She speaks nothing but madwoman: Cindy’s PR Campaign won’t help the trainwreck

IMO, this Cindy Sheehan thing is turning out to be a trainwreck for the anti-war people, but they’re living in such intense denial that they can’t even see it.

Cindy, the War in Iraq, and Dissent in a Time of War

The malicious campaign of the left to attack the war to liberate Iraq as a war “based on lies” is in effect a psychological warfare campaign conducted against this country and its men and women in arms. Its aim is to sap the will of America to fight its enemies in Iraq – and not only in Iraq. If Mrs. Sheehan and the left are successful in their seditious effort to force an American surrender to the terrorists Iraq, we will be forced to fight them in our own country, in which case tens of thousands of Americans may die, and Mr. Swanson and Mrs. Sheehan will be among those responsible.

-David Horowitz

Transcript of Cindy Sheehan’s speech at San Francisco State University

First, I want to give my little story about Lynne. Of course, you all have read To Kill a Mockingbird. Lynne is my human Atticus Finch. He did what he knew was right, but wasn’t popular. And that’s what Lynne is doing. {applause}

We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We’re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush. {applause}

-Cindy Sheehan

If you are wondering who this person is that she’s speaking of in glowing terms, it’s Lynne Stewart, the radical attorney who was indicted by Attorney General John Ashcroft for enabling her client, the terrorist Sheik, Omar Abdul Rahman, to carry out his murderous agendas while in prison by helping him to communicate with his terrorist organization in Egypt. Rahman was the spiritual leader of a cell that carried out the first World Trade Center bombing and was planning to blow up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. Stewart was recruited to the Rahman case by Lyndon Johnson’s Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, who has a long history of anti-American causes dating back to the Vietnam War.

Ramsey Clark is the founder of the International Action Committee (IAC), a pro-Saddam, pro-Milosevic organization that regards America as the world’s leading and most threatening terrorist state. In a previous article about the “peace” organization A.N.S.W.E.R (March 29, 2002), Michael Tremoglie noted IAC’s interlinking directorate with the Workers World Party (WWP), a Stalinist organization which was created in 1959 as a splinter of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. In that year, WWP leader Sam Marcy and his comrades supported the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution which had sought unsuccessfully to break free from the Soviet empire. WWP cadres staff the IAC offices and share political platforms. For example, WWP leaders spoke at an IAC rally in 1995 condemning Republicans generally and The Contract with America, specifically. Among them was Gavrielle Gemma, who is credited with recruiting Clark to the IAC.

In direct defiance of a Justice Department order, Stewart used her role as the sheik’s counsel to enable him to communicate with his terrorist followers in Egypt, specifically to break a truce between violent factions. The Justice Department promptly indicted Stewart for providing material support to terrorist organizations.

These are the people who Cindy Sheehan supports in the War on Terror; the very people who killed her son; the enemy.

Cindy Sheehan Desecrates Her Son’s Grave

Current war-protesters have all the intellectual prowess of a bird flying north for the winter and their moronic fumbling illustrates how they just don’t make anti-war activists like they used to. Rallying behind Cindy Sheehan as the face of today’s anti-war movement demonstrates a myopic strategy of cataclysmic proportions. Lesson one when choosing a figurehead for any cause is first to ensure that she’s not currently engaged in a separate and easily defined act of perfidy against a professed loved one – in this case, her killed son on whose behalf she supposedly speaks. In short, she’s using her son’s death to advance the very cause against which he stood. Casey Sheehan re-enlisted five months into the Iraqi War and eventually chose to participate in the very battle that would take his irreplaceable life because he believed in the effort. It would have been equally disrespectful for her to use him as a prop to support the war had he died on the battlefield not believing in the effort. It’s not so much a question of “pro-war vs. anti-war” as it is a question of whether or not anyone has the moral right to defile a son’s legacy by using his name in opposition to that legacy – whatever it might be. To the anti-war movement I would advise the following, choose another leader, this lady just makes you want to take a shower.

-Alan Nathan

The Cindy Sheehan Bandwagon

Mrs. Sheehan has made a splash with the far Left and in the MSM.

Her tenacity is impressive. But the dishonesty and disingenuousness of her benefactors and cheerleaders is intolerable. David Brock’s Media Matters and others, for example, have attacked Bill O’Reilly and me for “lying” and “smearing” Mrs. Sheehan, when any sane person can see that’s not the case.

