No - her POV resonates with the fringe of a fringe. And while I have little need or desire to question her sanity or her motives, I don’t need to give her views any more consideration than they’re due.
Frankly, on these boards I’ve treated her actions and her person with considerable respect and her views with rather undisguised contempt. That’s what I feel, and it wouldn’t be honest to say otherwise.
That’s Pizza Hut, dumbass. Don’t you remember Book It?
Really? Only the ‘fringe of the fringe’ thinks Bush and Co intentionally made a bogus case for war that led to the end of thousands of lives?
I don’t have a son that died in Iraq, but her outrage resonates with me.
Guess I’m on the fringe…which will be good for my acting career.
I think she’s an asshole. She traveled to Cuba in 2007 as a guest of the Cuban government and publicly protested the US Guantanamo prison. On the trip to Guantanamo she passed at least 30 prisons where over 75 internationally recognized prisoners of conscience are held by the Cuban government. The same government that was hosting her.
She’s not crazy, she’s an asshole.
Cause she’s a citizen of Cuba and should spread her outrage equally.
Fucking parents dealing with the death of their kids, that pisses me off too.
And we try, except when the libs trot her out and whip her sorry ass around the track one more time.
I don’t suppose it’s occurred to you how much shame and dishonor she has heaped on her dead son’s memory, has it? It sure as hell hasn’t occurred to her.
I expect that just as we are still finding and trying ww2 war criminals, the investigation into the Bush admin war crimes will continue for decades. I don’t look for a quick resolution. I admit I didn’t read the op’s link and this isn’t a direct reply. She may well be unstable but that doesn’t automatically discount everything she says.
Sadly if she was a citizen of Cuba she would not have been allowed to enter Cuba to protest anything. Maybe I’m the one who’s crazy, but someone who calls herself a ‘human rights activist’ is pretty much of an asshole when it seems only the violation of some human’s rights bother her.
Even her voice annoys me. 
Because it’s shameful and dishonorable to stand up for what you believe in?
Adjust your droll cup corky, you’re leaking.
She is a citizen of the United States, her government sent her child to an unnecessary war, he died and she wants satisfaction.
Yet because she isn’t championing against the human rights abuses by the Cuban government you think she’s an asshole?
Her son was a grown man of 21 who freely volunteered to join the Army. Then, knowing he would probably go to Iraq, freely reenlisted.
I understand she’s hurt. But he made this decision with his eyes open. Not sure why this is Bush’s fault.
Her complaint that the Army wouldn’t give him a headstone (which while technically true is disingenuous) proves she’s a nut to me.
“the libs trot her out and whip her sorry ass around the track”? How does that work?
Shame and dishonor for demanding accountability for the lies which resulted in her son’s death? Are you nuts?
For you the lies were honorable and the truth is dishonorable?
Well, that explains a lot.
And it will require continued pressure from every angle, domestic and foreign. The criminals and their supporters always want to forget the past and look forward.
Not only that but she may be unstable because of her son’s unnecessary death which means she is also a victim of the damn fool war.
He can read???
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If she believes that Bush’s government fooled her son into (re)enlisting, or lied to create circumstances under which he and many others wanted to (even of their own free will), it makes sense.
Hey, I’m not the one who asked her to opine on the Palestinian issue, go to Venezuela, go to Cuba, go to Australia, visit Europe. I didn’t ask her to run for Congress against, of all people, Nancy Pelosi.
If she wants to be seen as an activist for many different causes, which she plainly does, then she opens herself up to criticism on any of them. And the abuses of the Cuban government might hit close to home with a poster who grew up there, so that seems fair game to me.
Said as much above, but I don’t think that matters much. In the end it is just her view among many.
Yes, but did she go to Guantanamo Bay…or Cuba proper? If the latter, it would be a tad hypocritical to criticize Bush’s violations of human rights while accepting the hospitality of dictator such as Castro, no?
(I’m not commenting on Sheehan one way or another, I’m just pointing out why people why might have a problem here with her TRAVELING to Cuba in the first place.)
What the hell is a misdemeanor against humanity?