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CINDY SHEEHAN ON LIQUID DIET - TERRORISTS MAKE LIQUID BOMBS

This ARTICLE about Cindy Sheehan makes me shake my head and give an exasperated sign. Ms. Sheenhan's son died in Iraq in 2004 and last year she gained national attention protesting in Crawford, Texas as President Bush vacationed.

Of late, she has been on a hunger strike of sorts, eating no solid food for 37 days until doctors in Seattle insisted she do so before they would release her from the ER. Ah, yes, you want to protest a war in which your son died and so you declare war on your body, your life. I don't understand your logic.

Just this week, an extensive terrorist plot to murder people flying across the Atlantic was thwarted. They were going to use liquids to effect an explosion. Terrorists caused planes to crash into buildings on September 11, 2001 and they want to do something like that again. Could that be why we are in a war against terrorism? Why we are in Iraq?

Ms. Sheehan's son was a soldier. So were all the men and women who died fighting against Japan and Germany and Italy in the Second World War . . . The parents of soldiers killed in Vietnam visit a wall in Washington to run their fingers on their child's name . . . And Cindy Sheehan protests and goes on a hunger strike - Well, at least she is free to do so - Other people's sons and daughters fought for that freedom . . . and some died.

posted by Jody @ 5:44 PM