-Michelle Malkin

What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants

When are the bureau chiefs of our newspapers and networks going to snap out of their own vacation-induced trances and send some grown-up correspondents down to Crawford, Texas? For weeks now, Cindy Sheehan has not been asked a single question that is any tougher than “How does it feel?” The media have been acting as her megaphone. After Slate published her real opinions on politics (a weird confection of pacifism with paranoid anti-Zionism) last Monday, she was eventually asked about her statement that her son Casey had been killed in a war for Israel, and she denied ever having made it. So, we must now say that, as well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

After Slate published an extract from a letter that she wrote last March to ABC Nightline, Anderson Cooper of CNN asked her about the anti-Israel remarks the letter contained. She denied making them and proceeded in her blog to assert that someone had gotten hold of her original letter and somehow doctored it. This dark and murky allegation—evincing further paranoia on her part—has been easily and convincingly refuted, as can be seen in this sidebar. Cindy Sheehan, not content with echoing the Bin-Ladenist line that the president is the real “terrorist” and that he is the tool of a Jewish cabal, has dug a pit of falsehood around her own wild story.

-Christopher Hitchens

Cindy Sheehan Blames Bush More Than Iraqi Who Killed her Son

Dear Faiza

Susan put me in touch with you.
My son was killed in Sadr City on 04/04/04. His name was Casey Austin Sheehan. He was killed in the Shi’ite uprising on that day. He was almost 25.

I want to let you know that I am so sorry what our leaders have done to your country. Casey was a peaceful, gentle guy, who joined the Army to protect America and to help people. He didn’t join to be misused by an arrogant administration who are murderers. I don’t blame the Iraqi who killed Casey…I blame Bush and his other followers.

Please keep in touch with me…I think we do need to do peace together. Us Moms in the US need to be in contact and solidarity with you moms in Iraq.

Love and hugs from America
Cindy Sheehan

Protest Mom Changed Her Story on Bush

The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who is holding a roadside peace vigil near President Bush’s ranch — has dramatically changed her account about what happened when she met the commander-in-chief last summer!

Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., who last year praised Bush for bringing her family the “gift of happiness,” took to the nation’s TV outlets this weekend to declare how Bush “killed an indispensable part of our family and humanity.”

-Drudge

Exploiting the Dead

However, the media have ignored two important facts. First, Casey initially signed up in May 2000 and voluntarily re-enlisted in the service in August 2003, knowing he would likely be called into active duty in Iraq. Secondly, as a mechanic in the 1st battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, Casey did not have to go into the battle that claimed his life. When some of his fellow soldiers encountered resistance, he and others in his unit chose to go into combat to save his friends. Cindy Sheehan herself recounted it this way:

[T]he sergeant said, “Sheehan, you don’t have to go,” because my son was a mechanic. And Casey said, “Where my chief goes, I go.”

Where this young man went, tragically, was to an early grave. But his death was an act of patriotism and human compassion, one which should tinge her understandable maternal grief with deep pride.

To deprive this evil empire of a sufficient military, Cindy endorsed the San Francisco citywide measure known as “College Not Combat,” which would encourage the city’s high schools to deny military recruiters access to their student directories, from which they seek military enlistments. The fact that the cause she championed in the name of “the children” would be a violation of section 9528 of the “No Child Left Behind” Act, an infraction punishable by the revocation of federal education funds, did not cause her or her ideological comrades to bat an eye. The “College Not Combat” coalition includes a host of socialist and anti-American organizations, including International ANSWER, Code Pink, the National Lawyers Guild, the International Socialist Organization, Socialist Organizer, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (which hails convicted cop-killers as “political prisoners”), and others. Such left-wing organizers often speak of the need to reduce the number of young people joining the armed forces, in order to frustrate “imperialist” U.S. foreign policy.

-Ben Johnson

Cindy Sheehan Blames Israel For Terrorism

The media’s favorite Gold Star mother is blasting Israel along with the U.S. for being the primary cause of worldwide terrorism.

“You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you’ll stop the terrorism,” Sheehan declared Saturday, in quotes picked up by the Drudge Report. As her protest outside President Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch enters its second week, Sheehan, called for Bush’s impeachment for “war crimes.”

-Newsmax


Commander In Grief

To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush’s Crawford ranch. It’s the strangest method of grieving I’ve seen since Paul Wellstone’s funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

Call me old-fashioned, but a grief-stricken war mother shouldn’t have her own full-time PR flack. After your third profile on “Entertainment Tonight,” you’re no longer a grieving mom; you’re a C-list celebrity trolling for a book deal or a reality show.

-Ann Coulter

Shock and Cindy Sheehan

In addition to demanding time with the President of the United States, arguably a person with a longer To Do list than a mom from Vacaville, California, Sheehan thinks Bush should be impeached and jailed for war crimes. She also thinks that Israel should get “out of Palestine.” She has vowed not to pay taxes, pointing out that she doesn’t “owe [George Bush] a penny.” (How much money does she owe Barbara Boxer? Dennis Kucinich? The single mom who works as a janitor at Housing and Urban Development?)

