Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan arrested outside White House

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Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I didn't make any judgements for him. I specifically said "I WONDER what her son would think"

Besides....the boy signed up to be in the service, if he was expecting to never SERVE then he was in the wrong line of work. I'm sorry that he died, it's a shame, but I think when parents do what she is doing it dishonors their memory.

But, that begs the question of what war was he fighting? Was it to remove the WMD W and his cronies not only told us were there but that they knew where to find them, to fight the lied about threat of a possible nuclear bomb, etc. That is this woman's point. She is not complaining about going to war for those specific reasons (WMD, nuclear bombs, etc. ) - which is what the Bush Administration told us and most people had no problem fighting for those reasons if they had been true

This woman is pissed because after the fact, we learned that not only were those reasons bogus, but the Bush Admin. knew they were bogus and went to war anyway and they now rely solely on the reason that SH was an all around bad guy - which is not really part of the war on terror or the immediate threat that justifies a war, etc. So, it is not that her son enlisted or died thinking he was serving his country - those are honorable things. The dishonor is not on him, but on W and his cronies for sending us to a war we never had to fight.

But, you do not accept that we never had to invade Iraq or that W lied about the reasons for doing so. Moreover, you indicated all dissent in a time of war is wrong. So, I think this point is lost on you