If you haven’t had breakfast yet, check out Cindy Sheehan’s letter on Daechu-ri. It’s a real treat, including such stuff as:
After our tour bus pulled up into the village, we were ushered into a large warehouse where the villagers were holding their 811th nightly candlelight vigil in protest of the US incursion. We joined their vigil and heard their stories. We heard stories of May 4th, when 20,000 Korean olice descended on the village with heavy-hands and strong arm tactics hat allowed the barbed wire fences to be constructed, thereby effectively cutting the farmers off from tens of thousands of dollars worth of un-harvested rice. We heard stories from village elders who lived through Japanese imperialism and occupation to the US Korean police action that killed 2.5 million Koreans, and are now having their lands and ways of life robbed of them by “Pax Americana.” My heart broke for the people of Daechuri and was filled with disgust for whom the people of Korea call “Georgie Bushie” and whom I call “BushCo.”
Daechuri has become “ground zero” in the struggle against violent US military extremism. We Americans can no longer sit idly by and turn ignorant blind eyes to what Georgie Bushie does around the globe. The people of such places as Daechuri, Shannon, Pearl Harbor and Iraq are our brothers and sisters whom we are allowing our governments to oppress and suppress.
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Not only is the expansion of Camp Humphreys hurting the people of Daechuri, but it will have the effect of further de-stabilizing a region already on pins and needles due parially to US intervention. You can bet your turkey left-overs that North Korea is watching these developments very closely and only the people of Korea and this region will pay for US infiltrations in South Korea. I know I don’t feel any safer by the raping and pillaging of Daechuri…in fact the expansion of Camp Humphreys will only do what Georgie Bushie is becoming infamous for: making America and the world less safe and secure. As an aside: I took a straw poll of about 400 South Koreans and 100% of them said that Georgie Bushie is far more frightening than Kim Jong-Il and they want the US out of Korea so they can put their divided country back together again.
BTW, Cindy, just in case you’re reading this, that “elderly Buddhist priest,” Father Moon, who guided you around, is in fact very Catholic.
(HT to kotaji, who warned the letter might “make a large part of the Korean expat blogosphere foam at the mouth and turn purple in a most unattractive way.” Well, kotaji, I found it wasn’t so bad, although it was a little tough to read with all the spittle on the screen)
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I bet she hasn’t heard the story of how the ‘peaceful’ protesters used sharpened bamboo sticks against the unarmed Korean soldiers. Another fact she hasn’t been informed of is that the farmers planted the rice illegally because the government has already paid them fair value for the land. Another fact that escapes her is that building the base couldn’t possibly destabilize the region as it will simply be replacing the one in Yongsan. She also needs to learn a thing or two about poll taking and sampling. 400 people at an anti-American rally are likely to hate the American president.
“The people of such places as Daechuri, Shannon, Pearl Harbor and Iraq are our brothers and sisters whom we are allowing our governments to oppress and suppress.” Shannon in Ireland? Pearl Harbor? WTF?
Sheehan’s obviously a tool, but she’s blathering on like a true Korean “progressive” here, right down to the “Bushie” reference, so she’s a quick learner, for what that’s worth (not much). A Jane Fonda for our times.
Please pass the barf bag.
This letter simply further confirms how stupid and misinformed Cindy Sheehan is. What’s news about that?
She’s right: “Georgie Bushie is… making America and the world less safe and secure.”
Mrs. Sheehan has reached the same conclusion that Pat Buchanan and other paleoconservatives reached years ago: The US should leave South Korea.
Our boys (and, shamefully, girls) over here are protecting no vital American interest and only serve as sitting ducks for the Dear Leader’s nukes. Bring them home!
I see that you are, as advertised, a Western Confucian. You might want to have a doctor check that out.
As Bugs Bunny would say, “What a Maroone!”. Though I’m not a fan of Bush, her comments are so riddled with falsehoods so as to clearly illustrate the woman’s undiscriminating credulity.
Go home Ms. Sheehan where you are truly free to be as ignorant as you want to be.
It’s a shame that site does not allow comments.
I’d like to see her replies if everyone here got to ask some questions about the situation…
But then maybe she does’t want to hear it.
Before the Americans descended upon Daechu-Ri, “it was bubble gum dreams and rainbow skies”.
- Sean Penn in Team America
Wasn’t the move to Pyontaek President Roh’s idea and doing?
To me Cindy Sheehan is going after the wrong colored house,
in regards to the Daechu-ri issue. She should be going after the house colored blue not the one colored white.
