Stupid Cindy Sheehan Quotes
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 09:23AM More reasons why we need Cindy Sheehan to be the spokesperson for the anti-war movement:
“We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We’re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!”
“The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush.”
“We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.”
“They’re (Bush administration) a bunch of f***ing hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up.”
“If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullsh**, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?”
“The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war.”
“We want our country back and, if we have to impeach everybody from George Bush down to the person who picks up dog sh** in Washington, we will impeach all those people.”
“Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full-well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by George [W.] Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11.”
“I have been silent on the Gold Star Moms who still support this man and his war by saying that they deserve the right to their opinions because they are in as much pain as I am. I would challenge them, though, at this point to start thinking for themselves. Iraq DID NOT have WMD’s; Iraq WAS NOT linked to Al Qaeda and 9/11; Iraq WAS NOT a threat or danger to America. How can these moms who still support George Bush and his insane war in Iraq want more innocent blood shed just because their sons or daughters have been killed? I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how any mother could want another mother to feel the pain we feel. I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America, but they know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another. However, I still feel their pain so acutely and pray for these continue the murder and mayhem moms to see the light.”
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My personal favorite: when asked last Saturday in Crawford, TX, by a reporter what she would say to Iraqis if the U.S. pulled out, after polls in Iraq show that the vast majority of Iraqis want the U.S. to remain in Iraq:
(deer in the headlights look) “I would say to them that…. we… can find a way. We can find a way. You just have to make it work. We have done too much damage to your country already. Thank you.”
Interpretation: Screw you, Iraqis! It’s not about what you want, it’s about what I want!
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How dare she say anything about Israel! That is the Lord's country. Ohhh, this woman just burns me up.
She can't even think for herself, her words are practiced and to top it off, she feels she needs to use profanity in order to get her point across. What does that say about her?
This woman is a joke (I am sincerely sorry for her loss) but she has gone too far and I truly wish she would just shut-up and go away. I think we have heard of enough of her to last us a lifetime.
I know that sounds harsh, but we have a great President and country where this type of abuse of freedom of speech is allowed. Let her try it in Cuba or Venezuela and/or China. She would have been handcuffed and carried away along with all the leftist radicals, with their anit-war/anti-president campaign.
The world was our ally after the WTC attack and we could have gone to Afghanistan with 100,000 troops, secured the entire nation, defeated the warlords, captured Bin Laden, and made that nation a flower of democracy and not the world's supplier of opium that it now is. But instead, because there's nothing to bomb there (says Cheney) this administration, which was just looking for a reason to swat Hussein, took their eye off the prize and has mired us in an increasingly hopeless situation.
How could we have spent the almost $300 Billion it's costing us to fix this mess? We could have put anti-missile devices on every commercial jet; secured every container coming into our ports, bolstered our borders; paid our police AND teachers more; and the list goes on.
After 9/11 we were the white knights. Now all our embassies are ominous forbidding fortresses instead of beacons of freedom. Our leaders say god is commanding us (Bin Laden says the same thing), and Christian Conservatives can't stop trying to impose their narrow views on everyone. This is a pluralist society, inhabited by many cultures and religions yet the Christian Right thinks there should be only one way. You deny science, condemn people who are born differently, and stick to narrow religious doctrine instead of giving poor nations the tools they need to combat disease and out of control birth rates.
This president shamelessly politicizes 9/11 whenever he needs a boost. To this day he says Iraq was involved when they weren't. Our attacking Iraq after 9/11 is akin to Roosevelt attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbor. They fire or demote those who dare speak truth about this government's malfeasance (yesterday they demoted the head of military procurement because she exposed faulty bidding practices by Haliburton (who incidently is guilty of war profiteering). They leak names of agents to attack opponents, and now denegrate a woman who only wants to know why her son died.
we can say he died because he was doing something he wanted to do. That is a fine. A good soldier will follow orders no matter how bad the policy. But this president said we are attacking Iraq because: they were an imminent threat; they had weapons of mass destruction; they were part of the 9/11 plot; they tried to "kill my dad." Then he says, in the absence of any actual weapons of mass destruction, that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction program related activities." Would you send your son or daughter to war because some nation was thinking about weapons? Now we are there, supposedly, because we are building a democracy. A fine intention but the end does not justify the means. Not when a president lies about the most serious duty he has: the sending of troops into war. Hussein and his rancid ilk probably killed about 200,000 people over 30 years. We have killed about 100,000 and utterly destroyed a nation in about 3 years.
