Whilst masticating on , Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
wrote to All:

JB> This was predicted....  It is sad that she lost her son in Iraq 
JB> and then lost the  rest of her family and her soul to the 
JB> democrats...

JB> ================================

JB> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275997,00.html

JB> Cindy Sheehan Quits as 'Face' of Anti-War Movement
JB> Tuesday, May 29, 2007

JB> Cindy Sheehan, the "peace mom" who made headlines in 2005 by 
JB> staging a marathon protest outside President Bush's Crawford, 
JB> Texas, ranch, said Monday that she no longer wants to be seen as 
JB> a leader of the anti-war movement.

She believed something was wrong, and she protested it (her right as an
American - one of the freedoms we're supposed to be fighting for.)  

JB> In a 1,245-word missive entitled "Goodbye Attention Whore" posted 
JB> on the liberal DailyKos blog, Sheehan said her campaign to end 
JB> the war in Iraq had strained her relationship with her children, 
JB> cost her a marriage and left her nearly penniless.

JB> "This is my resignation letter as the 'face' of the American 
JB> anti-war movement," Sheehan wrote. "I am going to take whatever I 
JB> have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to 
JB> my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have 
JB> lost."

I hope she can.

JB> ? Click here to read Cindy Sheehan's letter on the DailyKos blog.

JB> Sheehan founded the Gold Star Families for Peace after her son, 
JB> Casey Sheehan, a 24-year-old Army specialist, was killed in an 
JB> April 2004 battle in Baghdad. Sheehan was an outspoken critic of 
JB> the Bush administration's policies and was often a target of 
JB> criticism herself for visiting with leftist leaders like Fidel 
JB> Castro and Hugo Chavez.

JB> Sheehan, however, said she had become increasingly disillusioned 
JB> with the Democratic Party. In an open letter to the Democratic 
JB> members of Congress on Saturday, however, she announced that she 
JB> was leaving the Party because she believed its leaders had failed 
JB> to change the country's course in Iraq.

She's right on that.  The change in control of the Senate and House
happened because Democrats were elected to get our troops out of Iraq, and
they backed down to Bush WRT timetables for ending the war.  Whatever one's
opinion on the wisdom of timetables, they didn't stand up to Bush because
there weren't enough votes to override a veto, and they were afraid they'd
be accused of not supporting the troops.  The Republicans, since this war
began, have done an excellent job of painting anyone who disagrees with
Bush and Company as traitors at worst and nonsupporters of the troops at
best.

JB> "I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my 
JB> protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I 
JB> was slandered and libeled by the right as a 'tool' of the 
JB> Democratic Party." Sheehan wrote. "However, when I started to 
JB> hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the 
JB> Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the 
JB> 'left' started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used."

Because the Dems know they didn't show any backbone, and are trying to
deflect attention away from that.  She deserved much better from them.

Perhaps now she'll at least get what she wanted, a meeting with Bush?   *adh*

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