Scum With Tits

There’s an interesting little point/counterpoint in my local birdcage liner about the upcoming slate of Iraq War-themed films, and how they are inevitably going to be left-wing and anti-war.  The liberal, arguing in favor of the anti-war films, writes the following.

“Grace is Gone” concerns a road trip taken by a man (John Cusack) whose wife has been killed in Iraq. In light of the right’s brass-knuckles treatment of antiwar mom Cindy Sheehan, I expect no end of jokes will be made at the expense of this film by the ever-sensitive Ann Coulter and her ultra-scrupulous confederates.

Readers of this blog know that I think Mann Coulter is a vulgar, vile, disgusting transvestite who has done as much to sully the name of conservatism as anyone else the last few years, but in this case I’l taking her side.  The “brass-knuckles treatment of antiwar mom Cindy Sheehan” was/is entirely deserved, because Cindy Sheehan put herself in that position.  To argue that “the right” is hostile towards anti-war mothers of dead soldiers, I’d like to see another mother this “brass knuckles” approach was used against.  I’m sitting here and I can’t think of the name of another single anti-war mother, even though they inevitably exist.  Why is that?  If the right was so “brass knuckles” in its approach, wouldn’t the ground be littered with the corpses of the poor, harmless mothers of dead soldiers, struck down in their prime by the right-wing hit machine?  Their names should be household, but they aren’t, because ONE NAME decided to hog all the press for herself. 

Let’s take a look back to my first post on the subject of the treatment of Cindy Sheehan, from 8/11/05, when she was really starting to make a name for herself.

By holding herself out as the hood ornament for the anti-war left, Sheehan has certainly opened the door for legitimate criticism of her motives and beliefs.  You won’t find anyone more supporting of that than me.  But all too often I have seen a real degree of contempt for the woman creep in to what should otherwise be legitimate comments, and I think that’s absolutely fucking shameful.  This woman lost her son, and while you are and should be free to discuss her recent political activism, cut the woman some slack in the other areas.  I think some of the things she has said and done recently have been absolutely disgraceful and I have said as much, but I’m not going to attack the mother of a wounded soldier.

Let me put it this way.  As Jim rightfully wrote earlier today, the real focus here should be Casey and his sacrifice for a cause he believed in.  That being said, this is the woman who gave birth to Casey; who breast fed him, and wiped his behind, and taught him to walk, and pinned his corsage on his prom tuxedo, and loved him for every year of his life.  I have no doubt that Casey loved his mother in return.  No matter how much he might have disagreed with his mother on certain political views, I don’t doubt for a second that if Casey could read some of the things that “patriotic Americans” have said about his mother he would be absolutely devastated, and were he here in person there’s a whole lot of people who would find themselves knocked on their asses by him.

Have some fucking respect.

I meant every word of that then, and I stand by it now.  It was only when “Peace Mom” began badmouthing the mothers of dead soldiers who happened to disagree with her anti-war political views that I decided she had lost any inherent respect the mother of a dead soldier deserves.  If Sheehan wasn’t prepared to show proper respect to her contemporaries, then I sure as hell wasn’t required to show any to Sheehan.  But before Sheehan was belittling pro-war mothers, and hobnobbing with Huga Chavez and America’s enemies, there were many of us on the right who felt that, as the mother of a fallen soldier, she was worthy of the highest levels of respect.  It’s just a shame that there are so many people out there who think that only mothers who hold an anti-war stance are worthy of this fundamental decorum.

Cindy Sheehan is the mother of a fallen US soldier.  She is also a traitorous anti-American scumbag, who deserves every bit of criticism she receives from the likes of Mann Coulter.  Both of them are filth.

Rising from Lenin’s Tomb

Oh God, this would be brilliantly entertaining to watch.

Cindy Sheehan, the soldier’s mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to seek House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That’s when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group’s war protest site near Bush’s Crawford ranch.

“Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership,” Sheehan told The Associated Press. “We hired them to bring an end to the war. I’m not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn’t be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money.”

