Sad, strong, brave and beautiful Cindy Sheehan


Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., gathers herself as she recounts stories of her son to a reporter by a tent that she is staying in on the side of the road that leads to President Bush's ranch, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. Her simple, quiet protest of the war that took her son's life is gaining momentum as dozens joined her Wednesday at the site. Sheehan, 48, has insisted on speaking to Bush and vowed to remain during his ranch stay through the end of the month. Her tenacity has gained the support of anti-war groups, with one activist calling her 'the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement.'

Can someone please tell me why it is so impossible for Bush to take time off of his vacation to talk to this woman? I think he can't give her the answers she's looking for because he doesn't have them. But..that's just my opinion.
God bless you Cindy and all the mothers,fathers,brothers and sisters of all those members of the military in Iraq and around the world.

Comments

Rue said…
Yes but all he said was that he couldn't know how she felt and he was glad he wasn't in her shoes with his own daughters. he kept calling her Mom because he couldn't remember her name. she has stated now that wants better answers than this. I want them for her.
15 August, 2005
Rue said…
Please read this before further judgement on the whole story. She is being misquoted and the timeline on when and how things were said is (possibly deliberately) being confused:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200508100009
15 August, 2005
Anonymous said…
Actually, I did my own research on this matter and didn't go to one site, but many sites, including the newspaper in her hometown where she gave an interview a long time ago.

Her comments then and her comments now are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Since I was not in the room for either the newspaper interview or the meeting with President Bush, I have no personal knowledge of what transpired in either case, or why there is such a disconnect between then and now.

I believe from watching her and reading about her that she is grief stricken and is not really thinking that clearly. I think her state of despair, pain, and anger makes her easy to manipulate.

I find it quite painful to watch her public destruction, and I remain amazed at how many people are able to watch this lady head for a breakdown and disappointed at their applause for her to continue.

At the end of this, she will have lost more than a son; I think there is a chance that her grief will cost her her whole family.
15 August, 2005
Anne said…
i am with cindy sheehan all the way. this war was a lie.
i am the mother of a 23 year old son, and i understand her motivation completely. she is a mother.
nice job, rue. i wrote about her yesterday morning too. for everyone out there tearing her down, there are many more that support what she is doing.
15 August, 2005
Anonymous said…
Rue Cindy is caught up in the Democratic Anti-War Propaganda machine now ...not that I believe in the war and I feel for her pain but her actions are now questionable to me...she needs help and she is not going to find it at the end of George Bush's driveway.
16 August, 2005
Rue said…
We are all entitled to our opinions and I value all of yours. In MY opinion I believe it is the right winged media doing thier best to cause Cindy Sheehan's vigil and message to go arye by deliberately misquoting her and dragging up words she was known to say many months ago. At the very worst, she may have changed her mind as she became angrier at what she viewed as a pointless war. If all she has done is changed her mind and wants more answers than she has been given then I don't see there being anything wrong with that. It is difficult to get to the truth when it is being manipulated at both ends of the political spectrum. What I see is a mother who is grieving deeply and wants her president who sent him to this war to justify his death. What I also see is a president who can't do that because the reasons he gave for sending Casey to Iraq were proven invalid so he no longer can justify them. That is a simplification but it is still what I feel is the crux of the situation. I remember reading about the sadness of parents of soldiers in other wars where they still felt in thier grief that they died for a cause worth fighting for.It is a sad and a terrible state the world is in when a mother feels her beloved child died in vain.
16 August, 2005
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