Cindy Sheehan needs help...mental help.

Cindy Sheehan has made a mild come back of sorts. I didn't realize it, but she has a blog on this very site. I'm now a follower of her blog. Not because I agree with what she says, I don't, but just to see what she is saying and how close she is to descending into complete madness.

The last we saw her she was running an unsuccessful campaign to defeat Nancy Pelosi. Well I guess she was on plane the other day right before Memorial Day and the pilot made the comment as they were landing to think about the veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedoms. Well the best I can tell from her blog Cindy must have heard him say thank Casey Sheehan for defending our freedoms. She talks about how she would have walked up to the cockpit and yelled at the pilot cause her son died for nothing.

I feel bad for her, I truly do. By this point she is so twisted from hate that a simple phrase, something that is said a hundred times around Memorial Day, is enough to set her off. Forget about your feelings towards the Iraq War, what about the millions of other Soldiers who most certainly have died defending our freedoms? Can she not see that this is as much about them as it is her son?

Now what really made me mad is as she continues through her rambling she starts to take very personal shots at those who have served. In one instance she says, "If you watch any one of the cable news networks this weekend between doing holiday weekend things, you will be subjected to images of row upon row of white headstones of dead US military lined up in perfect formation in the afterlife as they were in life. Patriotic music will swell and we will be reminded in script font to "Remember our heroes," or some such BS as that." BS? are you fucking kidding me lady?

She goes to write this gem "A tough, but real, aspect of this all to consider is, how many of the soldiers buried in coffins in military cemeteries killed or tortured innocent people as paid goons for Empire? To me, it is deeply and profoundly sad on so many levels. If I have any consolation through all of this, I learned that my son bravely refused to go on the mission that killed him, but he was literally dragged onto the vehicle and was dead minutes later before he was forced to do something that was against his nature and nurture." So now she is painting all Soldiers who have died in combat with the same broad brush that a few of the people who have been convicted of brutal crimes in Iraq have been painted with. It's this the same MO of war protesters in during Vietnam? Every Soldier is a baby killer? Then she says her son basically refused a direct order. This is a courtmarshall offense. She may think she is portraying her son as brave and standing up for values. To me she is showing him as someone who tried to bail on his fellow Soldiers. That is inexcusable.

One last point. I often wonder in the cases of high-profile casualties like Casey Sheehan and Pat Tillman, are the views that their surviving family members are attributing to these people really theirs, or have they been changed to reflect the views of the surviving family. Did Casey Sheehan really go kicking and screaming into battle? Did he really think the Iraq war was wrong? Did Pat Tillman really turn to his buddies at the beginning of the Iraq war and say that it was illegal as has been written? No one will ever know. I gotta believe they thought differently.