Think you know about Cindy Sheehan, view this Truth Out Video Interview not shown on Major Media outlets.
Can you intimidate this woman? No.
As for Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, Matt Drudge, etc...nothing you can say can hurt me or make me stop what we are doing. We are working for peace with justice. We are using peaceful means and the truth to do it. I guess the truth frightens people. It frightens them so much, they have to resort to telling lies to rebut my arguments. They are despicable human beings and not even worth our concern.Those critical of Sheehan and her supporters remind us that there are two camps here. As I said in a comment over at Moxie Grrrll, those two camps become painfully obvious. A) Those who want to know if they were lied to in order to get us to invade Iraq, and B) those who don't care if they were lied to at all.
If they did lie to get us there, those of us in camp A would like those who did they lying to be exposed and held accountable.
Those who don't care if they were lied to or not tend to be grand apologists for the W, Rove and Co. and in some respects have become reichwing fairies doing Rove's work over various media outlets to discredit anyone with the balls that W obvoiusly doesn't posess.
We are all, in a sense, dying to know - What is the noble cause?
P.S. Here's a nice set of paragraphs from the NYTimes today:
The news coming out of Iraq yesterday was that several more American soldiers had been killed. August's toll so far has been mind-numbing. For American troops, it's been one of the worst periods of the war. And yet there's still no sense of urgency within the Bush administration.
The president is on vacation. He's down at the ranch riding his bicycle and clearing brush. The death toll for Americans has streaked past the 1,800 mark. The Iraqi dead are counted by the tens of thousands. But if Mr. Bush has experienced any regret about the carnage he set in motion when he launched the war, he's not showing it.Writing about Vietnam in the foreword to David Halberstam's book "The Best and the Brightest," Senator John McCain said:
"It was a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to persevere through god-awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn't support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us pay."
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Dying to steal Iraqi oil...I'm sure what every little American kid has always dreamed of.
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Here's how I see the "noble cause"... it's like one of those ancient pagan religions, where it was an honor to be sacrificed to the gods. Or, like the modern jihadist suicide bombers who are honored to die for their noble cause. I ask: why do the rulers of nations never consider peace to be a noble cause!?
Think that every parent who has a child in Iraq should stand behind Cindy Sheehan and just say "enough, get them out of here today."
The noble cause
To not appear as ''losers.'' The same cause that drove both our entry and overly long stay in Vietnam, and our entry into Iraq. Saddam was a UN bad boy and who better to punish him than the good old USofA?
When it was determined that there were no WMDs, when we could have pulled out, we couldn't pull out because that would make us look both stupid and losers.
Make Who look stupid?
Not the military, they were just doing their job.
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