Cindy Sheehan: The Destroyer and His Helpers

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Posted in its entirety with permission.

The Destroyer and His Helpers
Cindy Sheehan

When I first started on my long, arduous and relentless journey towards peace shortly after my son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, I met with many Democratic House Members and two Republicans, Walter Jones (R-NC) and Ron Paul (R-Tx). I received sympathy and sometimes tea from each elected official, but the consensus was that the anti-war group was in the minority in the Democratic Party and but the barest of minorities in the Republican Party so nothing could be accomplished in stopping Bloody George the Destroyer’s war of terror.

The news from Iraq is already devastating this month. In the first five days of February, as things are escalating, compounding and stacking up The Destroyer’s blunders in Iraq, 17 of our soldiers have been killed. So far, over hundreds of hungry civilians have been killed at crowded marketplaces in Baghdad. These calamities have occurred while The Destroyer and his helpers, Congressional Democrats, were rubbing elbows and sharing a good chuckle over George’s linguistic contortions. Is it just me, or should it be a requirement that the president of an English speaking country be able to speak English?

Recently, Sen. Hillary Clinton said during a speech that she knows there are people in the country who wish that Congress could “do more” then offer pathetic non-binding resolutions and even weaker bills that don’t have a chance in Bush-Hell to get out of committee, or if by a miracle a bill reaches The Destroyer’s desk, he would just veto it, or add one of his tyrannical and dictatorial signing statements.

Excuse me, Ms. Clinton, Congress can do more. Congress has it in its power to stop The Destroyer and the depraved occupation of Iraq. Congress can quit enabling The Destroyer’s addiction to destruction.

Congress can vote “Nay” on the next 250 billion dollar request for more madness in the Middle East.

Congress can start investigating the myriad of high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush Crime Regime. Congress can remove BushCo from office and see that they are tried in criminal court for war crimes and crimes against our own Constitution.

Congress can belatedly regain its constitutional powers to declare war and rescind its resolution giving George the authority to invade countries willy-nilly as he sees fit, because was all know that he is not fit to see anything.

Congress, in a bi-partisan effort must lasso in this faux-cowboy-run-amok who said he was sending 21,000 more troops to Baghdad to throw more fuel onto the dead body fire but will now send 50,000 more troops because he wants more fodder in the region when he invades Iran.

It is not enough for our employees to say that they are against a war that they voted for and continue to fund. It is not enough to expediently and conveniently say that if you were president in 2003, (Hillary Clinton) that you wouldn’t have invaded Iraq. It is absolutely stunning to begin political campaigns for 2008 when our troops and the Iraqi people are being butchered in an absolutely obscene war of choice when many of the candidates mouth the words that it is “wrong.”

Seventeen families here in the US and hundreds of families in Iraq are going to find out what it is like to live lives of unqualified hell while no one does anything to help them. We are in a disgraceful and apparently hopeless situation.

What do we do?

First of all, we never give up hope. The grass roots anti-war community has brought this country a long way since even before The Destroyer’s “shocking and awful” invasion of an already compromised country. However, we can also never give up our commitment to our brothers and sisters in Iraq and to our children whom BushCo have put in danger’s way still without the proper tools to stay alive.

Peace is within our grasp if we don’t give into the despair and darkness that has been showered upon our country by the Bush Regime.

Peace is just around the corner if we will move confidently and courageously out of our circles of comfort and concern to realize that being comfortable in such a violent world is not the correct moral choice and someone should be concerned about the innocents being slaughtered by US imperialistic fervor.

Peace is not an issue it is the issue.

Cindy is writing from Paris, France, where her book “Peace Mom” is debuting in France this week.









Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was killed in Bush's war of terror on 04/04/04.
She is the co-founder and president of Gold Star Families for Peace and the Camp Casey Peace Institute.
She is the author of three books, the most recent is: Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey Through Heartache
to Activism.

