Angry in the Great White North

a heat-seeking missile in the Conservative arsenal

Cindy Sheehan writes:

The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. Now I am urged to use softer language to appeal to a wider audience. Why do my friends at Camp Casey think they are there? Why did such a big movement occur from such a small action on August 6, 2005?

We all know the truths she's being told to hush up about:

• Her anti-Israeli politics.


• Her demand that everyone in the Bush administation be impeached.


• Her demand that everyone in the Bush administation go to prison.


• Her encouragement that people not pay taxes.


• Her demand that the twins be drafted into the Army.

Cindy Sheehan is right in that her radical talk drew a lot of people to Camp Casey -- unsurprisingly, those people were radicals, something Cindy Sheehan didn't seem to appreciate:

Sheehan said Monday that other issues and groups have muddied her mission. Critics are focusing on Sheehan's comments that Bush should be impeached, that she won't pay her income taxes and that Israel should leave Palestine. Sheehan said her message is to bring the troops home.

Unrelated groups also have trekked to her campsite. Sheehan says it's all been a distraction from her quest to meet with Bush over the April 2004 death of her soldier son, Casey, in Iraq. Sheehan in June of last year was among the mourning families who met with Bush.

But now she's been told to tone it down, so she can appeal to more moderate elements, ie, regular folk.

And she's decided that she knows better. She's earned the right to make that evaluation, given the dangers she has faced:

George Bush and his advisers seriously "misunderestimated" me when they thought they could intimidate me into leaving before I had the answers, or before the end of August. I can take anything they throw at me, or Camp Casey.

I don't recall anything being thrown at her. Perhaps she was speaking of the vicious attack staged by national security advisor Stephen Hadley and deputy chief of staff Joseph Hagin:

Oh, the humanity!

It sounds like she's coming back, angrier than ever. But she's got nothing but kind words for her friends and supporters:

The pro-peace side has gotten off their apathetic butts to be warriors for peace and justice.

Apathetic butts? Uhm, thanks.

[GOP Bloggers and Wizbang discuss Cindy Sheehan's more radical comments, the kind her handlers have been trying to keep under wraps.]