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Dear Congressman Young,
The shame is that the outrage you expressed at your wife's being asked to leave the State of the Union address (a shameful act indeed) doesn't include the handcuffed and jailed Mrs. Cindy Sheehan.
The shame, since you "disagree with everything she stands for" is that you must also be against the freedom of speech accorded to everyone under our great Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Further, let us not forget that Mrs. Sheehan has never once disrespected our troops; indeed, she has always held our men and women in uniform in the highest regard, beginning with her own beloved and lost son Casey and extending to each of his fellows in arms. She simply doesn't want any more of them to die.
Finally I challenge the dubious claim that Mrs. Sheehan's message "2245 Dead. How Many More?" was "political." Even a partisan supporter of the Iraq war such as yourself cannot hope to politicize "2245 Dead." This number, sir, is merely reality. A grim tally. An indisputable fact. A number, sadly, that today, is already out of date.
Sincerely,
(real name)
