The Sheehan Factor
Why are people still paying attention to Cindy Sheehan? Just listening to this woman, you can easily tell that she's an absolute moonbat who's spouting the same false, ignorant talking points that the far-left nut jobs have been spewing for almost four years. This is ridiculous, and Americans should have better things to do than pay attention to some woman who is desecrating the heroic sacrifice of her son in order to further a preexisting liberal agenda.
UPDATE: I link to Iraq the Model, but I don't read it with any regularity whatsoever. Tonight, thanks to a link by the ladies over at Ultima Thule, I was reminded that I should be reading it constantly.
For those of you who are unaware, Iraq the Model is a blog run initially by three Iraqi brothers, and now by two (the third brother still runs another blog of his own, I think). These are three men who hate terrorists, hate Saddam Hussein, hate the thirty-five years of slavery and fear that he imposed on them. They love America, they love the coalition, and they love freedom.
One of the brothers, Mohammed, has written a message to Cindy Sheehan on Iraq the Model, and you need to go read it. Ladies and gentlemen, it is the sentiments like Mohammed's that make me support President Bush's vision for Iraq, the Coalition's mission in Iraq, and the Iraqi people so unwaveringly.
The Iraqis deserve freedom, and their freedom makes both us and them safer in the long run. I don't care about weapons of mass destruction. I honestly don't. I think they were there, and there have been various findings of chemical and biological rounds, but that's not the point. The point isn't Cindy Sheehan, the point isn't George Bush, the point isn't Ibrahim al-Jafaari or Donald Rumsfeld or Ahmed Chalabi or Yasser Arafat or Ariel Sharon or Muammar Qaddafi or Vladimir Putin or Jacques Chirac. The point is freedom, and liberty, and the right of a man to stand up when he chooses to stand up. It's the right to make a mistake, or to disagree with a leader without being tortured and murdered (the same right that Cindy Sheehan has never in her life had to do without).
Our hope is in freedom. It is freedom that unites us, and it is freedom that we seek to give to those from whom it has wrongly been taken. It is freedom, and only freedom, that can end the terrorist campaign of our enemies in our time. The only cure is freedom, and that is why we must continue spreading it to all corners of the world with steadfast resolve, never for a moment forgetting that we demand for our fellow human beings the same thing which we demand and treasure for ourselves.
That is why I take issue with Cindy Sheehan. I sympathize with her overwhelming grief, but I cannot bring myself to excuse her conduct, particularly in light of the hope that her son and hundreds of thousands of American, British, Polish, Australian, Danish, Salvadoran, and other soldiers have afforded a faceless, anonymous man named Mohammed, who lives in the cradle of civilization. Mohammed's freedom trumps Cindy Sheehan's agenda, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week as far as I'm concerned.
UPDATE: I link to Iraq the Model, but I don't read it with any regularity whatsoever. Tonight, thanks to a link by the ladies over at Ultima Thule, I was reminded that I should be reading it constantly.
For those of you who are unaware, Iraq the Model is a blog run initially by three Iraqi brothers, and now by two (the third brother still runs another blog of his own, I think). These are three men who hate terrorists, hate Saddam Hussein, hate the thirty-five years of slavery and fear that he imposed on them. They love America, they love the coalition, and they love freedom.
One of the brothers, Mohammed, has written a message to Cindy Sheehan on Iraq the Model, and you need to go read it. Ladies and gentlemen, it is the sentiments like Mohammed's that make me support President Bush's vision for Iraq, the Coalition's mission in Iraq, and the Iraqi people so unwaveringly.
The Iraqis deserve freedom, and their freedom makes both us and them safer in the long run. I don't care about weapons of mass destruction. I honestly don't. I think they were there, and there have been various findings of chemical and biological rounds, but that's not the point. The point isn't Cindy Sheehan, the point isn't George Bush, the point isn't Ibrahim al-Jafaari or Donald Rumsfeld or Ahmed Chalabi or Yasser Arafat or Ariel Sharon or Muammar Qaddafi or Vladimir Putin or Jacques Chirac. The point is freedom, and liberty, and the right of a man to stand up when he chooses to stand up. It's the right to make a mistake, or to disagree with a leader without being tortured and murdered (the same right that Cindy Sheehan has never in her life had to do without).
Our hope is in freedom. It is freedom that unites us, and it is freedom that we seek to give to those from whom it has wrongly been taken. It is freedom, and only freedom, that can end the terrorist campaign of our enemies in our time. The only cure is freedom, and that is why we must continue spreading it to all corners of the world with steadfast resolve, never for a moment forgetting that we demand for our fellow human beings the same thing which we demand and treasure for ourselves.
That is why I take issue with Cindy Sheehan. I sympathize with her overwhelming grief, but I cannot bring myself to excuse her conduct, particularly in light of the hope that her son and hundreds of thousands of American, British, Polish, Australian, Danish, Salvadoran, and other soldiers have afforded a faceless, anonymous man named Mohammed, who lives in the cradle of civilization. Mohammed's freedom trumps Cindy Sheehan's agenda, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week as far as I'm concerned.
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