On April 27, 2005, Cindy Sheehan was speaking at SFSU when she delivered some of her wackiest and most offensive statements.
"George Bush and his neo-conservatives killed my son. America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for."
Sheehan was part of a group that came to campus with Lynne Stewart. In his description of the event, Lee Kaplan gives some background on Stewart:
The terrorist lawyer, who billed herself as a “Civil Rights Lawyer and Political Prisoner,” was recently convicted of conspiracy and for passing along fatwas (Islamic religious edicts) from Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman to his terrorist followers in Egypt’s Islamic Group. Rahman is the blind sheikh responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 that left six Americans dead and more than 1,000 people injured.
Her trial lasted seven months, and the jury deliberated 13 days before convicting her and two co-conspirators, one of whom (Ahmed Abdhel Sattar) was wiretapped making calls to al-Qaeda while the other (Mohammed Yousry) translated messages to be sent to a terrorist leader overseas.
Kaplan writes:
Sheehan said she considered Lynne Stewart her Atticus Finch, the lawyer who defended an innocent Black man accused of rape in the book and film "To Kill A Mockingbird."
"They’re not waging a War on Terror but a War of Terror," she said. "The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush." She claimed “it costs $66,000 to recruit one soldier, not including training, and $49,000 a year to house a prisoner, yet only $6,000 per year is spent to educate a child in California. (Recruiting costs are actually $15,000 per soldier, the cost of housing a prisoner in California for one year is $26,000.)
Sheehan continued, "9/11 was Pearl Harbor for the neo-conservatives’ agenda" and declared the U.S. government a "morally repugnant system." Then she raged:
We have no Constitution. We’re the only country with no checks and balances. We want our country back if we have to impeach George Bush down to the person who picks up the dog sh-t in Washington! Let George Bush send his two little party animals to die in Iraq. It’s OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons but we are waging nuclear war in Iraq, we have contaminated the entire country. It’s not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. Hypocrites! But Israel can occupy Palestine? Stop the slaughter!
On Tuesday night, SFSU brought another speaker to campus in their proud tradition of giving wackos a forum to indoctrinate students with anti-Bush, anti-American propaganda.
I'm not suggesting that such speakers should not be heard. I'm merely pointing out that SFSU really knows how to bring them in.
SAN FRANCISCO -- American troops should be taken out of combat and used in limited ways only, such as training Iraqi troops and giving air support, Joseph Wilson, husband of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, said Tuesday night at San Francisco State's McKenna Theatre.
Wilson has found himself in the center of a Washington, D.C. investigation into who leaked the fact Wilson's wife was an undercover CIA agent. He believes that information was leaked to the press in retaliation for an article he wrote in the New York Times saying the Bush administration lied about Saddam Hussein's efforts to buy uranium from Niger.
"It is in the DNA of the people in (the Bush) administration to go after anyone who questions them," Wilson told the audience of about 200 people. During his speech Wilson outlined what he said were lies that the Bush administration fed to American citizens as a way to sell the idea of going to war with Iraq.
"(Neo-conservatives) wanted to turn this country into an empire," Wilson said of intentions by those who pushed for war on Iraq after the Sept. 11 attacks.
...He said his decision to "tell the truth" was not heroic, but what any good American would do. "This is what democracy is all about. We have to be vigilant in holding our government responsible for what it does in the name of the American people. Don't let anyone tell you that the U.S. government believed the bullshit they were dishing out."
Wilson was at times sentimental; at other times angry and even funny. He characterized himself as a "patriotic American" who worked 18-hour days in the weeks before the Persian Gulf War, making sure that Americans were safe and that Saddam Hussein knew that America would wage war against Iraq if he didn't get out of Kuwait.
America then had the support of the world, a support that grew after 9/11 when "we had the support of the entire planet." Now, he said, he was "ashamed" to see his country had turned into "just another imperial power who has unleashed the dogs of war."
Besides pulling troops out of Iraq, Wilson said Americans should stop killing Sunni Arabs and bring in other countries to form a coalition to solve the Iraqi situation as peacefully as possible to prevent the country from further devolving into civil war, stabilizing the entire area.
He said he hoped that the Iraqi constitution vote had failed, not because he wanted to see the administration fail but because he believed a negative vote would cause America and others to rethink their strategy and "go back to the drawing board."
"I fear what the administration will do is declare victory and move on," Wilson said. "That will just institutionalize the violence in the country."
Some in the audience urged him to run for political office. But Wilson said he'd been a true child of the 1960s and had "too many wives and taken too many drugs. And, yes, I did inhale."
But he said he remained fueled by the optimism of the 1960s and the belief that America could "once again become a beacon of hope for the rest of the world."
Obviously, Wilson has used too many drugs. I fear that they've permanently damaged his brain.
Speaking of dishing out BS, that is exactly how I'd characterize Wilson's speech.
The guy continues to LIE about the outing of one of his "many wives," former covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. (Or, is it Flame? Where's Judith Miller when you need her?)
On July 15, 2005, FOX explained:
In Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth, he writes that he and his future wife both returned from overseas assignments in June 1997. Neither spouse was again stationed outside the United States, according to the book; they appear to have remained in Washington, D.C., where they married and became parents of twins.
Six years later, in July 2003, Plame's name was revealed by columnist Robert Novak.
The column's date is important because the law against unmasking the identities of U.S. spies says a "covert agent" must have been on an overseas assignment "within the last five years." The assignment also must be long-term, not a short trip or temporary post, two experts on the law say. Wilson's book makes numerous references to the couple's life in Washington over the six years up to July 2003.
Victoria Toensing, former counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee who helped write the law protecting the identities of intelligence agents, told FOX News on Thursday that "no, in a nutshell," Rove did not commit a crime. Plame's status at the time of the revelation is key to that conclusion, she said.
"That's a very big question," Toensing said, referring to exactly what status Plame had within the CIA at the time of the alleged "leak." "When did she leave her foreign assignment?"
If it was in 1997, as noted in Wilson's book, Toensing said, "she would not have even have to come to the definition of a 'covert agent' under the law how we wrote it."
Rather than being ashamed that his country had "unleashed the dogs of war," Wilson should be ashamed for his role in Nadagate, and causing a completely unnecessary distraction for the administration while the country is engaged in the War on Terror.
His theory that Neo-cons had a master plan to turn the U.S. into an empire after 9/11 is nuts. Equally nuts is Wilson's belief that America is "just another imperial power." His hope that the Iraqi constitution failed to pass is also misguided.
Wilson's statement, "It is in the DNA of the people in (the Bush) administration to go after anyone who questions them," reveals that he suffers from a serious persecution complex.
I suppose his psychological disorders are to be expected.
Apparently, doing too many drugs, doing all that inhaling, took a toll on Wilson.
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