Cindy Sheehan: An Open Letter to George's Momma

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Cindy Sheehan: An Open Letter to George's Momma

 

Cindy Sheehan, Buzzflash, November 17, 2005

 

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/11/con05437.html

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Barbara,

 

On April 04, 2004, your oldest child killed my oldest child, Casey

Austin Sheehan.

 

Unlike your oldest child, my son was a marvelous person who joined the

military to serve his country and to try and make the world a better

place. Casey didn't want to go to Iraq, but he knew his duty. Your son

went AWOL from a glamour unit. George couldn't even handle the Alabama

Air National Guard. Casey joined the Army before your son became

commander in chief. We all know that your son was thinking of invading

Iraq as early as 1999. Casey was a dead man before George even became

president and before he even joined the Army in May of 2000.

 

I raised Casey and my other children to use their words to solve

problems and conflicts. I told my four children from the time that they

were small that it is ALWAYS wrong to kick, bite, hit, scratch, pull

hair, etc. If the smaller children couldn't find the words to solve

their conflicts without violence, I always encouraged them to find a

mediator like a parent, older sibling, or teacher to help them find the

words.

 

Did you teach George to use his words and not his violence to solve

problems? It doesn't appear so. Did you teach him that killing other

people for profits and oil is ALWAYS wrong? Obviously you did not. I

also used to wash my children's mouth out with soap on the rare occasion

that they lied...did you do that to George? Can you do it now? He has

lied and he is still lying. Saddam did not have WMD's or ties with

al-Qaeda and the Downing Street Memos prove that your son knew this

before he invaded Iraq.

 

On August 3rd, 2005, your son said that he killed my son and the other

brave and honorable Americans for a " noble cause. " Well, Barbara, mother

to mother, that angered me. I don't consider invading and occupying

another country that was proven not to be a threat to the USA is a noble

cause. I don't think invading a country, killing its innocent citizens,

and ruining the infrastructure to make your family and your

family-friendly war profiteers rich is a noble cause.

 

So I went down to Crawford in August to ask your son what noble cause

did he kill my son for. He wouldn't speak with me. I think that showed

incredibly bad manners. Do you think a president, even if it is your

son, should be so inaccessible to his employers? Especially one of his

bosses whose life George has devastated so completely?

 

I have been to the White House several times since August to try and

meet with George and I am going back to Crawford next week. Do you think

you can call him and ask him to do the right thing and bring the troops

home from this illegal and immoral war in Iraq that he carelessly

started? I hear you are one of the few people he still talks to. He

won't speak to his father, who knew the difficulties and impossibilities

of going into Iraq and that's why he didn't go there in the 1st Gulf

War. If you won't tell him to bring the troops home, can you at least

urge him to meet with me?

 

You said this in 2003, a little over a year before my dear, sweet Casey

was killed by your son's policies:

 

" Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it's not

relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like

that? " (Good Morning America, March 18, 2003)

 

Now I have something to tell you, Barbara. I didn't want to hear about

deaths or body bags either. On April 04, 2004, three Army officers came

to my house to tell me that Casey was killed in Iraq. I fell on the

floor screaming and begging the cruel Angel of Death to take me, too.

But the Angel of Death that took my son is your son.

 

Casey came home in a flag draped coffin on April 10th. I used to have a

beautiful mind, too. Now my mind is filled with images of seeing his

beautiful body in his casket and memories of burying my brave and honest

boy before his life really began. Casey's beautiful mind was ended by an

insurgent's bullet to his brain, but your son might as well have pulled

the trigger.

 

Besides encouraging your son to have some honesty and courage and to

finally do the right thing, don't you think you owe me and every other

Gold Star parent an apology for that cruel and careless remark you made?

 

Your son's amazingly ignorant, arrogant, and reckless policies in Iraq

are responsible for so much sorrow and trouble in this world.

 

Can you make him stop? Do it before more mothers' lives are needlessly

and cruelly harmed. There have been too many worldwide already.

 

Sincerely,

 

Cindy Sheehan

 

Mother of Casey Sheehan

Founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace

Founder of Camp Casey Peace Foundation

 

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