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'Attention whore' Cindy Sheehan quits
WND ^ | May 28, 2007 | WND

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: attentionwhore; barkingmoonbat; cindysheehan; horay; jihadcindy; nakedcommunist; notapeacemovement; opus; sheehan; sheehanigans; starkravingsocialist; whitetrash; wot
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To: goldstategop

She and Rosie O’Donnell should be committed for observation and treatment....oh, is there no treatment for stupidity?!!


41 posted on 05/28/2007 4:57:32 PM PDT by PeskyOne
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To: Cate

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.


42 posted on 05/28/2007 4:57:45 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: driftdiver
Well, for the first time since she surfaced, I must admit that I agree with her on many of her points. Specifically:

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.......... >

43 posted on 05/28/2007 4:58:45 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: driftdiver
'Attention whore' Cindy Sheehan quits

Please, I must ask you to quit insulting whores.

44 posted on 05/28/2007 4:59:42 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: driftdiver

Well, Cindy, you don’t have to stay here! Why don’t you go to Cuba? They’ve got excellent healthcare over there, dontchaknow.


45 posted on 05/28/2007 5:01:28 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: All

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.


46 posted on 05/28/2007 5:01:38 PM PDT by newnhdad
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To: driftdiver

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.


47 posted on 05/28/2007 5:04:33 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: driftdiver

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.


48 posted on 05/28/2007 5:06:50 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: driftdiver
Dang, I'll have to hang up my favorite picture of the hag.


49 posted on 05/28/2007 5:06:58 PM PDT by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: weegee

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.


50 posted on 05/28/2007 5:08:05 PM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: Roberts

Don’t let the door hit you in your fat ass!


51 posted on 05/28/2007 5:08:52 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Sanc·ti·mo·ny: Feigned piety or righteousness; hypocritical devoutness.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Did Hugo really give her money? What an idiot. Can’t even consider them useful idiots. More like USELESS.


52 posted on 05/28/2007 5:09:56 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: MinuteGal
"... "Sappy - Headed - Ho? ..."

Yeah, well, that's about right, but who paid her for 'ho' duties? ................. FRegards

53 posted on 05/28/2007 5:14:20 PM PDT by gonzo (In Florida, inmates make cigarettes in jail that I buy, and I can go to jail for smoking one! WTF?)
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To: driftdiver

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.


54 posted on 05/28/2007 5:17:23 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I'm gonna vote for Fred. John Bolton for VP.)
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To: driftdiver


55 posted on 05/28/2007 5:18:40 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: supremedoctrine

“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.


56 posted on 05/28/2007 5:19:53 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: driftdiver

News that is too good to be true, usually is.


57 posted on 05/28/2007 5:20:02 PM PDT by Alouette (It is reminiscent of the world-famous Jewish conspiracy, now extended to also include Jews.)
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To: driftdiver
Take the big mouth Rosie with you!
58 posted on 05/28/2007 5:20:49 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Thank You Troops)
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To: driftdiver

The MSM wasn’t following her around anymore like a dog meeting a dog.


59 posted on 05/28/2007 5:21:32 PM PDT by Tolkien (There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
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To: driftdiver
has issued a resignation letter

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.

60 posted on 05/28/2007 5:21:48 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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