Pruneface Goes to England

Casey Sheehan’s mother wasn’t making news here any more, so she went somewhere new to get her name get back in the papers.

Hundreds of anti-war protesters, including American Cindy Sheehan, attended an international peace conference in London on Saturday to condemn the Iraq conflict.

Tony Benn, a veteran leftist politician in the governing Labour Party, opened the one-day meeting by calling the war “illegal, immoral and unwinnable.”

He said the peace movement wants to see coalition troops withdrawn from Iraq, justice for Palestinians and a ban on any Western military attacks on Iran or Syria.

In other words, they want to see retreat and defeat in Iraq, the destruction of the state of Israel, and to give a clear signal to our enemies that they can conspire to attack us with total impunity. 

Up to 1,500 anti-war protesters and activists gathered for the 10-hour conference, which was organized by the Stop the War Coalition.

The scheduled speakers included Sheehan, who has become a focus of anti-war sentiment in the United States by camping outside the Texas ranch of President George W. Bush; Hasan Zergani Hashim, a spokesperson for Iraq’s radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr; and leftist British legislator George Galloway.

Okay, we’ve got a barking moonbat from the “peace” movement, a spokesman for an Islamofascist, and a guy who made millions of dollars from Saddam through the oil-for-food program.  What a pathetic coalition the American left now finds itself allied with. 

It’s really sad.  The radical left views western civilization, particularly the United States, and especially the US under George W. Bush, as being the focus of all evil in the world.  Nothing that happens in the world cannot somehow be traced back to find western civilization as its root cause.  So, therefore, anyone who happens to be an enemy of George W. Bush’s America, such as al-Sadr, must therefore be a good guy on the side of “peace.”

And don’t for a second think that Sheehan’s whole pruneface thing isn’t a carefully crafted image.  When she was camping outside the ranch she got sunburned and wasn’t wearing any makeup out of necessity, but she maintains that look everywhere she goes, whether indoors or out, on a plane or a bus or in a building.  It makes her look driven, like the only thing she cares about is bwinging home da widdle soldier chiwdrwn who are dying in Iwaq.

Update: In the comments to this post over on my main blog a reader named rdz809 asks “[W]asn’t Sheehan killed while on a mission to rescue fellow soldiers who were ambushed and pinned down by al-Sadr’s thugs?” He’s right.

In the first 48 hours of fighting Sadr’s followers seized police stations and government buildings across the country including the Governor’s Office in Basra. At least 75 Iraqis and 10 American servicemen were killed, among them Army Specialist Casey Sheehan.

So now Casey’s mother is consorting with a representative of the Islamist whose militiamen slaughtered her son.  What a vile, disgusting woman.