It was this president who only 8 months in office needed an extended vacation and while he rode his bike or cleared the endless brush in that dust bowl of his our enemies struck. An enemy that this president was warned about by the previous administration that he was a growing threat. An enemy that he was told planned to "attack in the United States." Almost a year into his term and he and did nothing. They can blame the Clinton presidency fo all the world's ills but once you take the oath you are responsible. We were attacked on this president's watch. And he ignored security briefings, memos, and the warnings of anyone who spoke of anything other than how to get Saddam Hussein.
Those who spoke truth are run out of town and those who screw up so badly are promoted and given medals. But the Christian Right doesn't care what this guy does as long as he caters to your needs and desires, however damaging to our nation as a whole they are.
"Our attacking Iraq after 9/11 is akin to Roosevelt attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbor."
Really? Were we patrolling two gigantic No-Fly Zones in Mexico following Pearl Harbor? Was Mexico in flagrant non-compliance of UN Security Council Resolutions? Did the regime in Mexico attempt an assassination of a former President of the US (Saddam tried to assassinate Bush I)? Was the Mexican government bankrolling suicide bombers in Israel? Did the dictator of Mexico have a recent history of using WMD and attacking nations on his border? Were there Mexican governments-in-exile such as the Iraqi National Congress? Is Mexico a rogue state situated in the world's bed of Oil supply? Did the Mexicans aid and abet the Japanese as Saddam allowed Al Qaeda terrorists to receive medical treatment in Iraq?
Sorry Bobby. Your shrill rhetoric does not pass the common sense test. But thanks for sharing! :)
-Like Iran, for instance? Darn right, I would! We have no firm proof yet that Iran is making nukes, but what do you think? It's up to you. It's a two-sided dice. Either get out your acoustic guitar and sing "War is over if you want it", or else ACT to protect the entire world by taking out that Iranian installation before it's too late.
You don't make any sense, the grass is green!
I am under the impression that Cindy's quotes are far from being stupid, considering that the US does not have enough troops to save your own people. Pretty ironic, don't you find ?
Amy, hand of God ?
PS: Get a life.. Johnny get a real job.
@Johnny:
As you said, "Your shrill rhetoric does not pass the common sense test." I chuckled. How true. So much of what the liberals say doesn't pass this test.
RR, I'm not vilifying anyone! Poor Cindy Sheehan has made a colossal fool of herself in plain site, willingly. She has made herself a political commentary, so I feel no guilt in commenting on her, particularly since she's accusing my commander in chief of things that are ridiculous, libelous and so on. Perhaps because know Iraqis first hand who've been hurt by the terrorists, who've in turned been encouraged by the PR war of propaganda, it makes it more meaningful for me to point out the stupidity of her comments. The enemy relies on Cindy Sheehan to spread lies that they are not getting across... because no one listens to a terrorist unless they're American.
With due respect, you know nothing of Operation Enduring Freedom or military operations in Afghanistan. It would be easier for you to just blame Bill Clinton for letting him escape repeatedly after blunt warnings.
State Dept. Warned Clinton
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$300 billion is too much to spend on saving a country? I'll bet it's not too much for abortion on demand. You'd support that, right? Free round of aboritions for everyone, on the US!
You did NOT say Haliburton! That's it, I'm going to the DNC myself and giving them new talking poitns.
As for the rest of your ludicrious statements about Bush lying, soldiers not spreading democray in Iraq, I won't repeat myself. Just read through my various other articles for the facts.
Since you're so into handing out blame to Bush because 9/11 happened "on his watch" (to the disappointnment of Clinton, you may wish to know. He lamented it not happening when he was in office so he could remold his freaking legacy), you might then be interested in all the terrorist attacks that not only happened on Clinton's watch, but which he fully ignored. He was preoccupied with Monica and lying and all that. Here you go:
February 26, 1993: World Trade Center bombing. The World Trade Center in New York City was badly damaged when a car bomb planted by Islamic terrorists exploded in an underground garage. The bomb left 6 people dead and 1,000 injured. The men carrying out the attack were followers of Umar Abd al-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric who preached in the New York City area.