Cindy Sheehan gives new meaning to the term, “Ugly American.”
I just got done eating dinner and read that article and fortunately I was able to hold everything down after reading all the blatant falsehoods and distortions in that article.
South Korea is one of the best examples of the positive effect of the “US Militarism” she loathes.
Apparently Sheehan and her North Korean sponsored activist friends think South Korea would be better off today without the intervention of the US military during the Korean War and the 50+ years of security, economic, and political developments made possible by the US-ROK alliance.
All you have to do is look across the DMZ today to see what Korea would look like without “US Militarism”.
Why doesn’t Sheehan go to Pyongyang and lecture Kim Jong-il about human rights violations if she is such a human rights warrior?
Well, at least Jane Fonda was a hot chick in her time, and her political views didn’t stop GI’s from crowding in to see Barbarella. Poor Cindy. The light’s on, but nobody’s home.
Cindy, Cindy, Cindy,
You ignorant twat. I thought we groutted you!
“You can bet your turkey left-overs that North Korea is watching these developments very closely and only the people of Korea and this region will pay for US infiltrations in South Korea.”
That’s got soju written all over it.
Preach on, Lirelou. And speaking of “the protest generation,” you remind me also of a report from P.J. O’Rourke from December 2001 at a protest in Washington DC…
Just ignore her. Her fifteen minutes of fame are, most likely, just about up.
I hope so I am so sick and tired of Cindy She-man.
Hey, if anyone does a crossword puzzle and you have to find a 7-letter word starting with S that means “elderly bimbo,” you might know the answer.
Even if I disagree with someone else, I can still respect them if they get their facts right. She doesn’t even make an attempt to find out what is really going on. I guess that’s why she irritates us sooooooo much. What she says is emotionally based, not factually based. And for that same reason when she speaks, she sounds like the southbound end of a northbound camel.
Cindy Sheehan is just as dumb as the people she protests.
Hmmm… The U.S. president, “whom the people of Korea call ‘Georgie Bushie’”?
Doesn’t Shindy Sheehan know that it’s bad manners to make light of people’s accents?
Jeffery Hodges
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She’s so uninformed that she probably believes “Georgie Bushie” is pejorative rather than an artifact of accent.
Yeah, that was the impression I got. My wife and I spent a good hour laughing at her.
Oh, and did anybody figure out who we are oppressing at Pearl Harbor and Shannon?
Pejorative?! Damn, Brendon, I’ve been spelling that word “perjorative” for yonks!
I guess that I should share the language limelight with the otherwise inimitable Shindy Sheehan.
I learn something new every day.
Jeffery Hodges
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She-man…… I think we need to ignore her. Discussing the bitch just affords her legitimacy.
Cindy Sheehan is a Mi-chin-nyun. Excuse the expression.
I know that Park Chung Hee and Chiang Kai Shek were
People say Vietnam was a mistake, but I disagree. Staying in Vietnam would have prevented Cambodia’s purge by Pol Pot.
Also, Cindy Sheehan doesn’t realize that the hangul way of saying George Bush can only be that way, whether or not they like him or not.
I know that Park Chung Hee and Chiang Kai Shek were Axis powers collaborators, but it is proven that living under them was much better than living under Kim Il Sung or Chairman Mao.
I find my Chinese friend’s intense hatred of Taiwan kind of interesting, because his family is a big factory owning family in China. Mao would have purged them, the bourgeois.
Get some grout.
I just read in the IHT today she has “retired”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap.....-Quits.php
horray!
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[...] If you haven’t had enough of Cindy Sheehan, the Marmot has linked to this Z-magazine article from Sheehan concerning her visit to South Korea. The article is very badly written and I have to wonder who was the editor that let this thing pass, but anyway the article rambles on about nonsense in other parts of the globe, but I will keep my analysis on the Korean related content. [...]
[...] When you have one, two links between the Pyeongtaek protests and “civic group” leaders currently under arrest as North Korean spies, I don’t think I’m out of bounds to question Cindy Sheehan’s patriotism in supporting their cause (and seemingly, those of every tyrant and terrorist on the map). Extra points to her for managing to overlook the ferocious violence of the demonstrations, which injured hundreds of people, and instead referring to “violent US military extremism.” Such as? [...]
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[...] If you haven’t had enough of Cindy Sheehan, the Marmot has linked to this Z-magazine article from Sheehan concerning her visit to South Korea. The article is very badly written and I have to wonder who was the editor that let this thing pass, but anyway the article rambles on about nonsense in other parts of the globe, but I will keep my analysis on the Korean related content. [...]