She’s absolutely right.  There are no more than a handful of people who could run against Pelosi in San Francisco and launch a legitimate challenge.  You’d have to find a candidate with credibility who’s even more of a batshit crazy leftie, and Sheehan certainly meets those criteria.

Sheehan, who has never held political office, recently said that she was leaving the Democratic Party because it “caved” in to the president. Last week, she announced her caravan to Washington, an undertaking she calls the “people’s accountability movement.”

“I didn’t expect to be back so soon, but the focus is different than it was before,” Sheehan said Sunday.

“But it had been a few months, and frankly my ego couldn’t handle it,” continued Sheehan.  “I went from being someone in the public eye to being a disgusting, wrinkled, prune-faced has-been failure.  Think about it.  I was being hosted by such visionaries as Hugo Chavez.  I went from Marxist revolutionary for peace to a suburban housewife.  Uh, thanks but no thanks.  Now where are those cameras, I’ve got a dead son to whore out!”

Casey’s mom gives up

In what I hope will be the last time we ever discuss her on this website, this story came out yesterday...I just didn’t want to post about it on Memorial Day.

“I’ve been wondering why I’m killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to
George Bush,” Sheehan told The Associated Press while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.

“I’m going home for awhile to try and be normal,” she said.

Well, her Crawford House charity is under investigation, the Gold Star thing may in fact have been fraudulently collecting money as a registered charity when they were not, the Democrats have been ignoring her so much she quit the party, she’s not being flown all over the country in style anymore, the crowds at her appearances are dwindling faster than Lindsay Lohan’s 21st birthday party sponsors, the media has tuned in to what a...unique...individual she is...yeah, it’s time to quit.

Her “diary” entry on DKos is here.  Normally I wouldn’t link that site, but I want people to read these words, then maybe go back and read some of her first diary entries.  Weird, right?  The writing style is so remarkably different.  As I went back, I noted this one in particular.  I wonder if she still feels that way now that her friend Hugo Chavez has gone apoplectic and...dare I say...dictatorial?

One last thing to point out; we’re told over and over again that dissent is the truest form of patriotism.  The anti-war movement only has America’s best interests at heart, they love this country, etc.

This is not my “Checkers” moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.

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.

That is not love of country.  Do we need to improve?  Always.  When your world view is based on the fact that America is imperialist, you call this country the greatest sponsor of terrorism and you feel the need to try to make it into something you want rather than improve what is...I’m sorry, that’s not patriotism.  It just isn’t.  It’s some internal dialogue being forced out and projected onto the nation.

Casey’s mom, I hope you move on and find some peace.  Be with your kids.  Learn to see the forest for the trees.  Smell a rose or two.  Even a yellow one from Texas, if you can find one.  These United States are not all bad.  Just look around.

Didn’t they give that to a terrorist once?

Let’s be honest, if they’ll give one to Arafat, they’ll give one to anyone.

The president’s most vocal critic against the war in Iraq was in the Capitol City Wednesday night.

...

Sheehan also announced at the signing that she’s a finalist for a Nobel Peace Prize.

So...how do we find out if this is true?  Anyone know how to verify this?

Update

Thanks to the quick work of reader Doug, we have this:

Q: Has X been nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize?

A: Information about the nominations, investigations, and opinions
concerning the award is kept secret for fifty years.

Q: What about the rumors circling around the world about certain people
being nominated for the Nobel Prize this year?

A: Well, either it’s just a rumor, or someone among the invited
nominators has leaked out information. Since the nominations are kept
secret for 50 years, you’ll have to wait until then to find out.

So...it looks like anyone can say they are nominated, and by the time it can be verified, odds are we’ll all be dead.

Hey...did I tell you guys I’m a finalist for a Nobel Peace Prize?

Update on Friday, 0ct. 13 (Also known as Vorhees Day):

Bankers for poor win peace Nobel

Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, particularly women.