April 14, 1993: Attempted Assassination of President Bush by Iraqi Agents. The Iraqi intelligence service attempted to assassinate former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during a visit to Kuwait. In retaliation, the U.S. launched a cruise missile attack 2 months later on the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
March 8, 1995: Attack on U.S. Diplomats in Pakistan. Two unidentified gunmen killed two U.S. diplomats and wounded a third in Karachi, Pakistan.
November 13, 1995: Saudi Military Installation Attack. The Islamic Movement of Change planted a bomb in a Riyadh military compound that killed one U.S. citizen, several foreign national employees of the U.S. government, and over 40 others.
June 25, 1996: Khobar Towers bombing. A fuel truck carrying a bomb exploded outside the US military's Khobar Towers housing facility in Dhahran, killing 19 U.S. military personnel and wounding 515 persons, including 240 U.S. personnel. Several groups claimed responsibility for the attack.
February 23, 1997: Empire State Building Sniper Attack. A Palestinian gunman opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland, and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claimed this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine."
October 30, 1997: Yemeni Kidnappings. Al-Sha'if tribesmen kidnapped a U.S. businessman near Sanaa. The tribesmen sought the release of two fellow tribesmen who were arrested on smuggling charges and several public works projects they claim the government promised them. They released the hostage on November 27.
November 12, 1997: Murder of U.S. Businessmen in Pakistan. Two unidentified gunmen shot to death four U.S. auditors from Union Texas Petroleum Corporation and their Pakistani driver after they drove away from the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. The Islami Inqilabi Council, or Islamic Revolutionary Council, claimed responsibility in a call to the U.S. Consulate in Karachi. In a letter to Pakistani newspapers, the Aimal Khufia Action Committee also claimed responsibility.
August 7, 1998: U.S. Embassy Bombings in East Africa. A bomb exploded at the rear entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 12 U.S. citizens, 32 Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs), and 247 Kenyan citizens. Approximately 5,000 Kenyans, 6 U.S. citizens, and 13 FSNs were injured. The U.S. Embassy building sustained extensive structural damage. Almost simultaneously, a bomb detonated outside the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 7 FSNs and 3 Tanzanian citizens, and injuring 1 U.S. citizen and 76 Tanzanians. The explosion caused major structural damage to the U.S. Embassy facility. The U.S. Government held Usama Bin Laden responsible.
August 12, 2000: Kidnappings in Kyrgyzstan. In the Kara-Su Valley, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan took four U.S. citizens hostage. The Americans escaped on August 12.
October 12, 2000: USS Cole bombing. In Aden, Yemen, a small dingy carrying explosives rammed the destroyer U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39 others. Supporters of Usama Bin Laden were suspected.
December 30, 2000: Manila Bombing. A bomb exploded in a plaza across the street from the U.S. Embassy in Manila, injuring nine persons. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front was likely responsible.
"Writer" is a troll who's been banned from this site, which is why he's using an anonymizer to get in. He has "people skill" and "anger management" issues.
Johnny must really be shamming! This is the story of the 82nd at war. Get a copy and see what real work is.
Here are some of the medals and awards Johnny's earned in his non-job:
Johnny's Bronze Star:
(The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army of the United States after 6 December 1941, distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight, in connection with military operations against an armed enemy; or while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.)
German Jump Wings:
Senior Parachutist:
Final product:
Yep, Johnny doesn't have a real job. He's a shammer! Look at that rack of ribbons! Way to go, honey. I'm PROUD of you!
Listen "Johnny" first it's Robert not Bobby. Second I don't sit around strumming a guitar, my father was a decorated war hero in WWII. My cousin is in Afghanistan as we speak. Your 'examples' of why we invaded Iraq on their face seem reasonable. Yes Hussein was all those things which is why we had embargoes, no-fly zones, and sanctions. ALl of which rendered Iraq feeble. No air force or navy and an army in disrepair. And they were no "imminent threat" to us which is the reason this president cited for invading. Now we are reduced to "weapons of mass destruction program related activities."
Experts inside and outside this governemtn stated that Iraq was no threat or did it have these weapons. What happened a decade earlier is not a rfeason to attack now especially since we were the ones who gave him all that stuff back in the 80's. This president ignored all those voices and only used those specious pieces of evidence to conform to the policy he wants to pursue.
