Cindy Sheehan, It’s Time to Stop
I had originally written this post earlier today and saved it as a draft since I wasn’t sure I would actually post it. Since this was written, Reuters has released a story that Cindy’s husband has filed for divorce. Of course her response to the press is that they had decided this before she camped out in Crawford. However, since their son was killed over a year ago, my guess is that she has allowed her grief or her selfish need for attention (I’ll leave it up to you to decide which) completely consume her life. So I find it unlikely that her husband’s decision is totally unrelated.
Interestingly, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I recently finished reading C.S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce” which, if you haven’t read it, is not about divorce (at least, not in the usual sense of the word). There is a very apropos section of the book where we are introduced to a mother that is so consumed with the death of her son, she not only allowed it to destroy her earthly family, she also refused to accept God’s eternal love. Rather than try to explain, I’ll just say read the book. It’s worth the read.
Anyway, the rest of what I wrote is below, unedited. Take from it what you will…
When Cindy Sheehan first hit the news, I admit that I did have some sympathy for her plight. What real human being wouldn’t? The woman lost her son in war. She deserves to grieve.
But as the Bush-hating media has glommed on to exploit her, she has shown her true colors. She has shown that she is a willing participant in her own exploitation. That says to me that, since she is willing to cheapen the death of her own son, she obviously has an agenda. Given what has been pouring out of her mouth, her request to meet with the President isn’t to gain closure or ease her pain. In fact, if Bush did meet with her, it would likely take the wind out of the sails of her real agenda, which is clearly becoming an extremist agenda.
Consider this from IBD this week:
Grief is something to be endured, not exploited. Those who use it to push their agendas end up cheapening it. A mother’s grief becomes just one more emotional lever to manipulate the media and the public. That’s where compassion ends and cynicism properly starts. [read the entire editorial here]
Also consider her recent statement, “You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you’ll stop the terrorism” indicates that she has now somehow become an expert on foreign relations and international diplomacy. Yet to do that would only reinforce the belief among the terrorists that we are weak and without resolve, encouraging further attacks. It is abundantly clear that Sheehan has absolutely no concept of militant fundamentalist Islam. To them, every citizen of the world must either be Muslim or be destroyed. There is NO middle ground.
What I think is the worse than dishonoring the death of her son is that she cheapens the ultimate sacrifice of every soldier who has died in Iraq. She is saying to the parents of every fallen soldier in this war, “My son died in vain and so did yours.” To say you support the troops and then illigitemize their sacrifice is hypocritical.
So the question to me has become, “Has Cindy Sheehan completely lost her sanity due to her pain and grief, or is she truly that selfish that she will allow her self to exploit her son’s death to achieve her 15 minutes of fame?” I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and say that she has lost it. I will submit as evidence the following:
- Claims George Bush killed her son, so she doesn’t owe a penny of 2004 taxes.
- Claims Bush should be impeached and tried for war crimes.
- Her family has issued a letter of NONsupport for her tirade
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This is very well written and a great post. Q.“Has Cindy Sheehan completely lost her sanity due to her pain and grief? A.Grief can make one think they are crazy, and I have wondered if she has gone Insane.
Q.or is she truly that selfish that she will allow her self to exploit her son’s death to achieve her 15 minutes of fame?â€
A. I believe Cindy loves the attention she gets for now, but at what cost. One day she may wake up and realize what it has cost her.
Such as: “Tina Kramer has written into our comments who claims to know the Sheehan family. She also claims to know the exact reasons leading to the separation:
Cindy’s husband had chest pains recently, he called her (she just happened to be in Vacaville Ca at this time) Cindy told him she was busy having lunch at fresh choice and couldnt be bothered. Pat (her husband) goes to the doctor on his own, and is told he has not health insurance due to his loving wife canceling his policy as well as her dauthers policy because she was running out of the 250,000 she got from Casey’s life insurance and needed more money. By canceling their health insurance it saved her 900 dollars a month so she could stay on the road with the anit-war gang.”:Exerpt from Lonestar times http://lonestartimes.com/index.php?p=1347
Also from the same artical ” As Matt Bramanti has cited, the full quote contains something else. Here’s her full statement – the bolded section is what AP omitted: “I told him I would take him to Canada. I told him I would run over him with a car, anything to get him not to go to that immoral war. And he said, ‘Mom, I wish I didn’t have to, but I have to go.”
And yet Cindy Sheehan things that the media is merely the propaganda arm for the government. It’s ridiculous – the media is actually covering up the fact that she would have risked killing her son to keep him out of the war, simply because she believed to be immoral.”
So I think Cindy has a lot to face if she ever come to herself. I an a Military Mom, but I cannot understand this one at all, even though I have tried for a week.
I support our soldiers, our Country and I respect the office of the president. God help her, she is on the wrong road.
Karen
lost two friends in vietnam, THEY DIED FOR NOTHING, 1800 in iraq, DIED FOR NOTHING. saddam was poised to flood europe with cheap oil, his sanctions lifted, europe, russia, china, all would have got cheap oil, then suddenly HE HAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION,NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL, HE IS POISED TO ATTACK US!!!, lies, and those people should now be in JAIL FOR TREASON AND STARTING A ILLEGAL WAR. not one weapon found, not even one. bush is a liar and a murderer, he got those kids killed for oil, plain and simple, wake up.remember also now they “blame” the protesters for any defeat in this illegal war, and say we must “stay the course”,kill more men to avenge the 1800, (who died in vain and for nothing!!!), same old vietnam crap, SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME!!!
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Two of my best friends are in the army. One is two weeks away from going back to Iraq for his second tour. Sure I don’t want him to go, and sure it scares me half to death. But like he told me, this is his job. I dont think some people understand that the armed forces of our country are ment to do things like protect our country and go to war. And the men and women in the armed forces know that there might be a risk of that when they sign up, even if the war might seem pointless. Just like police men and fire fighters know the dangers of there jobs when they do them. So saying that, if anything happeneds to my friend, sure I’ll be upset and my heart will break. But in the long run I will learn to accept it and be proud because he was doing something that he wanted to do. He will die with honnor. I think Cindy Sheehan has every right to be upset, but shes dealing with her grief in the wrong way. Insted of just dealing with the fact that her son is gone, shes just looking for someone to blame and inturn not dealing with it at all. The longer she is out there, the longer it is untill she gets closeur. She has been at this protest for too long and shes in over her head. She doesnt want a war in Iraq, but yet she is causeing a war in our own country.
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