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Cindy Sheehan on Anniversary of Son's Death

Comment by Larry Ross, April 5, 2007

The human cost of King George's wars is spelled out by Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq 3 years ago. The agony of the Sheehan family can be multiplied a million times by Bush's murders of Iraqis. And perhaps millions of times if he escalates his wars to Iran and other countries. 

Many more American families will suffer as the Sheehans have, if Congress allows King George to continue his pathological murderous spree. But Congress has a collective genius at finding excuses, not to withdraw US troops, but to fund US troops to stay and occupy those 'bright and shinning' new permanent US Bases in Iraq, and the biggest US Embassy in the world, located in Baghdad.  Of course Congress will claim victory by setting a date for withdrawal, knowing in their heart that all this will soon be changed after Bush launches his pre-emptive war on Iran . But they are good at dancing around the issue and making peace noises and empty pledges and congratulating themselves as they make a show of opposition to the crazy man's delusions. After all it's only a show to cover up the certainly that most of Congress, like Hillary Clinton, will never expose Bush's lies or how they still embrace these lies to justify wars. Already most of them have embraced Bush's new set of lies to justify his long-planned attack on Iran. That's the hard reality in the US military-industrial-congressional state. 

If Bush stages any kind of false flag operation that involves staging an attack on the US or its citizens and blaming Iran , Congress will quickly embrace this new outrageous lie, as will the US media. With sighs of relief for this new 'evidence' of 'Iranian treachery', Congress will give Bush whatever he asks for and contribute self-righteously to the new mass media campaign for a US war with Iran 'to teach them a lesson'. Sheer craziness, denial and pathological criminality rules America today.

American society has become harnessed and enslaved to Bush's wars without end, in perpetual service to the military-industrial-congressional-corporate complex. Many more American, Iraqi and Iranian mothers will experience personally the grief and anger of Cindy Sheehan. If you doubt this statement and many will deny it, events will decide how accurate it becomes.

Congress will have to decide how much longer can they allow a pathological criminal - a crazy man - to lead America into a series of wars based on his lies and delusions; and how much longer they can pretend his lies are truths and then campaign and legislate for them.

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Three Years Ago Today

by Cindy Sheehan, April 3, 2007

 Three years ago today I was a "normal" American mother with four children, a marriage of almost 27 years and a boring 8 to 5 job. On April 3, 2004 I went to a nearby mall and bought a new outfit for work and two CDs: Evanescence and White Stripes. I was dreadfully worried about Casey, but I didn't know that my world was about to be turned upside down.

   Three years ago today, my oldest son was deployed to a war zone in a conflict that never should have happened, and because of the illegal invasion and immoral occupation, he was soon to be killed. My oldest daughter, Carly, was excited about transferring to university soon; my second son, Andy, was doing well as a surveyor's apprentice; and my youngest daughter, Janey, was on spring break in her senior year of high school.

    Three years ago today, if I thought about my marriage at all, being so distracted by my worry for Casey, I would have imagined Pat and I growing old(er) together with a passel of grandchildren we could spoil surrounding us. I always dreamed of two daughters-in-law and two sons-in-law to increase our happy family. Unfortunately, our marriage was a victim of King George's war of terror. I never understood why marriages break up after the death of a child, until I experienced it. After surviving so many other stressors, Casey's death was the proverbial straw that broke our marriage's back.

    Three years ago today, the light green spring suit that I bought for work became the suit I wore on the sunny-surreal day that we buried Casey. The men looked so handsome in their new dark suits and the girls also looked beautiful in their new outfits, which part of the "death benefit" purchased. Casey looked so peaceful in his dress greens; lying in his coffin like he was asleep. He was asleep - asleep forever at the age of 24 before he could marry that daughter-in-law for us or have those grandchildren. Asleep forever before he could finish college and become an elementary school teacher. Asleep forever before he could become a permanent deacon in the Catholic Church. Unnaturally asleep forever before three of his grandparents and his mother and father.

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