Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Cindy Sheehan to quit protesting Iraq war

By The Associated Press

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Cindy Sheehan 'resigns' as protest leader, drained by biting criticism and partisan politics

Memorial Day brought some good news for the Bush administration.

Cindy Sheehan, one of the President's fiercest critics over the Iraq war, has renounced her role as a leader of the anti-war movement and resigned from the Democratic party.

"I am going to take what I have left and go home," she said. "I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost."

She also sent a letter to the Democratic party resigning her membership.

In it she says, "it used to be George Bush's war. You could have ended it honorably. We gave you a chance... you betrayed us."

Sheehan's son Casey was killed in an ambush in Baghdad. She sparked a grass roots peace movement after camping outside the ranch in 2005, asking to speak with the president about her son's death.

She writes in an online diary that on Memorial Day, she concluded that her son died for no reason.

She says "Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."

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monkeyhairdo (anonymous) says...

Dear Mrs. Sheehan:

No one can replace your loss. The US government is outnumbered by large groups of financial opportunists, media manipulators, and cold-hearted strategists -- these people are middle-class criminals who have encouraged and purchased various criminals to help them on a daily basis to maintain this "image". The true US government has been constantly damaged by new organized middle-class criminals who have distracted the government, weakened the financials, and either tricked or bullied politicians into today's resulting headlines. This is not about "American Idol". Your information is intentional to get you riled and angry. This is about "Reality TV Shows" and their specific producers and executives which for some reason the government is unable to turn off.

The manipulating regime has satiated those in military and defense contractors who wanted war. Combined forces have created this tyranny that affects the world. Democracy is not dead. Americans need to resolve the mentality of the destructive and unfeeling people that are truly responsible for this incredible permanent and historic mistake.

May 29, 2007 at 12:11 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

ajc (anonymous) says...

Cindy -

I'm sincerely sorry for your loss...the loss of any and every soldier is tragic. War is tragic...and often senseless - like this one.

I'm also sorry that it took you so long to realize that there are forces you cannot fold, bend, mutilate or overcome.

I'm also sorry that it took you so long to realize that one political party is no better than any other political party.

I'm also sorry that you made an utter fool of yourself - in many ways - especially with hugging Bozo Chavez.

I'm sorry that you magnified your grief to such an extent that it clouded your better judgement terribly.

I'm sorry that you allowed yourself to be used and abused in public by extremists who couldn't deliver to you what they promised - a rose garden.

I'm sorry that your name in the public arena is forever marred with the subtitle of "disillusioned fool".

Go home - be quiet - find peace within yourself...and then learn to enjoy life again.

May 29, 2007 at 1:20 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

paranjan (anonymous) says...

Wish you had kept fighting Mrs. Sheehan !!!

May 29, 2007 at 1:44 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

g2ac (anonymous) says...

Cindy, we all feel for your loss!

You berated George Bush and the Republican party.

You have now resigned from the Democratic party.

Now please take the next airplane to Venezuela and make yourself a new home there and see how you like it. Good place for you there. See if Mr Chavez, whom you hugged and expressed so much admiration for, will allow you to do the things that you did here. I'm sure he will find a good home for you someplace in Venezuela. More than likely, it will be in one of his infamous jails.

May 29, 2007 at 2:17 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

monkeyhairdo (anonymous) says...

What's wrong with protesting uncivility? You did everything right. Those ridden with guilt feel guiltier. That is all.

May 29, 2007 at 6:04 p.m. ( | suggest removal )