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?

Who killed Casey Sheehan?

“You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny...”

... or so says the mother of US Army Specialist 4th Class Casey Sheehan.

By now the rantings of the Country’s most famous greiving Iraq War mother are well known to all of us, but knowledge of the actual events surrounding the death of her son seem to be less-than-important if the reporting by the main stream media was any indication. The MSM seemingly prefers to repeat the story as Casey’s mother tells it; Her son was killed by a legacy obsessed monster, who’s quest for power centered in part around an past confrontation between the monster’s father and Saddam Hussein. She’ll also tell you that despite the the monster’s political power, he was never legally elected, and even allies of the monster are critical of his military actions.

Funny thing is, on that note, she’s correct.......

Every picture tells a story, don’t it?

Good looking out at LGF, where we get to see the whoring of attention at it’s finest.

So here’s the sainted mother, grieving at her scheduled daily photo op.  With Al Sharpton no less.

What?  How dare I accuse her of manufacturing this moment?  Gee.  I don’t know where I would get such an idea.

Anyone else see an attention whore in this photo not named Al Sharpton?

Moorewatcher Eyewitness News

Gotta love our readers!

Hi, Jim.

I read your blogs religiously, and I am actually a registered user, but I forgot my password and need to register again. Having three small kids will make mush of your brain, I guess. 

My husband and I went to the counter protest in Crawford this weekend, and I snapped a lot of pictures. These are of the crosses refrenced today in one of the blog enteries. Also, this guy and his friend painted their horses with some messages for Cindy and her ilk. He said the horse’s butt was the most fitting place for his message. Lastly, a pic of Camp Cindy, or as maybe it should be re-named “the media center”. This is actually one of three camps. This is the main one. Don’t believe news reports that said that there were “several thousand” of the protesters. There were no where near that many. We didn’t stay terribly long, as those hippies are very mean, and threatening. We had our three kids and we felt unsafe, so we took off, but not before we got the gist of the whole media operation that they have running out there. If there were any more than maybe 500 of them out there, I would be very surprised.

Today, anyone can be a reporter.  Thank you, Angela, for taking these shots.  You’re telling a very important story here, especially with these first two.  First let’s see the shots:

Nailed to a Cross

Casey Sheehan’s mother wants respect for the use of her son’s memory.

I have continually asked George Bush to quit using Casey’s name and the names of the other Gold Star Families for Peace loved ones to justify his continued killing. He continues to say this: “We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission.” So the mission is now this: WE MUST CONTINUE KILLING AMERICANS BECAUSE AMERICANS HAVE ALREADY BEEN KILLED!!!

Perhaps she and the left-wing scum whoring out the memories of these soldiers could show some respect to someone like Gary Qualls.  I’ll let Mr. Qualls speak for himself.

Military families disturbed by a sea of crosses erected by anti-war protesters near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, have removed crosses bearing the names of their fallen children and transferred them to another site to show support for American troops in Iraq.

Anti-war protesters “never asked for my permission to put up a cross for my son for their cause,” said Gary Qualls, whose son was killed in Iraq. “They are not respecting our sons and daughters.”

The rival cross camps are evidence of a growing public backlash against the anti-war campaign of California activist Cindy Sheehan, who blames Mr. Bush for son Casey’s death in Iraq and has called for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gregg Garvey’s son, Army Sgt. Justin Garvey, 23, was killed in Iraq in July 2003. On Tuesday, Mr. Garvey of Keystone Heights, Fla., removed two crosses bearing the name of his son that were posted at the Sheehan demonstration site—dubbed “Camp Casey”—outside the Bush ranch.

“I also picked up crosses of two colleagues [of his son], after their parents gave me permission to remove their crosses as well,” Mr. Garvey said yesterday.

The crosses were erected by a group called Veterans for Peace as part of Mrs. Sheehan’s protest that began Aug. 6.

“One by one, [Mrs. Sheehan’s] crosses are coming down,” said Mr. Qualls, whose son, Louis Qualls, 20, was a Marine reservist killed in Fallujah last fall.

Mr. Qualls, an Army veteran from Penwell, Texas, said he has removed three different crosses bearing his son’s name from the nearly 600 erected on the narrow road leading to Mr. Bush’s ranch. Each time he removed a cross, protesters replaced it, he said.

