Cindy Sheehan in Kalamazoo

Location: Bronson Park, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Date: 05/16/06

Crowd size: about 600

Paid for by: Gold Star Families for Peace

Brain-dead comment:

"The president keeps saying how noble this war is - what a noble cause it is," she told the crowd. "Well if it's so noble, why isn't he sending his family to fight it?"
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Okay, Cindy. Let's think this through...First off, President Bush doesn't just pick people, give them a uniform and a gun and put them on a plane bound for Iraq. Just like your son, Casey, every person there chose to join the military and undertook the risks that come with serving in the armed forces.

Secondly, who is it in his family that you want him to send into combat? His 80+ year-old father? How about if he sends his mother, Barbara? Or his twin daughters, who wouldn't make it through basic training? Ah, you must be thinking that he should send his brother, Jeb, to Iraq. Yes! True, he is 53, but that would have the added benefit of creating a vacancy in the Governor's mansion in Florida! I'll just bet that you have some left-wing window-licker who you would like to see take Jeb's place as Governor.

You are an idiot, Cindy.