Angry in the Great White North

Here is the correction:

Sheehan is a Californian whose soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in April 2004.

Along with winning supporters, she has provoked vitriolic reactions as Americans disagree over the war. Sheehan clarified an oft-quoted remark that has brought intense criticism.

When she said, "This country isn't worth dying for," she was referring to Iraq, she said.

"I believe America is worth dying for."

Really? A clarification?

Let us cast ourselves back to that day on April 27, when Cindy Sheehan appeared at San Francisco State University to speak at a rally in support of convicted terrorist Lynne Stewart:

I take responsibility partly for my son’s death, too. I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people, like my sister over here says, since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted. I’m going all over the country telling moms: “This country is not worth dying for. If we’re attacked, we would all go out. We’d all take whatever we had. I’d take my rolling pin and I’d beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq. {applause} We might not even have been attacked by Osama bin Laden if {applause}. 9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through and, if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have. The people are good, the system is morally repugnant. {applause}

Clearly she was talking about the United States, and not Iraq.

She cast suspicions on whether the US was really attacked by Al Qaeda, suggesting that there is no external threat to the US, meaning no soldiers need to be fighting.

She accuses the United States of causing death and destruction since before it was founded, and characterizes the notion that America is good as "bullshit".

She calls the United States and her "system" morally repugnant, and says Casey should never have gone to defend it.

Her entire focus is on America's worthiness, not Iraq's.

This "clarification" is just another lame attempt to repair her image, but she has to lie to do it. Here's hoping not too many people fall for it.