Last weekend, Mr. Qualls transferred the crosses to a site in downtown Crawford that’s been nicknamed “Fort Qualls.” Mr. Garvey moved his son’s crosses there as well. By yesterday afternoon, friends and relatives of 13 other fallen soldiers had followed suit.

“More are on the way,” Mr. Qualls said, based on the number of e-mails, letters and phone calls of support he has received. [Emphasis mine]

Is anyone surprised?  Does anyone think, for a second, that these despicable people actually care about these soldiers?  They care about them only as far as their value as instruments of propaganda to get publicity for their radical left-wing agenda.  But hey, why care what the other parents of these dead soldiers think?  After all, Casey Sheehan’s mother speaks for all of them, doesn’t she?  And if she doesn’t, well, fuck them.  They’re brainwashed.

Originally posted at Right Thinking

Sorry, other moms who have lost loved ones…you don’t get no love

Apparently, everyone who predicted that Casey Sheehan’s mother didn’t give a fuck about the opinions of anyone else who lost a son or daughter in Iraq was 100% correct.

How can these moms who still support George Bush and his insane war in Iraq want more innocent blood shed just because their sons or daughters have been killed? I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how any mother could want another mother to feel the pain we feel. I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America, but they know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another.

Lee?  Have we reached our limit of civility yet?

Update from Lee: Yeah, I would say so.  As you and I have explicitly stated numerous times, it has been prudent to extend to this woman a base level of understanding, if for no other reason than to remove from the left’s arsenal one more avenue to attack those of us on the right.  But now that this vile, detestable woman has decided to denigrate the opinions of other mothers whose sacrifice and loss is as great as her own, all I can say is “Fuck that bitch.”

The only brainwashing going on here, Cindy, has been done by the despicable anti-war left, who have convinced you that you’re some kind of fucking saint. I imagine the publicity has gone to your head, what with drooling, sandal-wearing morons parading up to you in droves, lined up to get their pictures taken with you like children visiting Santa Claus.  I can imagine the ego boost this must give you, being the attention-whore you are.  The sad thing is that you are an absolutely soulless wretch, so devoid of any fundamental human compassion that you would deny other mothers the same degree of understanding that your political enemies—in other words, people like me—have gone to great pains to show to you.  In an unfortunately perverse way, the greatest thing that ever happened to you was the death of your son, because it gave your pathetic life meaning.  No longer were you a whimpering victim, cowering in fear while the world changed around you.  Now you had what con men refer to as “an angle,” a way that you could sink your claws into the public, to be a catalyst rather than a passive observer, using your grief as a means to get the public aware of your radical anti-American agenda.  And in the process you became a hero to millions of other simps around the world who share your political proclivities.

Tell me, Cindy.  When the PR flacks go home, and the tents are folded up, and it’s nothing but you and your lawn chair surrounded by miles of open land strewn with the remnants of the brief moment when your life had any purpose, will it be Casey’s image running through your head as the bullet enters your brain?  Or will it be the nagging regret that you couldn’t whore his memory out long enough to get your own talk show?

Two Mothers

We’ve all heard of Casey Sheeehan’s mother.  She’s everywhere.  A Google News search for “cindy sheehan” turns up almost 16,000 references.  But I’ll bet you’ve never heard of Sally Goodrich.

A North Adams educator whose son died in the World Trade Center attacks will leave for Afghanistan this weekend to see the completion of her yearlong project to build a 16-classroom school for more than 500 children ages 6 to 13.
Sally Goodrich said workers are striving to finish construction before she arrives in the country, on a trip she is determined to take despite the increase in violent incidents occurring at the Afghanistan and Pakistan border. …

The school project evolved from the Goodriches’ correspondence with U.S. Marine Maj. Rush Filson, a childhood friend of their son, who described the needs of Afghan schools. … At this point, the Goodriches’ school project is undergoing the finishing touches, which includes a protective wall around the building, at its undisclosed location in a quiet village. The school also needs furniture, landscaping and other necessities that the Goodriches hope to provide through the Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation. Over the summer, an anonymous donor contributed $10,000 and more than $6,000 came from other donations.

