Posted on 05/28/2007 4:22:43 PM PDT by driftdiver
Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "Peace Mom" who gained national attention protesting President Bush's Iraq war policy by remaining camped in a ditch near his Crawford, Texas, ranch, has issued a resignation letter as the face of the American anti-war movement.
"Good-bye America," Sheehan writes in her online diary, "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."
Sheehan says she came to her "heartbreaking conclusions" this Memorial Day morning, saying, "These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now." 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. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.
Sheehan's son, Casey, was among the American casualties in Iraq, and Mrs. Sheehan, as WND exclusively reported, referred to the terrorists fighting U.S. troops as "freedom fighters."
In today's resignation, lamented that little has been accomplished in her efforts:
I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need to be committed. I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither. If an individual wants both, then normally he/she is not willing to do more than walk in a protest march or sit behind his/her computer criticizing others. I have spent every available cent I got from the money a "grateful" country gave me when they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then. I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey's brother and sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human beings. I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of and have had my life threatened many times.
The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. 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.
She and Rosie O’Donnell should be committed for observation and treatment....oh, is there no treatment for stupidity?!!
No. Lefties make promises to split when they are upset with this country, but they rarely ever have the cajones to follow through with the threat.
I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground.
Finally the DU saw the light!
Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.
She's got that right too!
I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need to be committed.
The first step to recovery is admitting one has a problem.
I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither.
Well, maybe so but it also sounds as if MoveOn.org has finally tired of you and thrown you under the bus.........That must suck!
I have spent
I have sacrificed
my health has suffered
my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection
I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of
had my life threatened many times.
Finally realizing that one is irrelevant has to really suck too........
I failed my boy and that hurts the most.
No Cindy, it hurts US the most.......... >
Please, I must ask you to quit insulting whores.
Well, Cindy, you don’t have to stay here! Why don’t you go to Cuba? They’ve got excellent healthcare over there, dontchaknow.
Does anyone find it curious that both Cindy and Rosie dropped out of the public eye the past five days?
The two favorite targets for the right have withdrawn from public life.
What a fine gift from Cindy to our veterans—an Opus. Hopefully, she’ll quit and stay quit.
But I don’t believe this for a minute. She’ll be back.
Cindy Sheehan’s behavior and judgements have been so skewed, so off-the-wall, for so long, it is not a stretch to consider that she is grossly overcompensating for the LACK of a relationship she had with her son. She has behaved all along as if Bush, Rumsfeld, and the military itself STOLE her son away from her. I could be wrong, but there is something so off-kilter psychologically with her, so willing to be manipulated and canonized by the anti-Iraq War movement, that I suspect the facts of her family life are not at all the way she’s allowed them to be “accepted”. She is still entitled to grieve for her son, but her loathing is so complete and unrelenting against Bush that I suspect
that a possible bad marriage and lack of relationship with her son, is getting blamed on Bush and his Administration as stand-ins for her husband. I hate to get this Freudian , but that’s they way I see it, even while admitting she has every right to be as wildly “inconsolable”, and irresponsible as she wants.
The picture of a “useful idiot”. So sad...well, not that sad. Can anyone imagine Hugo Chavez supporting her now that she’s “quit” her anti-US tirade/jihad? I can’t.
Don’t let the door hit you in your fat ass!
Did Hugo really give her money? What an idiot. Can’t even consider them useful idiots. More like USELESS.
Yeah, well, that's about right, but who paid her for 'ho' duties? ................. FRegards
Sounds like her sosn’s Government insurance money finally ran out. I hope she got him a marker for his grave before it did,but if she didnt she can get one free from DOD.
“I hate to get this Freudian , but that’s they way I see it, even while admitting she has every right to be as wildly “inconsolable”, and irresponsible as she wants.”
I disagree. She has every right to be inconsolable but she doesn’t have a right to commit treason or to aid our enemies.
News that is too good to be true, usually is.
The MSM wasn’t following her around anymore like a dog meeting a dog.
Sorry, sweetie, your 15 minutes is way over. You must have noticed the cash flow has dried up? Please spend the rest of your life out of the public. You can mourn in private now.
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