See, now that makes sense.

SGT Mike Stokely, a year later

Last December, I wrote about SGT. Mike Stokley over at Moorewatch.  His father, Robert Stokely, graciously responded to me via email to thank me.  Unfortunately, I let other mail pile on top of them, and I only just found the two emails he sent me again.

Last night I went through a lot of old mail to delete things that were just taking up space.  Email with attachments, spam I missed, messages from servers, auto-responses...the clutter that accumulates.  I get around 250-500 messages a day depending on spam levels, and things often get lost or buried.

I’m kind of ashamed that I let these two slide by.  I was reminded of SGT. Stokely just the other day from this post at Blackfive.  I suppose it was serendipity that led me to re-discoverthose two email a couple of days later.

When I wrote at length over the last year about Casey Sheehan and his mother, and by extension about how I felt a parent could - not should, but rather could - grieve for their child and not cross lines of taste, decorum, honesty and sanity, Robert Stokely was the man I kept in mind.  The things he said about Mike, the way he talked about him as a person, they way it was always about Mike and not any political agenda...these are the kinds of things that struck me as good and decent and above all, honorable.  Whenever I read an email that Robert sent to someone for their site, I felt like he was honoring his son as a person and a soldier.

It is sad that a man who inspired such love and pride in his father was lost to us, but at the same time if anything good can come from this kind of loss, it’s that sense of honor, dignity and love.  I hope other people can see it.

Nothing illustrated it more than this story:

It is an irony that you can have so much grief interspersed with such pride swelling in your heart even as tears well in your eyes, and still be able to laugh.  The memory of the very loved we had lost was caught in a moment Mike would have found humorous, and laughed himself that special laugh he had.  As we traveled the highway through Loganville that day of his “welcome home parade”, and again to the church for his funeral, many businesses had posted a tribute to Mike on their sign boards.  Our favorite and one to be remembered for all time, was at a small meat market and said this:

“IN HONOR OF MIKE STOKELY”
pork ribs $1.69 lb.

Although they probably didn’t mean it to come out that way, we loved it, and laughed a much needed, deep down laugh.  Mike would have loved it and probably thought this business was the only one with any sense left, given all the fuss being made over him.  Forever more, whenever I see pork ribs, I will think of that day and what we now call the “Mike Stokely Special”.

A few days past a year later, and I still think about Mike Stokely and everyone else who gives up time, health, safety and sometimes their lives in service to their country as warriors.

I only hope that we can someday deserve what they do for us.

Mr. Stokely, if you should see this, I apologize for my lack of response and lack of respect in not paying more attention to your email.

Michael Hearts Cindy - The Musical

Nice.

Casey, I love the way she says “bullshit!” (says “bullshit!")
and that the evil Jooz did it (the Jooz did it)
Did your mom get back from her Crawford trip? (Crawford trip)
Is she there, or is she still giving Dubya some lip? (Dubya some lip)

You’ll have to head to The Jawa Report for more.

Now late the hate-filled comments pour in!

Smash has the story

Why isn’t the mainstream media this good at asking tough questions?

DEBORAH JOHNS: And this gentleman is absolutely correct, because it’s Debbie Argel. The Williams… I have over 1200 families that have sent you requests…

CINDY SHEEHAN: Sent me requests? I’m not in charge of those memorials.

DEBORAH JOHNS: ...California, spoke with you personally, on the telephone, and demanded that you stop using her son’s name. So did Joe Williams…

CINDY SHEEHAN: I’m not using anybody’s son’s name.

DEBORAH JOHNS: You have used their names in Crawford, Texas, Cindy. I was there. And I removed their sons’ names. And the sheriff down there took the list of the names from me, because he said in the middle of the night, you and your people go back up and put the names back up…

CINDY SHEEHAN: You’re…

DEBORAH JOHNS: Cindy, you have used their names in the newspaper.

CINDY SHEEHAN: You know what… Deborah, that’s not the truth.