They are building the school according to the Afghan Ministry of Education’s guidelines and funding the project through donations from American citizens.

Read the whole article for the details.  Sally Goodrich took her grief and channeled it into something positive.  She hasn’t prostituted the death of her son.  She hasn’t attached herself to publicity whores like Code Pink, Michael Moore, or MoveOn.  She chose her task, and went about it with a quiet dignity.  When you go a Google News search for “sally goodrich”, guess how many references turn up. 

One, the article quoted in this post.

Now, if you were to ask a representative of the mainstream media about this discrepancy they would undoubtedly respond with something to the effect that Casey Sheehan’s mother is newsworthy, that she’s someone the public is interested in learning more about, no matter what their views on the war might be.  In this I am in total agreement, she is newsworthy and should be reported on.  But the larger question is how did Casey Sheehan’s mother become this media sensation in the first place?  Because when you think about it, the only real difference between these two mothers is the amount of press coverage they are receiving.  Both took a tragedy and channeled it into a cause.  Why is one cause more worthy of press attention than the other?

It’s simple.  As is beyond dispute, the media in this country lean left.  In the run up to the war the individual reporters were undoubtedly opposed to the war on personal reasons, but it was hard to argue with the justification that Saddam had WMD.  Everyone, and I mean everyone agreed that this was so.  So while they wrote editorials about the ensuing quagmire, they really couldn’t attack the justification for the war on logical, factual grounds.  Then, when it turned out that the pre-war intel was wrong, their left-wing brethren attacked the media for “not doing its job.” There was one major paper (the NY Times?) that actually ran an editorial apologizing to America for accepting the intel as it was presented, and not questioning it more, as if there was any way that they could have disputed what every major western intelligence service agreed was true.  So, with egg all over their liberal faces, they have to somehow redeem themselves, and they see in Casey Sheehan’s mother the opportunity to do so.  She’s the perfect martyr for the anti-war cause, and by promoting her under the guise of her “newsworthiness” they can claim an unbiased stance; they’re not reporting on her to promote her position, they’re just reporting on her because she’s news.  But the only reason she’s news in the first place is because they chose to report on her.  They’ve created their own self-fulfilling prophesy, in a way.

Why is Sally Goodrich any less newsworthy?  Well, because nobody has heard of her.  And why has nobody heard of her?  Because the media aren’t reporting her story.  Why is Casey Sheehan’s mother newsworthy?  Because everyone has heard of her.  And why has everyone heard of her?  Because the media have been inundating the public with her story for the past few weeks.  If the media had given Sally Goodrich the kind of press attention that they bestowed on Casey Sheehan’s mother then Sally Goodrich would be a household name, being lionized on morning TV by Katie Couric.  And if the media had ignored Casey Sheehan’s mother as they have Sally Goodrich, then the former would be nothing more than a wrinkly old bag sitting in a lawn chair, baking in the Texas sun.  Of course, it’s hard to ignore Casey Sheehan’s mother when you have an army of well-funded liberal PR flacks making sure that her every utterance is recorded for posterity and broadcast to the world.  (Every utterance, that is, except for the one where she referred to the Islamofascists now terrorizing Iraq as “freedom fighters” and said of America, “This country is not worth dying for.” (Link here.)

Strange that the mainstream media would neglect to report on these highly inflammatory remarks, isn’t it?  If Casey Sheehan’s mother is so newsworthy, wouldn’t reporting these type of polarizing, offensive remarks be even more newsworthy?  It seems to me that they would be, yet I haven’t seen these referenced anywhere but the online media and blogosphere.  I wonder why that could be? 

It’s amazing the type of “grass roots” campaign you can organize when you’ve got multimillionaire liberals and left-wing PR firms managing your every move, and a compliant media doing everything they can to portray you in the best possible light.

Cindy and the Nazis II

Recently I wrote a post about how a neo-Nazi group was expressing sympathy with Casey Sheehan’s mother.  Why?  Because they both have stated their belief that America’s war in Iraq was instigated at the behest of Israel.  Well, now a larger neo-Nazi group is heading down to Crawford to join in solidarity with her.

