Re: Bush junta has no shame

I have heard none of these people "attack" Cindy Sheehan. Why didn't you
post any quotes from these "right wingers" that directly attacked Cindy
Sheehan? These people aren't attacking her. They are simply reporting
what CINDY said in HER OWN WORDS months before, which are totally
contradictory to what she is saying now. Why is it only leftists have the
right to free speech? Her son did what he wanted to do on his terms. In
case you didn't know, the United States DOES have a voluntary military
force. There are actually people in this country who love it so much they
are willing to do anything to defend it, so they volunteer. There are
youngsters who understand how important it is to keep terrorism in check.
Sure, right wingers attack those who are propping Sheehan up the way
they are, because they are a bunch of leftists who couldn't care less
about Cindy's son. They are just using her publicity so they can get
their own agenda across, which represents a minority of the country.
MoveOn.org is using this circus to raise money for their leftist agenda,
along with other fringe wacko groups.
These leftist antagonists, and those who support them, contribute
NOTHING but pessimism to this country, and are dishonoring the brave
service these young men and women VOLUNTARILY chose to perform. We can
debate all night long on if we should have gone to war or not, but that
was already decided by a majority of lawmakers we the people sent to
Congress, including even leftist Democrats who voted to go to war, based
on the same intel that the president himself reviewed. They agreed
overwhelmingly for this action, now it is imperitive that we WIN it. You
people are doing NOTHING to boost morale or make the situation any
better, but ARE eboldening and aiding the enemy. Same can be said for the
press, who continuously ignore the progresses that are being made. The
only thing the press is willing to do is sit in their air conditioned
offices with a thumb in their ass and count casualties.

Randy


"Joe S." <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Just as Joseph Goebbels used the media and media lapdogs to destroy
> anyone who opposed Hitler, so the Republicans and their media lapdogs
> are attacking Cindy Sheehan. This is just a warmup for what they will
> do to anyone who dares speak out against this useless, obscene war.
>
> http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050817/blaming_the_antiwar_messenger
> s.php
>
> QUOTE
>
> Blaming The Anti-War Messengers
> Norman Solomon
> August 17, 2005
>
>
> This article is adapted from Norman Solomon's new book, War Made
> Easy:
> How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. For information,
> go to: www.WarMadeEasy.com
>
> The surge of antiwar voices in U.S. media this month has
> coincided
> with new lows in public approval for what pollsters call President
> Bush's "handling" of the Iraq war. After more than two years of a
> military occupation that was supposed to be a breeze after a cakewalk
> into Baghdad, the war has become a clear PR loser. But an unpopular
> war can continue for a long time-and one big reason is that the
> military-industrial-media complex often finds ways to blunt the
> effectiveness of its most prominent opponents.
>
> Right now, the pro-war propaganda arsenal of the world's only
> superpower is drawing a bead on Cindy Sheehan, who now symbolizes the
> United States' anti-war grief. She is a moving target, very difficult
> to hit. But right-wing media sharpshooters are sure to keep trying.
>
> The Bush administration's top officials must be counting the
> days
> until the end of the presidential vacation brings to a close the
> Crawford standoff between Camp Casey and Camp Carnage. But media
> assaults on Cindy Sheehan are just in early stages.
>
> While the president mouths respectful platitudes about the
> grieving
> mother, his henchmen are sharpening their media knives and starting to
> slash. Pro-Bush media hit squads are busily spreading the notions that
> Sheehan is a dupe of radicals, naïve and/or nutty. But the most
> promising avenue of attack is likely to be the one sketched out by Fox
> News Channel eminence Bill O'Reilly on Aug. 9, 2005, when he declared
> that Cindy Sheehan bears some responsibility for "other American
> families who have lost sons and daughters in Iraq who feel that this
> kind of behavior borders on treasonous."
>
> That sort of demagoguery is on tap for the duration of the war.
> Military families will be recruited for media appearances to dispute
> the patriotism of anti-war activists-especially those who speak as
> relatives of American soldiers and shatter media stereotypes by
> publicly urging withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
>
> So far, during this war, President Bush is leaving the
> defamation
> chores to his surrogate media fighters. But loud noises coming from
> the right wing today are echoes of key themes that other presidents
> eagerly voiced.
>
> During the mid-1960s, as President Lyndon Johnson escalated the
> Vietnam War, he grew accustomed to trashing Americans who expressed
> opposition. They were prone to be shaky and irresolute, he
> explained-and might even betray the nation's servicemen. "There will
> be some Nervous Nellies," he predicted on May 17, 1966, "and some who
> will become frustrated and bothered and break ranks under the strain.
> And some will turn on their leaders and on their country and on our
> fighting men."
>
> Delivering a speech in mid-March 1968, President Johnson
> contended
> that as long as the foe in Vietnam "feels that he can win something by
> propaganda in the country-that he can undermine the leadership-that he
> can bring down the government-that he can get something in the Capital
> that he can't get from our men out there-he is going to keep on
> trying."
>
> LBJ's successor Richard Nixon was quick to brandish similar
> innuendos.
> "Let us be united for peace," Nixon said early in his presidency. "Let
> us be united against defeat. Because let us understand: North Vietnam
> cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do
> that."
>
> Martin Luther King Jr. found that former allies could become
> incensed
> when he went out of his way to challenge the war. In his "Beyond
> Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4,
> 1967, King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence
> in the world today." From Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America, he
> said, the United States was "on the wrong side of a world revolution."
> King asked why America was suppressing revolutions "of the shirtless
> and barefoot people" in the Third World, instead of supporting them.
>
> That kind of talk drew barbs and denunciations from media
> quarters
> that had applauded his efforts to end racial segregation. Time
> magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a
> script for Radio Hanoi." The Washington Post warned that "King has
> diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."
>
> When the Gulf War began, snappy phrases like "blame America
> first"
> were a popular way to vilify dissenters. "What we cannot be proud of,
> Mr. Speaker, is the unshaven, shaggy-haired, drug culture, poor
> excuses for Americans, wearing their tiny, round wire-rim glasses, a
> protester's symbol of the blame-America-first crowd, out in front of
> the White House burning the American flag," Rep. Gerald B. H. Solomon
> said on Jan. 17, 1991.
>
> During a typical outburst in early 2003 before the Iraq
> invasion, Rush
> Limbaugh told his radio audience: "I want to say something about these
> anti-war demonstrators. No, let's not mince words, let's call them
> what they are-anti-American demonstrators." Weeks later, former
> Congressman Joe Scarborough, a Republican rising through the ranks of
> national TV hosts, said on MSNBC: "These leftist stooges for
> anti-American causes are always given a free pass. Isn't it time to
> make them stand up and be counted for their views, which could hurt
> American troop morale?"
>
> Such poisonous sludge is now pouring out of some mass media-and
> we
> should expect plenty more in response to a growing anti-war movement.
>
>
>
> END QUOTE
>

.

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