Message from Cindy Sheehan [View All]

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Congressman Kingston of Georgia...Republican...surprise! called me a nutcase in a committee meeting in Congress yesterday and even bragged about it in his blog (below my response to him). This is my response to him. His email is in the address line, please feel free to send your own response to him, also. Anyone who supports this needless war, is a "hero" and anyone who opposes it is a "nutcase." I think the orders should be reversed!

Congressman Kingston,

How dare you psychoanalyze me and call me a "nutcase!" How dare you call me a beatnik and lie about me in your blog!

First of all, April 4th, 2006, this upcoming Tuesday will be the 2nd anniversary of my son's death. Casey Austin Sheehan was a man filled with integrity and courage. He was a hero who never backed down from the right thing his entire life. He was an amazing person who did not hide when his commander in chief sent him to a war based on lies even when he knew they were lies. He carried out his duty unlike his commander in chief who went AWOL from the Alabama Air National Guard (woo..tough duty), and he volunteered to serve his country unlike the vice-commander in chief who had "other priorities" during the Vietnam war. I am not against anyone getting out of that generations' mistake of a war, but to illegitimately come to power when they grew up and send an entire new generation off to fight, die and kill innocent people in their own war of choice for greed in unconscionable. I hope I am not using too big of words for you.

Second of all, I have never called "terrorists" freedom fighters. I have called the resistance fighters who killed Casey, such, but they are fighting to get the occupying forces out of their country and have a legitimate right to wage a resistance against occupiers. I don't like that they are killing our children, for God's sake, they killed my oldest child; my sweet and wonderful, Casey. However, our government is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the people of Iraq. Have you heard of white phosphorous? Have you heard of torture? Have you heard of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? Have you heard about our Constitution and the Geneva conventions?

Have you also heard that Saddam had nothing to do with the tragedy of 9/11 and that he had no WMD? How can you support a liar and his policies that are draining our precious life blood, depleting our military, sucking our treasury dry and have harmed almost beyond repair, the people and land of the Gulf States from Hurricane Katrina? Have you heard that Osama bin Ladin is still at large and two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, that had nothing to do with 9/11 are devastated and I hope they can recover from George's brand of "freedom and democracy."

As to you having a problem with me meeting with Hugo Chavez who survived a coup that was orchestrated by the Bush Administration and has been democratically elected to his office 8 times, you can't pick and choose to support only the Democracies that agree with George Bush. I don't support everything that President Chavez stands for, but his people love him and he is truly trying to make the lot better for the 80 percent of the people who were in poverty when he took over and has reduced that figure to 37 percent. He is stealing from the rich to help the poor when George Bush and his policies do the opposite. Hugo Chavez is not anti-American--he is anti-George Bush, and I have to agree with him on that. He has provided low cost heating fuel to underprivileged citizens in our own country and has donated at least $40, 000.00 to the various aid organizations in the Gulf States.

Did you have a problem with George Bush kissing the sheik from Saudi Arabia when 16 of the terrorists that flew airplanes into our buildings on 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia? Did you have a problem with Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand and selling him weapons that are now killing our children in Iraq? Do you have a problem with the fact that since your party's devastating invasion of Iraq the so-called "Axis of Evil" have become more powerful and even more dangerous to America? Did you have a problem with George Bush wanting to sell our ports to Dubai when they are one of the only countries on earth that recognize the Taliban? Did you have a problem with the bin Laden family being flown out of the United States days after 9/11 when our own citizens could not fly and many of us were trapped far from our homes ourselves? Did you have a problem with George, et al ignoring all of the intelligence reports before 9/11 that said that terrorists were planning on "flying airplanes" into our buildings?

I am not a leftwing Democrat and I hold many of the members of that party as responsible as I hold your party and George Bush and his administration. I do not think that there is anything political about an illegal and immoral war.

Our country was founded on dissent and on the blood of "freedom fighters." I have every right to be doing what I am doing to try and stop the needless and unnecessary killing without being wrongly judged by you. I believe that you and anyone else who would deny me, and Michael Moore for that matter, our rights and responsibilities as patriotic Americans are the ones who are un-American and traitors to the American way of life. A member of your own party and noted war-monger, Theodore Roosevelt said:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."

George Bush has admitted that Saddam had no WMD or ties to al-Qaeda. He has admitted to spying on Americans without due process and has called the Constitution an "old scrap of paper." He is responsible for the tragic deaths of thousands of people and for America losing its reputation in the international community and to support his failed presidency is not only unpatriotic as Teddy said, but also a war crime.

I am not a nutcase and I am not an unpatriotic war criminal like you and others who still support the most failed presidency in the history of our country.

What I am is a devastated, broken hearted mother who will mourn the needless death of my son for the rest of my life. I just want the killing to stop before there are anymore American or Iraqi Casey and Cindy Sheehans.

Peace soon,
Cindy Sheehan