THE CRAWFORD CIRCUS

THE CRAWFORD CIRCUS SIDESHOW

The events that have been unfolding down in Crawford, Texas have been taking its toll on my ability to restrain myself. As someone whom has family fighting in Iraq, I can understand Cindy Sheehan’s grief. However, her actions have overshadowed the base of her anger, the death of her heroic son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan. If you did not know his name, branch of the military he served, or his rank, you are not alone. Because now it is all about Cindy, rarely is her son Casey mentioned anymore. Her son Casey obviously did not have the same feelings about the war as his mother. He reenlisted during the war.

Ms. Sheehan has been demanding to speak with Pres. Bush and has vowed to stay in Crawford until she does, or he leaves. The kicker here is that Ms. Sheehan has already talked to Pres. Bush; she even kissed him on the cheek.



In her meeting with the President in June 2004, Ms. Sheehan said,

“We have a lot of respect for the office of the president, and I have a new respect for him because he was sincere and he didn't have to take the time to meet with us.”

“I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis," Cindy said after their meeting. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith."

"That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together."

August 7, 2005, Ms. Sheehan gave a dramatically different account of what happened to CNN.

It was -- you know, there was a lot of things said. We wanted to use the time for him to know that he killed an indispensable part of our family and humanity. And we wanted him to look at the pictures of Casey.

He wouldn't look at the pictures of Casey. He didn't even know Casey's name. He came in the room and the very first thing he said is, "So who are we honoring here?" He didn't even know Casey's name. He didn't want to hear it. He didn't want to hear anything about Casey. He wouldn't even call him "him" or "he." He called him "your loved one."

Every time we tried to talk about Casey and how much we missed him, he would change the subject. And he acted like it was a party.

Now we come to some more Cindy Sheehan quotes, which are completely irrelevant to her son’s sacrifice.

“You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism.”

What?! Since when was Palestine a country? Her quote should be, “Get the Palestinians out of Israel.” Israel was stuck with the Palestinians after the Six-days War when Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt, Jordan, & Syria after these countries began a military build-up at Israel’s border. The Arab countries surrendered in Six days. Israel gave all the land back to the respective countries after the surrender, but none of them wanted “Palestine”.

Here is a follow-up on that quote.

“Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full well that my son, my family, this nation and this world were betrayed by George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agendas after 9/11. We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy … not for the real reason, because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our middle-eastern foreign policy.”

Ms. Sheehan spews idiotic comments again.

"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!"

Ok, here again Ms. Sheehan has lost all common sense. Usama Bin Laden is the biggest terrorist in the world. Next time we should pay attention to current events.

"They’re a bunch of f****** hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up..."

"If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullsh**, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?" "The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war." "We want our country back and, if we have to impeach everybody from George Bush down to the person who picks up dog sh** in Washington, we will impeach all those people."

All the while Ms. Sheehan is in Crawford, she has children without a mother, and a husband without a wife. Ms. Sheehan has embarrassed her family so much that her parents issued a press release to the Drudge Report.

The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.

Sincerely,

Casey Sheehan's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.

To top it off, after 28 years of marriage, Ms. Sheehan’s husband has filed for divorce. Ms. Sheehan already lost a son, now she is losing the rest of her family because of her actions. The sad part of this is that Ms. Sheehan has become nothing more than a circus monkey for the lunatic left. They keep pushing and pushing her to say something more outrageous than the last statement. They do not care about her family or even her son. Most of the far-left think our military are terrorists and deserve to die. They want us to lose the War on Terror. Just check out democraticunderground.com or dailykos.com and read the posts.