Amplification for Cindy Sheehan speech of 4/04/05

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This went up at 19 Jan 2006, 01:36 AM at CurrentConcerns- http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/2006/01/20060105.php Sometimes people put up their own experiences in a WeAreTheMedia way, but most of what we do here is amplify. I really hate to put up anything on the professional distractors from the echo chamber, but I really would like to amplify this find of the speech of Cindy Sheehan at the Riverside Church in NYC.

Cindy Sheehan gave a great speech long before she headed to Texas and it should not go unnoticed or unpraised. If there was a Patriot of the Year Award, how could it not go to Cindy Sheehan in 2005?

The title is "Our Country has been Overtaken by Murderous Thugs." Let Laura address that.
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My son was killed in Iraq on this day one year ago, the same day of April on which Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968. Dr. King wrote these words from a jail in Birmingham: “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence ... of the good people.“

And the Apostle Paul said this:

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Thirty years ago, 1975, Gerald Ford was president of the United Sates. His chief of staff was Dick Cheney. His secretary of defense was Donald Rumsfeld. Paul Wolfowitz was heading up the international arms-control end of things. All of these positions related directly to national security. While these men were looking after the nation‘s safety, they and President Ford concluded that Iran needed to supplement its energy system by adding nuclear power. The nuclear energy project that these men approved would have netted certain U.S. corporations billions of dollars. Had the Shah of Iran, a blood-bought servant of U.S. corporate interests, not soon been overthrown by his own countrymen, the bigwigs at Westinghouse or General Electric, or perhaps both, would have amassed personal fortunes from this one project alone.

Some of the stockholders would have also made bundles on the deal.

In 1975, my son had not yet been born. Today he is in his grave. Dick Cheney, on the other hand, is now vice president of the United States, and he is materially wealthy beyond what any of us would ever pray to be. This is the same Dick Cheney who, during the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, said that Saddam Hussein not only has stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction—more than a hundred metric tons of the deadly stuff—but he also said that Saddam Hussein was well-advanced in developing nuclear weapons and that therefore the U.S. must invade Iraq and dethrone Saddam Hussein. Clean, quick, and simple, according to Dick Cheney. Yet, for some time now, he has changed his tune. He now says, as if he had said it all along, that the U.S. occupation of Iraq will require years of difficult and sometimes bloody conflict before Iraq is stable enough to bring our loved ones home. And so, rather than speak of weapons of mass destruction, he now uses the word “democracy” a lot.

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