As for Iran? What are we supposed to do now. We are stretched so thin we couldn't do a damn thing. We are broke, our soldiers are ill equipped, enlistments are plummeting, reserves are having their tours extended, we don't pay their families for missed wages but we cut taxes for the wealthiest americans and give tax breaks to oil companies.
Iran and North Korea took our misguded foray into Iraq to rev up their nuclear programs and we stood by and watched. Afghanistan is sinking into anarchy with warlords controlling everything outside of Kabul. Our nation is flooded with opium grown there. Why? because we didn't do the job we were supposed to do there. We had more cops protecting the Republican Convention then we had in Afghanistan.
Five years later Bin Laden is still walking this Earth. Bin LAden over reached on 9/11. The world was with us and wanted him captured. We threw that all away.
Bush stood in the rubble and said the people who knocked down the buildings wil hear our response. I don't think they have. Give me Bin Laden. Where is he? Are you saying the best way to respopnd to being attacked is to attack a tangental target? Obliterating a nation to the tune of almost $300 Billion dollars in damge. Killing 100,000 civilians? You should be appalled at this administrations choices.
And now they make a big show about how Bush had to cut his FIVE WEEK vacation short by 2 days because of the hurricane. ANd where are all those National Guard troops who could have helped the poepl of Lousiana and Mississippi? In Iraq. And this after Bush cut funding for the LA Corp of Engineers. This is just the tip of the iceberg as to how our wayward policy is going to continue to weaken us Johnny boy.
The fear Bin Laden's henchmen and supporters had after 9/11 was that they would lose most of the support they had and the response would be so overwhelming that they would cease to exist. His only hope would be if we used the attack to do something that would foment hatred and swell the ranks of his hateful army. He got his wish.
And one last thing about war and peace and what have you. This president and vice president supporeted the Vietnam War. But when it came time to back up their rhetoric Cheney said he had more important things to do and Bush had his daddy pull strings to get him into the "Champagne" unit of the Guard. A responsibility he shirked to go work on political campaigns and party.
You can dislike someone like John Kerry but just remember when Bush was abusing alchohol and snorting coke and partying Kerry was a federal prosecutor putting away real criminals. When Bush ran and hid in the NAtional Guard Kerry volunteered for service. When Bush was running around partying Kerry was out in the bush being shot at and killing the enemy. And then he had to courage to come back and say the war was a mistake.
he may not have been the best candidate and you don't have to like him or vote for him but to vilify a decorated veteran the way Rove and his henchmen did was as unpatriotic as you can be. A thrice wounded veeteran gets mocked by chicken-hawks wearing Purple Heart band-aids? I have my father's Purple Heart displayed in my living room and the site of those idiots at the RNC mocking a recipient galled me.
Go bury your nose in th bible and praise the lord that he sent a guy like Bush. We'll be paying for his short-sighted narrow view of the world for years to come.
Better wear your waders too because at the rate the polar ice caps are melting the Gulf Coast will be in Omaha. But that's science so I figure that won't interest anyone here.
And I apolgize for any type-o's in advance so save the snide remarks.
At least you had the guts to come back to Amy's blog, I'll give you that.
"Experts inside and outside this governemtn stated that Iraq was no threat or did it have these weapons."
Right. And that's why Congress voted overwhelmingly to go to War with Iraq.
"Bush stood in the rubble and said the people who knocked down the buildings wil hear our response. I don't think they have. Give me Bin Laden. Where is he?"
2/3rds of Al Qaeda's leadership is DEAD. 50 million people have been liberated and have voted in free governments. The USA has not been attacked once since we launched the GWOT. And it was President Clinton who had the best chance to get UBL. The Taliban is routed. Saddam's murderous regime is gone. The Palestinians have an elected leader. Libya disarmed it WMD program. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are introducing democratic reforms. The Syrians have been driven from Lebanon.
"Go bury your nose in th bible and praise the lord that he sent a guy like Bush."
Better than where you have your nose buried, my friend. Thank God for the manly, Godly and resolute leadership of George W. Bush.
I wouldn't call it gutsy to come back to my blog and be confronational, but that's just me.
