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Old 11-23-2006, 07:54 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Cindy Sheehan: Another Open Letter to George
November 10, 2006 at 14:04:28

Cindy Sheehan: Another Open Letter to George

by Cindy Sheehan

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First of all, I would have given anything to be a fly on the wall on November 8th, when we all knew fairly early that the Democrats had taken back the House of Representatives. I would also have loved to be in the room when Senator George Allen conceded and the Senate was lost. I hope you realize that your demented policies and miserably failed leadership style is responsible for the thumping that your party took this week. Even though I couldn't be a secret first hand witness to your political demise, it was good to be in front of your soon-to-be-vacated premises in DC.

On November 4th, 2004, after you stole yet another election, I wrote an open letter to you promising that I would use every last ounce of strength that I had to see you held accountable for the death of my son and for all of the gratuitous bloodshed that you have foisted on humanity since you have been president.

As committed as I am to bringing the troops home, I am as much committed to seeing you investigated, impeached, ejected from office, and imprisoned in the same cell with Saddam for crimes against humanity. After all, you yourself, have said over and over again that the troops aren't leaving Iraq alone while you are in office...so get out of office so our young people can come home. A recent MSNBC poll said that 86% of their viewers are in favor of putting you on trial, George. 86% is exactly the same percentage of Iraqis who want our troops to leave their Bush-torn country.

Americans (you remember us, don't you?), turned out in huge numbers the other day to hold you accountable. You had yourself another accountability moment there, and you lost, didn't you? We Americans did not vote to retain the Republican status quo of murder, mayhem, and oppression. We voted to change politics as usual in this country. We voted against you and your wars of terror. We voted against you and your spies. We voted against you and your torturers. We voted against you and your definition of freedom as something that can be spread by bombing a country into oblivion. We voted against you and your definition of peace as something that can be spread by violence. We voted against you and your definition of security while your state sanctioned terrorism is creating more terrorists. We voted against you and your most atrocious and abominable exploitation of the right to life to continue your genocidal policies in Iraq.

We the people have a mandate for change. If you think that we are going to squander our mandate and permit you to slide away into obscurity in Crawford, as a footnote as the worst president in US history, to lick your wounded pride and count your stacks of ill-gotten gains, you are wrong. You are not escaping punishment as other war criminal presidents have in our past. No matter if you and Rep. Pelosi become best buddies and take tea regularly in the oval office, we the people with our mandate are not going to allow you to get off scott-free.

After the 110th Democratic Congress is sworn in, we the people with all the power, will be out in force in the halls and offices of our elected officials to make sure that our mandate for change is carried out. Gone are the days when we will permit our elected officials to bow before the special interests and allow the war machine to run our country. Here are the days where we the people with the mandate will enforce our mandate.

We are also going to enforce our mandate for change to insure that you do not invade another country, in our names, that is no threat to the USA. We will not allow any more war for the war profiteers.

George, you and your buddy, Karl, frightened us into thinking that we needed you to protect us. We are not afraid anymore, George, but you should be very afraid. A sleeping giant has been awakened and we are starving for justice and peace. I hope your successors remember who employs them and who has the real power in the country, because you forgot and it is going to cost you your job and your nice life in Central Texas, or Paraguay...wherever you thought you were going to retire in infamy to.

George, you said that you have been to rodeos before. I am not so sure what you meant. A rodeo is filled with real cowboys and bucking broncos. You are a fake cowboy who is about to be thrown from the horse that you have been illegitimately and incompetently riding for almost six years now. Enjoy the rest of the ride while you can, George. Pad your seat, things are going to get even bumpier for you!

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Old 11-23-2006, 11:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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So what is this supposed to mean - other than that Cindy Sheehan has lost her mind?
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You know one of these days, Ms Sheehan is going to have to explain why her son, who she values so much, re-enlisted while in Iraq. That is the one little stumbling block in her facade. She is against this war, yet the very son she mourns, supported it and showed his support by re-enlisting. That has got to be a tough one to explain away Cindy.

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You know one of these days, Ms Sheehan is going to have to explain why her son, who she values so much, re-enlisted while in Iraq. That is the one little stumbling block in her facade. She is against this war, yet the very son she mourns, supported it and showed his support by re-enlisting. That has got to be a tough one to explain away Cindy.

