Need More Evidence? Need more reasons to disagree with Cindy Sheehan and doubt her motives? Something the "mainstream" (i.e., liberal) media hasn't been mentioning while they canonize her is the speech she gave back in April at San Francisco State University.

Seems the International Socialist Organization, Students Against War, and the Campaign to End the Death Penalty at SFSU sponsored a "lecture" by Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a terrorist defense lawyer was convicted of conspiracy and passing fatwas (Islamic religious edicts) from the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman to his terrorist followers in Egypt’s Islamic Group. Rahman is the bloodthirsty terrorist behind the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 that left six Americans dead and more than 1,000 people injured. Of course, Stewart bills herself as a “Civil Rights Lawyer and Political Prisoner.”










The following is quoted from coverage of the event by Lee Kaplan:

"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!'
While one might dismiss some of Sheehan’s hyperbole due to grief over her son’s death, a little research about Casey Sheehan revealed that contrary to being tricked by military recruiters, Casey Sheehan had re-enlisted in the U.S. Army voluntarily when he was 24-years-old, after serving his first hitch successfully. Casey Sheehan was in fact a hero who received a Bronze Star. He was attached as a mechanic to the artillery division of the 1st U.S. Cavalry in Iraq. When a convoy of soldiers from Casey’s unit was attacked in Sadr City by insurgents, Casey volunteered to join a rapid rescue force to get them out. His commanding sergeant told him he did not have to go into combat, because he was a mechanic and not an infantryman. Casey was quoted telling his officer, 'I go where my chief goes.' He was tragically killed during the rescue attempt. The source for this story? Cindy Sheehan herself.
I also visited an army recruiting office on my way home and asked about Casey being promised a job as a chaplain’s assistant only to be thrust into harm’s way. The recruiter explained to me that on re-enlistment, the Army’s B.E.A.R. program (Bonus Extension and Retaining) guarantees everything in writing. If Casey was a mechanic during his first hitch, that was the only thing he would have been guaranteed per his re-enlistment contract. Further research showed that a chaplain’s assistant is a combat infantry position, whereas Casey was deployed in a non-combat job as a mechanic. Casey Sheehan sought combat duty for his country and should be honored for it, not used as a symbol of how evil the United States is."

  ¶ Thursday, August 18, 2005