Not to toot my own horn, but Chris Matthews asked Ms. Sheehan the same question i asked in this thread. Here was her response:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8972147/
MATTHEWS: Can I ask you a tough question? A very tough question.
SHEEHAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: All right. If your son had been killed in Afghanistan, would you have a different feeling?
SHEEHAN:
I don't think so, Chris, because I believe that Afghanistan is almost the same thing. We're fighting terrorism. Or terrorists, we're saying. But they're not contained in a country. This is an ideology and not an enemy. And we know that Iraq, Iraq had no terrorism. They were no threat to the United States of America.
MATTHEWS: But Afghanistan was harboring, the Taliban was harboring al-Qaida which is the group that attacked us on 9/11.
SHEEHAN: Well then we should have gone after al-Qaida and maybe not after the country of Afghanistan.
MATTHEWS: But that's where they were being harbored. That's where they were headquartered. Shouldn't we go after their headquarters? Doesn't that make sense?
SHEEHAN: Well, but there were a lot of innocent people killed in that invasion, too. ... But I'm seeing that we're sending our ground troops in to invade countries where the entire country wasn't the problem. Especially Iraq. Iraq was no problem. And why do we send in invading armies to march into Afghanistan when we're looking for a select group of people in that country?
So I believe that our troops should be brought home out of both places where we're obviously not having any success in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden is still on the loose and that's who they told us was responsible for 9/11.
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Okay, so I'm becoming more and more convinced that this woman is an idiot, which is unfortunate, because partisan groups have turned her into a spokeswoman. It usually helps to have
good ones. So we need to do arbitrary things like go after Bin Laden and go after Al Qaeda, but we need to do it without touching the soil they might be hiding on.
So if we were to just toss smart bombs at these countries, would she be happy with that? Or what if the CIA just went in and started bumping people off strategically? Would she support that?
I also feel bad for her, because she is now being used for the death of her son. I think she may truly look back at this and regret it down the road.
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