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August 18, 2005

We fight for democracy, we don't practice it. Now go home!

While Cindy Sheehan tends to her mother who suffered a stroke, neocons continue to aspirate on their own spittle because she has the gall to protest the war.

Everyone knows that good American mothers love sending their kids off to die for shifting reasons. Ted Webb understands this, and while he's not upset at all with Cindy Sheehan, she should shut up because she's a traitor and pathetic.

You would think I am upset with Cindy Sheehan, I am not. I understand a mother's grief when it comes to losing a child. It must be the very worst thing one can endure.

Remember, as you read this rant, that Webb is not upset with Cindy Sheehan. Really.

However, her son Casey was a second hitch member of the military. What did you expect from a soldier? When you sign for the military, you risk the chance that you may end up giving your life for your country. I respect her son and the ultimate sacrifice he made.

Her beef isn't with the fact that he died, it's that he died for a lie. But you'd have to actually listen to what she said to get that.

Now back to Cindy. She has become a parody of Air America, the liberal radio network. Cindy is reading from the same talking points memo Al Franken does. In Cindy’s mind, the only way out of Iraq is to quit. She demands we get out. Wait a minute did any of you vote for Cindy Sheehan to make such decisions for us? I didn’t.

Remember, he's not upset with Sheehan. He's just really upset that she has the gall to question our King President, who knows exactly what he was doing. And since he was elected he is infallible. That's the way it is for all Presidents (except for Bill Clinton).

Cindy joins the ranks of Hanoi Jane Fonda and Michael Moore, two who long ago lost any sense of credibility. Cindy Sheehan is pathetic. Her living son has asked her to please come home, her husband has filed for divorce, and the entire nation is looking on in disbelief.

Nope, not upset at all. I'm sure you can't imagine losing a child, Ted, since you wouldn't jump to call Sheehan pathetic if you had. And that nation looking on in disbelief? That nation is gathering in candlelight vigils to show solidarity with Sheehan. But oh, well. I'll bet Webb believes there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as well, and that Saddam was behind 9/11.

One year ago, Cindy described her meeting with President Bush as much different than she remembers today. What happened in one year? Has the death of her hero son caused her to flip? Perhaps some of the extreme left have found someone to launch a campaign off of?

Thought here Cindy, shut up and go home. You are embarrassing the memory of your son Casey.

Actually, Ted, anyone with at least half a brain has opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq from the get-go. The extreme lefties you're talking about are other grieving parents--that's who's joining Sheehan, and that's who's organizing the candlelight vigils around the country. Funny, that--they felt angry over the fact that their kids were maimed and killed for ever-shifting reasons. WMDs! Terrorism! Democracy! Who knows? Who cares? We're fighting for "freedom" or something else, but it doesn't matter. Our Preznit says we've gotta do it and do it we will like good little sheeple.

Cindy doesn't have to shut up and go home. It's this novel thing about living in a democracy--she can actually protest. She can criticize the President. That's part and parcel of living in a democracy, but it does seem to be a stretch for Bush's shills to actually know what freedom means.

Posted by at August 18, 2005 07:59 PM