DEBORAH JOHNS: You have used their names in the newspaper…

CINDY SHEEHAN: No, I haven’t used anybody’s name in the newspaper.

DEBORAH JOHNS: USA Today, Cindy…

(applause)

CINDY SHEEHAN: What… what newspaper have I used their names in?

DEBORAH JOHNS: USA Today, Cindy, when you took out ads across the United States…

(crosstalk)

CINDY SHEEHAN: ...I can’t take that. I’m not the only person who does this stuff…

You’ll have to go to Smash’s site and follow the links that prove how many lies Mama Moonbat tells in a short exchange.

As an aside...obviously she’s Moore-related, and as long as she runs her mouth, we shoudl call her on her bullshit.  But...and I never thought I would say this...I cannnot WAIT for Mikey to release another movie so we can start talking about something the fuck else.  I can’t wait to show Casey Sheehan’s mother the bottom of my shoe.  Maybe she’ll hug a few Hamas or Hezbollah after she’s done protesting the wounded and they can explain it to her.

Terrorist-loving, Dictator hugging “Peace Mom” to protest in Germany

One soldier’s opinion on Mama Moonbat’s planned protest:

One soldier, who recently returned from Iraq, did give his name but didn’t have much to say about Sheehan.

“Anything I would have to say about her, you couldn’t print,” Army Staff Sgt. Mark Genthner said.

Thank you, Sargeant.  We read you five by five.

At least someone is planning to step up.

Get along home, Cindy

Nicely done.


Thank the creator of the video here.

Update

Check it out, Mama Moonbat is getting pimped by Kos.

Mama Moonbat likes the cuffs

The attention whore publicity-seeking mother...person was at it again.

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush’s State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said.

Sheehan, who had been invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, a misdemeanor, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. Sheehan was taken in handcuffs to police headquarters a few blocks away and her case was processed as Bush spoke.

Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to the speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed, but she did not respond, the spokeswoman said.

So...being sneaky and lying, violating the rules and being duplicitous is OK, as long as you’re in it for attention.  Mikey must be so proud of her.  Meanwhile someone with honor and integrity would have walked in wearing the shirt and took their chances.  No, wait...someone with honor and integrity would have sat politiely and listened to the speech in the first frigging place.  An honest activist would have worn the shirt in the open instead of being a lying sneak.

Police handcuffed Sheehan and removed her from the gallery before Bush arrived.

Oh that’s frigging classic.  She accomplished exactly nothing.  Beautiful.

“I’m proud that Cindy’s my guest tonight,” Woolsey said in an interview before the speech. “She has made a difference in the debate to bring our troops home from Iraq.”

Wow, talk about blinders...Sheehan has accomplished, as she did with this protest, nothing but getting her name in the paper and getting Code Pink, MoveOn, Moore and that ilk to fund her life.  They’re treating her like a star, paying her bills, making her feel like her dumb ass matters.  That’s what this has always been about...someone paying attention to her.  The troops aren’t coming home until they are finished.  They never were.  Most of them don’t want to.  Maybe if she actually talked to them…

Hey, when is Code Pink and that set gonna send Mama Moonbat to Iraq?  Let’s see her put other people’s money where her mouth is.  Go ask a few thousand troops if they want to bail out on Iraq, see what kind of answers she gets.

Casey who?  If she had half the relationship she pretends to have had with her son, she’d get what total strangers already understand...these guys and gals do what they do out of a sense of honor and duty.

Wizbang’s Kevin Aylward asks:

What’s next for Mama Moonbat, streaking through a presidential press conference?

O.K., that’s enough.  Now I have to bleach my brain.  Thanks, Kevin...thanks a lot.

Please let this happen

Everyone’s favorite attention-seeking mother...person… isat it again.

Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who set up camp near President Bush’s Texas ranch last summer, said Saturday she is considering running against Sen. Dianne Feinstein to protest what she called the California lawmaker’s support for the war in Iraq.

