She’s back! Cindy Sheehan is protesting Obama on Martha’s Vineyard

  President Obama has continued virtually all of former President Bush’s war policies. While he campaigned on beginning the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq as president he has adopted the withdrawal time-line that President Bush sketched out with Iraqi leaders.

  Although he did also campaign on the promise to accelerate the war in Afghanistan, a promise that he did keep, I don’t think the far left took him at his word on this issue. I think that they thought he was just trying to show that he had some toughness during the campaign and that in the end he would quickly end the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. His war positions have to have the far left incensed and I have been wondering where all of the war protesters were.

  Surely if the war protesters were being honest about who they are they would be protesting the war no matter which party was in office so it seemed to me that they were not really protesting the wars but rather the party that was in power. These protesters should be protesting the current president for continuing and even escalating the war efforts, but they have remained quiet.

  Until now.

   The former “biggest name” in war protesters and former media darling, Cindy Sheehan, has now reemerged on the scene. She has shown up at Martha’s Vineyard to protest Barack Obama’s war policies.

The reason I am here is because … even though the facade has changed in Washington DC, the policies are still the same

We have to realize, it is not the president who is power, it is not the party that is in power it is the system that stays the same, no matter who is in charge

We are here to make the wars unpopular again

  She does make one good point, if the protesters believed what they were protesting and were not simply trying to make a political statement than they should still be protesting. But they are not which leads me to believe that they were never trying to protest the war, and they were never trying to stop the war, they were trying to hurt the president so that their party would regain power. With that goal accomplished they suddenly don’t seem to care about the wars any more. Cindy Sheehan seems to be the exception, she seems to be the only one that was not protesting a political party but truly protesting the wars.

  I support the wars, I did under President Bush and I will under President Obama, (this is the only issue that I supporthim on), I will never hope for bad news out of Afghanistan because it could help my party regain power. I think that Cindy Sheehan was wrong back then and I think that she is wrong now but at least she is fighting for what she believes in. That doesn’t seem to be the case with those who were so vocal in their opposition to the war back then but who are strangely silent now.

  This applies to more than just the protesters however. This applies to all of the phony outrage from members of congress who were so vocal in their opposition to the war when a Republican was running the war effort. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Murtha, Dick Durbin, and others were all taking every opportunity to not only condemn the war but some of them even defamed our troops, their silence now tell us every thing that we need to know about their character.

  It wasn’t the war that they were against, it was the commander-in-chief. I have remained consistent in my support for the war regardless of who the president is, all I ask is that those who opposed the war remain consistent in their beliefs also. To do otherwise exposes them for who they really are and what they really believe. They achieved the only goal that they really cared about and that was getting their party back in power, now that that has been accomplished they see nothing beneficial to protesting the war. In fact protesting the war now would be detrimental to them, so they ignore it.