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S13SilviaGirl
05-30-2007, 07:25 AM
Sheehan 'Resigns' as War Protest Leader
Associated Press | May 30, 2007

FORT WORTH, Texas - Cindy Sheehan, the Soldier's mother who galvanized the anti-Iraq war movement with her monthlong protest outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch, says she is done with being the public face of the movement.

"I've been wondering why I'm killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush," Sheehan told The Associated Press by phone Tuesday while driving from her property, now called Camp Casey in honor of her son, in Crawford, Texas, to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.

"I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal," she said.

In what she described as a "resignation letter," Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the "Daily Kos" liberal blog: "Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it."

"It's up to you now."

Sheehan began a grass roots peace movement in August 2005 when she set up camp outside the Bush ranch for 26 days, asking to talk with the president about the death of her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan. Casey Sheehan was 24 when he was killed in an ambush in Baghdad.

Cindy Sheehan started her protest small, but it quickly drew national attention. Over the following two years, she drew huge crowds as she spoke at protest events, but she also drew a great deal of criticism.

"I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called `Face' of the American anti-war movement," Sheehan wrote in the diary.

On Memorial Day, the holiday on Monday honoring those who died in combat, she came to some "heartbreaking conclusions," she wrote.

When she had first taken on Bush, Sheehan was a darling of the liberal left. "However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the 'left' started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used," she wrote.

"I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of 'right or left', but 'right and wrong,'" the diary says.

Sheehan criticized "blind party loyalty" as a danger, no matter which side it involved, and said the current two-party system is "corrupt" and "rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland."

Sheehan said she had sacrificed a 29-year marriage and endured threats to put all her energy into stopping the war. What she found, she wrote, was a movement "that often puts personal egos above peace and human life."

But she said the most devastating conclusion she had reached "was that Casey did indeed die for nothing ... killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think".

"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," she wrote. "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 am going to take whatever I have left and go home," Sheehan wrote.

"Camp Casey has served its purpose. It's for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford, Texas?"

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ThatGuy
05-30-2007, 07:32 AM
Last time I checked, the US Military was entirely voluntary. If her son signed up, expected not to ever have to fight, then he wasn't very bright. Then she goes and sacrifices her marriage, her job, and everything else, expecting one woman with a picket sign to be able to stop a war. She is amazingly naive.

p.s. I see this thread eventually getting locked because someone will not be able to voice their opinion in a mature manner.

PBucch
05-30-2007, 07:43 AM
She was protesting where and why we were there. Where does it say anything about her son not wanting to fight for his country? Did you read the article?

I mean shes pretty much right, blind party allegiance.....

ThatGuy
05-30-2007, 08:31 AM
Point taken. Allow me to rephrase.

Joining the Military means you WILL do what the government tells you to do. The Government being less-than-perfect is not a new concept. If you think there is the smallest possibility that you will not agree with their choice, feel free not to sign the contract. The less people we have joining simply so they can get college money, the better.

Again, one woman, standing around holding a picket sign will NEVER stop a war.

"Blind Party Allegiance?" The only party I show any allegiance to, is the one where they're serving quality rum and playing decent music. :keke:

mrmephistopheles
05-30-2007, 08:43 AM
The only party I show any allegiance to, is the one where they're serving quality rum and playing decent music. :keke:

...but why is the rum always gone?

Baka Sama
05-30-2007, 09:12 AM
Wow.. It took her that long to realize that one person CANNOT make a difference? Your voice, your vote, your opinion, counts for jack shit. Its just like American Idol. You can vote all day long for who you want to win, but in the end the producers will decide who wins and who goes home. (note: Im not an AI fan) The best thing you can do is just hope the people in power arnt screwing you over too badly. And all this lady can do is hope that after this admin. is gone the real truths will come out. (*cough* 9/11 *cough*) But I doubt it. There is no left or right wing, no democrats and republicans. In the end they both bow to the same master.

DragonUSMC
05-30-2007, 09:17 AM
^oh snap…


But yeah, she was used… she thought she was this historical figure on the front lines of this battle… she was a pawn.