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Sarge, The point of this post is to compare Cindy Sheehan's views to alias' post of Ann Coulter's opinion(what can I do....). They are exactly the same, just with opposing veiws. Anyone with radical values is bias. Thus, this post.
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Old 11-24-2006, 02:42 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Are people still listening to her? Okay, she lost her son -- my sympathies. But, when she is openly supporting deserters, and hanging out with Hugo Chavez, I'm not going to listen to a fucking thing she has to say. She's a media whore.
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Sarge, The point of this post is to compare Cindy Sheehan's views to alias' post of Ann Coulter's opinion(what can I do....). They are exactly the same, just with opposing veiws. Anyone with radical values is bias. Thus, this post.
Whoa there. What is the wide wide world of sports does Cindy Sheehan's mad lunatic rantings have anything to do with the Ann Coulter post about Muslims praying to Allah like the hijackers did on 09/11 and scaring the hell out of people? Please explain that one to me.
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Whoa there. What is the wide wide world of sports does Cindy Sheehan's mad lunatic rantings have anything to do with the Ann Coulter post about Muslims praying to Allah like the hijackers did on 09/11 and scaring the hell out of people? Please explain that one to me.
First of all, Cindy Sheehan does write fictious events(like the full page thank you notes that Ann Coulter post claims were taken out, and never were) to back her claims. Nor does she write things that are obviously hateful Muslim bashing. I use this example because every time someone mentions Cindy Sheehan it is about how her every word is 'mad lunatic rantings'. Lunatics start trouble in this world and that is exactly what anyone who rates a whole religious group as potentionally terroristic is doing. People like her just make this world more paranoid. The reason people are scared is because of people just like her(and I hate to say it, but you too, sometimes). They are both extremists, just on the opposite end of the scale.
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Are people still listening to her? Okay, she lost her son -- my sympathies. But, when she is openly supporting deserters, and hanging out with Hugo Chavez, I'm not going to listen to a fucking thing she has to say. She's a media whore.
Come on! Think about it. If she's obsessed with popularity and the media, supporting deserters and openly supporting Hugo Chavez would be some of the last things she would do. I highly doubt she thinks appearing radical and crazy is the best popularity poll booster.

She's an activist, and she's going on as if no weariness or insult could quench the fire that burns in her; she thinks she's fighting for justice for the death of her son. Whether or not Bush is responsible for the deaths of the American soldiers and the Iraqi citizens is a different debate. You guys want to play the game of analysis of this woman, so what matters here is that she believes that. She isn't insane or drunk with attention, she's just fighting for justice. If you genuinely thought that one of the people responsible for one of your close loved one's death was getting away with it, you would keep fighting too; perhaps even to the point of appearing radical.
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Come on! Think about it. If she's obsessed with popularity and the media, supporting deserters and openly supporting Hugo Chavez would be some of the last things she would do. I highly doubt she thinks appearing radical and crazy is the best popularity poll booster.

She's an activist, and she's going on as if no weariness or insult could quench the fire that burns in her; she thinks she's fighting for justice for the death of her son. Whether or not Bush is responsible for the deaths of the American soldiers and the Iraqi citizens is a different debate. You guys want to play the game of analysis of this woman, so what matters here is that she believes that. She isn't insane or drunk with attention, she's just fighting for justice. If you genuinely thought that one of the people responsible for one of your close loved one's death, you would keep fighting too; perhaps even to the point of appearing radical.
All good points!
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First of all, Cindy Sheehan does write fictious events(like the full page thank you notes that Ann Coulter post claims were taken out, and never were) to back her claims. Nor does she write things that are obviously hateful Muslim bashing. I use this example because every time someone mentions Cindy Sheehan it is about how her every word is 'mad lunatic rantings'. Lunatics start trouble in this world and that is exactly what anyone who rates a whole religious group as potentionally terroristic is doing. People like her just make this world more paranoid. The reason people are scared is because of people just like her(and I hate to say it, but you too, sometimes). They are both extremists, just on the opposite end of the scale.
Are the reporters who reported the event scaring people also? Are you going to accuse the reporters and the airlines of scaring people needlessley?

The reason people are scared is because of islamofacism. Maybe if those reporters who are scaring people every day by reporting what is happening would just quit reporting, then nobody would be scared. Yeah, that's it. Sounds like you have really thought about this a lot.
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