<p>Yeah, I’m sure you’re sensitivity will be a real selling point.</p>
<p>And I my mom-guess is that you’re wrong about Casey.</p>
<p>Look I feel bad that she lost her son…I recently lost a family member too but what makes me mad is that she is exploiting her son, taking his name and using it for something that he would be against. How do I know he would be against this you ask? HE ENLISTED, thus he believed in the war and the reasons behind it. People who don’t believe in wars/etc. don’t enlist…they just stay at home and protest it… Personally, I think that if we were able to talk to him about this he would be utterly insulted…I know I would.</p>
<p>and you want to talk about sensitivity…how insensitive is she being towards all the families that have lost someone at war! 95%+ of the people supporting her aren’t other moms/dads/etc that have lost someone, they are mainly just your typical liberal protesters. The vast majority of people that have lost someone at war are proud of what their son/daughter did (standing up for something they believed in) and don’t belittle it by going out and doing what she is doing…TAKING HER OWN SON’S NAME TO FIGHT SOMETHING THAT HE BELIEVED IN. Talk about being sensitive.</p>
<p>btw business isn’t about sensitivity it’s about results, numbers, and getting the job done by any ethical means necessary even if that means that you have to be realistic and insensitive at times.</p>
<p>I really don’t think Casey would have called his mom a name, but the original article about her first meeting with Bush sheds light on how she thought her son would have wanted her to behave with the president:
It’s too bad she forgot about how her son would have wanted her to act about the president and the war.</p>
<p>It’s also too bad that she failed to remember how she felt after meeting Bush:
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<p>Maybe these people know him better than you do.</p>
<p>hey bandit, I don’t know him. I just said I don’t think he would appreciate someone calling his mother a whore.</p>
<p>And there’s some question about who actually signed that letter. Their names are not on it.</p>
<p>it feels good to be right…</p>
<p>I may not agree with all of Cindy Sheehan’s views, but I defend her right to express them as she’s doing - in a peaceful way. I’ve been a bit offended to hear people suggesting she should be arrested or be quiet. She has the right to free speech just like all U.S. citizens do, and that includes being free to express her own views, not just those others might speculate her son would have if he were still alive.</p>
<p>I was very saddened to hear that her mother had a stroke today. One doesn’t have to fully agree with her to feel for what she’s been through and respect her right to express herself.</p>
<p>yeah her mom’s stroke was probably caused by all the stress cindy is putting on her family…</p>
<p>That’s a pretty disgusting thing to say.</p>
<p>I don’t believe Cindy Sheehan is a “media whore”. I believe she is a mother that hurts to the bottom of her soul, who has every right to question what good could possibly have come out of her son’s sacrifice. I personally can’t imagine the pain of loosing a child to war, especially a war that raises as many questions as this one does. Can you really not understand her anger, her fear, her frustration with this war that continues to claim so many valuable American lives? </p>
<p>In my opinion, there is now every reason to question our current and seemingly indefinite occupation of Iraq. The vast majority of Americans believe that we are “bogged down” in Iraq. The president obviously failed to count the cost, either in lives or money. It’s not unreasonable to ask how long we are to remain in Iraq, fighting an intractable, and increasingly sophisticated and well funded extremist insurgence. I don’t think it disrespects our troops to want them home with their families, safe and sound. Everytime I see on the nightly news the face of one of our soldiers or marines who has been blown to bits by some extremist nutcase, it grieves me terribly. Each of their lives is precious. Our government shouldn’t have to invent a new justification for their sacrifice every week. I understand that war is sometimes (tragically) necessary. But the reasons for going to war should be perfectly clear and reasonably justifiable. It’s becoming more and more evident to more and more Americans that this particular war meets neither of these criterion. </p>
<p>“yeah her mom’s stroke was probably caused by all the stress cindy is putting on her family…”</p>
<p>I agree with Mootmom, Bern. That was a terrible thing to lay at Cindy Sheehan’s feet. Did it ever occur to you that Cindy’s mother might have been a broken-hearted grandmother, grieving the loss of a grandchild, who felt terrible hurt at the knowledge that her own child (Cindy) was in unspeakable pain, and that she could do nothing to help her? Do you ever wonder if you might be wrong about ANYTHING, Bern? The emphatic and self-congratulatory tone of many of your posts makes me doubt that you do.</p>
<p>To Funding Father: I am a former journalist who covered several war zones in the '70s and '80s. After reading your comments here (and looking up some of your older ones), I would be surprised if you had ever spent significant time in a country ripped open by a war. If my experience is any guide, it is COMMON for those serving in the armed services to arrive in a war-torn country ready to “shoot up” some enemies. When their tour is over, they are more often than not changed men and women. Take my nephew. He returned last month from his third tour in Iraq. I had the opportunity to question him (and four others under his command) at length one recent day. None of them want to go back to Iraq. One of them is clearly suffering from PTSD and they all appear to be extremely revved up and ready to jump out of their skin. They also show signs of being addicted to some type of drug-- amphetamines. if I had to guess. They say that at least two out of three enlisted men and women serving in Iraq oppose the war and are simply trying to hang on until they can return home. Morale is low and sinking further fast, according to them.</p>
<p>Yet you, Funding Father, elect to roundly criticize a woman who is brave enough to tell anyone who wants to listen that this war was not only predicated on lies but is failing us and the Iraqi people? Further words fail me. And that’s saying a lot.</p>
<p>actually the grandmother (as well as most of the family) has been very outspoken against cindy who appears to be “using” her son for some political agenda…now that’s disgusting. She’s not grieving she’s “capitalizing” on what she believes to be an opportunity…c’est </p>
<p>And what “political agenda” would that be—protesting a war that she believes we should not be fighting? …Duhhh!</p>
<p>Your response to my post is so demeaning to Cindy Sheehan that it makes me ache for our country. Does “Penn Wharton” mean that you are in the MBA program there? Figures.</p>
<p>Gee, bern, guess what? You’re wrong this time. Casey’s maternal grandmother (in case you’re not familiar with that term, that would be his mother’s mother, Cindy’s mother, Shirley Miller, who tragically just had a stroke), is not the one speaking out against Cindy’s actions. That would be Cindy’s in-laws, Casey’s paternal grandparents, including that other grandmother.</p>
<p>Often people have two of them. How convenient of you to assume that Cindy’s mother was not supportive of her.</p>
<p>I am holding good thoughts for Shirley Miller tonight, and for all our service personnel overseas and in harm’s way under false pretenses.</p>
<p>Well said, mootmom.</p>
<p>oh my bad I must have misread the article…thanks for pointing that out. Well at least her husband is a moral person, good move filing for divorce a few days ago. I think I too would be upset seeing my wife using the my son as tool.</p>
<p>Did it ever occur to you that you are not bringing respect upon yourself or your positions by the sort of remarks you post here?</p>
<p>Mr. Penn-Wharton: If I died in this war, I would want my mother to take exactly the same path as Cindy Sheehan. That way she would be no tool of a morally bankrupt administration that sold us a false bill of goods.</p>