But on the second point… if she wants to believe that her son died for nothing… then she must have never spoken with him ever. Sure the “higher powers that be making the decisions blalblablala” I’m sorry but sometimes its just simpler then that.

Because my friends died, to save the others around them; and to save the Iraqi people we saw every day and became neighbors with… and I would have gladly done the same.

Don’t join my beloved Marine Corps for the college money… because we don’t want you if that’s the case.

Semper Fi Casey Sheehan… Semper Fi.

S14DB
05-30-2007, 09:18 AM
Who cares that the military is voluntary. Still doesn't give anyone the right to abuse them.

Phlip
05-30-2007, 09:24 AM
I liken this broad to the Tillman family...
She decided that the life of her son, when faced with one of the most distinct of possibilities of joining during a time of conflict of being sent to possibly die in said conflict, ACTUALLY gets iced. Now she decides that there is more rocking of the boat to be done, using the incredibly horrible reasoning to continue to be in said conflict as her divine reasoning for enhanced interest in it all? In such, she basically ruins her own life and likely those of may around her, only to quit on the whole thing, as it was becoming increasingly useless.
No, I do not agree with this war our outwardly inept president has involved us in, but I do not agree with this broad grandstanding with nothing to gain from it, other than the book deal.

... I BET this bitch writes a book about it

Baka Sama
05-30-2007, 09:28 AM
My ex girlfriend is in the airforce, my best friend is in the navy, and 3 of my friends are in the marines. They all knew since day one that they were and would continue to be lied to by this government. I dont think that anyone in the armed forces would be that naive to believe what the president shoves done their throat. Yet they all joined for there own reasons. My ex gf for school, my best friend for money and to travel, and my friends in the marines... well they just wanted to kill people. No seriously. I think we played too much quake 2 and paint ball in highschool lol.

RJF
05-30-2007, 09:44 AM
... I BET this bitch writes a book about it

She already did...nobody bought it.

DragonUSMC
05-30-2007, 10:54 AM
.... and my friends in the marines... well they just wanted to kill people. No seriously. I think we played too much quake 2 and paint ball in highschool lol.

yeah... thats a normal charateristic of a person who joins the Marines... we all have some mental problems... =)

mRclARK1
05-30-2007, 11:17 AM
You join any military, you are subject to the fact that you will be TOLD what to do, and you do not get the right to say no, or consider it as an "option" ... you're also subject to the fact that you could die in the performance of your duties. All this is made well aware, and should be obvious, to anyone who joins up. It's unfortunate, and she has my sympathy for it, that her son was killed doing his job, but he knew the risks.

The military is not a democracy.

...but why is the rum always gone?

Jack Sparrow drank it all... :keke:

azndoc
05-30-2007, 11:48 AM
When I first joined I always had this in mind that I will eventually one day be in some kind of conflict or war. I trained for it and that's all I knew at the time. I was trained for war and all it's glory that came with it. But as the years went on and the war continued and the administration lies became apparent. I no longer felt as I did when i first joined. Sure I wanted to go fight in Afgan and Iraq. But not for the stupid politicians who were deciding our fate at the same time lining their pockets with money. I wanted to go fight for my buddies who were over there. When I got out and I've been out for two years now in June. I'm glad I wasn't sent over there to die for a stupid war, but I'm sadden that I wasn't there for alot of my friends.

If you ask me I don't think anyone in the military wants to actually go to war, it's just our job and we're just doing it.

Wahl 136
05-30-2007, 03:28 PM
The average marine was proud to be there doing his job. I have tape after tape of marines telling their liberal “rescuers” to go f*ck themselves. They knew what they were doing there, that they were keeping Iraq from turning into a terrorist state that would have made Afghanistan under the Taliban look like Disneyland.


http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=7341

fromxtor
05-30-2007, 07:03 PM
I can honestly say the military has never lied to me, it may have not told me a few things. But there were no lies, I seriously close my ears as soon as I hear this womans name. After hearing that she spent the money the US gave her from her sons death to gal avant around and be ignorant. She neglected to pick out the FREE headstone for her sons grave for two years after he died.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sheehangrave.asp