Cindy Sheehan to Hillary: "you say it or you're losing your job" [View All]

[welshTerrier2]

the heat is being turned up on the fence-sitting Democrats ... this is just a warning salvo across their bow ... frankly, i hold out no hope Hillary will ever do what is necessary about Iraq ...

but Clark and Kerry, and i say this to their supporters and to their detractors as well, hold out hope that the Democratic Party will eventually get it right on Iraq ... but they damned well better do it soon or they will be more than just "Sheehanized" ...

Democrats need to go beyond saying they were lied to ... they need to go beyond saying bush is mishandling the war ... they need to go beyond calling for diplomacy ... Democrats need to say that bush is pursuing FALSE OBJECTIVES in Iraq ... they need to say he is still lying about HIS OBJECTIVES ... the war is a war of US imperialism designed to benefit bush's big oil buddies ... let's start with that acknowledgment and then we can debate next steps ...

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/19/politics/19sheehan.html

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, last night brought her campaign to end the war to New York, where she accused Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of not doing enough to challenge the Bush administration's Iraq policies.

Speaking in front of more than 500 supporters in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Ms. Sheehan, speaking of Senator Clinton, said, "She knows that the war is a lie but she is waiting for the right time to say it."

Then, as the crowd cheered, she issued a challenge to Senator Clinton, saying, "You say it or you are losing your job."

A spokesman for Senator Clinton, while not commenting about Ms. Sheehan's remarks, said that the senator, while voting to give President Bush the authority to go to war, has been very critical of the way he has chosen to use that authority.