Not only would the press finally turn on her and expose her vacuousness and her ignorance, but it would teach the KosKids a lesson in humility...they worship at her feet and she would get humiliated in a real political race.

Do it, Cins.  It’ll be hysterical.

Update

Yeah...g’head.  Run for office, nutter.

I’m sorry, I can’t help it

This post contains another “WTF” moment from a certain attention-seeking mother....mother.  If you are fed up...skip it.  No complaining in the comments.

If you’re wondering just what could make me slap my head and go ‘What in THE FUCK IS SHE THINKING?”...read on.

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.

Black and White

Well, at least Casey Sheehan’s mother knows who her enemies are.

She then offered up a challenge, urging activists to withhold their support for the popular senator unless she comes around. “It’s time to tell your elected officials, ‘If you’re not with us, you’re against us,’ “ Sheehan said, “and if you’re against us, we’ll vote you out of office. ”

Interesting, isn’t it.  This type of “with us or against us” thinking has been blasted by the left ever since 9/11.  Of course, that was when it was uttered by a Republican.  When a Republican says something along those lines it’s the inevitable end result of simple-minded ignorance, but when someone like Casey Sheehan’s mother says it it’s a principled stand on moral grounds.

Of course, if this logic holds true for elected officials, then why not for the larger issue of terrorism as a whole?  I mean, if the Islamic world is not with us, then they must therefore be against us, right? 

Why anyone takes this woman seriously any more is beyond me, and that’s me included.  Of course, I hope she sticks around.  Her barking moonbattery will do nothing but hurt the Democrats in 2006.  She could potentially have the same effect in next year’s elections that Michael Moore had in last year’s, so polarizing the debate that people will vote for the GOP just to avoid associating with left-wing fruitcakes like Sheehan.

Also, check out the picture in the link.  Some African nationalist and a woman with pink hair.  Welcome to the New Democratic Party.

The nutcase did it again

Who can be bothered writing actually articles about this fruit anymore?  Just go read this and try not to throw up when you think how she prostitutes her dead son, his brothers-in-arms and herself all for the warmth of the spotlight.

What’s a little lie in service of…uhh…fame, I guess.

So, Mother Peace is not just delusional, attention-starved, smug, ill-tempered, an absentee mother, a lover of the limelight and a whole host of other things, but she’s also a liar.

McCain said he had agreed to meet with Sheehan because he believed she was coming with a group of Arizona constituents.

But on Tuesday, the only Arizonan in her small group was her congressional liaison, who grew up in Sedona but moved away when he went to college.

”It was a misrepresentation,” McCain said afterward. Asked if he would have met with her if he had known she was not with constituents, he said: “I may not have.”

Yeah...she’s all about the peace and stuff.  Casey who?

A grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!

So it looks like Mama Moonbat got arrested today after ignoring orders from police concerned about the growing crowd outside the White House...who, unlike the rally this weekend, did not have a permit or any semblance of organization.  There’s a video you can see for yourself (required Real Video...boo hiss!).  Before anyone raises the spectre of violating the First Amendment...no one said that couldn’t assemble.  Assembly, however, has been legally defined as organized and that requires planning...crowd control...and permits so the city can provide both policing and protection.  You can’t just show up somewhere with a mob.

Interesting thing to note in the video: Mama Moonbat is smiling her ass off.  Grieving mother, eh?  Just wants to protest the war?  Really?  Why the smiles when the police showed up, Sheehan?  Perhaps this little game was, oh, I don’t know, orchestrated?

Update

Wow.  Look at her face in this one:

It’s like she thinks she’s at Disneyland.  You know what?  To her...she is.

Another interesting point in the video...she grins like the Cheshire Cat and makes the cops carry her until she’s just out of the scrum of activists and reporters...where all of a sudden, she walks on her own.  What a carefully orchestrated little piece of acting that was.  In fact, in a rare moment of honesty, cameras captured Mama Moonbat relaxing before the event:

The part of the video that made me laugh was these aging hippy nutjobs singing “This Little Light of Mine.” Why not start a bonfire and dance naked in the street for frig’s sake?  Nothing says “I’m desperate to recapture my fiery youth” than old folks singing songs that were co-opted as protest music in the 60s.

