- Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son Casey in the war and who left a comment on the Comments board here recently, just sent me the following letter:
Dear Friends,
Everyday there are fresh lies and fresh confirmation of the lies coming out of DC…I can tell you it is so hurtful to us families that more people aren’t standing up to bring our children home from the lie and quaqmire that is Iraq…I feel like I should have a daily column called: Who lied today?
Bush told us that Iraq had WMD’S and they were getting ready to use them on us at any minute. Condi Rice told us that we should attack Iraq immediately…and don’t let the “smoking gun” be a “mushroom cloud.” Rumsfeld and Powell showed us where the weapons were buried…Guess what? THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY WMD’S AND THEY WEREN’T GOING TO HAVE THEM FOR AT LEAST A DECADE. The United States was in no threat from Iraq…and Osama Bin Laden is free to plot against our troops in Iraq and against the innocent Iraqi people and Al Qaeda grows stronger every day because of our Administration’s reckless, ignorant, and arrogant policies in Iraq.
Would it have hurt the Bushies and the rest of the war mongerers to wait a few months to confirm that Iraq HAD NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION before they pre-emptiviely attacked, invaded, and occupied a country that posed no credible threat to the USA? Would Casey, 1358 other brave Americans and thousands and thousands of Iraqis still be alive?…I think so and that is another stab in my heart and in my back.
Please write to your Congress Person and your Senators to stand up and do what is right…Barbara Boxer did it for the Ohio debacle….yes it is important that we have transparent and credible elections…BUT IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO BRING OUR TROOPS HOME FROM THIS NEEDLESS WAR. It is so important to support our troops by getting them the hell out of there….let Iraqis rebuild their own country…with money and supplies that we give them…bring the war profiteers home too and let the Iraqis have their jobs back.
Contacting the Congress
Love and Peace
Cindy
I cannot imagine the pain Cindy Sheehan is feeling as the latest farce plays out in D.C. My heart goes out to her and to all of the families, American, Iraqi, British, Dutch who have lost a loved one in this tragic war.
But please tell her that many of us starting writing our senators before this bloodshed began. That nearly 50% of the American citizenry wanted to throw the current occupants in the White House out based exactly on the perfidy of this war, among other infamous acts. Thus far, our concerted actions haven’t been enough.
Still, it isn’t enough that Mrs. Sheehan wants us to call our senators to bring our soldiers home. She and every American who feels this way needs to know WHY we went in. And why this war in Iraq precedes a number of conflicts looming in our near future which will just as surely kill more of America’s sons and daughters.
Sadly, jakbeau
What could be more wrenching than to know your child has been killed for a lie.
To get a brief but very disturbing feel for the extreme disconnect in American society today, here is a striking article entitled Mourning Moms Differ On Iraq War
… a fairly recent interview with two women who lost their sons in Iraq. One woman believes the war was justified. The other, Cindy Sheehan, does not. I found this line to be especially telling: ” ‘If we just sit back and don’t do anything, they’re going to overrun us,’ says Unger … ‘If we’d waited any longer, I would be wearing a burka …’ “
What can I say? I see this same attitude in my own hometown every Thursday night at our peace vigil … and I live in CALIFORNIA, one of the most liberal states in the union!
BTW, with a little luck and barring unforseen eventualities, Cindy and her husband Pat will be joining me at tonight’s vigil. I am so looking forward to getting to meet her in person. It’ll be a ‘send-off’ of sorts, as that valiant woman will be in Washington, DC, next week as part of the protests.
For our part, at our vigil on Jan. 20th, we’re all going to wear our signs on our backs … and stand with our backs to the street, ‘turning our backs on Bush’ …
Please tell Cindy Sheehan thank you for her letters. I belong to a theatre group where the ensemble of actors are also the playwrights. I used the basis of her first letter, the open letter to the editors of TIME magazine, printed here, as the basis for a play that debuted last night, and showed all the TIME Man of the Year covers that TIME should be ashamed of: Hitler, Stalin (twice), Khomeini, and W.
The play went over very well last night in Dallas.
Dear Mrs. Sheehan:
This is just a note from a stranger who is so sorry for your loss and truly appalled by the sham our government contrived to drive us into this sordid war.
Though I can not approximte the hurt you’re feeling, please
accept my deepest sympathy.
Very truly yours,
Elin Defrin
Dear all
I cut this from the comment
“overrun us,’ says Unger … ‘If we’d waited any longer, I would be wearing a burka …’ ”
I can not believe this, this is untrue. I am a Muslim from Iraq we never have this in our minds, from where these thoughts came to you!
Each society there are extremists either in Islamic world and West world but these are the minority let not jump to these crazy thoughts and let all of us share this world there is no earth other that the one we live on, so please lets clean our harts and minds let tried to help each other to live together and share the richness of our world to live together.
God Bless all of us