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Originally Posted by Wetflame
Since when would the parents truly know what their children would have thought or wanted? Honestly? It's a case of THEM not wanting to be associated with. We can't know either way whether the dead soldiers would have wanted it or not. Not that I 100% agree with it, but I can't see how it's such a crime, and I have to laugh at the people calling Cindy Sheehan "Evil".
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So...wait. You're saying that the parents of a soldier who perished in Iraq wouldn't know their own child better than a complete stranger like Cindy Sheehan? And that further more, its acceptable to use that soldier's name to wage political war against the very thing that the soldier died defending?
So, by your logic, I can go find someone in your family who has perished, and make him/her into the posterboy/girl of any cause? And you don't get a say in it, regardless of how offensive it is to you or your surviving family? Do you have any clue as to how heartless and blatantly disrespectful that sounds?
I'm also pretty sure it's illegal to use the name and likeness of another without their, or their next of kin's in the case of the deceased, express permission.