I’m driving out to Crawford, Texas tomorrow, Friday August 26th to help put up a White Nationalist voice in the protest against Bush’s War for Israel that was started by Cindy Sheehan.

We’ll be uploading digital photos, and maybe video, from Crawford so that Stormfront’s 58,000 Members (achieved today) and hundreds of thousands of Guests can follow the events in Crawford from a White patriot perspective.

If you live anywhere within a driving distance that won’t put you out too much, would you please join us on Saturday and Sunday? That’s August 27th and 28th.

The facilities at the Crawford Ranch Camp Casey are excellent: good food, shade, tents, water, toilets, parking, and all basic necessities are there in ample supply. Most supplies are free. All you need to bring is yourself, a good shade hat, and a long-sleeved shirt.

I’ll put up maps to Crawford and sign-making ideas in this thread. Please add your ideas.

Our purpose in journeying to the Crawford protest against Bush’s Neocon War for Israel is to:

Let The World Know That White Patriots
Were First & Loudest To Protest This War For Israel

How proud Casey Sheehan, a true American hero, would feel knowing the motley crew of scum that his mother has brought together: neo-Nazis, socialists, communists, and a general group of America-hating filth.  But, considering some of Casey’s mother’s recent statements, can anyone be surprised?  Here’s how she described her son’s killers.

“Casey was killed by insurgents. He wasn’t killed by terrorists,” she said. “He was killed by Shiite militia who wanted him out of the country, when Casey was told he was going to be welcomed with chocolate and flowers as a liberator. Well, the people of Iraq saw it differently. They saw him as an occupier.”

She’s delusional if she thinks “the people of Iraq” are the ones fighting us there.  It’s Iranian and Syrian intelligence agents running the insurgency, hoping to set up another fascist Islamic state.  This isn’t a homegrown rebellion.  But it’s not exactly surprising she feels this way.  She actually described the people killing American soldiers—in other words, the men who killed her son—as freedom fighters.

“You know that the president says Iraq is the central front in the war on terrorism, don’t you believe that?” asked Mark Knoller of CBS, surrounded by a host of other reporters.

“No, because it’s not true,” Sheehan replied. “You know Iraq was no threat to the United States of America until we invaded. I mean they’re not even a threat to the United States of America. Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they [American troops] have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country, devastating the country and killing innocent people in that country. The terrorism is growing and people who never thought of being car bombers or suicide bombers are now doing it because they want the United States of America out of their country. [Emphasis mine]

You can see video of her making this statement here.  (It’s a long video, about 30 minutes.  The statement is about five minutes in, when she first steps off the bus.) So, her son was killed by freedom fighters from other countries.  That’s right, folks.  Intelligence agents from the Islamic Republic of Iran are “freedom fighters.” So if they killed her son in the name of freedom, I don’t really see why she’s upset.  Since she obviously feels that the Iraqi people will be better off under a brutal Islamic regime in a vassal state controlled by Iran, wouldn’t that mean that her son died for a noble cause?  At any rate, Cindy isn’t much of a fan of America at all.  I found this transcript of her full remarks at a rally held for terrorist-supporting lawyer Lynne Stewart.  The rally was sponsored by, among other groups, the National Lawyers Guild, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, the International Socialist Organization, and the Campus Antiwar Network.  In other words, a real bevy of anti-American shitbags, the same people who are with her now in Crawford, soon to be joined by neo-Nazis.

I take responsibility partly for my son’s death, too. I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people, like my sister over here says, since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted. I’m going all over the country telling moms: “This country is not worth dying for. If we’re attacked, we would all go out. We’d all take whatever we had. I’d take my rolling pin and I’d beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq. {applause} We might not even have been attacked by Osama bin Laden if {applause}. 9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through and, if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have. The people are good, the system is morally repugnant. {applause}

America is a genocidal nation, America is evil, America is an oppressor, blah blah blah.  Hardly the sweet little innocent grieving mother that the major media portrays her to be, is she?  But remember, above all, she supports the troops!

Disgusting.  Absolutely fucking disgusting.

The Rev Goes South

America’s most noted race-baiting Jew hater just can’t stand it when cameras are pointed at anyone other than him.

