Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Cindy Sheehan calls it quits?
Cindy Sheehan has quit the anti-war movement. She posted a resignation letter on Daily Kos renouncing her position as “the face of the American anti-war movement”. She blamed this decision on negative criticism made by members of Democratic Underground, a liberal website dedicated to progressive ideals. Some of the members of Democratic Underground were participating in a discussion on a forum referring to Sheehan as an “attention whore”.
Evidently she took exception to this.
I think it’s strange that she would respond to the charge that she’s an attention whore by going out of her way to bring yet even more attention to herself. Worse, she chose to issue this ridiculous resignation letter on Memorial Day. It’s the one day a year that is supposed to be about honoring those in the military that have paid the ultimate sacrifice. People like her son, Casey.
Casey didn’t “die for nothing” as Cindy Sheehan likes to say. He died going to the aid of his fellow soldiers. This is from the blog BLACKFIVE:
Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment were ambushed with RPGs and pinned down and dying. While fighting off an attack himself, the Commander of the 2/5th, LTC Volesky, called for help. A Quick Reaction Force (QRF) was formed of volunteers - their mission was to go out and rescue the American troops.
Casey Sheehan’s Sergeant asked for volunteers. Sheehan had just returned from Mass. After Sheehan volunteered once, the Sergeant asked Sheehan again if he wanted to go on the mission. According to many reports (and according to his own mother), Casey responded, “Where my Chief goes, I go.”
The QRF was launched. Not long after entering the Mahdi area, the QRF was channeled onto a dead-end street where the roofs were lined with snipers, RPGs, and even some militia throwing burning tires onto the vehicles. The Mahdi blocked the exit and let loose with everything they had.
Sheehan’s vehicle was hit with multiple RPGs and automatic-weapons fire.
Specialist Casey Sheehan and Corporal Forest J. Jostes were killed.
Casey was killed doing a truly heroic thing. He deserves to be honored. What he doesn’t deserve is to have his mother go around telling everyone that her son died for nothing.
Tell that to the soldiers he volunteered to help that tragic day. Tell that to their families.
Memorial Day should be about Casey Sheehan and people like him, not Cindy Sheehan. She’s has 364 days a year to bring attention to herself. Memorial Day ain’t one of them.
It’s not as though I believe she is actually going away. I would be very surprised if this was the last any of us ever heard from Cindy Sheehan. I think she likes attention too much to just walk away.
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People like Ms. Sheehan are so tiresome, no matter what their politics, left or right. I wonder what her son would say at her bandying his name about in support of her cause. It would seem to me that it was probably not his cause as well.
It reminds me of how Presidente Bush tried to claim the suffering of 9/11 by having his picture taken at the smoldering remains. I could just imagine his handlers telling him, “We need to get their while the smoke is still rising.”
Making tragedies political, on either side of the political divide, is disgusting, despicable, and just plain wrong.
“I would be very surprised if this was the last any of us ever heard from Cindy Sheehan. I think she likes attention too much to just walk away.”
Oh, she’ll be back. The only thing surpassing her hatred for Bush is her narcissism.