Where were the Pro-War supporters before Cindy Sheehan?
(28.08.2005)

Before Cindy Sheehan set up camp near Bush's ranch in Texas, how many pro-war supporters did you see walking around with placards saying "We support the war in Iraq"?

Why is it that some pro-Bush supporters only feel it is necessary to display their support in this manner, when their leader is under attack? Do they really believe that the war in Iraq is justified, or is it just some instinctive reaction they make whenever someone dares to criticize his policies?

Those who have criticized Bush know the answer to this of course and know exactly what to expect from the shepherd's flock. Their response is always predictable and usually agressive and crude in its nature, but then they see their President as one of their own kind.

One of the pro-war "supporters" turned up at the anti-Cindy Sheehan camp with a placard that said "How to wreck your family in 30 days by bitch in the ditch Cindy Sheehan". To the credit of Kristinn Taylor, an event organizer with FreeRepublic.com, he approached the man and said "This is our rally and you can't do that here". But this is a good example of some of the "extreme" types that follow Bush around. Some of the other protestors called the man an "Idiot", but quite a few wanted to shake his hand!

You then have sites like "The Conservative Voice" whose views go way over the top and almost certainly do not represent the voice of real Conservatives (they even have a special page for hate mail!). Will we see some Conservatives in the future protesting with signs that say "You don't speak for me"? But who do they speak for? Judging by all the Bush propaganda on ther site, we can probably guess who pulls their strings.

It was the Conservative Voice who supported Pat Robertson after he said that the U.S. should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. They wrote an article quoting "Free Speech" and saying that Pat Robertson should be allowed to give his views. We agree that people should be allowed to do that, but suggesting that someone should be killed is stretching that point a little too far! Of course their support of Robertson would have nothing to do with the fact that he gave their founder, Nathan Tabor, support when he ran for Congress in 2004. As for "Free Speech", isn't that what Cindy Sheehan is doing? Or is this a luxury reserved only for Bush supporters and people that go on TV and ask for people to be murdered?

Bush was quoted as saying that Cindy Sheehan was "unrepresentative" of most of the military families he had met. This gives the impression that Cindy Sheehan is one of a handful that oppose the war, but when you discover that he has only met less than 100 military families, the statement means nothing. And even Bush admits that "most" (but not all) of the few he has seen supported his views.

So Bush wants us to believe that just because 60-70 "military" families that he has met (out of the 140,000 troops in Iraq and their families) approve of what he is doing, this represents the views of the millions of others in the U.S. Who is he trying to fool?

 

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