Sheehan Comes to Vermont
Earlier this week, the word on the street was that, according to this post on GMD, the State Senate "can't find someone willing to testify in support of the war."
Apparently, such confidence breeds complacency. According to Snarky Boy's first person coverage of the hearing, the pro-war side came out in force and "the anti-war movement [got] its ass handed to them."
Oops. That's gotta hurt.
It kind of makes one wonder if the bench is really as empty as Odum speculated. The Republican-types tend to stay to themselves until things get too far out of hand. Then they just sort of come out of the woodwork in droves.
The big celebrity moment of the day - the speech given by the face of the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan herself - was a big let down. Says the Snarkmeister, "...it felt like Sheehan had simply cut and pasted some warmed-over sound bites, basically yawned them out, and then called it a speech."
Speaking of Snarky Boy, he mentions in his post that a "middle-aged man began booing [Marion Gray, mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, who spoke in support of the war, and against Sheehan] from the back of the room and shouting that she “was out of order.” He was quickly engulfed by the large numbers of security personnel and, from my perspective, immediately ushered out of the building."
The Free Press identified this man as one Michael Colby. Name sound familiar?
Interestingly enough, the snarky one's coverage ends there.
3 comments:
WOW! Great post, Charity. (this comment is being posted by someone who generally disagrees with you.)
Colby is a major boob. His behavior is reprehensable. And Sheehan is a bore.
As long as the conversation is about folks like Colby and Sheehan, the left looses.
As long as the conversation is about things that actually matter ... like the failed war in Iraq ... the left comes out ahead.
Anyhow I'm sure we disagree on that. But I do like this blog post. Good one.
Casey Sheehan got killed in a battle in Sadr City. He was a mechanic, but he volunteered to go to the battle when reinforcements were needed.
Just because the US is going to pull out and flee the carnage we unleashed in Iraq, doesn't mean Casey died in vain. He and so many others have sacrificed for the continuity of our union, and put might behind America's ideals.
Those ideals include citizen rule by the will of the people. As in the case of the Iraq war, our citizen rulers and the will of our people cause us to fuck up big-time sometimes, but they are still worthwhile elements of our democracy to uphold. Even when they fuck things up.
Casey and so many others have shown they will die to uphold citizen rule by the will of the people. We the people owe him and all the troops better citzen rule and far far better policies. Learning from this horrible mistake is another way to make sure our soldiers aren't dying in vain.
And now we know the "noble cause" for which Casey Sheehan, 2959 other American soldiers, hundreds of other American contractors, hundreds of nationals of other countries, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were "invested." It was to "have a very different kind of Middle East."
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