Angry in the Great White North

An Iraqi woman went to see Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey:

Sheehan took the afternoon away from the campground to attend a luncheon with more than 100 people at the Peace House in Crawford, a base of operations for her supporters. She addressed the crowd to grateful applause and took pictures with anyone who asked.

One of the attendees, an Iraqi woman who moved recently to the United States, drove with her husband from Washington, D.C., to thank Sheehan for her sacrifice. But the woman, May Hasan Lamotte, 37, did not agree with Sheehan's call to pull the troops out of Iraq.

"I came after reading about Miss Cindy. They think their children are dead for nothing, and I am one who got freedom," Lamotte said. "I am grateful for her son and American soldiers. Everybody thinks (Casey) died for nothing. He gave his life as many other brave soldiers have to give me and my country freedom," she said.

It's not clear is May Hasan Lamotte got tell Cindy Sheehan her opinion directly, or what the reaction was if she did. But according to Sheehan, people like Lamotte have it wrong:

And I'm gonna say, "And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for." And if he even starts to say freedom and democracy' I'm gonna say, bullshit.

You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don't tell me my son died for freedom and democracy.'

Cuz, we're not freer. You're taking away our freedoms. The Iraqi people aren't freer, they're much worse off than before you meddled in their country.

Deposing a ruthless and murderous dictator, known to have used chemical weapons against his own people and against Iran, known to harbour terrorists, known to pay money for suicide bombers, known to have attempted an assassination attempt against a former US president, is meddling? And the Iraqi people were better off with Saddam as their leader?

May Hasan Lamotte begs to differ, and drove all the way to Camp Casey to tell her. The lack of any details in the report tells me it was a wasted trip -- Cindy Sheehan probably never deigned to speak with her. I can't believe that the reaction would have been all too pleasant to someone who was thanking Casey for his sacrifice.

Funny, the President has made himself personally available to hundreds, hundreds, of grieving families, not all of them too pleased with him, and that includes Cindy Sheehan. Cindy Sheehan seems to make herself available primarily to the press.

Important Update: Just found Cindy Sheehan's account of her meeting with the Iraqis...and it is amazing.

[Chrenkoff has another example of the sort of people who disagree with Cindy Sheehan, and have the legitimacy paid for in blood to do so. But as he points out, "The right has not used people like Lynn Kelly, Linda Ryan, or hundreds of others, to make their case in our current war. It would be decent if the left stopped using Cindy Sheehan to make theirs." -- hat tip to Michelle Malkin.]