Cindy Sheehan needs help

I say that, from a compassionate heart, not scorn or ridicule. She clearly is not dealing with the loss of her son very well. (courtesy of Veteransforpeace.org) To make matters worse, her anguish is being fueled by the worst sort of feverswamp malcontents, from MoveOn to Michael Moore to Maureen Dowd, and is being exploited by many other Leftists for their own political gain.

Losing a child is the toughest thing to endure that I can imagine, especially when you feel it was in a useless cause, or worse. Grief can do very damaging and unpredictable things to the mind and the soul. Especially when the shoulders you lean on are pulling away from you.
I can't presume to fully understand exactly how she feels, or to be able to empathize with her, but one needn't to have lost a child to be able to sympathize with her loss, and her struggle to deal with the grief.

However, Cindy Sheehan's exagerated slanders of the President and his administration indicate something besides an emotionally healthy person struck with grief. These are just some of the excerpts from a speech she gave Aug. 8, 2005 to a Veterans For Peace convention:

"...somebody's gotta stop those lying bastards. Somebody has to stop them."

"...the war criminals in Washington, D.C., they don't even lose a night's sleep."

"They sent these honorable people to die, and are so dishonorable themselves. "

"Then we have this lying bastard, George Bush, taking a 5-week vacation in a time of war. You know what? I'm never going to get to enjoy another vacation, because of him. My vacation probably - -this is really sad because I have a really cute dress I was going to wear to the banquet tomorrow night, but I'm either gonna be in jail or in a tent in Crawford, waiting until that jerk comes out and tells me why my son died."

"So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about. "

"... they put Terry Schiavo on, and I wrote something then called The Amazing Hypocrites and I asked why does she deserve life more than my son, and the Iraqi people?"

"... he (President Bush) doesn't care, he doesn't have a heart. That's not enough to stop his little playing cowboy' game in Crawford for 5 weeks.

"So anyway that filth-spewer and warmonger, George Bush..."

"... if I started hitting something, I wouldn't stop til it was dead."

"... I'm gonna tell them, "You get that evil maniac out here, cuz a Gold Star Mother, somebody who's blood is on his hands, has some questions for him."

" You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don't tell me my son died for freedom and democracy."

"You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine." **(Tellingly, this was the only place in the transcript of her speech where the editor commented, with: "(massive round of applause)" I say that's a telling point, because leftist organizations always seem to condemn Israel and support the Palestinians)**

"What can we do to get him out of power? And I'm gonna say the I' word. Impeach.
And we have to have everybody impeached that lied to the American public, and that's the executive branch, and any people in congress, and we gotta go all the way down and we might have to go all the way down to the person who picks up the dogshit in Washington because
we can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals.
Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done. "

"...my son was killed in 2004, so I'm not paying my taxes for 2004. If I get a letter from the IRS, I'm gonna say, you know what, this war is illegal; this is why this war is illegal. This war is immoral; this is why this war is immoral. You killed my son for this. I don't owe you anything. And if I live to be a million, I won't owe you a penny. " "You give me my son, and I'll pay your taxes."

As I said, and I mean it sincerely, I don't want to ridicule Mrs. Sheehan, but her family needs to get her some serious grief counseling, before she loses her mind. The bitterness and anger can fester and grow, if not addressed, and could destroy her. It's not healthy for her to be encouraged by the looney lefties that are exploiting her loss for their own political gain.

Brad