"The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning," peace activist Cindy Sheehan stated yesterday, Memorial Day, "was that [my son] Casey did indeed die for nothing.... Casey died for a country [that] cares more about who will be the next 'American Idol' than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."
Cindy Sheehan: Fuck it!
OK, so that's definitely a paraphrase, but I think that I have described her sentiment accurately.
Cindy Sheehan, in a piece posted on the blog Daily Kos yesterday, announced that she has "resigned" from her "job" as the "face" of the anti-Vietraq War movement.
I don't blame her. While I didn't read her piece on Daily Kos until today, just yesterday I expressed here my exasperation with the United States of America and my fellow Americans as the nation continues to seek new lows to which to sink, such as how the Democrats, who are now in the fucking majority, have given the Vietraq War profiteers the billions and billions more of our tax dollars that BushCheneyCorp has been screaming for. Just like Team Bush threw a tantrum until it "won" the White House in late 2000, Team Bush threw a tantrum until the war profiteers got their billion$ more.
I saw Cindy, a fellow Californian, speak here in Sacramento in early 2005 (I wrote about it at that time), before she became a rock star for the anti-Vietraq War movement when she camped outside of George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, in August 2005, during Bush's vacation.
As one of the few people who comment about Cindy Sheehan who actually has seen her speak -- in a small group, before she became nationally and even internationally known -- I want to say several things about the woman.
First and foremost, I wish that I had just a fraction of the courage and selflessness that Cindy Sheehan has demonstrated. While I just sit here and blog, she has traveled all over the place delivering a message of peace and resistance to the unelected, fascistic Bush regime.
She has been called every name in the book by my "Christian" com"patriots." Frankly, I am surprised that -- and very glad that -- some Bush-loving wingnut never tried to kill her. (You know, in the name of God and/or Jesus and/or Uncle Sam.)
The vicious attacks upon Sheehan, in fact, even by some who claim to be on the left, are yet another reason why I hate the United States of America and Americans, and why I think that the biggest mistake that was made during the Civil War is that we blue-staters let so many of the dumbfuck inbred mouth-breathing red-staters live in order to pass on their defective DNA and that another Civil War -- to finish the job this time -- sure is looking good right about now.
Let's get a few fucking things about Cindy Sheehan straight. Here are the facts:
1. Cindy Sheehan's son Casey was killed in Sadr City in Iraq in April 2004, between the one-year anniversary of the "shock and awe" that Americans treated like the fucking Super Bowl and the one-year anniversary of "mission accomplised." He was 24 years old.
2. Casey Sheehan was in Iraq because the members of the Bush regime sent him there.
3. It is common fucking knowledge, except among those insane Americans such as those who like to establish and visit "museums" that have dinosaurs on Noah's fucking ark, that the members of the Bush regime lied through their fucking fangs about their reasons for launching the Vietraq War, the main faux reason of which was Iraq's supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction that made Iraq a threat at least to its neighbors if not also to even the United States.
It is also common fucking knowledge that Saddam Hussein had had no demonstrated ties with al-Qaeda whatsoever before 9/11, and that not a single one of the 19 9/11 hijackers was from Iraq (15 of the hijackers were, in fact, from Saudi Arabia), nor has any Iraqi been demonstrated to have participated in the plotting for 9/11.
4. It is painfully evident that, more than four years after "mission accomplished," more than four years after the rose-petal-strewn cakewalk that the Bush regime had promised would materialize in Iraq never materialized, no one has benefited from the Vietraq War except for Dick Cheney's Halliburton and the other war-profiteering subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp (and perhaps some turncoat Iraqis who have sold their own people out to the Bush regime for their own selfish personal gain).
5. Therefore, Casey Sheehan died in April 2004 not protecting anyone from Iraq's "threat" to anyone, or defending democracy and freedom and God and Jesus and puppies and kittens, but died primarily for the benefit of the war profiteers in Vietraq. (Cindy says that Casey died for nothing, but the war profiteers probably don't see it that way.)
6. Therefore, Cindy Sheehan has had every reason to do what she has done, and those who have attacked her are un-American pieces of shit who, if they think the Vietraq War is so fucking noble, should get onto the next plane to Vietraq right now -- and take their families with them, too. You know, to fight for democracy and freedom and God and Jesus and puppies and kittens.
Cindy Sheehan's reasons for doing what she has done aren't opinion. They are based on facts. Contrary to what the fascistic FOX "News" would have us believe, fact is not subject to opinion.
Casey Sheehan died in Vietraq for noble causes or he died for the Vietraq war profiteers. As Iraq is in no better shape now than it was more than four years ago when the "mission [was] accomplished" -- in fact, the Iraqis were better off under Saddam Hussein -- and as only the war profiteers have benefited from the Vietraq War, it is a fact to say that Casey Sheehan died in Vietraq for the profits of the war profiteers, because the profits of the war profiteers is all that has come out of Iraq (besides more than 3,450 body bags filled with the corpses of our young people, of course).
These are the facts. You don't have to like the facts, and you can put your fingers in your ears and proclaim: "La la la la la la la la -- I'm not listening!"
But the facts are the facts.
You can build your fucking museum and put fucking dinosaurs on Noah's fucking ark because you want your cake and eat it, too, because you want to hold on to your biblical mythology like a child clinging to his or her security blanket but you also don't want to look like the fucking troglodyte that you are for believing such pap. That doesn't make it a fucking fact that there were fucking dinosaurs on Noah's fucking ark.
