Cindy Sheehan on Arirang Channel
Not only is Cindy Sheehan polluting newspapers and web pages in Korea with her image, but now she is even on Korean television screens with her interview on the Heart to Heart program on the Arirang Channel. Here is the video on demand link to the show.
From the beginning I could tell this was going to be a softball interview of Sheehan when the host of Heart to Heart, Ahn Jung-hyun opened up by talking about the futility of war. Futility? War worked to pretty well to protect South Korea from communist invasion, not to mention using war to defeat that little thing called Japanese Imperialism that established the Republic of Korea to begin with. So I really can’t agree war is totally futile.
Anyway the first thing that jumped out at me during the interview was how proud Sheehan appeared to be to have met with leaders of the Democratic Labor Party who helped organize her visit. Now if I was interviewing her I would have hit her with a question about if she knew the leaders of the DLP and the Camp Humprheys protesters had recently been arrested as North Korean spies.
It is also quite ironic that after this Sheehan than makes a comment about how the US needs to stop meddling in South Korea when the country that is meddling more than anyone in South Korea by organizing protests to tear down the MacArthur Statue in Inchon, organizing the Camp Humphreys movement, creating a false USFK pollution scandal, and even trying to influence the election of the mayor of Seoul along with a host of other issues, is North Korea not the United States. However, people like Sheehan hate the US so much; their warped world views only allow them to see the US as the boogeyman of all the world’s ills and journalists like Ms. Ahn do nothing to challenge these people on their warped views. Unless of course Ahn believes like Sheehan the US is the real evil in South Korea.
Ahn than asks Sheehan why her son Casey joined the Army. Sheehan went into the typical leftist rant about how the recruiter lied to him and tricked him into the Army, he was a mechanic and wasn’t supposed to see combat, and how he only joined for the college money. Ahn than asks her why Casey went to Iraq and Sheehan explained how he didn’t want to go ,but the Army made him go. Now I would like to direct everyone to this link with provides a biography of Casey Sheehan. Casey reenlisted into the military before he deployed to Iraq. Why would someone who supposedly was lied to by his recruiter and didn’t want to go to war and was just in it for the college money reenlist into the Army knowing full well he was reenlisting to go to war? I guess Casey was duped and lied to by his reenlistment NCO as well?
I wish someone would challenge Sheehan on this. Especially since she keeps saying Casey would support her anti-war movement including in this Arirang interview. The question that needs to be asked to her is if Casey was so anti-war why did he reenlist into the Army, effectively volunteering him to go to war in Iraq? Nobody is willing to challenge her though because Sheehan and her leftist allies would call anyone who asks such questions heartless to ask such questions of a grieving mother such as the holier than thou Cindy Sheehan.
She also keeps making the statements that Casey was a mechanic and wasn’t supposed to see combat. Normally mechanics wouldn’t end up in direct combat, however she fails to mention that Casey volunteered to be part of a rescue party to save some pinned down soldiers when he was killed. Casey Sheehan was one of many heroes that day that died.
Than later in the interview Sheehan throws out this bombshell that the US has killed 700,000 civilians in Iraq. The Iraq Body Count site puts the civilian death toll at just over 54,000. Keep in mind this website bases it’s numbers off of media reports that have often proven to be inaccurate. Of course after Sheehan threw out that 700,000 number, Ahn didn’t challenge her on that either.
Sheehan than continues on about how the US military is committing war crimes in Iraq without substantiating it and how in the US people are losing all their civil liberties, which of course I would have responded, okay what civil liberties have you lost? You are still allowed to go on television and broadcast falsehoods and lies as facts and the government hasn’t shut you up yet if this so called civil liberties gestapo is running around taking people’s rights away.
She then tries to make her self out as some kind of martyr being persecuted by the government because she has been arrested multiple times. Earth to Sheehan, you were arrested on multiple occasions because you broke the law! If I did what you did I would have been arrested too, along with anybody else. If anything the authorities have been using the kid gloves on Sheehan because they know if they arrest her it will make the headlines she so crave. Case in point, the picture below:
She sure looks happy for someone supposedly being persecuted. In fact she has been having the time of her life apparently.
However, there is one thing I agree with Sheehan on, but for different reasons that South Korea should bring the Zaytun unit home from Iraq which it was just recently was decided will happen by the end of 2007. I am willing to bet Sheehan is going to take credit for that too.
The fact that Sheehan is a blabbering propaganda machine is to be expected, but why do journalists like Ahn Jung-hyun not challenge this woman on anything, especially Korea related subjects that Sheehan knows nothing about. Like no mention from Ahn about how the USFK camps are being reduced from 41 to 10 including the fact Korea is receiving some of the most valuable real estate in the country, Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. Nothing either about how USFK is down sizing from 37,500 to 25,000 soldiers and possibly even more. I could go on and on about just the Korea related questions Sheehan should have been asked but it appeared Ahn was to intimidated to challenge Sheehan on.
Thus that is the problem with Sheehan, journalists are intimidated by her, which just begs the question of when does one stop being a grieving mother and becomes someone who can be legitimately challenged on her views and the many out right lies and falsehoods she preaches? Unfortunately in Korea the falsehoods have prevailed.