[bigtree]

1. of course, our Democratic leaders are in the process of doing these

most importantly,

"Congress, in a bi-partisan effort must lasso in this faux-cowboy-run-amok who said he was sending 21,000 more troops to Baghdad to throw more fuel onto the dead body fire but will now send 50,000 more troops because he wants more fodder in the region when he invades Iran."

[nebenaube]

2. it's time we start using the correct frame...

He's not the decider and they are not enablers. He's the deceiver and they are the prostitutes!

[az chela]

3. Cindy is one of the few people that tells the real story and

calls a spade a spade.She is not an ass kisser and could care less if people dont agree with her.Her writing continues to get better and better.
I dont know how any politician can continue to fund this war which is nothing but a criminal massacre intended to keep people's minds off what bushco is really doing.We all better wake up before it is too
late

[meldroc]

4. We've got to keep up the pressure.

If there's a million protesters at the Mall in DC each month, and countless more across the nation, and people like Fitzgerald continue to expose the Bush administration's crimes, eventually, Congress will be forced to act. They'll be forced to defund the war, force Bush to bring the troops home, and start impeachment. We've got to keep up the pressure.

[Tom Joad]

5. A "helper" is being challanged. Peace-In at Rep. Matsui's Office now in its Fourth Week

http://sacramentofordemocracy.org/?q=node/view/4949

Monday, Jan 29, 2007
Contact: Cres Vellucci, Sacramento Coalition to End the War, 916/996-9170

‘Peace-in' at Rep. Doris Matsui office begins 4th week with no end in sight; Lawmaker fails to support troops, says Coalition

SACRAMENTO – The "peace-in" at the Federal Courthouse offices (501 I St.) of Rep. Doris Matsui begins its fourth week Monday, with those participating in the vigil hopeful that the lawmaker will reverse her decision and decide to support the US troops in Iraq rather than leave them in harm's way.

The 9-5 daily sit-in began January 8 – organized by a broad-based and growing Sacramento Coalition to End the War – and is designed to convince Rep. Matsui that she should join other members of Congress and refuse to vote for any further funding for the war beyond the $70 billion already approved for 2007.

Voters in the 5th Congressional District have responded to the "peace-in," and flooded Rep. Matsui's office with phone calls, faxes and personal visits since early January. Numbers of people joining the sit-in have steadily increased – so much so that the lawmaker's offices are often overflowing with people.

Last week, Rep. Matsui relented and met via teleconference with those opposed to the war. She also met privately for a few minutes with several demonstrators in office. But the chats were disappointing.

"Rep. Matsui is not listening to us, and apparently still puts partisan politics above the safety of our troops," said George Main, a spokesperson for the Coalition and president of Veterans for Peace in Sacramento. "Rep.Matsui talks about months and months of oversight hearings, and ‘political considerations' when US troops are dying needlessly," he added.

"Rep. Matsui says she is opposed to the war, but she has not signed ontoany meaningful legislation to do that. Every minute, every hour, every day Rep. Matsui, and others in Congress like her, play politics, US troops die,and are maimed in this war. The political games must end. This war and
occupation must end," said Maggie Coulter of Peace Action.
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Rep Matsui is guilty of the "puny opposition" that will allow this war to go on,in one form or another, for years to come. An sad american tradition.

Frederick Douglass, former slave, extraordinary speaker and writer, wrote in his Rochester newspaper the North Star, January 21, 1848, of "the present disgraceful, cruel, and iniquitous war with our sister republic. Mexico seems a doomed victim to Anglo Saxon cupidity and love of dominion." Douglass was scornful of the unwillingness of opponents of the war to take real action (even the abolitionists kept paying their taxes):

The determination of our slaveholding President to prosecute the war, and the probability of his success in wringing from the people men and money to carry it on, is made evident, rather than doubtful, by the puny opposition arrayed against him. No politician of any considerable distinction or eminence seems willing to hazard his popularity with his party ... by an open and unqualified disapprobation of the war. None seem willing to take their stand for peace at all risks; and all seem willing that the war should be carried on, in some form or other.

[babylonsister]

6. It's small efforts like this that will make a big difference. Thanks for

reminding me!