A son’s life weighed against genocide
Cindy Sheehan is at it again. I hope I am never so overwhelmed by grief at the death of a loved one that I would push for the wanton genocide of others. Maybe she should go to Iraq and talk to the mothers that lost sons AND husbands, sisters AND brothers, friends AND cousins to torture chambers and rape rooms. Think that would give her a different perspective? Bush is more the hero than villain – but some are so amazingly, stubbornly, and willfully deranged that reason gets shuffled to the side in their scramble away from reality. Decent people want peace but wise people understand that peace comes at a price.
This woman needs help. And if she is a symbol it is not so much of the anti-war movement but of someone who truly needs serious grief counseling.
Sheehan’s son died trying to bring peace, freedom, and democracy to a people long chained to the walls of a tyrants rape rooms and torture chambers. He is a hero- not an object to be used to push an agenda in a brief, opportunistic moment of fame.
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