- Isaiah Z. Sterrett

Soldiers Against Cindy Sheehan

There has been much in the news lately on Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was killed in action. According to a website affiliated with her, her organization is related to Code Pink who has raised money for terrorists and apparently is involved in attacks on military recruitment centers in the US.

Cindy Sheehan is more concerned with beating her foes in America than beating America’s foes in the Middle-East.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

Cindy doesn’t really want to meet with Bush; she’s in it for the momentum.

OLBERMANN: “Last question. It‘s pure politics. The nature of the media coverage you‘re getting now, the response from other families of soldiers killed in Iraq, all of that, from the perspective of your protest there, in a way, isn‘t it really better if President Bush doesn‘t meet with you?”

SHEEHAN: “I would think so, yes. I think it‘s great. And if he would come out right now, it would really defuse the momentum..”

That Old Feeling Again

So now it’s the Cindy Sheehan show that’s got you wrapped around the axle. The gall of President Bush. Refusing to meet with that grieving mother. No wonder she called him “the biggest terrorist in the world.” What kind of country do we live in where the craziest and angriest among us don’t have full access to our commander-in-chief twenty-four hours a day?

Oh, wait. What’s that you say? She’s got a PR agency working for her? And a full time PR assistant? She’s sleeping in a nearby house, not that ditch she’s always chilling out in when she’s on TV?

“This isn’t another one of those Moveon.org stunts is it?” you ask yourself. And that old feeling comes washing over you again.

With each passing day Cindy Sheehan looks less and less like a grieving mother and more and more like a leftwing blogger. First she griped about President Bush’s “illegal” war in Iraq. Then she turned on the Jews in Palestine. Then it was Bush’s “illegal” war in Afghanistan. I sense yet another “Bush is Hitler” rally in the offing. One half expects her to lead off her next morning press briefing with, “I believe it was Michael Moore who once said…”

-Patrick Hynes

My Son Died in Iraq And Cindy Doesn’t Speak For Me

I lost a son in Iraq and Cindy Sheehan does not speak for me.

I grieve with Mrs. Sheehan, for all too well I know the full measure of the agony she is forever going to endure. I honor her son for his service and sacrifice. However, I abhor all that she represents and those who would cast her as the symbol for parents of our fallen soldiers.

-Ronald Griffin

Cindy Sheehan’s Family Pleads: Stop, Cindy!

The family of American soldier Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, has broken its silence and spoken out against his mother Cindy Sheehan’s anti-war vigil against George Bush held outside the president’s Crawford, Texas ranch.

-Drudge

You Don’t Speak for Me Cindy Tour

NEW AD: Pro-Troop Caravan & Rally Counters Cindy Sheehan

Dueling Protests: ‘You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy’

Anti-war protesters aren’t the only ones heading to Crawford, Tex. A group that supports U.S. troops and the war on terrorism has launched a “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy” tour.

-Susan Jones

Backlash! War Moms Attack Cindy Sheehan: Parents of American fighters in Iraq say protester doesn’t speak for them

The continued focus by the nation’s media on Cindy Sheehan, the so-called “Peace Mom” who’s demanding a second meeting with President Bush in the wake of her son’s death, is sparking a backlash from parents of other American servicemen and women in Iraq.

One Texas family of a fallen Marine became so enraged with Sheehan’s use of their son’s name on a protest cross, they drove from the town of Spicewood to Crawford to remove it.

-Joe Kovacs

Radio Equalizer on Air America & Sheehan Caravan

Meanwhile, KSFO/San Francisco talk host Melanie Morgan’s group Move America Forward is organizing a counterevent, to take on Cindy Sheehan’s Crawford circus, that has Rhodes so excited:

Next week Move America Forward will be leading a caravan to Crawford, Texas – to present an alternative voice to that of Cindy Sheehan, who has become the heroine of the “Blame America First” crowd.

The Move America Forward’s caravan (the “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy” tour) will consist of family members who have loved ones fighting in the war against terrorism – stationed in either Iraq or Afghanistan.

-Brian Maloney

You Don’t Speak for Me T-Shirts

Hardball and Melanie Morgan

Move America Forward Chairman, Melanie Morgan, recently appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews to discuss the Cindy Sheehan story. Melanie received an email statement from Cindy’s relatives indicating that they are OPPOSED to what Cindy is doing and feel it is harming their family and dishonoring the ideals of Casey Sheehan.

