Cindy Sheehan: Certifiably Insane
Unlike many better known conservative pundits, I have chosen to remain mostly silent regarding the matter of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of US Army Casey Sheehan, KIA in
The fact that I agree with her basically on one thing, that the US should have no presence in Iraq right now, and nothing else doesn't bother me as much as that fact that I know I disagree with her on just about anything else. If she were truly championing the cause of the soldiers how should I know how she feels about anything else?
Because she has gone off the deep end, that's how. I do no pretend to even begin to understand what it feels like to bury a child, as I do not even know how it feels to bear and rear one, but there comes a point where certain actions, no matter what events precede them, indicate lunacy;
Case in point, courtesy of the Drudge Report.
The thing that upsets me the most about this recent tirade is that she may have reversed all the good she had been, up until now, accomplishing. She was finally beginning the serious talk of troop extraction, nation wide. She gave that movement its first serious legs and this kind of behavior can be like taking a mace and turning the movement into a paraplegic with all the grace of a seething troglodyte.
For the sake of our troops I hope she now quiets down an lets the swing majority of this country continue to swing in the direction of
