You Don't Speak For Me, Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan doesn’t speak for me! That’s the sum and substance of the far right’s diatribe against Ms. Sheehan. They want to go on with the charade in Iraq while the real war on terror languishes.

I completely agree with the far right in this case. Ms. Sheehan does not speak for them. She speaks for the millions of Americans fed up with all the lies, the punting, all the dodging, and all of the lives and treasure pored down the rat hole of Iraq, for what reason? That’s what Ms. Sheehan wants to know – from the president.

The more the Administration howls about the error of Cindy’s ways, the sharper her basic question about why her son died comes into focus. Just why did Casey Sheehan and the almost two thousand dead fight and die? Was it for the weapons of mass destruction that were never found? Was it for the threats posed by the alliance between Saddam and al Qaeda has never been established? Was it to bring democracy to the Iraqis now at the negotiating table trying desperately to sort out who gets what territory and what share of the oil revenue?

All Cindy wants is for the Bubble Boy to explain why he sent Casey to his death in Iraq. She’s not questioning why we’re in Afghanistan. She isn’t asking why we haven’t pursued the al Qaeda and the Taliban with enough resources that others have said have been diverted to Iraq.

Cindy Sheehan simply wants to know why we sent her boy to die in Iraq.

Sadly she has brought in some extraneous matter. She wants us out of Iraq now, and she wants to impeach the president. She’s just a wounded and despairing Mom, and she’s wrong to mix apples and oranges. And the president has seized upon her mistakes, red herrings, to distract his base to hound her unmercifully.

Let’s just forget what Cindy has said about things she’s no more qualified than the rest of us to comment upon. Let’s just answer her basic question. What high and mighty principles were we invoking when we sent Casey Sheehan to his death?

Bubble Boy goes down all of those false trails and holes. He doesn’t agree with Casey Sheehan’s Mom. He says that Iraq is part of the war against terror. I completely agree with him. By toppling a regime and destroying the infrastructure of a country that had no WMDs and no alliance with al Qaeda, the U.S. certainly has made Iraq the central battlefield against terror. And we're not making a whole hell of a lot of progress on that field.

We’re now getting close to losing as many lives in Iraq as were lost on 9/11. We’ve lost almost as many lives in a battle field that once had no relation to the horror visited upon us by al Qaeda.

Cindy doesn’t speak for the far right. BUT SHE SPEAKS FOR WILD BILL AND A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER FOLKS IN THIS COUNTRY. WHY WAS CASEY SHEEHAN SENT TO FIGHT AND DIE IN IRAQ?

BACK TO YOU, BUBBLE BOY!

Blog on!

Wild Bill