Sheehan was hospitalized after not eating for a month. They should let that woman die. She enjoys making a mockery of her son's sacrifice. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/12/sheehan.hospital.ap/index.html
You want her dead because she has a different opinion than you? So, to get her to agree with you, what else will you do? Send her to Guantanamo to have electric probes shoved up her ass?
natural selection maybe? Have you ever personally been present when a mother is given the news that her son was killed in a war? No, of course not, that's really obvious. You also seem completely ignorant of the meaning of "natural selection." I could be wrong: maybe you're just sarcastically imitating the sort of idiots that we hear endlessly in the mainstream media. Personally, I agree that hunger strikes are generally a bad move. It only makes you weaker and less able to face your opponents effectively. But mental problems happen to a lot of people after they lose a family member. I wouldn't say an unkind word to her or anyone else who lost a friend or family member in a war, no matter what their political views. I don't understand the sorts of people whose hatred of American values is so extreme that they take joy in the death of an American soldier, and laugh at the grieving family.
cindy sheehan makes speeches and hold rallies and what not, i highly doubt she has serious mental problems. and if she does have mental problems, what does that say about her supporters? shouldnt they be getting her professional help instead of encouraging her? Her son died a few years ago, its time she get over it. It is obvious she was against the war long before her son died in it. Nobody forced her son to go there, usually when you sign up for the military you have a pretty good idea of what will happen if and when there is war. how am i laughing at the grieving family? her own family thinks she is nuts and disgracing her sons name. she is just pissed off her 15 mins of fame is over and her chance to 'bring world peace' has been thwarted because she is using her sons death as a vehicle for her political agenda. if she wants to kill herself, either let her do it or send her to the mental hospital. oh and by the way, two of my good friends are fighting in iraq currently. i have known of families in my neighborhood who have lost loved ones in the war. one of my friends from high school just died last year. i have the utmost compassion and respect for the families and their loved ones, but they also didnt fly off the handle and stake out president bush's house for a month, they just accepted the news and tried to honor their child in different ways.
Im all for letting cindy sheehan die. I heard she moved into a home near bushs ranch in texas too. What a freak heh?
I don't know why anyone cares about this woman. Yes, I understand one of her sons died...but have any of you people on her bandwagon forgotten that she basically abandoned the rest of her family in this, fairly fruitless, pursuit of Bush. Her son had a father and siblings..do they not matter? This woman is not right in the head. There were thousands and thousands of wives and mothers during WW2 that lost multiple sons and husbands...yet they grieved and then moved on with their lives. They didn't ignore their families like Cindy did. She isn't the only woman who lost a child in this terrible war but she is the only one making a total fool of herself.
i think the whole starvation thing was a bit much and there are other ways to protest or get your point across without hurting yourself. i do respect what she has been doing. it seems everyone has mixed views about her but i met her and she truely is a good person.
thank god for the hippy nazis of hippyland to finally tell it like it is. why not send cindy to iraq ? maybe we can send all the warmongers over to iraq too.
For the people who think Americans don't have a constitutional right AND OBLIGATION to protest an obviously out-of-control obviously moronic president, might I suggest you move to a country that has a totalitarian form of gov't--myanmar for example. They don't allow dissert over there--you'd love it. I support Cindy 100%.
for your average hippy nazi and warmonger the choice is clear it is better to be at the side of the devil than in his path.
"...if she does have mental problems, what does that say about her supporters? shouldnt they be getting her professional help instead of encouraging her?" I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that a great many of her supporters have tried to convince her to deal with it in other ways, and to just let go of this issue for her own good. Maybe she cares more about her country than her own well-being. "two of my good friends are fighting in iraq currently" Well, maybe they're not such good friends, or maybe you'd be over there helping out. Many soldiers are being sent back over to Iraq specifically because there aren't enough volunteers, and our president isn't man enough to admit that his mistake. Your friends will probably be sent back simply because you'd rather have them serving in your place. Remember that if you attend a funeral for one of them, and don't forget to apologize to your buddy's mom for not being there for him when he needed you. "I don't know why anyone cares about this woman." She's a human being, for one thing, and if that's not good enough, I might even argue that she's an American. My wife's brother served for 20 years in this country and overseas. He saw riots and gunfire and saw friends die in car bombings. When it came time for him to retire, he was kept in for another couple of years. He also has all sorts of medical problems, and guess what? John Q. Public really, truly does not give a goddamn about his well-being. All this conservative talk about "supporting the troops" is nothing but piles of complete bullshit. It's nothing more than a decoration for the gas guzzler. GodDAMN I hate conservatives. "She isn't the only woman who lost a child in this terrible war but she is the only one making a total fool of herself." She's not acting strangely at all, based on what I've seen of a mother who lost her kid in a war. What offends people about CS is that she's not hiding her feeling of outrage, and isn't waving a flag at a Bush Rally like a good little obedient "bitch." But she's not acted out to the extreme that we've seen in plenty of other cases, Alex Arredondo's father for instance. I'm really offended by these jackasses who were perfectly okay with sending kids overseas to die- while refusing to put their own asses on the line- and then turn around and argue that Sheehan should shut up and not speaking in praise of Bush and KBR.
the funny part is that cindy sheehan and her supporters actually think she is making a difference. don't you see that the rest of america thinks she is foolish? her own family abandoned her because she is nuts. she camped outside the presidents house for a month or whatever to meet with him, but the fact was she already met him! and for the person who asked why i am not serving in iraq, it is because i fight with my brain and not my hands. i am three semesters away from an undergraduate degree in international relations, and will most likely graduate with honors. after that im going to grad school for a masters in conflict resolution. i am pretty sure im getting an internship translating french/italian legal documents this year as well. i think i would be more valuable in other places besides on the ground
who said it was ok? i just think that cindy sheehan is probably the least qualified person to "bring the troops home." she has no idea how complicated this situation is, but she thinks that by starving herself she can just fix the situation. what an idiot. she just makes americans look bad. your logic seems flawed, because one does not like cindy sheehan, that means that they should be fighting in iraq??