sure Iraq can stand on its own feet before we leave, simply because we were the ones to remove their old government. Additionally, we are more concerned about them than other nations with ethnic strife because takeover by Islamofascist elements is a danger there, and Islamofascist elements are our primary concern in combating terrorism at this point in history.

Has Cindy Sheehan been kidnapped, tortured, beaten, due to her outspokeness? Has she been raped? Critized yes.

I can’t fanthom the grief in which this woman feels. However, her son made a definitive and valient choice about his life. He made the decision to serve his nation. He made the decision to put his life on the line for his country and to build a democracy in the part of the world which has only known fear and tirany.

Cindy Sheehan can and will continue to express herself in whatever way she chooses because brave men and women like her son know and understand the supreme sacrifices deemed necessary to ensure a cohesive and enduring democracy.

I hope other parents who supported the war against terror and the liberation of Iraq and have sons and daughters who went to iraq or afghanistan will come forward and also do a “Cindy Sheehan” — but this time, in defense of the reconstruction effort in Iraq and criticize those around Sheehan who are exploiting her to damage our fight against Islamic Terrorism and play dirty politics.

I suggest you go look up the story of Claudette Colvin and the 100s of others who did what Rosa did long before she “did it.”

Time magazine reports that Cindy Sheehan’s family is “imploding”:

Sheehan lost her job at Napa County [Calif.] Health and Human Services because of all her absences, she says. Husband Pat, 52, couldn’t bear having [fallen son] Casey’s things at home and put most of them in storage. “We grieved in totally different ways,” Cindy says. “He wanted to grieve by distracting himself. I wanted to immerse myself.” . . . The couple separated in June.

Daughter Carly, 24, wrote a poem that begins, “Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?” Surviving son Andy, 21, supports his mother in principle but recently sent her a long e-mail imploring her “to come home because you need to support us at home,” he says.

The New York Times reports that Mrs. Sheehan’s politics were the cause of her marital collapse:

She said she and her husband separated a few months ago as a result of the war, and of her activism. Although she and her estranged husband are both Democrats, she said she is more liberal than he is, and now, more radicalized.

The Times doesn’t elaborate on Mrs. Sheehan’s description of herself as “radicalized.” Through her own words, unreported by either Time or the Times, she makes clear that she has embraced a grotesque ideology that goes far beyond garden-variety Angry Left paranoia–though it includes plenty of that, as National Review’s Byron York reported last week:

“This is something that can’t be ignored,” Sheehan said during a conference call with bloggers representing sites like democrats.com, codepink4peace.org, and crooksandliars.com. “They can’t ignore us, and they can’t put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn’t know anything, and we would already be a fascist state.”

“Our government is run by one party, every level,” Sheehan continued, “and the mainstream media is a propaganda tool for the government.” Sheehan also called the 2004 presidential election “the election, quote-unquote, that happened in November.”

Sheehan spoke at an April San Francisco State University rally in support of Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in February of providing material aid to terrorists. Here’s an excerpt:

I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people . . . since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted. I’m going all over the country telling moms: “This country is not worth dying for.” If we’re attacked, we would all go out. We’d all take whatever we had. I’d take my rolling pin and I’d beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq. We might not even have been attacked by Osama bin Laden if 9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through and, if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have. The people are good, the system is morally repugnant. . . .

What they’re saying, too, is like, it’s okay for Israel to have nuclear weapons. But Iran or Syria better not get nuclear weapons. It’s okay for the United States to have nuclear weapons. It’s okay for the countries that we say it’s okay for. We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now. It’s okay for them to have them, but Iran or Syria can’t have them. It’s okay for Israel to occupy Palestine, but it’s–yeah–and it’s okay for Iraq to occupy–I mean, for the United States to occupy Iraq, but it’s not okay for Syria to be in Lebanon.

Earlier in April, at a speech before the United Methodist Church in Venice, Calif., Sheehan likened Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to “Hitler and Stalin” and was particularly lurid in describing her hatred of Rumsfeld’s then-deputy:

As soft-spoken and sincere-sounding as Paul Wolfowitz is, is there yet any sane adult in this country whose skin does not crawl when this murderous liar opens his mouth and speaks?

She concluded: “In their secret hiding places, while celebrating newly won fortunes with their fellow brass, these men must surely congratulate themselves with orgies of carnal pleasure as they mock the multitudes who are yet so blind as to mistake them for God’s devoted servants.”

The mainstream media have largely ignored Sheehan’s crackpot views, and not only–perhaps not even primarily–for ideological reasons. Members of the White House press corps find the annual sojourn to Crawford deathly dull. They need something to do; they want bylines–and “heartbroken everymom” makes for a much more compelling story than “extremist hatemonger.”

The journalists will soon move on, and her political allies may do so as well. For them she is a mere instrument. The White House press corps will discard her as soon as they return to Washington where there’s real news going on. Serious opponents of the war in Iraq will cast her aside if her foul statements make her an embarrassment. When that happens, we can only hope that someone still cares about Cindy Sheehan–not as a story or a symbol, but as a human being.

Rather than making her case against Bush, she just assumes she is right and uses that as a springboard to launch into vituperative attacks on him and anyone within 200 feet of him.

If Sheehan is mean or indecent she says she has a right to be because of her pain. If someone is hard on her she says, “How can you be so mean to a woman who has lost her son??”

Give me a break.

Sheehan has stated that she has a right to say things just about any old way she wants because her son died. Well, she should not be suprised when there is a backlash.

That doesn’t excuse meaness on the right, but it does justify strongly responding to her twisted political views.

It’s about her? That’s like saying Rosa Parks sat on the back of the bus to get attention. And yes, that’s true, but not attention for HERSELF, but attention to the injustice of her time.

And while I think comparisons between Ms. Parks and Ms. Sheehan are exaggerated and inapproprate, the principle is the same. You need to do something dramatic to call attention to the issue. Whether it is pro-life people taping their mouths closed and marching down the street, or Sheehan camping outside the Bush ranch, this is how it is done.

Anyway, it seems that some of you are confusing her method with her message. Or perhaps, avoiding her message.

“But when young Americans are risking their lives, I think the least — the *absolute* least — we can do in return to support them is to continue to ask why they are doing so.”

The least you can then do when that question is answered, over and over and over and over again, is to listen to the answer. If you don’t agree with the answer, that’s fine. But to say that the question is not being answered is a lie.

She does not pass the “smell test.” She is no more a grieving mom than the lady down the street whose sone was executed for murder. Her cause is not just and her actions are actually killing other soldiers let the truth be told. Oh how I would love to be President in situations like this.

As a veteran and a democrat, i think Cindy is doing nothing more than pi**ing on her son’s memory and grave. For all I care, she can rot in that ditch in Crawford, Texas.
Cindy is backed by some of the biggest anti-American groups known in the US. Cindy is an anti-semite.
She is nothing more than a partisan hack who lost a brave, noble and wonderful son and soldier. I bet Casey is rolling over in his grave right now.
God Bless you, Casey. Maybe someday, your mother will let you rest in peace and not use your untimely death as a soap box to further her hatred of Bush and Jews.