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“Dear Cindy” is the title of Clifford May’s open letter to Cindy Sheehan to meet with him now that President Bush wisely has declined as second meeting with Der Psycho. What would Cindy learn? May writes,

I’ll invite to join us some 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.”

I know several Baghdadi businessmen whom Saddam suspected of disloyalty. He had their right hands amputated. Want to meet them? The doctors who were forced to perform these amputations are worth chatting with as well.

Clifford May then addresses one of Cindy’s chief demands: Get our troops out of Iraq NOW.

Cindy, you’ve been calling for the U.S. to get out of Iraq at a time when our enemies in that country include the most aggressive and lethal branch of al-Qaeda, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Can you not see that if we were to retreat from Iraq now, it would be a historic defeat for the United States?

And it would be a huge victory for al-Qaeda. Zarqawi would view himself – not without justification – as a giant killer. Recruits would flock to him for the many battles that would, inevitably, follow. We could not expect to do better in those battles than we did in Iraq.

We will never be able to make ourselves inoffensive to the racist death cults that have declared war on us. When these barbarians kill brave Americans like Casey Sheehan we can’t run and hide. Or rather we can – but that only invites the terrorists to hit us again. For years we didn’t understand that. The consequence was Sept. 11, 2001.

Remember: We fled from Somalia in 1993. We left Saddam in power after the first Gulf War in 1991. We did nothing much after the Hezbollah bombing of our Marine barracks in 1983. Our response to the taking of American hostages in Tehran in 1979 was toothless.

In each of these cases – and too many others – we demonstrated to our enemies that there would be no penalty for humiliating and even slaughtering Americans. In each of these cases Osama bin Laden saw evidence that Americans are irresolute and weak; that America’s military – for all its sophistication and technology – would prove no match for determined hostage-takers, decapitators and suicide bombers.

A more astute observer of this conflict, and one more in control of his emotions than Cindy, might counter this point by suggesting, “Well, we created Zarqawi, and unless we pull out, we’ll just manufacture more.” That questionable hypothesis, even if correct, still wouldn’t justify cutting and running, but at least it sounds rational. But don’t expect any such logic, however wrong, emanating from Cindy and the myrmidons that follow her around like hungry pigeons. It is pure emotion, devoid of logic, that fuels their movement.

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