The Rev. Al Sharpton plans to join peace activist Cindy Sheehan, known as the Peace Mom, on Sunday near President Bush’s Texas ranch.

Sharpton’s office said Thursday he would participate in a prayer vigil Sunday with Sheehan in Crawford, Texas. Sheehan returned on Wednesday to Camp Casey, named after her 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year in Iraq.

If there’s anything that can illustrate what a total farce the “peace vigil” is, it’s the presence of Al Sharpton.

Bowling for Tire Irons

Here’s a woman who would be raped or dead if she had obeyed the law.

A 15-year-old boy who was shot during a burglary has died.

Authorities aren’t releasing his name.

Police say a 59-year-old woman returned to her South Los Angeles home Tuesday morning after a walk and was confronted by a boy wielding a tire iron.

She shot him with a handgun she keeps for protection. He died today at a hospital.

The woman wasn’t hurt. The district attorney’s office will determine if the woman will face any charges.

This is California.  The only people here who are given concealed carry permits are celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell, who would much rather this woman have been raped or killed than legally allowed to protect herself with a firearm.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.” An old lady with a gun beats a young man with a tire iron any day.

Anti-War Protests Target Wounded

So patriotic. So supportive of the troops, right?

The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the current home of hundreds of wounded veterans from the war in Iraq, has been the target of weekly anti-war demonstrations since March. The protesters hold signs that read “Maimed for Lies” and “Enlist here and die for Halliburton.”

The anti-war demonstrators, who obtain their protest permits from the Washington, D.C., police department, position themselves directly in front of the main entrance to the Army Medical Center, which is located in northwest D.C., about five miles from the White House.

Among the props used by the protesters are mock caskets, lined up on the sidewalk to represent the death toll in Iraq.

Code Pink Women for Peace, one of the groups backing anti-war activist [Casey Sheehan’s mother’s] vigil outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford Texas, organizes the protests at Walter Reed as well.

Some conservative supporters of the war call the protests, which have been ignored by the establishment media, “shameless” and have taken to conducting counter-demonstrations at Walter Reed. “[The anti-war protesters] should not be demonstrating at a hospital. A hospital is not a suitable location for an anti-war demonstration,” said Bill Floyd of the D.C. chapter of FreeRepublic.com, who stood across the street from the anti-war demonstrators on Aug. 19.

“I believe they are tormenting our wounded soldiers and they should just leave them alone,” Floyd added.

But don’t you dare question their support of the troops.  Because it’s very supportive of soldiers to line up mock caskets and remind them of their fellow soldiers that got shot or blown up right next to them.  It’s so very supportive to rip open wounds and pour salt on them like that.  I often show rape porn on giant outdoor screens just outside group counselling sessions for rape victims.  It’s my way of protesting rapists.  Sometimes I like to put Bailey’s in the coffee at AA meetings too.  Oh, and pictures of dead children on billboards outside the Chidren’s Hostpitals.  After all, the evil medical establishment is killing kids and what better way to protest that than to stick those images in the faces of the parents coming and going.

Pure scum.  The whole lot of them.  And let’s not forget that Code Pink is one of the groups that is in bed with Saint Sheehan of Crawford.  That’s a tight, mutually supportive relationship, not just a group that is glomming on to her spotlight.

Who’s this about again?  The military personnel or the protesters?  I’m no fan of the more radical side of FreeRepublic.com, but in this case...they’re 100% right.  The hospital is not the place for scum to peddle their bullshit.  Can the wounded maybe have one place where they don’t have to worry about anything but geting well, maybe?

Disrespectful and disgusting, and may every one of those lowlife protesters rot in hell.  This is just another piece of evidence that you cannot pretend you support the troops if you don’t support the mission they’re performing.  To me, this proves they don;t support the troops, they in fact hate them.  Why else would you be so hurtful and disrespectful?

Hat tip: Moorewatcher Sean (as he signed it, a.k.a furious) and another version of the story at Drudge via Wizbang.

Two quick links

Poignant and brilliant.  Also, this is much like something I said earlier today in comments on the same topic.

Update

Make it three links.  What liberal media?  How about this one, actively lying to make Casey Sheehan’s mother look as good as possible and to completely eliminate the truth about Casey’s service and his choices.