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The Strib today is running an open letter from Clifford D. May to Cindy Sheehan. This is not the kind of opinion piece I am used to seeing in the Strib, so it has caught me by surprise, and has left me wondering why they printed it as it is critical of the anti-war movement.

As everyone knows, Cindy Sheehan is "trying" to get a second meeting with President Bush concerning the death of her son. The Sheehan family met with the President a few months after Specialist Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq. Now, she is demanding a second meeting, as she has become an beligerant anti-war protestor, backed by the likes of moveon(to Canada).org, and other extreme left organizations pushing a "hate Bush, hate America" agenda. There is a sound bite running around where Sheehan actually states she hopes the President doesn't meet with her a second time as it would diffuse her anti-war movement.

Currently, there are both the anti-war zealots and the support the troop movements camped out in Crawford, Texas. Wish I could squek in the time to go there my self.

But the subject of this post is May's open letter to Cindy Sheehan, inviting her to meet with him instead of the president. It is an excellent piece, and should be read by all anti-war zealots.

Here is part of what he has to say:

So let me suggest an alternative: Come visit with me. Our meeting probably won't get much publicity, but I can promise you an interesting discussion. I could have some people join us -- for example, a few of the many Iraqi freedom fighters with whom I've been working for the past several years, many of them women, as well as democracy and human-rights activists from Syria, Iran, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon and other countries.

You say you want to know, "What is the noble cause that my son died for?" They would answer: Your son died fighting a war against an extremist movement intent on destroying free societies and replacing them with racist dictatorships.

The Iraqis will want to tell you what life was like under Saddam Hussein -- the mass murders of hundreds of thousands, the women and girls who were gang-raped by Saddam's cronies, the creative forms of torture that were ignored by the "international community."

May makes scores many points on why we are in Iraq, and why we should continue to remain until the people of Iraq are able to stand on their own feet, and not have to rely on U.S. intervention to secure basic human rights.

He also points out that for the U.S. led coalition to pull out (abandon) Iraq now would send a message to al Queda and its leaders; that the U.S. lacks the will to fight them. That we will use the Piccard Maneuver and surrender, caving in to the anti-war movement and the party of appeasement. Such an action of surrender would convince the enemies of Liberty that America is weak-kneed, and unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to defeat a vile enemy that routinely commits kidnappings and murder.

So, what do you think the odds are of Cindy Sheehan accepting May's invitation? Probably zero. She doesn't want to hear these things. She is blinded by the rhetoric of the extreme left, buying into the lies that Iraq is all about oil and that the people of Iraq were better off under the mass-murdering regime of Saddam Hussein.