More on Cindy Sheehan

a commenter to my post yesterday...

I can not believe this selfish coward moron can say that she is the face of America; anti or pro war! All she is is a women who had nothing and found fame through her brave son's death. He should be recognized and acknowledged not this idiot! She has the balls to say she is the "voice" believe me Ciny you ARE NOT! Especially, not the voice of military moms! You got played by the ones you thought were backing you and now you feel consumed...give me a break! You were a bad mother, but tried to come off as a good one. Your son died to give you the freedom to do all that you have done the last 4-5 years! You should thank him! Please leave and never come back because not only do you not love this country we do not love you!

without calling out the spelling, grammatical and gender errors, this is my response...

clearly you are entitled to whatever opinion you would like about cindy sheehan the person, and i am not qualified to make any claims about her personal motives either in support or rebuttal... i do think, however, that you miss the entire point...

cindy sheehan, like her or hate her, made an indelible impact on the national discussion about iraq... after she so forcefully commandeered the national stage, it was no longer possible to sit back and cluck our tongues over troop casualties... as a nation, we had to face the brutal fact that our sons and daughters were dying in a war that was begun on a series of lies, lies that our troops continue to die for to this day...

i don't know cindy sheehan and i doubt if i will ever know cindy sheehan... in fact, i'm reasonably sure i don't WANT to know cindy sheehan... however, i totally respect her for what she's done, and what she's done stands regardless of her personal motivations for doing it... moreover, my respect for our president, never much above zero at the best of times, completely and totally evaporated over his refusal to even meet with her... such a meeting, in fact, despite all the spin to the contrary, would have allowed george to don a human face for a change and might just have convinced a few who, like me, are convinced that he is nothing but a poor quality, audioanimatronic facsimile of a human being, who is trotted out whenever the real rulers of our country need someone to play the president... whatever else you can say about cindy sheehan, she never presented herself as less than human...

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