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Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Tue Aug 23, 2005 at 11:12:53 PM EST
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Cindy Sheehan writes at Huffington Post that she's going back to Crawford.

I'm coming back to Crawford for my son. As long as the president, who sent him to die in a senseless war, is in Crawford, that is where I belong. I came here two and a half weeks ago for one reason, to try and see the president and get an answer to a very simple question: What is the noble cause that he says my son died for?

Good. We need her there.

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    • Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford | 11 comments (11 topical)
    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:39 PM EST
    You Go Girl. You are doing great work.

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#2)
    by aw on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:39 PM EST
    Looks like the noble cause is to create an Islamic Republic of Iraq. I'm sure most Americans will be so pleased and agree that it was worth the lives and money and going into deep national debt. Later, when we have to beg the Chinese for forgiveness of our debts and submit to their terms, they will be delirious. Mission accomplished.

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#3)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:39 PM EST
    Now, you know aw... they said all along that it was all about WMD... er, imminent threats... er, women's rights... er... 9/11! 9/11! ...9/11? 9/11! Also, you hate America, freedom, and the troops.

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:40 PM EST
    What did Cindy's son die for? To create an Islamic republic just like the one next door, of course. Just ask former Bush supporter Dr. Raja Kuzai(the Iraqi ob/gyn. who met w/ Shrub in 2004) Dr. Kuzai then: PRESIDENT BUSH: I want to thank my friend, Dr. Raja Khuzai, who's with us today. This is the third time we have met. The first time we met, she walked into the Oval Office -- let's see, was it the first time? It was the first time. The door opened up. She said, "My liberator," and burst out in tears -- (laughter) -- and so did I. (Applause.) Compare and contrast with her statement yesterday: "This is the future of the new Iraqi government - it will be in the hands of the clerics," said Dr. Raja Kuzai, a secular Shiite member of the Assembly. "I wanted Iraqi women to be free, to be able to talk freely and to able to move around." "I am not going to stay here," said Dr. Kuzai

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#5)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:40 PM EST
    Well done Adept. If the noble cause isn't a fundamentalist state, it's profit for the war machine.

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:40 PM EST
    Good, I like having her there too. I think it is very helpful in educating America. -C

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#7)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:42 PM EST
    scar writes:
    Now, you know aw... they said all along that it was all about WMD... er, imminent threats... er, women's rights... er...
    Er, just in the interest of accuracy, imminent danger was never claimed, actually the opposite. In case you doubt me, read his 2003 SOTU. BTW - I seem to remember our constitution took quite a time, and even then we wound up with no voting by women, an appointed Senate, and a group of people called "slaves." And remember, we came from a country with a long history of freedom, an elected parliament and the rule of law. A small bit of patience seems to be in order.

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#8)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:42 PM EST
    in the interest of accuracy, imminent danger was never claimed, actually the opposite.
    In October 2002, the US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said: "Ask yourself this question: Was the attack that took place on 11 September an imminent threat the month before or two months before or three months before or six months before? When did the attack on 11 September become an imminent threat? Now, transport yourself forward a year, two years or a week or a month... So the question is, when is it such an immediate threat that you must do something?"
    In October 2002, President George Bush, said: "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof - the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
    On 7 May 2003, Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman at the time, was asked: "Didn't we go to war because we said WMD were a direct and imminent threat to the US?" He replied: "Absolutely."
    section V from the White House National Security Strategy of September 17, 2002: "For centuries, international law recognized that nations need not suffer an attack before they can lawfully take action to defend themselves against forces that present an imminent danger of attack. Legal scholars and international jurists often conditioned the legitimacy of preemption on the existence of an imminent threat Ñ most often a visible mobilization of armies, navies, and air forces preparing to attack.
    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#9)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:42 PM EST
    Sailor - Thanks for making my point that the position was that we could not wait for imminent danger, but must make a pre-emptibe strike. Normally you aren't so helpful. But normally you don't read Bush's speeches, eh?

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#10)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:42 PM EST
    Wow, what a nice guy! I point out he lied and he THANKS me!

    Re: Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford (none / 0) (#11)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:42 PM EST
    PPJ is a habitual liar...his only reason for coming here appears to be for treatment of this affliction.

    Cindy Sheehan Is Going Back to Crawford | 11 comments (11 topical)