- This is a time for heroic writing about a heroic woman
taking a heroic stand against one of the most unheroic and despicable figures
in American history.
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- This is a time to ask the Big Questions, the Grail questions.
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- Citizen Cindy Sheehan, in her floppy hat, holding a white
cross, asks the President: "For what 'noble cause' did my son Casey
die?"
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- Like Parsifal ("Pierce-the-veil"), Citizen
Cindy Sheehan dares to ask the President of the United States of America,
the wounded Fisher King, vacationing in his Wasteland, her heartbroken
Grail question: "For what 'noble cause' did my son Casey die?"
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- Citizen Cindy Sheehan, playing the simple fool, asks
her simple fool's question, the question that has not, until now, had a
name and a face. "For what 'noble cause' did my son Casey die?"
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- And the wounded Fisher King and his Court have no answer
for Citizen Cindy Sheehan.
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- It is a Joan of Arc, David and Goliath, Gandhi against
the British Empire, Martin Luther, and Martin Luther King historic moment.
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- The very public asking of Citizen Cindy Sheehan's Grail
question demands a Grail answer.
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- But there is no Grail answer. There is no 'noble cause'
that can validate her son Casey's death, and there never has been.
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- Not then. Not now. Not ever.
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- We all know this, but now we have the opportunity to
know it in a public way, to read it written large on the collective global
psyche.
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- The naked truth is that Citizen Cindy Sheehan's son Casey,
like so many others, Iraqis and Americans alike, died for no reason in
an illegitimate invasion, a ruthless land grab driven by the worst motives
for the worst reasons in our collective national memory.
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- So Citizen Cindy Sheehan dares to ask, again and again,
the Grail question of our long hot summer: "For what 'noble cause'
did my son Casey die?"
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- Citizen Cindy Sheehan is daring to do what no Member
of the United States Congress has dared to do. She is daring to do what
no TV Talking Head, no member of the White House Press Corps, no Supreme
Court Justice, no Governor, no General, no Admiral, no Chairman of the
Board of a Fortune 50, 100 or 500 company has dared to do.
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- Citizen Cindy Sheehan is standing in the dusty road to
the Fisher King's Little Chapel in the Prairie Ranch, in the hot sun and
sweeping rains, and asking about this "noble cause," for which
her beloved son Casey died.
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- And Cindy Sheehan is not getting any answers.
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- And just as, in another classic myth, the pompous, vain
and delusional Emperor "had no clothes," no clothes at all, as
he stood there naked demanding admiration from his subjects, the pompous,
vain and delusional President of the United States of America has no clothes
either, and no answer to the grieving mother who waits by the side of the
road for him to answer her simple question.
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- "For what 'noble cause' did my son Casey die?"
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- The President of the greatest superpower on earth has
no answer for the Grail question his Parsifal asks: "For what noble
cause did my son Casey die?"
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- He has no answer at all.
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- What is it about death he does not understand?
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- The President of the greatest superpower on earth has
no answer to Citizen Cindy Sheehan's Grail question, because to answer
Citizen Cindy Sheehan's Grail Question is to open the Pandora's box of
deceits, lies, treasons and treacheries upon which this blatantly illegal
invasion and occupation is based, and to do that in public would mark the
end of history for him and his despicable Administration.
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- The truth of the Emperor's nakedness would be there for
all to see, because there is no "noble cause."
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- There is only ongoing, meaningless slaughter of innocents
which will do nothing to promote peace among nations, and which will do
much to end "the American Century" and silence forever the dream
of 200 years upon which this country was founded.
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- Every day, in interview after interview, Citizen Cindy
Sheehan puts it to the naked Emperor, the wounded Fisher King:"For
what 'noble cause' did my son Casey die?"
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- And from the Wounded Fisher King, in his wasteland, from
the posturing and posing Emperor, there are only the sounds of silence.
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- Once upon a time, a former President of the greatest
superpower on earth wrote his memoirs. The time was five years ago, to
be exact, and in these memoirs, titled "A World Transformed,"
the former President, George Herbert Walker Bush, Father of George W. Bush,
wrote the following to explain why he didn't go after Saddam Hussein at
the end of the gulf War:
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- "Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred
incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably
impossible. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect,
rule Iraq... There was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see, violating
another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been consciously trying
to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going
in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations'
mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to
aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route,
the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly
hostile land."
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- As one commentator said in response to this prescient
prediction: "If only his son could read."
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- Citizen Cindy Sheehan is waiting in the sun and the rain
for an answer to her Grail Question:"For what 'noble cause' did my
son Casey die?"
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- And there is only the long, slow wailing of wind across
the searing hot summer Texas wasteland, and the Greek chorus of weeping
mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children and widows, Americans and
Iraqis alike, who stand vigil , with Citizen Cindy Sheehan, for an answer
to her question that will never come...
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- Because it does not exist.
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- Now, it is no longer the answer to Citizen Cindy Sheehan's
Grail question that is important, but the asking of it. Again, and again
and again, until the walls of Jericho come tumbling down and the seas rage
and the thunder of centuries breaks over the land, to bring the healing
rains of truth and justice and peace in this most troubled of all troubled
times.
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- And so the voices rise, first the voice of Citizen Cindy
Sheehan, and then her friends, one by one, then tens, then thousands, then
tens of thousands, and then all over the world, millions and millions of
voices, daring to ask the Grail question , louder and louder and louder,
at a time when all sound is forbidden.
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