Go Home and Take Care of Your Kids

The president says he feels compassion for me, but the best way to show that compassion is by meeting with me and the other mothers and families who are here. Our sons made the ultimate sacrifice and we want answers. All we're asking is that he sacrifice an hour out of his five-week vacation to talk to us, before the next mother loses her son in Iraq.
-- Cindy Sheehan, Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas

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Go Home and Take Care of Your Kids
By Cindy Sheehan

Monday 22 August 2005
11:28 PM
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The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford

I have received dozens of emails with this heading: Go Home and Take Care of Your Kids. I think of all the name calling and unnecessary and untrue trashing of my character, this one offends me the most. What do the people who send me this message mean?

First of all, it offends me because it is so blatantly sexist. Would anyone think of emailing George Bush when he is out and about (now he is going on a vacation away from his vacation to make speeches in Idaho and Utah defending his killing policies), telling him to go and take care of his kids? Does anyone write to ANY man and tell him to go home and take care of his kids. I have news for all of these people, my children are adults and their dad is home to take care of them if they need any taking care of.

The second reason this command from the self-righteous right offends me is that I believe that what I am doing is for my children, and the world's children. I think that the strategy of eternal baseless war for corporate profit and greed is bad for all of our children: born and unborn. We heard a few weeks ago that Rummy said that we would be in Iraq for at least a dozen more years, and we recently heard over the weekend that the military is planning for four more years of this occupation, at least. If Rummy is correct, then Soccer Safety Mom Susie's kindergartener will be fighting and dying in the harsh sands of the Middle East and if the military is correct than NASCAR Dad Nick's middle-schooler should start boot camp now. Constant war is not a family value and George Bush's policies of wars of aggression to control natural resources do not make our country more secure...on the contrary. How are SSM Susie and ND Nick going to be able to afford to fill-up their SUV's soon? But I digress.

We as mothers need to stop buying into the load of misogynistic crap that our children need our constant presence in their lives so they can thrive and grow. What we need as families is strong support systems that allow each family member to grow and achieve his/her full potential as human beings. What we as Moms need to stop doing is giving our children to the military industrial war complex to be used as human cluster bombs: to kill innocent civilians and perhaps to die enriching and feeding the gluttonous war machine.

It is up to us Moms to make sure our children are whole and safe. We can start doing this by always opposing the wars that bury our kids. So what I am saying to the people who want me to go home and take care of my kids: I AM taking care of my kids, and yours too.

t r u t h o u t | One Mother's Stand
By Scott Galindez

Monday 22 August 2005
11:07 PM

Camp Casey had a surprise guest tonight. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee gave a powerful speech from the stage. She announced that she is having a town meeting in Houston in on Thursday. I spoke with her after the speech and she ended by saying she would see me in Washington on September 24th. I asked her if she was in support of immediate withdrawal from Iraq and her response was "Absolutely, it was wrong to go in and it is wrong to stay".

Another surprise was that the Congresswoman introduced Joan Baez who is still in Crawford, and will still be here tomorrow night. There were over 100 people at Camp Casey II tonight and about 40 at Camp Casey I. I did not stop at the Peace House but there are usually a couple dozen people there at all times... at about 6pm the there were about 10 people at the pro-war vigil and no one at their camp...

Ann Wright announced tonight that Caravans will be leaving Camp Casey in different directions August 31st heading to Washington stopping all over the country to organize for the March on Washington on September 24th.

t r u t h o u t | One Mother's Stand
By Scott Galindez

Monday 22 August 2005
10:39 aM

I hope I'm not missing anything at the camps, I am trying to catch up on video editing this morning. I also want to apologize to anyone sending me e-mail from the contact page - I do not have time to check my e-mail and there are over a thousand unread messages.

Steve Earle made a very important point Saturday night: "The war ended when my father came to oppose it." Cindy has created space for mainstream America to join the opposition to the war. Camp Casey is focused on the message of military families and Iraq Vets. That message is resonating with the American people. It appears from here that the peace movement has found its focus.
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