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(CNN) -- Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who became an anti-war leader after her son was killed in Iraq, declared Monday she was walking away from the peace movement.

She said her son died "for nothing."

Sheehan achieved national attention when she camped outside President Bush's home in Crawford, Texas, throughout August 2005 to demand a meeting with the president over her son's death.

While Bush ignored her, the vigil made her one of the most prominent figures among opponents of the war.

But in a Web diary posted to the liberal online community Daily Kos on Monday, Sheehan said she was exhausted by the personal, financial and emotional toll of the past two years.

She wrote that she is disillusioned by the failure of Democratic politicians to bring the unpopular war to an end and tired of a peace movement she said "often puts personal egos above peace and human life."

Casey Sheehan, a 24-year-old Army specialist, was killed in an April 2004 battle in Baghdad. His death prompted his mother to found Gold Star Families for Peace.

But in Monday's 1,200-word letter, titled, "Good Riddance Attention Whore," Sheehan announced that her son "did indeed die for nothing."

"I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful," she wrote. "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.

"It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years, and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most."

Cindy Sheehan's sister, DeDe Miller, told CNN that the group would continue working for humanitarian causes, but drop its involvement in the anti-war movement. As for her sister's letter, Miller said, "She cried for quite a bit after writing it."

Sheehan warned that the United States was becoming "a fascist corporate wasteland," and that onetime allies among Bush's Democratic opposition turned on her when she began trying to hold them accountable for bringing the 4-year-old war to a close.

In the meantime, she said her antiwar activism had cost her her marriage, that she had put the survivor's benefits paid for her son's death and all her speaking and book fees into the cause and that she now owed extensive medical bills.

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

"I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble."



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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/28/sheehan/index.html
 
So a woman who wants to speak directly to the person who sent her son to die for nothing more than to show the world how low it's scrotum hangs is now financially drained... next. ->
 
I feel bad for this lady, for every soldier who has died, and for everyone who has lost someone close to them, in this war. Casey Sheehan joined the Army of his own free will, and I'm sure he knew he wouldn't get rich in the process. Many of these boys join to contribute to a cause bigger than themselves. History will decide whether this particular cause was worthy of their sacrifice.
 
I wonder if she realizes yet how much she enabled Generalissimo Chavez by letting him use her for a prop.

When the bloodshed starts at his hands down there, I wonder if she'll realize that she helped bring him to power.
 
The woman lost her son. Rather than being able to go through her grief cycle and engage in a couple protest stunts until she moved on she met a group of people who fed her grief and indignation like they were throwing Jim Bean at an Alcoholic.

I do not think the war is being conducted properly. I also don't agree with much of what Cindy Sheehan said. What I REALLY don't like though is how this grief stricken and mentally unstable woman was diefied by the left leaning DNC and used as their mouthpiece at the cost of her marriage, family and financle well being. Then when she turned on those who benifitted from her she found out that she never really had supporters, just manipulators.
 
I do agree with Ms. Sheehan on one or two points;

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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It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years, and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most

I can understand her feelings.
 
I guess no one was paying attention to her and she needed a fix. Much like her non-existent hunger strike (that she was tricked into ending), her absence will probably last until it's convenient for her to end it.
 
With pals like Jesse Jackass and Caeser Chaves, she doesn't need the friendship of working, taxpaying Americans, May I suggest France for her next
terra firma?
 
Actually, I have a new respect for her. I read her letter. In it, she complained that the Democrats were just as pro-war as the Republicans. I respect her for walking away, and not sticking with the party line. I respect her for calling her own party out, as well as the opposition. I wish more people would do that.
 
how this grief stricken and mentally unstable woman was diefied by the left leaning DNC and used as their mouthpiece at the cost of her marriage, family and financle well being.

Nobody forced her to become a MoveOn.Org soldier. She made that choice herself. I suppose that her mistake was in not making sure that she was compensated for everything along the way.

And maybe to pick her friends a little better next time. ;)
 
The problem with this country is that group "think" is the order of the day. She made the mistake of behaving as an individual, and she made the mistake of being outspoken as an individual on a contentious subject. All of this meant she was an easy target for a nation full of cowards. The personal insults directed at her show just how deep these problems are among americans.

Few people are willing to stick themselves out there as Cindy did. Few americans are willing to stand for principle and make themselves a target of the cowards as Cindy did.

This nation has become so full of cowards that when someone sticks their neck out like Cindy did, americans tend to sit back and let that person absorb all the arrows all by themselves. There SHOULD be a continual stream of courageous individuals such as Cindy that come and go from the national scene. When one takes a break from the hard work of standing for principle, it SHOULDN'T make news like this. The principle is what should be getting discussed, and not the speaker. Unfortunately, when you have a nation of cowards who pick on easy targets such as Cindy, and who sling mud at her, and who only know how to fire personal insults, there's not much to hope for.
 
Sheehan is not brave. She is not courageous. It takes no courage or bravery to spout anti-Semitic, conspiracy nonsense that the media laps up. She has never been in the slightest danger or faced any hardship she didn't impose on herself (I'm sure camping out at Camp Casey had it's inconveniences). Precious little mud has been slung at her, she got muddy by wallowing in it.
 
The principle is what should be getting discussed, and not the speaker.

Well, some of us are talking about the principle. Sheehan believed in a principle, and apparently thought that the Democrats believed in the same principle. Sheehan was wrong about the Democrats.
 
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