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RushLimbaugh.com

It’s gotten to the point now where it is common to go on Democrat websites and read about the pleasure it would bring if the president were assassinated. It is now common to read letters to the editors in newspapers which say it would be fun if [Osama] bin Laden actually came over here and slit Bush’s throat, which is what a supporter of Sheehan wrote to a letter of the editor in one of the newspapers in this country. … Do you have any idea how you people are perceived? Do you have the slightest idea how the decent people who make this country work perceive you? It is not with any respect. It is with contempt and it’s with sorrow. But it’s also with this realization: This country, if it is to survive, cannot be turned over to you people to lead and to run, because we will cease to exist as the United States the day that happens, and mark my word. It ain’t going to happen.

-Rush Limbaugh


Cindy Sheehan’s Crowd

It’s easy to see why Cindy Sheehan, the 48-year-old mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, has become the new face of the anti-war movement, featured in a New York Times editorial on Tuesday and a Maureen Dowd column yesterday morning. Camped out in Crawford, Texas, near President Bush’s ranch, she’s a more sympathetic face than a lot of the alternatives. But as sad as Ms. Sheehan’s loss is – and we don’t belittle it – she has put herself in league with some extreme groups and individuals.

For starters, Ms. Sheehan has been posting on Michael Moore’s Web site, writing, “We have such a strong coalition of groups. GSFP, Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and the Crawford Peace House. I talked with John Conyers today and he wrote a letter to George signed by about 18 other Congress members to request that he meet with me. I also talked to Maxine Waters tonight and she is probably going to be here tomorrow.”

It turns out that the Crawford Peace House Web site includes a photo depicting the entire state of Israel as “Palestine,” and it carries a link to a report that when Prime Minister Sharon visited Crawford, the “peace house” greeted him with an “800-foot-long banner containing all of the United Nations resolutions that Israel is in violation of.” The Crawford Peace House site also features a photo of Eugene Bird, who has suggested that Israeli intelligence was responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out all have representatives on the steering committee of United for Peace and Justice, an anti-war umbrella group. They share that distinction with the Communist Party USA. UPJ organized the march during the 2004 Republican Convention in New York, at which a New York Sun poll of 253 of the protesters found that fully 67% of those surveyed said they agreed with the statement “Iraqi attacks on American troops occupying Iraq are legitimate resistance.” In other words, Ms. Sheehan’s “coalition” includes a lot of people who think the persons who killed her son were justified.

-New York Sun Editorial

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14 responses to “She speaks nothing but madwoman: Cindy’s PR Campaign won’t help the trainwreck”

  1. The Wide Awakes » She speaks nothing but madwoman:  Cindy’s PR Campaign Won’t Help the trainwreck

    [...] y die, and Mr. Swanson and Mrs. Sheehan will be among those responsible. -David Horowitz More at CB. Said Cao @ 10:21 am
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  2. Always On Watch

    A comprehensive compilation here. We won’t be seeing anything this exhaustive in the msm.

  3. Rob

    Chuck Hagle, Traitor?

    Chuck said:

    “We should start figuring out how we get out of there,”

    Hagel said “stay the course” is not a policy. “By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq … we’re not winning,” he said.

    “I think our involvement there has destabilized the Middle East. And the longer we stay there, I think the further destabilization will occur.”

    “We’re past that stage now because now we are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar, dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam,” Hagel said. “The longer we stay, the more problems we’re going to have.”

    Sounds leftarded.

  4. NIF

    So, we’ve made it back to Monday …

    Today’s dose of NIF – News, Interesting & Funny …

  5. Ogre

    I think (I’m not sure) that Rob was agreeing with you. It apepars he posted the link to Chuck, who sides with terrorists, and then said that was retarded. Rob, correct me if I’m wrong, there.

  6. Rob

    republicans siding with terrorists!

    Dog’s and Cat’s living together. What’s next.

    Chuck Hagle is a decorated Vietnam Vet with two purple hearts. a republican, and a senator from the conservative state of Nebraska.

    My original post was a feeble attempt at satire.

  7. TJ

    Ogre – that’s how I read it too … “sounds leftarded” rings quite non-moonbat’ish to me!

    Oh, and it is an accurate description of Hagle’s latest batch ‘o lunacy.

    Although an excellent round-up of info, Cao!

    /TJ

  8. SSgt Yatahey

    Cao – a hothead? :mrgreen:

    Once in awhile; but, she’s loveable…:lol:

    John “HANOI FONDA” Skerry is guilty of war crimes and lying to the people – he should be strung up in a tree; shot at sunrise; kicked in the balls; get married to Cindy Sheehan and ran out of America along with:

    * Mister Carlos
    * Michael Moore
    * Stephen Pearcy
    * Ted Rall
    * Theodore Kennedy
    * Frank Church

    Git-R-Done With New Rope!

  9. jcrue

    Hagel’s been spouting this **** for two years….

    He also has changed his position on more or less troops being better for Iraq.

    Not worth the media attention just like Cindy.

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