Cindy Shehan Crazy maybe but she fights for the memory of a dead son would yours?

cbrown122

Actually she fights for her own beiefs. Her son joined the Army in 2000 and REENLISTED AFTER the war that his mother so desperately hates had began. Even his father, her husband, left her because of her lunatic antics that she has done for the last 3 years.

She in know way fights for the memory of a dead son.

I guess I know very little though as I am a veteran of OEF (2x) and OIF.

EDIT: My mother who is now deceased would have been as outraged as Sheehan. BUT she would have kept her opinions to herself and out of respect for MY DECISIONS she would have not made a mockery out of our troops and country. We had the very opposing views on the war and politics in general but she signed the paper for me to originally enlist in the DEP when I was 17 because she knew I would when I turned 18 no matter what. It is better to show your son support then to make a case for your personal views based upon his death.

Curt

Considering that her son was a Marine on his second tour, there's a chance that he wouldn't appreciate her 'works' all that much.

Dave_Stark

Cindy Sheehan mistakenly THOUGHT she was fighting for the memory of her son. In reality, she was just a tool being used by the Democratic Party for their own selfish ends, something she has finally recognized.

In fact, her actions are a stain on her son's memory, and have cost her everything she once held dear.

One reaps what one sews.

CharlieG

I don't know why she was running around saying "Bush killed my son." It was her son's decision to join up. Once you sign your name on that sheet, your butt belongs to the US government. I would think people know that much....geez be responsible for your own actions.

edit: some of you just don't get it. It isn't about whether we agree with this war or not. It is about the decision her son made. When she says things like what I cited above, it degrades her and her son. Honestly, if you sign up for the military you do it because of your own reasons and you SHOULD do it fully aware that you can be sent to fight off somewhere regardless of what you believe. This isn't "you have a choice", YOU have to do it. Personally, I'm against this war, but I'm also for personal responsibility, whether that be a soldier who refuses to follow orders or leaders who fail to give us a clear objective. Sheehan should have enough dignity at least to respect her son's decision.

J S

No, mine wouldn't. She knows that in a heartbeat I would die for my country. She would mourn the lose of her son, no doubt. But she would understand, and knew that I died doing what I swore to do, and move on. Cindy's son was no different, she just chose her dead son as her soapbox to 15 minutes of fame.

Ravin

I would hate to have a parent who shamelessly profits from my death and uses my death as an excuse to not only negate my sacrifice but insult everything I stood for and volunteered to preserve. I would especially find it insulting if in this case the parent in question didn't even raise me--my other parent and stepparent did (as it was with Cindy and her son Casey).

Luckily, not only did I come home from Iraq safe and sound, but even if I hadn't, my parents are nowhere near that tasteless. Fortunately, most parents of those who have lost children in the Iraq war aren't that tasteless either.

Fast Eddie B

Cindy should've just checked into a rest facility 'til she felt better; instead, she ran around making a spectacle of herself without really doing anything meaningful for her son (at least, not in public).

awestups

What do you think her son would say about her actions?

It seems that he believed in the US strongly enough to VOLUNTEER, and she spits on America every chance she gets. It seems to me that she has betrayed what her son stood for.

I completely support her right to say and do what she wants, and I sympathize her loss, but I think she has taken a private matter a bit too far. Not to mention the disrespect she has paid to what her son held dear.

K S

She did nothing for anyone but herself, and denigrated her sons memory in the process.

ph_yo

Why isn't she fighting the people who desecrated the vets' graves in Washington?

POLARIS

Cindy Sheehan did NOT fight for the memory of her son. Cindy Sheehan dissed the memory of her son by becoming a laughing stock and an anti-war centerpiece whereby countless numbers of kooks swarmed around her, further smearing the memory of her brave son.

American Hero

1. She isn't fighting anymore!

2. She is fighting the wrong people. She needs to be crusading against terrorism, not George Bush.

Relax Guy

Yea but that dead son wrote her a letter begging his mom not to protest the war when he was alive, she ignored that request and instead used his death for her own political gain. She is crazy. Just like the person giving everyone thumbs down that doesn't like to hear the truth.

cheesehead with an attitude

she does more degrating than anything alse

Holbrook

Mine would not have...knowing that I re-enlisted four times meant that I was doing what I loved to do...(Sheehan's son re-enlisted, so that pretty much means he liked the Army)...why are you not complaining about Clinton sending soldiers to die in Kosovo or Bosnia...oh wait that does not fit your Bush bashing...Soldiers have the choice of joining the military or not...if they joined after 9/11 they knew what they were getting into...if you do the math, only a very small % of vets disagree with the war...like 0.001%...and the ones who do are probably the same ones that where whiners while they were in...the ones always saying, "..SSG why do I have to pull duty on a holiday..." or "...SSG why do I have to do PT so early..." You'll find these knuckleheads never protest near a military base...why? Because they would get their butts kicked...