Back to "Johnny" who gave a list of reasons to invade Iraq in yet another case of finding justification aftet the fact. Yes Iraq was not a nice place. Yes its despot of a leader did bad things but by your list of invasion qualifications we should now also invade Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, China, Russia. Let us also remember that the shifting reasons for this Iraq ($10 billion a month and a daily death toll of our soldiers) fiasco included the spread of democracy. Unless the non-democratic country happens to be sort of an ally like Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia where women don't vote and relegated to second class status, dissidents are jailed and the list goes on. It gets tricky doesn't it.
We can no longer be indignant when we see muslim crazies dragging our soldiers through the street because we have stooped to their level. Bush and Cheney have too easily shredded the Constitution which seems fine by people like you who live in fear.
England was similarly attacked and the next day they brushed themselves off and went back on the tubes and buses to work. Their government didn't fear monger to push a narrow conservative agenda. Yes we were attacked, on this president's watch. And instead of rising to the occasion and using the support the world gave us and the total unanimity of the nation (the likes unseen since WWII) he made every wrong decision.
We are no safer today. It will cost $7 billion to equip every U.S. commercial jet with anti-missile devices but we wait while we poor $10 billion into Iraq. ALl you chicken hawks crow thjat Bush is right, the surge is working are completely ignorant of the facts. Of course more troops will help quiet the violence but that wasn't the primary objective. The onjective was to get the Iraqis to get their shit together. They have not done that and in 3 months the surge needs to start ending because we do not have the forces necessary.
If the president had listened to Shinkesi and others regarding troop levels at the start of this we wouldn't be in this position. But he didn't. In the mean time Bin Laden lives free, our economy is tanking as we now rely on foreign debt to sustain us, our military is being run into the ground, money that could be used here to strengthen our security is instead squandered i Iraq. And yes it is squandered. More than $10 BILLION in cash has been stolen. No one knows by who. I am guessing that people who don't like us got their hands on it. Reconstruction is at a stand still. This war has taken longer than WWII. Are you telling me that some shaggy 12th century troglites are more dangerous than the combined might of the Nazi and Japanese Imperial armies?
And finally, even if one were to be in support of the Bush/Cheney Iraq policy,surely they would be appalled at how they screwed it up so totally. Not to mention the arogant, secretive, vindictive and illegal way they have conducted themselves. You should all be ashamed for supporting this.
And Johnny, if you want to send your children to fight in wars of choice run by inept leaders that is your sad choice. All we can hope is your children have more sense then their parents. I don;t need you or other fearful chickenhawks questioning my support of this nation and its troops or my patriotism. It's a disgusting practice so well honed by this adminsitration and the Limbaughs and other bloviators out there. Go back and watch your Fox state run news.
It's easy to say "Iraq was not a nice place to live" if you didn't have to live there yourself.
We're fighting there now so we wouldnt' have to be there when our kids are grown. And we don't "send" our children to fight in wars. This is an all volunteer force, dear. You're confusing this with Vietnam.
If you object to a war you won't fight for a country you won't stand up for, turn the channel and let rest of us who are willing do it.
To this day the Bush regime and the neocon Nazis have not told us the reason for their invasion of Iraq, the destruction of its towns and infrastructure, and the slaughter of its citizens. Every reason Bush has given has proved to be a lie.
There is no more reason for US troops to be shooting up Iraq than to be shooting up Canada, Scotland, Holland, Spain, Taiwan, Florida, Virginia or California. We are killing Iraqis for no other reason than that they resist our invasion and occupation of their country. Paul Craig Roberts - Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration
Why the Iraq War is Destroying the US Economy
The cost of Bush's war on Iraq has surpassed one trillion dollars but there is no evidence of it benefiting the US economy. It is time to drive a stake through the heart of the malicious lie that wars are good for the economy. Only the Military/Industrial complex benefits from war and what is good for the MIC is NOT good for the country.
Lance, do you know what the cost of not going to war was? Do you realize that the war in Iraq costs less than 1% of the GDP?
Please, read what the cost of not going to war is and what we were already spending to contain Saddam Hussein.
It's a lie that the Iraq war is destroying the U.S. economy. 5.5% unemployment? Give me a break! It's 10% in most of Europe and their participation was minimal!
Well then it's a bargain, Amy. I'm sure the Iraqis killed will be glad to know that. Too bad they weren't Catholic (they might not get into heaven).
I'll get back to you on your piece.
very interesting article. on most issues I agree with the author:)