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[quote:12bce]An Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan From the Proud Father of a U.S. Marine
> By Brantley Smith Posted On August 17, 2005
>
> Ms. Sheehan,
>
> By your actions over the past two weeks it is clear that you missed an
> important aspect of Civics 101: With rights come responsibilities. You
> certainly have the right to voice your opinion against the war in Iraq
> and the President's policies. You even have the right to camp outside
> the President's home in Crawford and demand he meet with you. Your
> status as a mother who has lost a child in the war also gives your
> words and actions a credibility and a larger audience than otherwise
> would be the case. Now that your supporters have given you a broad
> forum from which to be heard, making you a national figure, its time
> you considered your responsibilities to all of us. I have a daughter
> set to deploy to Fallujah in two weeks and I have a serious concern
> with how your irresponsible and short sighted actions might impact on
> her. She is, after all, a volunteer, like your son, and she is going
> in harm's way because she believes it is her responsibility to protect your rights and freedoms.[/quote:12bce] or she could just be a person who signed up before all this sh-t started to try to get some money for college.

[quote:12bce]Well meaning people like you always seem to forget the law of
> unintended consequences and in your vanity and arrogant
> self-righteousness never bother to think through what it is you are
> trying to do versus what you may actually accomplish. I am here to
> inform you, Ma'am, that you will not change the policy of our
> government by sitting outside Crawford making a spectacle of yourself
> in the name of your rights to free speech; what you will do is provide
> more propaganda for our enemies and cost the lives of even more brave
> and selfless American warriors. How long do you think it will be
> before you become a star on Al Jazeera? For all I know, it may have
> already happened. One thing is certain, though, and that is that your
> actions and words will further embolden a ruthless and evil enemy and
> more American blood will be shed and some of it will be on your hands.
> I pray that my daughter will not be one of them. If she is, then I
> will hold you and those like you partly responsible.[/quote:12bce] Holding a person responsible, if your daughter dies, simply for expressing her opinion about an unjustified war in a country nicknamed land of the free, which was founded on many underlying principles, including freedom of speach, is distasteful.
[quote:12bce]Yes, my
> daughter's fate will depend mostly on her own courageous decision to
> serve, but only the most naive among us can deny the impact our own
> words and actions here in America have in a world grown smaller by the revolution in communications technology.[/quote:12bce] So we can all pretend to be ok with the war, and troops will stay their indefietly, and many more will die, or we can petition to get the home asap, thereby saving many lives.

[quote:12bce]I am sure you believe that you are serving some great cause by putting
> our servicemen and women in more danger and that you can, by your
> irresponsible exercise of free speech, help end a policy you disagree
> with. Your emotion may be compelling but the reality is that you will
> not set in motion any process that will change or undo what has been
> done. The war will go on because to end it now would dishonor the
> sacrifice of all of our fellow countrymen who have died in the cause of fighting terrorism.[/quote:12bce] The only reason terrorists and insurgents are in Iraq was because America and her allies declared an unjustified war on it, and because we are now occupying it. All we are doing is give them more reasons and chances to fight us. Iraq was never about terrorists or corrupt dictators. It was about furthering America's own political, economical, and millitaristic agendas. Saddam had absolutely no connection to Al-Qaida, and no WMD's were ever found. And yet, while we were busy invading Iraq, we ignored a more immediate threat in the form of N. korea, who has no declared that they have obtained nuclear arms.
[quote:12bce]Rational Americans will not allow that. Too much is at stake.
> Unfortunately, shallow and irrational ones, such as yourself, will
> continue to put the lives of our sons and daughters in danger by
> aiding and abetting an enemy who sees propagandizing in the mass media
> as its main weapon in a war it could otherwise not win standing on its
> own wretched and evil justification of radical Islam, or by force of arms.[/quote:12bce] Wrong, we are the ones who can't win, guerilla wars are not wars that you can win! And neither are wars whose soldiers are driven by an ideal, because they will gladly fight and die for that ideal. However, undermine the ideal, and you will hurt them more then you could ever militarily.

[quote:12bce]You, Ma'am, have joined forces with an evil you neither understand nor
> apparently have tried to comprehend. You direct your anger toward our
> country while the enemy plots to kill and maim the innocent. You make
> a mockery of responsible free speech while thousands of young men and
> women fight desperately to preserve your safety. Instead of honoring
> your son's sacrifice you are inspired to comfort an evil enemy.[/quote:12bce] And you, apprently do not understand the enemy either. just saying they are evil, and that they are trying to kill innocents is not enough. You must look further. Discover the real motive. find out what drives these terrorists.

[quote:12bce]You clearly do not understand the challenge we face as a nation and
> have not tried to put it in historical perspective. It is a sad fact
> that it is those of your thinking that have led us to where we are
> today. Decades of appeasement to these haters of everything we hold
> dear has cost thousands of American lives from Beirut to New York and
> in dozens of other forgotten places. Remember Lockerbie? The Achille
> Lauro? The USS Cole? We as a people were dragged into this war, much
> like December 7th, 1941, and we must fight and win it wherever the
> enemy hides and against whomever would support him.[/quote:12bce] Again, this is not a war you can win through millitary action. And, as said before, iraq has absolutely no connection to Al-Quaida, or 911, so make no mistake, we were not dragged into a war with iraq.
gotto go now, more later.