That's One Brave Woman -- Cindy Sheehan going to Cincinnati

From today' Cincinnati Enquirer:

Sheehan to hold 'teach-in'
BY HOWARD WILKINSON | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The nation's most famous anti-war activist is coming to Cincinnati.

Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who lost her soldier son in Iraq two years ago, brings her campaign to end the war to Cincinnati Friday.

When she does, there will be many in this community who share her loss, but not necessarily her views.

"I don't agree with her, but I believe she has every right to say what she wants to say,'' said John Prazynski of Hamilton, whose 20-year-old Marine son, Taylor, died in Iraq in May 2005. "My son and her son died defending that freedom.''

Sheehan, whose son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was killed in Baghdad in April 2004, is coming to Cincinnati to conduct a "teach-in'' on the Iraq war an hour before a Friday night concert by Muse-Cincinnati Women's Choir.

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"I don't think we can just sit here and wave our index fingers at the terrorists and tell them to behave,'' said Prazynski, an Air Force veteran. "All she ever says is that we should get out now. She offers no alternatives, no plan.

"I pray for peace every day,'' said Prazynski. "I don't want war. But people have short memories. They forget 9/11 all too easily. What we are fighting for is freedom.''

What do you say to people like Mr. Praznyski? What does fighting in Iraq have to do with 9/11? Is it hopeless when people are still spouting that lie even after losing a son?

"In exactly what way did Iraq ever threaten our freedom? The biggest threats to our freedom are the Patriot Act really and an administration that chooses to ignore the rule of law. Deepest condolences for your loss."

All the car bombs and IUDs killing US troops & pro-US Iraqis would stop if the hated US leaves. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that. Oh yeah - fundies and PNACers do not think with their heads, only with their bibles.

How is "get out now" not a plan? Seems like the obvious thing to do, to me.

1. If she had a plan, people would say how dare she presume to know how to do it.
2. A Republican trick is to demand a plan, then use it or condemn and ridicule it.
3. It is so illogical that they would expect a mother of a soldier to know what the plan should be.
4. Seems her plan is day-to-day now, since her original plan was to have her son home alive and sound and since she had never expected to be campaigning for something coming from the heart and the sorrow.
5. Seems her heart led her to a 'cause' of focusing attention, bringing people together, speaking out, finding comfort with other mothers and supporters.

She has her cause. A plan for pull-out is someone else's role.
His is to believe in what he thinks is the cause of the (so-called) war and to continue as we're going.
To each their own.

Allowing the President to use "Terra Terra! Booga Booga!" as an excuse to commit hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of billions of our dollars to invading and occupying a nation was inexcusable in 2003.

Three years later, it's just plain insane.