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Shame on you, Cindy Sheehan! |
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Shame on you, Cindy Sheehan! |
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Cindy Sheehan and her antiwar pals have put our soldiers into a dangerous position. I don't begrudge any mother the right to grieve for her lost children. And I don't say any mother should take comfort in the idea of "a noble sacrifice". But I do begrudge the shameful and irresponsible demonstrations that Cindy Sheehan and her pals have spread across this country. Americans don't like foreign wars. We never have. We don't like bleeding for ungrateful narrow-minded people who spit in our faces and call us names. That is what we are doing now in Iraq. But the facts of the war have been buried by the lies of the antiwar movement. No one has ever proved President Bush lied to this country but they yell that all day long. Bush was as deceived as we all were about the weapons of mass destruction. Did he make a mistake going into Iraq? Maybe. But we would pay a huge price if we withdraw too soon. Like General Honore said in New Orleans, let's not get stuck on stupid, people! The majority of the so-called insurgents we are fighting in Iraq are foreigners. They are not Iraqis. Why are they there? Because they believe the lies that Al-Qaida tells them. They are fighting a jihad against the Americans by killing Iraqi women and children. Well Cindy where do you think those idiots will go if we bring our troops home too soon? They'll destroy the Iraqi government and put their own government in place and use it to attack us. They'll have a whole new Afghanistan to play with and this one will have a lot of oil to finance more attacks on America. Just how stupid do you antiwar people want to be about this? We cannot leave Iraq weak and defenseless against Al-Qaida. They are OUR enemy. They want to kill Americans. They want to kill Cindy Sheehan and her antiwar friends because they know easy targets when they see easy targets. We got caught with our pants down once. Let's not be stupid and walk away from an ugly situation just because it isn't going as smooth and fast as we want. What if President Roosevelt had said, "Ah, hell! The British started this world war 2, let THEM fight the damned thing!" Americans cannot work in foreign countries in Africa and Asia because we get shot there by these Al-Qaida idiots. Now Cindy Sheehan wants to bring home all the soldiers because she doesn't want any more mothers sons and daughters to be killed in a foreign land. Well what about all the innocent civilians who are killed by the terrorists every year? Do you antiwar people want to bring home all Americans? Or is it okay to leave just a handful of marines out there to protect ou contractors and diplomats? Al-Qaida has thousands of fighters. How many American civilians should we sacrifice to the short-sighted stupidity of the antiwar movement? At least the soldiers get to wear body armor and shoot back. At least the soldiers are fighting the enemy outside of America. I don't want to see any more kids die in a war either. But if we bring the troops home now we'll just see a bloodbath follow. And the antiwar protestors like Cindy Sheehan won't take responsibility for those deaths. They'll lie and shame themselves and our country even more than they do today. In America you are free to protest the war for any stupid reason you want. But if you have to lie about President Bush to shore up your protests you got a serious problem with your line of reasoning. Cindy Sheehan needs to pack up her tents and go home. She is only hurting this country and endangering more Americans. She makes look like weak and cowardly and in the Middle East you only pay for looking weak with your life. Americans need to finish the job they started because if we don't we'll have to go back there and start all over again. Let's do it just once. God take care of the kids we lose in Iraq because if we bring them home too soon he'll have to take care of their brothers and sisters and moms and dads here before their time. Go home Cindy before you get more people killed. And stop getting stuck on stupid.
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