CINDY SHEEHAN, 'WHITE KNIGHT,' 'LEADER'
You can always count on Arianna Huffington, and her new blog, the Huffington Post, to be a source of amusement. I almost always get a good chuckle out of it whenever I read it.
Today, Arianna interviewed Bush critic, war flip-flopper and current MSM darling Cindy Sheehan.
She starts her column, linked above, with this:
'During my many years as a writer, I’ve interviewed hundreds of people. But talking with Cindy Sheehan this morning was unlike any conversation I’ve ever had. Even though we were talking via cell phone--and had a crummy, staticky connection at that--her authenticity and passion reached through the receiver and both touched my heart and punched me in the gut.'
The 'authenticity' of Cindy Sheehan? Give me a break. Sheehan, with all due respect to her grief for her dead son, is the most unauthentic anti-war person around. She's a total fake. She met personally with President Bush last year and afterward described him in glowing terms. Now, a year later, she describes the Commander In Chief as cold, unfeeling and disrespectful.
I feel tremendously sorry for Sheehan, an uninformed woman with misguided opinons. She is being used and she doesn't even seem to realize it. All the Left wing crazies, Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Air America, et. al., have attached themselves to her and her 'cause.'
More Huffington:
'The time has passed when we can stand around waiting for a knight on a white horse to ride to our rescue. We’ve got to look to ourselves--to the leader in the mirror. Our elected officials have woefully failed to provide the leadership needed on this most vital issue of our time. And stepping into that void is Cindy Sheehan. Inspiring us. Touching our conscience. Calling forth our courage and our commitment. Focusing our outrage. And acting as a catalyst for the tens of millions of Americans who know that the war in Iraq is a disgrace.'
Sheehan is 'inspiring?' How? By lying? By changing her story? By flip-flopping?
And let's look at this one line in more detail: 'Our elected officials have woefully failed to provide the leadership needed on this most vital issue of our time.'
I assume Arianna means the war in Iraq.
The fact that the central front of the war on terror has been in Iraq since '03 means that the central front of the war on terror IS NOT IN AMERICA. People seem to forget (or gloss over) that we could very well be fighting the war here, rather than over there.
The reason that the war on terror is overseas and not on American soil is precisely because of the leadership of President Bush.
Huffington is a Lefty and her party doesn't have a leader. Fortunately for the United States, we do have a leader in the White House. Huffington thinks that there's no leadership because she disagrees with the Bush Administration on policy, which is an extremely flawed line of reasoning.
If there were no leadership, as Arianna purports to believe, we wouldn't even defending ourselves from terror. Instead, the national defense of the US would be completely under the authority of the United Nations, as both Presidential candidates Gore and Kerry promised they would do, if elected.
Arianna leaves us with this:
'Who knows, her example might even be just the thing to give Hillary and Harry and the rest of the Democratic leaders the spine transplant they so desperately need. But don’t hold your breath. Instead, use it to show your support for Cindy Sheehan--and for our troops.'
Support Sheehan AND support the troops? Those two ideas aren't compatible because if you support Sheehan then you also support pulling the troops out of Iraq tomorrow, which would mean that every one of the 1,800 American soldiers that have given their lives thus far to liberate and rebuild Iraq, died in vain.
Let's call it like we see it. You can only support the troops if you support their mission. I saw a bumper sticker yesterday. 'Support the troops. Question our policies.' That's impossible. Unless of course you spend a good portion of your day debating the definition of the word 'is.'
Supporting Sheehan means believing that the war in Iraq was a mistake, which it wasn't. How can intellectually honest people even attempt to make the case that liberating 30 million people from a brutal dictator was a mistake? How can you not support the elimination of the torture chambers and the rape rooms across Iraq that were used by Hussein and his henchmen to terrorize Iraqi's for nearly 30 years?
Today, Arianna interviewed Bush critic, war flip-flopper and current MSM darling Cindy Sheehan.
She starts her column, linked above, with this:
'During my many years as a writer, I’ve interviewed hundreds of people. But talking with Cindy Sheehan this morning was unlike any conversation I’ve ever had. Even though we were talking via cell phone--and had a crummy, staticky connection at that--her authenticity and passion reached through the receiver and both touched my heart and punched me in the gut.'
The 'authenticity' of Cindy Sheehan? Give me a break. Sheehan, with all due respect to her grief for her dead son, is the most unauthentic anti-war person around. She's a total fake. She met personally with President Bush last year and afterward described him in glowing terms. Now, a year later, she describes the Commander In Chief as cold, unfeeling and disrespectful.
I feel tremendously sorry for Sheehan, an uninformed woman with misguided opinons. She is being used and she doesn't even seem to realize it. All the Left wing crazies, Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Air America, et. al., have attached themselves to her and her 'cause.'
More Huffington:
'The time has passed when we can stand around waiting for a knight on a white horse to ride to our rescue. We’ve got to look to ourselves--to the leader in the mirror. Our elected officials have woefully failed to provide the leadership needed on this most vital issue of our time. And stepping into that void is Cindy Sheehan. Inspiring us. Touching our conscience. Calling forth our courage and our commitment. Focusing our outrage. And acting as a catalyst for the tens of millions of Americans who know that the war in Iraq is a disgrace.'
Sheehan is 'inspiring?' How? By lying? By changing her story? By flip-flopping?
And let's look at this one line in more detail: 'Our elected officials have woefully failed to provide the leadership needed on this most vital issue of our time.'
I assume Arianna means the war in Iraq.
The fact that the central front of the war on terror has been in Iraq since '03 means that the central front of the war on terror IS NOT IN AMERICA. People seem to forget (or gloss over) that we could very well be fighting the war here, rather than over there.
The reason that the war on terror is overseas and not on American soil is precisely because of the leadership of President Bush.
Huffington is a Lefty and her party doesn't have a leader. Fortunately for the United States, we do have a leader in the White House. Huffington thinks that there's no leadership because she disagrees with the Bush Administration on policy, which is an extremely flawed line of reasoning.
If there were no leadership, as Arianna purports to believe, we wouldn't even defending ourselves from terror. Instead, the national defense of the US would be completely under the authority of the United Nations, as both Presidential candidates Gore and Kerry promised they would do, if elected.
Arianna leaves us with this:
'Who knows, her example might even be just the thing to give Hillary and Harry and the rest of the Democratic leaders the spine transplant they so desperately need. But don’t hold your breath. Instead, use it to show your support for Cindy Sheehan--and for our troops.'
Support Sheehan AND support the troops? Those two ideas aren't compatible because if you support Sheehan then you also support pulling the troops out of Iraq tomorrow, which would mean that every one of the 1,800 American soldiers that have given their lives thus far to liberate and rebuild Iraq, died in vain.
Let's call it like we see it. You can only support the troops if you support their mission. I saw a bumper sticker yesterday. 'Support the troops. Question our policies.' That's impossible. Unless of course you spend a good portion of your day debating the definition of the word 'is.'
Supporting Sheehan means believing that the war in Iraq was a mistake, which it wasn't. How can intellectually honest people even attempt to make the case that liberating 30 million people from a brutal dictator was a mistake? How can you not support the elimination of the torture chambers and the rape rooms across Iraq that were used by Hussein and his henchmen to terrorize Iraqi's for nearly 30 years?
posted by Kent at 1:32 PM
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