Cindy Sheehan to pregnant war widow: “Your baby is going to be fatherless.”
Agitator Cindy Sheehan appeared on the Donny Deutsch program on CNBC in September 2005. On the opposing side was Laura Youngblood, the widow of Casey Youngblood, a servicemember killed in the line of duty in Iraq. Apparently there is no official transcript posted online. Based on web sources, the conversation went like this.
WIDOW: My husband was hit with a IED July 15th and died July 21st. He was part of the 325 unit out of Ohio. He was a Navy corpsman. He died two weeks before 21 Marines died out of Ohio. Everyone keeps saying Al-Qaeda is not in Iraq. Al-Qaeda took responsibility for the IED that killed my husband, and –
SHEEHAN: Well, sweetie, they weren’t there before they invaded and opened the doors borders to the terrorists –
WIDOW: No, we don’t know that, though.
SHEEHAN: — that came pouring in.
WIDOW: No one knows that.
SHEEHAN: Yeah, there’s been reports –
WIDOW: I served five years and, you know what? I’m going to have our baby in 12 more days, and if I do get called I will go back, and I will serve my country the way my husband would want me to. (applause) I am proud of my husband, because, you know what? You can’t let them come back and not finish what we started.
SHEEHAN: You know what? Your baby is going to be fatherless for a lie, for two lies, weapons of mass destruction and terrorism.
WIDOW: (Holding up a photograph of her husband) My child will never be fatherless because his father is an angel and they know that, and they will know their father loved him more than anything in this world.
No child is fatherless.