Saturday 01 April 2006
Congressman Kingston,
How dare you psychoanalyze me and call me a “nutcase!” How dare you call me a beatnik and lie about me in
your blog!
First of all, April 4th, 2006, this upcoming Tuesday, will be the 2nd
anniversary of my son’s death. Casey Austin Sheehan was a man filled
with integrity and courage. He was a hero who never backed down from
the right thing his entire life. He was an amazing person who did not
hide when his commander in chief sent him to a war based on lies even
when he knew they were lies. He carried out his duty, unlike his
commander in chief, who went AWOL from the Alabama Air National Guard
(whoo … tough duty), and he volunteered to serve his country, unlike
the vice-commander in chief, who had “other priorities” during the
Vietnam war. I am not against anyone getting out of that generation’s
mistake of a war, but to illegitimately come to power when they grew
up and send an entire new generation off to fight, die and kill
innocent people in their own war of choice for greed is
unconscionable. I hope I am not using words that are too big for you.
Second of all, I have never called “terrorists” freedom fighters.
I
have called the resistance fighters who killed Casey such, but they
are fighting to get the occupying forces out of their country and have
a legitimate right to wage a resistance against occupiers. I don’t
like that they are killing our children – for God’s sake, they killed
my oldest child, my sweet and wonderful Casey. However, our government
is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the
people of Iraq. Have you heard of white phosphorous? Have you heard of
torture? Have you heard of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? Have you heard
about our Constitution and the Geneva Conventions?
Have you also heard that Saddam had nothing to do with the tragedy of
9/11 and that he had no WMD? How can you support a liar and his
policies that are draining our precious life blood, depleting our
military, sucking our treasury dry and have harmed, almost beyond
repair, the people and land of the Gulf States hit by Hurricane
Katrina? Have you heard that Osama bin Ladin is still at large and two
countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, that had nothing to do with 9/11 are
devastated? I hope they can recover from George’s brand of “freedom
and democracy.”
As to you having a problem with me meeting with Hugo Chavez, who
survived a coup that was orchestrated by the Bush administration and
has been democratically elected to his office 8 times? You can’t pick
and choose to support only the Democracies that agree with George
Bush. I don’t support everything that President Chavez stands for, but
his people love him, and he is truly trying to make things better for
the 80 percent of the people who were in poverty when he took over;
has has reduced that figure to 37 percent. He is stealing from the
rich to help the poor, whereas George Bush and his policies do the
opposite. Hugo Chavez is not anti-American – he is anti-George Bush,
and I have to agree with him on that. He has provided low cost heating
fuel to underprivileged citizens in our own country and has donated at
least $40,000 to the various aid organizations in the Gulf States.
Did you have a problem with George Bush kissing the sheik from Saudi
Arabia when 16 of the terrorists that flew airplanes into our
buildings on 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia? Did you have a problem with
Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam’s hand and selling him weapons that are
now killing our children in Iraq? Do you have a problem with the fact
that since your party’s devastating invasion of Iraq, members of the
so-called “Axis of Evil” have become more powerful and even more
dangerous to America? Did you have a problem with George Bush wanting
to sell our ports to Dubai, when they are one of the only countries on
earth that recognize the Taliban? Did you have a problem with the bin
Laden family being flown out of the United States days after 9/11,
when our own citizens could not fly and many of us were trapped far
from our homes ourselves? Did you have a problem with George, et al,
ignoring all of the intelligence reports before 9/11 that said that
terrorists were planning on “flying airplanes” into our buildings?
I am not a leftwing Democrat and I hold many of the members of that
party as responsible as I hold your party and George Bush and his
administration. I do not think that there is anything political about
an illegal and immoral war.
Our country was founded on dissent and on the blood of “freedom
fighters.” I have every right to be doing what I am doing to try and
stop the needless and unnecessary killing without being wrongly judged
by you. I believe that you and anyone else who would deny me, and
Michael Moore for that matter, our rights and responsibilities as
patriotic Americans are the ones who are un-American and traitors to
the American way of life. A member of your own party and a noted
war-monger, Theodore Roosevelt, said:
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand
by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the
degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to
support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is
unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency
or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either
event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the
president or anyone else.”
George Bush has admitted that Saddam had no WMD or ties to al-Qaeda.
He has admitted to spying on Americans without due process and has
called the Constitution an “old scrap of paper.” He is responsible
for
the tragic deaths of thousands of people and for America losing its
reputation in the international community, and to support his failed
presidency is not only unpatriotic, as Teddy said, but is also a war
crime.
I am not a nutcase and I am not an unpatriotic war criminal like you
and others who still support the most failed presidency in the history
of our country.
What I am is a devastated, broken-hearted mother who will mourn the
needless death of my son for the rest of my life. I just want the
killing to stop before there are anymore American or Iraqi Casey and
Cindy Sheehans.
Peace soon,
Cindy Sheehan
Congressman Jack Kingston’s blog:
Cindy Sheehan IS A “Nutcase” March 31st, 2006, by Press Staff
In today’s CongressDailyAM (full story after the jump due to
subscription), Sue Davis reports that Congressman Kingston got into a
“discussion” yesterday in a closed-door meeting with two liberal
Democrats regarding anti-war beatnik, Cindy Sheehan.
A closed hearing of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
turned contentious Thursday as Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., Subcommittee
ranking member Jack Murtha, D-Pa., and others sparred over the meaning
of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, heroes and military service.
According to one Democratic source present at the hearing, Kingston
commented that Sheehan was “a nutcase” and lamented that too many
of
the human interest stories coming out of the war in Iraq center on
anti-war activists like Sheehan and filmmaker Michael Moore and do not
give proper service to heroic tales of U.S. soldiers.
“Who would argue that Cindy Sheehan’s son is not a hero? I mean, come
on,” he said, chalking the exchange up to election-year politics.
“I think she is a very flaky woman,” Kingston told CongressDaily.
“I
think we need more heroes. The only people that get press are people
like Moore and Sheehan.”
Cindy Sheehan is a nutcase. In fact, you may remember Cindy Sheehan
from her recent trip to Venezuela for the World Social Forum where she
met with Venezuela’s anti-American leftist president, Hugo Chavez
(pictured above).
Or you may recall how she refers to the terrorists who are killing
American soldiers in Iraq as “freedom fighters.” Check out this story
by WorldNetDaily for more. The problem is that what Howard Dean
famously termed the “democratic wing of the Democratic Party” has
now
completely taken over.
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For reference, Congressman Jack Kingston’s website:
http://kingston.house.gov/blog/?p=136.
For reference, Congressman Jack Kingston’s e-mail:
Kingston.Press.Office@mail.house.gov.