Why the righties really hate Cindy Sheehan

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Sat Sep-24-05 08:48 PM
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Why the righties really hate Cindy Sheehan

The simple truth is they hate her because they have done their damnedest to make this war sanitary and keep it out of the psyche of the public at large. They even went so far as to bar people from seeing flag-draped coffins of our fallen come home.

The more it can be ignored, the less likely anyone is going to notice this entire mess was not only built on a pack of lies and disinformation that was only successful because our country was still wounded from the attacks on 9/11, but because nearly every single prediction the right wing gave about Iraq (WMD, cakewalk, flowers and kisses) turned out to be untrue.

They don't want the people aware of the nearly 2000 soldiers who have died in Iraq, the hundreds of billions of dollars, the atrocity that was Abu Gharib, and the instability we have wrought in the region as well has the thousands more soldiers wounded and the thousands of innocent civilians who got killed by this misadventure, including some in our own backyard because so much of our National Guard and it's equipment is in Iraq instead of being stateside (which is where the National Guard is supposed to be, but someone forgot to tell the right).

And along comes Cindy Sheehan to put a face to this farce of a war and challenging the lies. Someone who has made a REAL SACRIFICE (unlike the pukes borrowing the money to wage war so they don't have to give up their tax cuts).

So Cindy becomes the object of their scorn and ridicule and anger and hatred because they know, deep down inside the only thing she is doing is holding a mirror up to Bush administration and his supporters and they are responding with the rage of Caliban at seeing their own reflection in the glass.

And the fact is for once in their miserable lives the neocons can't blame the democrats for everything because the republicans control BOTH houses of Congress and the White House.

They hate her because she has broken the appalling silence that has allowed people to carry on as if our servicemen and women were not over in Iraq risking their necks day after day in a conflict that we had no reason to involve ourselves in to begin with.

They can't stand her because she has the guts to stand up to the bullying tactics of the right and every single time she comes out smelling like a rose and the Hannitys and Limbaughs show just how far they will stoop to smear someone who disagrees with them, including a woman who lost more than most will ever imagine for this ill-advised war.

They hate her because deep down they know she deserves the answers she seeks and know that if this were a democratic president who mislead the country into a war, they'd be clamoring for his impeachment, but instead since he's "one of their own" they prefer to pretend like accountability doesn't matter.

Personally, I don't understand how the republicans can even pretend to have any form of accountability. Even assuming Bush and his ilk were mislead by the intelligence (which is laughable), what form of accountability is it that awards the man in charge of the organization that provided faulty intelligence that led to the death of thousands of US soldier, thousands more injured, and caused us to waste hundreds of billions of tax dollars by giving that man the MEDAL OF FREEDOM?????

That's accountability? Cindy is just asking the questions that are in the back of the minds of many Americans and made it okay for the average person to stand up and question this war without having their patriotism and love of this country called into question.

And for that, the kool-aid drinking warmongering righties hate her like poison.