Re: Google Cindy Sheehan (was: Re: Peace Mom)



w.d.greene wrote: 
"Wendy Chatley Green" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]


I do  wonder... if Pres. Kerry had started a war with Saudi
Arabia after 9/11 and if her son had been killed outside of Riyadh,
would Ms. Sheehan be parked outside of Teresa's mountain chalet for
the duration of Kerry's vacation?  If she were truly against war, then
she would.  If she's merely against the right, the Republicans, and
Bush, then she wouldn't.


That's nearly an impossible hypothetical. Besides, she doesn't have to be "against war" so much as against this particular war for very particular reasons. Yes, there are people who are against every military action period, but they are few and far between in my experience. I think that it is instead a question of the necessary threshold of justification for military action that varies from person to person. In this case, Bush has repeatedly referred to a noble cause being behind this war. If that's true, then that's a pretty strong justification. All Ms. Sheehan has requested is an elucidation of that noble cause of which he speaks. Surely that's not too much to ask from the commander in chief after he's sent thousands of men and women to their death or maiming and spent hundreds of billions of our national treasure. 

Cost of Iraq war to date: Approximately $188B.

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Stan
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