Casey Sheehan, What The Left Doesn't Want You To Know

I personally feel bad for Cindy Sheehan. She lost her son. I have a daughter and cannot even imagine what that must be like. But, while I feel bad for her, I also wish she could just accept what happened and stop blaming people. The woman is so far removed from reality that she is now using moveon.org as a way to get her messages across and she is asking for Israel to make political concessions. I just found something out this week that makes me think of Cindy Sheehan in a new light. It's a fact that most news programs and newspapers overlooked (on purpose) when reporting the death of her son,Casey, in Iraq. While seeing her crying on TV and going after Bush by protesting the war at his ranch - it was easy to get the impression that Casey was an unwilling participant in the war. If you heard her speak, you would almost think GW Bush himself came into Sheehan's house at night, put a pillow case over his head, drugged him and took him away to fight in his war. Well, most reports leave out 2 tidbits of information when citing this story. Casey's first 4-year tour of duty ended while we were already in Iraq. Casey decided at the end of 4 years he liked what he was doing and signed on for another tour. Interesting, no? Not only that, even though he was a mechanic and stationed in a place where he wasn't in much danger HE VOLUNTEERED for the dangerous mission that he didn't return from. In my book, that makes Casey a hero. Cindy Sheehan should be proud of her son for what he did and I'm sure in some way she is, but she is now using his death to promote her views on the war, the government and the middle east crisis and they are obviously different from what Casey believed. She recently coauthored a book entitled something like "10 Reasons Why You Should Not Join The Military". Great. Thanks, Cindy. While your son was a true American patriot, you are starting to smell more and more like a political opportunist every day. Nobody wants to attack a grieving mother but that ticking sound you hear is your untouchable period coming to an abrupt end.