Anti- Anti War Cindy Sheehan Protest in Crawford
An 8 Mile Run by A Vietnam Vet MACVSOG Trooper
The following morning,
Kathy and I slept late, getting to CAMP QUALLS event around 9:30 am. There
were lots of people around the tent, I'd say 200 with another 100 on the West
side of the intersection on both the South and north side with various signs
protesting the protesters. The signs read "Cindy, you're a Traitor" "Your
Killing Our Troops," "Your actions are Treasonous," etc. Many of the people
were mother and fathers of those that had fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan. At
this time, I had on my Special Forces Baseball cap with all my medals, pins,
tabs, etc., and put on a T-shirt Kathy had purchased the night before. The
front of the shirt has a portion of the US Flag in the background superimposed
on it was the head of a Bald Eagle with the words inscribed above "WELCOME
HOME" and below "HEROES." I added the following words to the T-shirt in large
black marker in the upper right:
"SUPPORT
-AMERICA
-PRES. BUSH
-THE TROOPS"
In the upper left:
"KILL TERRORIST
DEPORT IDIOT LIBERALS!"
On the
reverse in large black letters, I inscribed:
"CINDY,
ET AL.
WITH ALL DUE
DISRESPECT
F__K YOU!
WITH TRUTH
WE WIN
YOU LOSE,
YOU MISERABLE
CREATURE
Robert - Your SITREP regarding Crawford is much like others I've heard from
USA guys. I was told that SFA members
who were at Crawford early in the Sheehan "Shithead" show up, were ignored by
the media but the called in a reporter ( national ) to interview them but found
she was so intimidated by the SF guys she couldn't ask legitimate questions ...
so they " dismissed her "...!!!
Regards,
Gary
Kay08
Robert,
Good to hear from you. Glad you got to visit with Jim and Connie, they are
great people. Ben came in yesterday and gave us a good report on the
happenings at Crawford, said the same thing you did. What can you expect from
the liberal media?
I am totally against what Mrs Sheehan and her folks are doing down there, She
is a grieving mother who has lost a son and my heart goes out to her for that.
I do realize however that she is also crossing the line now and that she does
have a personal agenda, which makes it even worse.. I personally feel though,
that she doesn't warrant the title "miserable creature". However, that's my
opinion only. She is liberal for sure and anti-war and for sure anti-Bush,
that is her right.
I hope the whole crowd, of leftists and liberals, that is, go away, and I do
believe they will once the President leaves Crawford. I can't see any type of
major anti-war taking hold now, especially not one like the Vietnam era nitwits.
George
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An Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan, From
the Proud Father of a U.S. Marine
By Brantley Smith
Posted On August 17, 2005
Ms. Sheehan,
By your actions over the past two weeks, it is clear that you missed
an important aspect of Civics 101: With rights come responsibilities. You
certainly have the right to voice your opinion against the war in
Iraq and the
President's policies. You even have the right to camp outside the President's
home in Crawford and demand he meet with you. Your status, as a mother who
has lost a child in the war, also gives your words and actions
a credibility and a larger audience than otherwise would be the case.
Now that your supporters have given you a broad forum from which to be
heard, making you a national figure, it's time you considered your
responsibilities to all of us. I have a daughter set to deploy to
Fallujah in two weeks and I have a serious concern with how your irresponsible
and short-sighted actions might impact on her. She is, after all, a
volunteer, like your son, and she is going in harm's way because she believes
it is her responsibility to protect your rights and freedoms.
Well-meaning people like you always seem to forget the
law of unintended consequences. In your vanity and arrogant
self-righteousness, you never bother to think through what it is you are
trying to do, versus what you may actually accomplish. I am here to inform
you, Ma'am, that you will not change the policy of our government by sitting
outside Crawford making a spectacle of yourself in the name of your rights to
free speech. What you will do is provide more propaganda for our enemies and
cost the lives of even more brave and selfless American warriors.
