Reading Cindy Sheehan's blog

I followed a link from the Drudge Report to Cindy Sheehan's blog on the Huffington Post. This woman is passionate, but not reasonable. For one thing, she objects to the presence of National Guard in a flooded New Orleans:

"One thing that truly troubled me about my visit to Louisiana was the level of the military presence there. I imagined before that if the military had to be used in a CONUS (Continental US) operations that they would be there to help the citizens: Clothe them, feed them, shelter them, and protect them. But what I saw was a city that is occupied. I saw soldiers walking around in patrols of 7 with their weapons slung on their backs. I wanted to ask one of them what it would take for one of them to shoot me. Sand bags were removed from private property to make machine gun nests.

The vast majority of people who were looting in New Orleans were doing so to feed their families or to get resources to get their families out of there. If I had a store with an inventory of insured belongings, and a tragedy happened, I would fling my doors open and tell everyone to take what they need: it is only stuff. When our fellow citizens are told to 'shoot to kill' other fellow citizens because they want to stay alive, that is military and governmental fascism gone out of control. What I saw today in Algiers lifted up my spirits, but what I also saw today in Algiers frightened me terribly."

Anyway, she goes on to call on President Bush to not only withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, but also from "occupied" New Orleans. Like those that blame the U.S. military for car bombings in Iraq, Cindy's thinking becomes muddled when she blames the military for protecting the city against armed gangs. Get a grip, woman!