Sheehan is Clearly a Useful Idiot

Via Lost Nomad, Cindy Sheehan has resurfaced once again, now in Time Asia. You will need a strong stomach to read all this:

Why are you in South Korea?
I was invited by several peace groups and farmers from Daechu-ri to help them with their [campaign against] U.S. military-base expansion. I think a lot of areas would be more stable if the U.S. military presence wasn’t so overwhelming; we have 700 bases around the world. I think [U.S.] military expansion is out of control and rampant militarism is responsible for my son’s death, as it is for taking away the land from these people in this village.

What do you hope to accomplish in South Korea?
Most people here think George Bush is a greater threat to stability than Kim Jong Il. Our goal is to go back to America and be the voice of the people in South Korea. We also want the people here to know that not even the majority of Americans support George Bush.

Do you want the U.S. to get out of South Korea?
I think that’s what the majority of South Koreans want. Our government in the U.S. is demonizing North Korea. People in South Korea see the North as their brothers and sisters. [They] want reunification, but don’t believe that will happen while the U.S. is here.

Read here and here where I have already debunked her claims about US military expansion and militarism in South Korea. I do have to say I’m amazed she at least knows who Kim Jong-il is. I bet she would fail the advanced quiz if I asked her who Kim Il-sung is or what year the Korean War started.

Anyway her last comment just shows how incompetent she is about the situation on the Korean peninsula. I guess she believes her two days in Korea hanging out with North Korean sponsored leftists makes her an expert on South Korean affairs. The US is the one who wants unification more than the South Korean government and people do. South Koreans will always say they want unification but just not anytime soon if it means they cannot drive a Hyundai, buy a 12th story apartment, or take their vacations to Guam anymore because of the cost of rebuilding North Korea.

President Bush’s North Korea policies are designed to isolate and collapse the regime while the South Korean policies are designed to prop up and prevent the collapse of the regime. She also fails to realize that according to her North Korean sponsored leftist friends, they want the US to leave Korea so unification can happen on North Korean terms. If that happens I just hope Sheehan is there at the DMZ to welcome the North Korean troops. Sheehan is clearly a useful idiot.