Reply #8: here's the LTTE (Aug 10) that ticked me off & that I was answering [View All]

To the Editor:

Cindy Sheehan gave a very different account of her visit with President Bush in June 2004. There has been no president in modern times who has spent as much time meeting individually with families of military personnel who made the ultimate sacrifice.

I think the real issue is, Whom do you blame if your son dies and he volunteered for duty? In the days of the draft, you could blame the government. But if he volunteered and believed in the mission, whom do you blame?

My heart breaks for Ms. Sheehan and other mothers of the fallen. I deal with that by doing as much as I can for soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and coasties during this war.

This is America's war and the world's war on terror. We are proud of the sacrifices of the fallen, and they are proud to have fought and died for Ms. Sheehan's right to question her president.

Martha Zoller
Gainesville, Ga., Aug. 9, 2005
The writer, a radio talk show host, visited with soldiers in Iraq in July.

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I was particularly incensed how she uses her photo ops with other soldiers as a credential leverage source against Cindy Sheehan. It is also the sort of thing that "Red Headed League" type progressives, ostensibly within the movement, do ALL the time, and it is infuriating