How long do you think it will be before you become a star on Al
Jazeera? For all I know, it may have already happened. One thing is certain,
though, and that is that your actions and words will further embolden a
ruthless and evil enemy and more American blood will be shed...and some of it
will be on your hands. I pray that my daughter will not be one of them. If
she is, then I will hold you and those like you partly responsible. Yes, my
daughter's fate will depend mostly on her own courageous decision to serve,
but only the most naive among us can deny the impact our own words and actions
here in America have in a world grown smaller by the revolution in
communications technology.
I am sure you believe that you are serving some great cause by putting
our servicemen and women in more danger and that you can, by your
irresponsible exercise of free speech, help end a policy you disagree with.
Your emotion may be compelling but the reality is that you will not set in
motion any process that will change or undo what has been done. The war will
go on because to end it now would dishonor the sacrifices of all of our fellow
countrymen who have died in the cause of fighting terrorism.
Rational Americans will not allow that. Too much is at stake.
Unfortunately, shallow and irrational ones, such as yourself, will continue to
put the lives of our sons and daughters in danger by aiding and abetting an
enemy who sees propagandizing in the mass media as its main weapon. In a war
it could otherwise not win by standing on its own wretched and evil
justification of radical Islam, or by force of arms, you have given them
reason to continue.
You, Ma'am, have joined forces with an evil you neither understand nor
apparently have tried to comprehend. You direct your anger toward our country
while the enemy plots to kill and maim the innocent. You make a mockery of
responsible free speech while thousands of young men and women fight
desperately to preserve your safety. Instead of honoring your son's
sacrifice, you are inspired to comfort an evil enemy.
You clearly do not understand the challenge we face as a nation and
have not tried to put it in historical perspective. It is a sad fact that it
is those of your thinking who have led us to where
we are today.
Decades of appeasement to these haters of everything we hold dear has
cost thousands of American lives from
Beirut to New York and in dozens
of other forgotten places.
Remember Lockerbie? The Achille
Lauro? The U.S.S. Cole? We, as a people, were dragged into this war, much
like
December 7th, 1941, and we must fight it and win it wherever the enemy hides
and against whomever would support him.
Make no mistake about
Iraq... It is both a legitimate
and crucial campaign in this much larger, global war of radical Islam's
making. These people hate us for who we are, not what we have done. We did
not bring this on ourselves, as many would have us believe, by our policies
and actions abroad. We brought this on ourselves in 1775 when the Founding
Fathers embarked on a course of freedom, tolerance, and liberal democratic and
social ideals.
These haters of all we hold dear, strive to destroy forever a
government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" that Abraham
Lincoln hoped would never "Perish from the earth". They would replace it with
an oppressive world theocracy unlike anything modern history has ever seen for
its ruthless disregard for personal freedom and liberty. If more appeasement
is your answer for an alternative policy, spare us for we have suffered enough
from cowardice and inaction.
An historical analogy screams to be let out here. It is one of two
men, both named Chamberlain...Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a school teacher
turned soldier in the American Civil War, found himself in the cross hairs of
history on a warm July day in 1863 on a small hill in Pennsylvania. Commanding
the 20th
Maine Regiment on the extreme Union left at Gettysburg, he was in a most
perilous position. Should he fail to hold against a strong Confederate
attack, the Union could be lost. You see, he was serving in an increasingly
unpopular war at home against a resurgent enemy, and for a President fighting
for his political life.
Colonel Chamberlain, stoic but
determined, refused to yield. His small regiment held against an onslaught of
Confederate attacks, an action many historians believe turned the tide of the
war. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor.
The other half of this analogy focuses on Neville Chamberlain, Prime
Minister of
Great Britain in the years preceding World War II. His story is widely known.
Through his policy of appeasement and a lack of moral courage, he handed Adolf
Hitler much of Europe.
Which side of history have you
chosen, Ma'am?
Your son died in the service of freedom and my daughter will go in
harm's way to protect and preserve it. Honor their sacrifice, Ma'am, by
exercising it responsibly.
I will pray with you and I will grieve with you but I will not stand
by silent while you needlessly and arrogantly endanger the life of my daughter
and her comrades in arms. Please bless us with your silence and go home.
Brantley Smith
Proud father of a
United States Marine
Tullahoma, TN
email: usmcengr@aol.com