Another Cliche

Cindy Sheehan is the typical media cliche. White middle-aged woman who is the victim of something and is now the center of a cause. Gag. Now that the police have given up on Natalee Holloway in Aruba, the media will have to settle with Mrs. Sheehan as their white female victim flavor of the month.

While Cindy Sheehan grabs headlines with her noble crusade to obtain an audience with Emperor Bush, I have one question for her. Were you pro-war when your son was alive?

Obviously, what I know about Cindy Sheehan is a product of what is reported in the media. She is a bereaved mother who lost her son Casey in the war and now wants the troops home. But I want to know if she was cool with American forces attacking a sovereign nation that had not attacked us first so long as her son was alive.

She can't have it both ways. It was acceptable to have troops in Iraq since March 2003, but now they must come home because her son died? I went to her website to hear about her efforts to dissuade her son from going to war, but there was no such thing. http://www.meetwithcindy.org/. I was hoping to find something about her moral opposition to war, but there was nothing.

Some reporters describe Cindy Sheehan as the catalyst for a real anti-war movement, but she is no such thing. http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer116.html; http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article306158.ece. The legitimate anti-war movement has been there since day one, supporting America's troops by demanding that they be brought home immediately. You really have to wonder why Mrs. Sheehan gets all the attention while the legitimate, passionate anti-war movement has been wholly ignored by the mainstream media. Probably because she has nothing to add to the discussion and her objections to the war are hollow.

For real war protesters, check out
http://freecamilo.org/
http://antiwar.com/
http://bendermandefense.org/