The New Road

Freepers on Cindy Sheehan

I was curious to see what the Freepers thought of Cindy Sheehan, the woman waiting for an audience with Bush in Crawford to discuss her son who died in his war. As you would expect they accuse her of aiding and abetting the enemy, as well as saying that she should be harshly interrogated by the Secret Service. Nice.

Anyway, I found this line:

"If everyone in this country would have banded togeather after 9-11 and said we won't stand for this and supported the US military 100% this thing would have been over long ago.

Instead we have to fight a PC war supervised by the ACLU and the U.N.

We know who the countries who sponsor this type of crime are and they should be no more than smoking holes right now."

Which I think is going to become the Republican talking line as we start to pull out of Iraq. It's not the fact that we went to war with the wrong people. It's not the fact that there was no after action planning. It's not the fact that we never found the WMDs. It's not the fact that we didn't expect a protracted insurgency. It's not the fact that we let them loot their own country. It's not one of the liteny of failures.

No, it's the fault of the people who were smart enough to see the ramifications of this type of "they should be no more than smoking holes right now" mentality. Classic Republican "blame everyone else" crap. The same type of idiocy that leads people to believe that Vietname was winnable an that Nixon was actually a good guy.

What's really offensive here is this supposition that 100% of Americans weren't "banded together after 9/11". 100% of Americans were with the war in Afghanistan after 9/11. It's only when Bush exploited 9/11 and lied his way into Iraq that 50% of Americans decided that it was bullshit. What, is 9/11 some sort of blank check. Yes, I support finding and killing those who perpetrated 9/11. But none of those people were in Iraq, or are in there now.