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To: Sully- who wrote (13214)	8/23/2005 1:27:18 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

STEVEN VINCENT'S WIDOW SPEAKS Posted by B. Preston Junk Yard Blog And she vivisects the very odious and obnoxious Juan Cole for suggesting that Vincent's murder was some kind of "honor killing." (link below) I'm not posting this link for entertainment, though Cole richly deserves what Mrs. Vincent gives him. I posted to make a point about the left, of which Cole is a member in good standing. The left seems to be in death fetish mode these days--Cole posted his accusations regarding Steven Vincent a few days after Vincent's death, in an apparent attempt to smear Vincent and score a couple of cheap political points against his journalism from Iraq. Vincent obviously was in no position to defend himself from the smear; his wife wrote to Cole to set the record straight and lecture Cole about everything he got wrong about Vincent, which was pretty much every single thing he could possibly have gotten wrong. Likewise, it's clear that Casey Sheehan was an adult who volunteered for the Army and died honorably in Iraq performing a mission he supported, yet his mother is using his name and his sacrifice to spread a message he did not agree with. She has also put the names of other war casualties on crosses at her Crawford camp, though she never received permission from families to use those names. Like Vincent, Casey Sheehan is in no position to defend himself from the way his mother and her hangers-on are abusing his name. His extended family have stepped up to defend him, but the media is pretty much pretending that they're not relevant. They don't have the "absolute moral authority" that Cindy Sheehan has, even though one of them happens to be Patrick Sheehan--Casey's father. Is this what the left has come to now? Is it fair game to smear the dead if they disagree with you, and is it now ethical and honorable to use fresh corpses to make political statements? Coupled with the left's attitudes toward euthenasia (and Howard Dean's promise to "use Terry Schiavo" against Republicans in next year's midterms), abortion and its near religious faith in unproven embryonic stem cell research (which John Edwards promised would enable people like the late Christopher Reeve to walk again), it seems to me that we're crossing a serious line here. The left is now so detached from any objective belief in right and wrong that turning the dead into political props has become perfectly acceptable. I find it sickening. junkyardblog.net murdoconline.net

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