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| Apologize, Cindy |
| 2005-09-28 |
| A comment by center-left blogger "The Bull Moose." Minor EFL. The Moose suggests that Ms. Sheehan should offer some contrition. Cindy Sheehan should climb off her high horse and offer an apology to someone she slandered. . . . she has discredited her cause by her associations with radicals, her extremist statements about Israel and her arguments even against the Afghanistan war. And now this... For months she has been asking public officials including the President to meet with her to discuss the war. One supporter of the war did just that yesterday - Senator John McCain. And the result? She called him a "warmonger." . . . Perhaps, Ms. Sheehan has earned the right to be sanctimonious. But, she has no right to call an American hero a "warmonger." Maybe, Ms Sheehan is ill-informed. No one knows the horror of war more than John McCain. And no American has sought to repair the wounds of war more than John McCain. When others were faint-hearted about restoring relations with Viet Nam, John McCain took the lead to heal the breach with his former torturers. And today, no American is more outraged by the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. He has even defied his own President and Party to advance the cause of the humane treatment of captured enemies. John McCain is no "warmonger", but he does love freedom. That is why he consistently fights for the democratic and human rights for people across the world from Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma to those children who once languished in Saddam's prisons. Cindy Sheehan is entitled to her outrage. However, she has no right to smear a hero. Apologize, Cindy. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 I just find it interesting that someone relatively prominent on the left is willing to call Cindy out so bluntly. |
| Posted by: Mike 2005-09-28 21:42 |
| #1 Not too likely. She's off the deep end, and an apology would just make people realize that she's a real person. The best thing she can do is continue her descent into madness and self-parody by making increasingly outrageous statements. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-09-28 15:21 |