You can tell yourself that the Vietraq War has been a just war and that our 3,450-plus troops who have been slaughtered thus far in Vietraq died for freedom and democracy and God and Jesus and puppies and kittens and all that is just and good in the universe.
You might have a psychological need to believe this because the cognitive dissonance created by the members of the Bush regime, proclaiming how much they wuv our troops, absolutely refusing to remove our troops from harm's way in Vietraq as long as there is still some more war profiteering to do, is just too much for your pea-sized brain to handle.
You might believe in Uncle Sam just like you believe in God and Jesus and just like you used to believe in Santa Claus, and just like Santa Claus and God and Jesus, Uncle Sam can do no wrong.
That's fine. But those are your delusions, and our troops are still dying in Vietraq so that you can hold onto your fucking childish delusions. And your fucking "Support/Pray for Our Troops" magnet on your gas-guzzling SUV doesn't do a fucking thing to help our troops, you worthless piece of shit; such hollow gestures only allow you to delude yourself and to try to delude others that you actually give a flying fuck about our troops when the fact is that all you care about is being able to continue to drive your gas-guzzling SUV and cling to your juvenile belief system.
The facts about the Vietraq War are there. There is no longer any disputing the facts.
There is only one question: Will you be honest and decent and brave enough to face the facts and to state the truth, as Cindy Sheehan as done? Or will you continue to be too dishonest and immoral and lazy and cowardly to face the facts and to state the truth, but continue to perpetuate the sick lies that are driving the United States of America into the ground so that some people can save face and in order to avoid the unpleasantness of cognitive dissonance?
Cindy Sheehan is probably the biggest patriot in the United States of America today. After having witnessed her speak in person before she became so well known, I have no doubt that had her son actually died for a noble reason -- if he had truly died for freedom or democracy instead of for Dick Cheney's Halliburton's profits -- she would be at peace with his death.
Cindy Sheehan's only "crime" is having been the truth-telling black sheep in the big alcoholic family that is the United States of America, the big alcoholic family that is in denial that the father of the family, "President" George W. Bush, is a fucking alcoholic who has brought the family to ruin.
In a nation of nothing but fucking lies, in a nation in which telling the awful truth is considered to be the most satanic thing that a person could do, Cindy Sheehan has dared to speak the awful truths that everyone but the most insane of Americans already knows, but because she has spoken the truth that no one wanted uttered -- because if no one ever speaks the truth, then you don't ever have to deal with it, right? -- she has been crucified.
The United States of America does not deserve Cindy Sheehan, a courageous woman who first lost her son only for the unbridled greed of the war profiteers and then endured slander and libel from "good" ("patriotic" and "Christian") Americans, only rubbing the salt into her already very deep wound.
Although she was already wounded by her son's unnecessary death, this one woman, this mother from Vacaville, Calif., stood up to the Bush regime's war(-profiteering) machine like David stood up to Goliath.
For that, of course she had to be punished by "good" Americans, who, being such fucking selfish cowards themselves, could not stand to see someone stand up against the Bush regime because it reminded them of what fucking selfish cowards they are.
And those who applaud Cindy Sheehan's exit from the national stage sign their own death warrants, because if you give the pro-Bush, anti-Cindy crowd enough rope, the stupid motherfucking dumbfucks will hang themselves. Let's give them lots of rope.
Here is the text of Cindy Sheehan's "resignation letter" from Daily Kos:
I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day morning. These are not spur-of-the-moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.
The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our two-party system?
However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right or left" but "right and wrong."
I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party.
Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude, and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt two-party system, our representative republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland.
I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person; I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why [does he or she] deserve support just because he or she calls him- or herself a Democrat?
I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need to be committed. I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither.
If an individual wants both, then normally he or she is not willing to do more than walk in a protest march or sit behind his or her computer criticizing others.
I have spent every available cent I got from the money a "grateful" country gave me when they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then.
I have sacrificed a 29-year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey’s brother and sisters, and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human beings.
I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of and have had my life threatened many times.
The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing -- his precious lifeblood drained out [of him] in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country [that] is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think.
I have tried ever since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country [that] cares more about who will be the next "American Idol" than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.
It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy, and that hurts the most.
I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life.* This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many divisions.
Our brave young men and women in Iraq have been abandoned there indefinitely by their cowardly leaders who move them around like pawns on a chessboard of destruction, and the people of Iraq have been doomed to death and fates worse than death by people worried more about elections than people.
However, in five, ten, or fifteen years, our troops will come limping home in another abject defeat, and ten or twenty years from then, our children’s children will be seeing their loved ones die for no reason, because their grandparents also bought into this corrupt system.
George Bush will never be impeached because if the Democrats dig too deeply, they may unearth a few skeletons in their own graves, and the system will perpetuate itself in perpetuity.
I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try [to] change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.
Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford , Texas? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too ... which makes the property even more valuable.
This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of, this system.
This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or any more people that I love and the rest of my resources.
Good-bye, America... You are not the country that I love, and I finally realized [that] no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.
It’s up to you now.
Wow. Powerful. As I said, the United States of America does not deserve Cindy Sheehan. It has what it deserves: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
*On this topic, I have to note that after Cindy Sheehan became a rock star for the anti-Vietraq War movement and returned to Sacramento to speak, it was standing-room only, and these "peace" activists who came to see her were ready to kill someone for a spot in the overbooked building. It was a truly pathetic spectacle, so bad that I ended up leaving without seeing Sheehan speak.
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