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Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call Iraq War "Lie"

By Last Night in Little Rock, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Mon Sep 19, 2005 at 02:17:07 AM EST
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by Last Night in Little Rock

Cindi Sheehan, another person who was almost lost in the aftermath of Katrina, who camped out at Crawford, TX during the last interminable Presidential vacation, was in Brooklyn yesterday saying the Sen. Hillary Clinton "knows that the war is a lie but she is waiting for the right time to say it."

Then, as the crowd cheered, she issued a challenge to Senator Clinton, saying, "You say it or you are losing your job."

A spokesman for Senator Clinton, while not commenting about Ms. Sheehan's remarks, said that the senator, while voting to give President Bush the authority to go to war, has been very critical of the way he has chosen to use that authority.

Prior postings about Sheehan, among many others, are here, here, here, and here.

All Sheehan wanted from President Bush was an answer to what her son died for in Iraq. President Bush could not answer that question, and he was hidden away in the "ranch" doing brush clearing brush photo-ops. Is the chainsaw a metaphor for Bush's view of dissenters? of the U.S. government's machinery? It apparently was about any agency where he would put an inexperienced lacky in charge, like FEMA.

A movement developed around Sheehan that sustained her vigil and even made it grow when Sheehan had to leave for a while because of the illness of her mother. She returned, but Katrina came, and Bush had an excuse to leave Crawford without talking to her, not that he ever would have. It's not like he could engage in intelligent debate with anyone because debates in Bushworld require either scripts or he be wired and the answers fed to him.

And the U.S. Iraq war dead, 1,899; wounded, 14,632. Since "Mission Accomplished," 1,762 have died. The ugly milestone of 2,000 U.S. dead in Iraq looms.

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    Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call Iraq War "Lie" | 12 comments (12 topical)
    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:01 PM EST
    Waiting for the right time?! Even Bush himself has told the US this was all just a bunch of lies with the WMD, the connection to Al-Quaida etc. But then again it may be that Hillary does not trust his judgement...

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#2)
    by Jlvngstn on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:01 PM EST
    good for her, Hillary has been in full support of this war through thick and thin and aside from feingold/dean I have not seen much backbone on the left.....

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#3)
    by learned hound on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:01 PM EST
    I love Bill C and all, but let's not forget that he was the best republican president we've ever had, and Hillary is cut from the same mold. Anybody who expects anything even close to bold from her is looking in the wrong place.

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#4)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:01 PM EST
    et al - The dog days of August are over, so Mrs. Sheehan is getting what she deserves. Being ignored.

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#5)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:03 PM EST
    H. Clinton does NOT represent the true left in this country. She's another cardboard cutout. No substance at all. Even Pelosi makes her look like a repug.

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:03 PM EST
    Charley, on the other hand, doesn't have a son in the battle. He pretends to know Cindy Sheehan's son, instead. Bush doesn't have a son or daughter or distant relative anywhere near his illegal war of conquest.

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:03 PM EST
    'Even Pelosi', Che? Why don't you study some US gov't, and understand what BOTH Clinton and Pelosi are up against. Nancy Pelosi is a HERO for her continued service in a time of coup.

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#8)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:04 PM EST
    The dog days of August are over, so Mrs. Sheehan is getting what she deserves. Being ignored.
    The spotlight is instead on...hundreds of floating corpses in our own backyard still being gathered up as more people realize that Bush is only capable of killing people, rather than saving them. You would like to kill the messenger, but the message remains, PPJ...so keep bailing that bloody water.

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#9)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:04 PM EST
    the left uses dead soldiers for props despite their contempt for them; she used her own son. I am not sure which is worse.
    I think most people understand that what is worse in this case is people like you defending creeps who lied their way into a war that resulted in all those lifeless "props". More and more people are realizing that. charley..quick, grab a pail and help PPJ bail.

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#11)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:04 PM EST
    why not invite HRC to rant about how it was all done for and by the jews
    what level of ranting and railing against jews qualifies you for the true left?
    Can we vote mr charlie off the island yet?

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#12)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:04 PM EST
    Pil, Meant to leave out the word even. Having Pelosi become speaker of the House in conjunction with the impeachment of Bush/Cheney would certainly help matters. But I will NOT support moderate Dems ANYMORE. You have more faith in the ultimate success of the democratic process than I do, my friend. We'll need a h**l of a lot more than Nancy Pelosi to get our country back.

    Re: Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:07 PM EST
    Che: "But I will NOT support moderate Dems ANYMORE." Pelosi is not a moderate in the sense you claim. However, her responsibilities as leader go beyond her own views. Her responsibiility is to the caucus, and holding that caucus together is CRUCIAL to slowing down what is happening. Reid and Pelosi are holding on, and you can't be bothered to support? How convenient for you. It will take quite a bit of justice to get our country back. But you are going to need the government to get that. Or do you favor a catastrophe, instead?

    Cindi Sheehan Challenges Sen. Clinton to Call Iraq War "Lie" | 12 comments (12 topical)