Cindy Puts on the Rose-Colored Glasses--UpdatedHere's
her speech on returning to Crawfordapalooza:
CINDY SHEEHAN: The hardest thing for me to hear -- I don't care about them talking about me being a “crackpot” or a “media whore” or a “tool of the left,” you know? I’m like, if I truly was a media whore, do you think I would like maybe get myself fixed up a little bit before I went on? That doesn't bother me at all, though. What bothers me so much is when they say I'm dishonoring my son's memory by what I'm doing, that my son would be ashamed of me or that what they really like to say is I'm [bleep] or spitting on his grave.
And look what Casey -- look what Casey has started. You know, I'm here because of Casey. We're all here because of Casey. And, you know, literally there's over 2,000 of our brave young people and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and I know they're behind us, and I see them all, all their faces on your faces.
But Casey was such a gentle, kind, loving person. He never even got in one fistfight his whole life. Nobody even hated him enough to punch him, let alone kill him. And that's what George Bush did. He put our kids in another person's country, and Casey was killed by insurgents. He wasn't killed by terrorists. He was killed by Shiite militia who wanted -- they wanted him out of the country. When Casey was told that he was going to be welcomed with chocolates and flowers as a liberator, well, the people of Iraq saw it differently. They saw him as an occupier.First, I doubt very much that Casey never got into a fistfight in his entire life; there's not a kid in the world that doesn't slug it out with somebody. And note how she's buying into the notion that the Shiite militia members represent the people of Iraq.
Update: Let me specify here that Casey does seem to have been an exceptionally honorable young man, so maybe I should cut Cindy some slack on this (admittedly minor) point.
