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Cindy Sheehan: Commas for Profit

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 12:28pm.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Cindy Sheehan

Our "compassionate conservative" misleader was on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and he had the following to say about the heartache and pain that he has caused the world since his illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq began.

BLITZER: Let's move on and talk a little bit about Iraq. Because this is a huge, huge issue, as you know, for the American public, a lot of concern that perhaps they are on the verge of a civil war-if not already a civil war-We see these horrible bodies showing up, tortured, mutilation. The Shia and the Sunni, the Iranians apparently having a negative role. Of course, al Qaeda in Iraq is still operating.
BUSH: Yes, you see - you see it on TV, and that's the power of an enemy that is willing to kill innocent people. But there's also an unbelievable will and resiliency by the Iraqi people.... Admittedly, it seems like a decade ago. I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

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That is 125 commas.

With 2701 of our children killed and over 20,000 injured, I would have to type 182 lines filled with commas. Then, if we take in to account the low figure of 100,000 innocent Iraqis killed, I would need pages of commas.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said that: "Nothing is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." I believe that anyone who still supports George and his war of terror on the world have to be going out of their way to ignore the facts, or are profiting some way from this occupation: politically or financially.

I want George and the conscientiously stupid people who avoid evidence like the plague to know that my son was not a comma. Casey was not a cardboard figure, or the one dimensional figure of his widely printed boot camp picture when his cheeks were still chubby from good and plentiful food.

Casey was three dimensional and had hopes and dreams. He wanted to finish college and teach elementary school. He wanted to marry and have babies. I wanted him to marry and have babies. I wanted to hold his children and spoil them and love them like a grandmother should.

Casey loved his brother Andy and his sisters Carly and Janey. He loved our dogs Buster and Chewy and our cats Emily and Molly. Casey watched professional "wrestling" on TV and called it: "male soap operas." He collected toys and we have many boxes of unopened action figures and other collectibles in a storage now.

Casey breathed air, drank water, ate food and everything else that all other human beings do. Above all, he loved God and wanted to serve God his entire life as a Permanent Deacon in the Catholic Church. He also bled and died like a human when he was shot in the back of the head.

Conservatively, the "commas" that the Bush Regime has killed by their lies would fill many pages, but in reality, the once breathing human beings are filling thousands upon thousands of graves and lying under tons of rubble.

I am sorry that the leader of our once great nation is so callous towards the people whose lives he has destroyed. If one agrees with President Chavez of Venezuela, or not, it is inherently evident in our country and the world that we should agree with him when he says democracy is not imposed by "bombs and Marines." Democracy rises from the people. Great Britain did not go to war with our forebears to impose democracy, but to stop it.

Killing innocent people, torture, draining our treasury, stealing elections, spying on American citizens without due process, leaving the people of the Gulf States hanging on their roofs for their dear lives, etc, do not bestow democracy and the people harmed should not be reduced to punctuation marks.

My son and the others will not go down in history as "commas" but as more victims of the war machine...and I hope as the last victims of wars for profit. How can George keep a straight face when he talks about the enemy being willing to "kill innocent people?" When has BushCo every shied away from murdering innocents?

George Bush* will be an asterisk in history.

*Impeached, removed from office, imprisoned for crimes against humanity.

The sooner the better.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Casey Austin Sheehan who was KIA in Iraq on 04/04/04. She is the author of Peace Mom: One Mom's Journey through Heartache to Activism.

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F*** George Bush!!

Submitted by BigPhatJay on Wed, 09/27/2006 - 9:12pm.

Then try him for high crimes against humanity!!

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http://www.silverlinedesign.com/f-bush.html

Be Peaceful.

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the precise transcript

Submitted by Zee (not verified) on Tue, 09/26/2006 - 7:51pm.

It's worth looking at exactly what Bush said here. I took some time and tried to recreate it, which isn't easy, the way his bumbling brainfarts spurt out every which way.\===============================================

"uh, I like to tell people when h- the final history is written on Iran--Iraq---it will look just like a comma...uh, because, um....there is...my point is there's a strong will for democracy these people want a unity government, the unity government's functioning..." ==========================================

First note that he actually said Iran, then corrected it to Iraq. Then when it came to telling why it would look like a comma, he stammered, then changed tack. Is it because a comma is usually meant to separate words in a list....and Iran AND Iraq will simply be the first in a whole list of nations to be invaded and deconstructed into a new world order?

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If Iraq ....

Submitted by radfringe on Tue, 09/26/2006 - 9:28am.

If Iraq is central to the War on Terror, why does it rate only a comma in the history books? With the saber rattling and war drums beating before the actual invasion back in 2003, and the continuous catapulting of propaganda by the bush mis-administration - I think Iraq at the very least deserves it's own chapter.

as for this administration -
IMPEACH BUSH (PERIOD)

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"I'm a WAR PRESIDENT"

Submitted by EarthMother on Tue, 09/26/2006 - 8:59am.

"9-11? Don't be fooled... Bush did it!"

I read it on the bathroom wall shortly after the world changed on September 11th, of 2001. And I was so excited because I knew that someone else knew it, too! I had found myself, on that horrid day, listening on the radio to the accounts as the second plane hit it's target saying, "They did this, they did this, they did this!" and others were afraid to even stay in the same room with me! They were horrified that I thought OUR OWN GOVERNMENT could do such a thing.

But I knew. I knew in my heart and my soul and I am more certain of it today than ever. Misleader indeed! If you listen he will tell you. Sociopathic killers who believe themselves over and above all others can't help but gloat. And he is all that and your worst nightmare to boot.

Look, he TOLD us.

"It is time America SHOW THE WORLD and flex her MILITARY MIGHT!" he said during a debate with Al Gore.

"By the time it is all said and done I will have made more money than I ever could imagine!" He said that during a debate as well and no one but NO ONE called him on it!

If you want to take over the world you don't start with the military of someplace like Sri Lanka. You start with the biggest, most modern and strongest military in the world. AND- if you wanna make or take a lot of money the machinery of war is a great thing to sell... as long as you have a buyer. Enter the Carlyle Group! But it isn't easy to steal the billions of dollars that the U.S. represents! It takes lots of work to use up the largest arsenal in the world... and that translates to lots of wages of war... and casualties. But those casualties do not mean ANYTHING if you believe yourself over and above the "common people" like he does. He is an ARISTOCRAT and when Dan Quayle said, "It was our government. They stole it. We want it back!" HE was speaking as an aristocrat.

They're BA-ACK! And they see us, the Common People, as their necessary evil. Killing us is just something that has to be done to accomplish their goals.

"Your doin' a heck of a job, Brownie!"

Remember Queen Bar's comments in the Astrodome after Katrina?

Thank you, Cindy... Thank you for your courage, your intensity, your commitment, your conviction, and most of all, your decency. I am sorry you lost something so dear. I am sorry Casey lost something so very precious and I know that no matter what blather folks would like to use to coat that loss - "He died serving our nation" etc.- he was murdered. Murdered by a madman who has hood-winked a nation into believing a horrible nightmare has come true. Can this nation survive?

I don't know. I don't think our form of governance will ever be the same. But I for damned sure hope that the deaths of all those who lost their lives for this madman's cause as well as those who's lives are forever damaged and stolen by these actions of war will never be forgotten. Energy is not created or destroyed... it only changes form. The energy that is Casey is not lost only beyond reach... but it exists still! May that energy be a force of love and the power that brings justice to us all. Peace... It can be! Love, C.....

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