Athena

Her son was a volunteer. She is disrespecting the decisions he made for his life by carrying on like she does.

There are only two options, here: Either her son entered the military because he believed in the fight, in which case, Cindy is a monster, OR he went in because he wanted college money, in which case, she obviously didn't do enough for him while he was alive. Either way, she's ridiculous.

chappye7

Shehan is an idiot, not only did she loose her son in Iraq, but because of her selfishness she lost her husband and the rest of her family, good riddance.

Hil E

With Cindy it was never about the war it was all about Cindy

goldspider79

The only thing Cindy "Batsh!t Crazy" Sheehan is fighting for is attention and sympathy. Her dead son was a convenient source of both.

This latest episode is just more of the same, albeit more desperate.

Blackguns

Bob thats a despicable thing to say. Your disparging remarks about a young MAN who fought for what he believed in.

Sheehan is a pawn used by others for their gain. If she loved and respected her son she would not dishonor his memory like this. Sheehan and her ilk are traitors.

Bob it does not sound like you have spent much time in the military, the young never hope they fight ANY KIND of war just or otherwise. They go because they choose to enlist, and their buddies are going over there.

But then you have the non hackers who after enlisting decide the war is unjust and they want to go to Canada...but I digress.

Are you by any chance in higher education?

You know what they say.

mar036

Cindy Shehan, almost as bad as Jane Fonda except for the death of her son, who was by the way there voluntarily just like the rest of us who went. Now does she not only hate President Bush, the republicans, the democrats folded according to her and as you can see below she is not liking the USA to much either, mabye she should renounce her citizenship and go somewhere where they want her. I understand being unhappy that her son died, who wouldn't, but to do what she did is the ultimate bad thing against her country, no wonder her husband divorced her.

"Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the Daily Kos blog: "Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it. "It's up to you now."

Just me

My husbands mother is not for this war (or any war for that matter,) he also has an aunt & uncle who are against Bush and anything Bush does.

After seeing all the stuff Cindy Sheehan has done he asked me to promise him that if he dies to make it clear to his family that he did what he felt was right, he volunteered for it, and he hopes that they are just proud of him. He said to do what I can to stop them if they act like this women did. He really needs to put it in writing.

That said, I think it's horrible what the media did to this women. They took a mother in the worst of her grief and used her. Then when the excitement of her rantings went down, they just dropped her. I can't imagine losing a child, I think apart of me would die too. But she needs to realize he volunteered and knew the possibilities. He didn't have to join. And now people need to let her grieve normally.

jeb black

Sheehan understands now that both parties are owned and are not looking out for AMERICA!

cantcu

She is not crazy. She is against an illegal war that has nothing to do with 9/11, who the military still spout as the reason they are there if you watched 60 Minutes, that took her son before he had a chance to live a life.

If I were her I would be angry as well. When you join the military, you believe that your CinC will not put you in harms way, unprepared, undermanned, and for an illegitimate reason!

Republicans don't like her, or I should say many Republicans, because it reminds them kids are dying in record numbers for NO REASON. If there is a reason, please tell me!!

Hey JS, if you would die in a heartbeat for your country why did you join the Air Force? I think most Americans would die for the US. George Bush is not spelled USA!

Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism, terrorist or 9/11, so please stop the terrorism BS, especially after Bush said he wasn't concerned about Osama bin Laden. If not, what is he concerned about?

Joe M

People who think Cindy Sheehan is crazy should have a child get killed in a pointless and illegal invasion or occupation.

It still blows my mind that there aren't more people actively protesting this war - I think it's just because they still haven't instituted a draft, so technically we still have an 'all volunteer' army. (Despite the extended tours of duty).

If this is really the 'battle for the future of our way of life' that Dubya and Co. would have you to believe, then why haven't they sent sufficient troops, equipment, and provided the necessary training?

And when they come back with serious injuries and missing limbs, why aren't the VA hospitals prepared? It's almost like they never expected to have to deal with the large numbers of injuries.

Impeach Cheney.

Then impeach Bush.

They are failures.

P.S. - F**k every one of the people who posted before me.

Enter Your Message or Comment

User Name:
User Email:
Post a comment: