Comments on: 'Peace Mom' Hurls Words At Karl Rove

One Arrested During Sheehan-Led Protest At Texas Republican Event

[maxbjd]

Please read this.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view/

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I respect her resolve...period!
Whether you agree with her or not.

She wants to understand what her son died for.
If you say protecting this country the you are very naive.

He died to secure the world's 2nd largest oil reserve for our economic interests. We had to get a hold of this before the Iraqis went off and made energy deals with China and India on ther own.
I believe that the Sudan and Venezuela have already done so. You think that US Government is going to tell you that plainly. Just like we went to Afghanistan to find Osama Bin Laden....right!
We went to ensure that the Khyber Pass Oil Pipeline gets implemented. I believe that the US bases there even follow the planned route of the pipeline.

This administration understands that the average person is not that smart. So they can sell you that peace and freedom stuff and we believe it. Because we are afraid and we let them do whatever they want. You want the Cyndi Sheehans of the world to go away and let me get back to my cozy little life of consuming and self-indulgence.

Wake up and realize the responsibility that has been bestowed upon you. We are the leaders of the free world and not war-mongers for "Big Oil".


Regards,
Maxbjd

[time2toss]

I hope sheehan continues to relentlessly hound Bush & company. They have really messed things up for this country. Their gross mismanagement and false justifications for the resulting Iraqi conflict is slowly turning out to be everything that Bush & company said it wouldn't be.

Lies from the Bush Administration come first and endure... until the truth cannot be ignored or explained away anymore. Once that point is reached, the administration does all it can to minimize the recoil from their about-face(s) with careful wording and all tactics available to them.

Is this good leadership? NOT.

Good leadership makes good decisions, and dosen't have to spend much of their attention trying to maintain image when things inevitably fall apart.

We need good leadership for a change.

Go, Cindy! NEVER stop!

[KOOLSTUF]

CarlyLane: You should go to bed at nite !!! You
implied Sheehan "faked" her son's death ??? She commits "TREASON" with her actions, and those who
support her ??? Of course, she "incites". What
Bush and those who pull his strings have done is
somewhat beyond "incite". YOU commit "TREASON"
by repudiating her constitutionally-supported
RIGHTS to express what she feels/believes!

And Gonzocon: Not "NICE" for those ruffians to throw someone else's tea into a harbor; and they
forgot their MANNERS by not dressing in kind while shooting at those "Redcoats" who were here
because they were paid to be (until deserting).
But aren't you glad they did all that ??? It's
also not NICE to get "DEAD", or lose brains or
other body parts, as did all those in WWI, WW II,
Korea, Nam, the Alamo, the Spanish-American War,
and assorted other places where they went, for
wanting to serve the rest of us -- and by often
ill-advised orders from self-serving politicians.

Regardless of your political bent, if you REALLY
pay attention, you'd acknowledege those elected
had sold our government to special interest folks;
and while they're driven by greed for power and
money from those sources, they deserve to be told
how the rest of the Nation feels. (Not that it's
likely until people starting learning how and why to vote. NEITHER Party truly serves US !!!)

[duffyn]

I think as a legacy to her son who was representing our country - we all need to understand why he died. If someone wants to say for world domination, to lead in global economics, so we can control a major chunk of world oil - I bet she could live with that. No, I cheer her on! She's a little radical but I think it's needed. Ya know to his small small credit bush did say the other day (this is not exact) "We can't just pull out of Iraq and leave all that oil money to the terrorists"!! Ah yes after - what is this? Three years - a glimmer.

[getalife7]

I do understand that she is upset about her sons loss. There is a time to morn and I feel like all she has done is drag what he stood for in the dirt. He went into the army wanting to fight for his country and he did, he died for his country, but his mother is angry about it. It doesn't matter whether or not we should be over there. He died fighting for his country, lets repect that, he give his life for us and his own mother turns around and starts protesting everything he stood for, what a mother. I wish she would like about what she is doing and remember her son and what he stood for.

[duffyn]

Final thought. I wonder where what we caused in Iraq fits into "using physical force to harm harming innocent bystanders". I sure don't call it defending ayone's rights. Raping, killing, torturing innocent people, turning their country into a living hell? Yeah, you stand up for those innocent bystander's over here, but forget what's happening over in Iraq. If Cindy would've been polite do you really think they would let her in? That said, if anyone got hurt, they do have a right to an apology and compensation. Just don't forget, I'm not blaming our soldiers - just their leaders. As far if she gave up her son, that sure doesn't mean she didn't love him - if it's even true. The BS level seems to have shot up considrably in the last 6 years.

[kylara02]

Final Thought: The use of physical force against innocent bystanders is a violation of the American rights and freedoms that Casey Sheehan defended. To violate those rights in his name is abominable.

[kylara02]

I do sympathize for her loss. I cannot imagine losing one of my children for any reason. I do not want to judge or attack her personal life. But, I am a petite, single mother of two. It is unjustifiable from any political viewpoint that I should go to work and fear being crushed by a door because protestors choose to rush and stampede a privately designated area. Nor did I expect Cindy Sheehan to plow over me in her attempt to break through to an area that was not open to the public. Fortunately, a gentleman behind me held me up so that I was not trampled by Sheehan or anyone else. It is a shame that they abused their right to protest by physically assaulting and endangering hotel staff. That is my point%u2026and it has no political or religious affiliation attached.

[capritch]

While I empathize with Ms Sheehan in the lose of her son - didn't she give him up when he was 9 years old. So why is she blaming President Bush, the war and Mr. Rove for his death? Maybe if she had kept her son, his fate would have been different.

[kylara02]

I said physically violent people...I have no problem with people sitting in...I think it's wrong what the police did to protestors in the 60s, and I think it's wrong for Sheehan to use physical force now. MADD enforced change in our society without physically assaulting other mothers...I think Sheehan's band of mothers should follow those rules. Peaceful protest is not for wimps, but Ghandi certainly accomplished a miracle with peaceful protest...if Sheehan and others continue to stampede innocent bystanders...they risk losing their cause entirely.