Michael, you should be proud.  You taught her to fake it very, very well.

Hat Tip: Bareknucklepolitics.com

That’s Mama Moonbat for ya

Is this not disgusting?

i am watching cnn and it is 100 percent rita...even though it is a little wind and a little rain...it is bad, but there are other things going on in this country today...and in the world!!!!

by C****Sheehan on Sat Sep 24th, 2005 at 06:29:15 PDT

What’s it going to take?  How far does this media-hungry attention whore have to go before her lockstep moonbat followers say ‘Woah.  OK.  No mas.  You’re a nut?”

People died, others lots everything you ignorant little...no.  nevermind.  You can fill that in yourselves.

About her big protest today...check out Michelle Malkin’s first-hand photos.  Even though Malkin refuses to link to anything I do because I once told her she’s the most repressed woman on earth.  :)

Here’s a photo of the gathering.  The caption says tens of thousands.  Plural.  Bullshit.  I’ll bet money that’s not 1000 total.  Too bad the Parks Service stopped doing crowd estimates.

Hurricane Rita done stole her thunder…

...and you just know she’s pissed.  Hey Mama Moonbat: maybe God is trying to tell you something, eh?

Interesting little side note: All the “official” photos you can buy for reprinting are carefully cropped so as not to show the sum total of her pre-rally rally:

Mrs Sheehan was joined by about 30 supporters in her march down Pennsylvania Avenue to deliver a letter to Bush urging him to pull the troops out of Iraq.

Why, if I didn’t know any better I’d say that everyone short of the loony left has deserted this attention-seeking...woman.  Of ill repute.

Hat Tip: LGF

It’s All About Me Me Me

I’ve been claiming since the whole debacle began that Casey Sheehan’s mother had absolutely no real interest in meeting with President Bush.  She was looking for a propaganda victory.  If he decided to see her again, she could go crazy and rant and scream, and she’d get a huge PR victory in the papers.  If he ignored her, then she’d have another propaganda victory.  And now that the month of August is over, she admits it.

A woman who led an anti-war protest for nearly a month near President Bush’s ranch said Tuesday that she’s glad Bush never showed up to discuss her son’s death in Iraq, saying the president’s absence “galvanized the peace movement.”

Cindy Sheehan’s comments came as war protesters packed up their campsite near the ranch and prepared to leave Tuesday for a three-week bus tour.

“I look back on it, and I am very, very, very grateful he did not meet with me, because we have sparked and galvanized the peace movement,” Sheehan told The Associated Press. “If he’d met with me, then I would have gone home, and it would have ended there.”

Bullshit, Cindy.  This was never about answers or accountability or getting a meeting with the president.  This was about assuaging the massive sense of guilt you feel at not being about to prevent your little boy from growing up and becoming a man, a man who just might have an opinion different than your own.  This was about prostituting the memory of the fine, honorable son you raised so that despicable vermin like MoveOn and Michael Moore and Al Sharpton can get their radical left-wing agenda on the front pages, and you could position yourself as some kind of untouchable, sainted martyr. 

But then again, it’s always been about you, hasn’t it?  That’s why just the other day the Los Angeles Times quoted you as saying, “I know that the Camp Casey movement is going to end the war in Iraq.  When you read about the Camp Casey movement in the history books, you can say, ‘I met Casey’s mom.’” There you go, you egomaniacal harpy.  It’s about you, it’s always been about you.  It’s about your canonization in the annals of left-wing activism, about elevating your status from grieving mother into empowering activist.  As I’ve said before, in a sadly perverse way your son’s death was the best thing that ever happened to you, because it gave meaning to your otherwise wretchedly average life. 

And your son, and the sacrifice he made?  Well, that’s not that important, is it?