Cindy Sheehan - Guilty by Association
American flags are everywhere in Crawford now that some opposition in the form of the "You Don’t Speak For Me, Cindy!" tour rolled into town. Both sides are clamoring to out-do the other with patriotic displays in the form of American flags. But beneath the show of patriotism, Cindy Sheehan is gathering a group of some very disturbing allies.
I read something the other day (can’t remember where) by a Sheehan supporter who said that it wasn’t fair to slam Sheehan because of the questionable organizations that have hithched themselves to her wagon. The writer claimed that that amounts to "guilt by association" and therefor, amounts to a sleazy attack. But is it really?
The old saying goes, "Judge a man by the company he keeps," and judging by some of the company Sheehan is willingly keeping, I would say that it’s reasonable to question her motives.
I wrote a couple of days ago about Cindy Sheehan and her alliance with the Crawford Peace House. Sounds like an admirable oranization until you lift up the rock and see what’s living underneath. The driving force behind the Crawford Peace House is an Iraqi and Saddam sympathizer by the name of Hadi Jawad. Jawad is actively involved in the movement to bring about the destruction of Israel and is a big fan of Islamic terrorism having ties to the PLO, Hamas, etc.
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Dr. Safa Hadi Jawad al-Habboubi and besides hanging out in Crawford and Dallas, he has a pad in Kensington, England where Islamic terrorists like to plan subway bombings in their spare time. Talk about a guy with an agenda! Here’s what he had to say back in December of 2001 in regards to the U.S.-lead efforts in Afghanistan:
"As the war machinery of the U.S. and U.K. came back to life once again and rained death and destruction on the civilian population of Afghanistan, statements emanated from the White House claiming, "we do not have a problem with the Afghan people but the leadership," echoing the administration of the elder Bush, who a decade ago had expressed similar sentiments saying, "our quarrel was not with the Iraqi people but with the leadership.
"Yet efforts to eradicate well-entrenched leadership there yield collateral damage of colossal proportions: ruined economies, massive unemployment, extremes of poverty, destroyed infrastructure, crippled health care systems; terminally ill, the extreme elderly, children under five, the most vulnerable segments of any society, killed by the thousandsâ€â€all this in the name of protecting freedom and democracy."
It looks like Jawad really missed the mark with that one. The people of Afghanistan are infinitely better off now than they were under the iron fist of the Taliban.
And now look who’s jumping into the pool to take a swim with Cindy. The white supremacist group, Stormfront has pitched their tent at Camp Casey. And even though their agenda is the same as the Crawford Peace House, they aren’t trying to hide it. James Kelso, Stormfront spokesman and an assistant to David Duke says they came to Camp Casey to "let the world know that white patriots were first and loudest to protest this war for Israel. We want to challenge these leftists with the fact that their leftist leaders, like Hillary Clinton, are on the same war-for-Israel team as the cowardly Republicans who have been bought and paid for in the Senate, House, White House and media by the Jewish Neocon political machine."
So in case your thinking that Cindy Sheehan is so lost in grief that she isn’t paying attention to the voices like these that surround her, consider her own words from an appearance on Nightline with Ted Koppel, "My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel."
These are not the ideals the American flag represents.