Cindy Sheehan gives up

[Tony-DarkGrave]

(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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I know there is a topic already but this is more credible. anyways shes Divorced, shunned from her family and now broke living off her sons soilder welfare. well I wonder how many more dumbass liberls it take like her to see reality

[SirLebowski]

I find it sad. Then again, I have some fucking compassion for others. =(

[uhnoesanoob]

At 5/29/07 05:55 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

I know there is a topic already but this is more credible. anyways shes Divorced, shunned from her family and now broke living off her sons soilder welfare. well I wonder how many more dumbass liberls it take like her to see reality

Um, she was not saying she was a conservative now, she just meant she was givng up because no one was listening. Try READING the articles you paste.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

At 5/29/07 06:05 PM, SirLebowski wrote: I find it sad. Then again, I have some fucking compassion for others. =(

I have none for her what so ever those are the consequences when you go on meaningless crusades but this bitch learned it the hard way.

[SirLebowski]

At 5/29/07 06:09 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:05 PM, SirLebowski wrote: I find it sad. Then again, I have some fucking compassion for others. =(

I have none for her what so ever those are the consequences when you go on meaningless crusades but this bitch learned it the hard way.

Her son died. Some people just deal with that death in different ways than others. No need to be all offended.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

At 5/29/07 06:12 PM, SirLebowski wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:09 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:05 PM, SirLebowski wrote:

Her son died. Some people just deal with that death in different ways than others. No need to be all offended.

it doesnt matter she offended millions of people because she went gallavanting bashing our country and its president saying unpatriotic shit. she might as well dance on gravees at Arlington Cemetary.

[Bolo]

At 5/29/07 06:18 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:12 PM, SirLebowski wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:09 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:05 PM, SirLebowski wrote:

Her son died. Some people just deal with that death in different ways than others. No need to be all offended.

it doesnt matter she offended millions of people because she went gallavanting bashing our country and its president saying unpatriotic shit.

You don't have to be Patriotic about the government / president to be acting the best interests of the United States.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

At 5/29/07 06:25 PM, Bolo wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:18 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:12 PM, SirLebowski wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:09 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:05 PM, SirLebowski wrote:

You don't have to be Patriotic about the government / president to be acting the best interests of the United States.

thats true patriotism trusting the president and goverment I may sound old fashioned but it is.

[Karzand]

At 5/29/07 06:30 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:25 PM, Bolo wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:18 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:12 PM, SirLebowski wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:09 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:05 PM, SirLebowski wrote:

thats true patriotism trusting the president and goverment I may sound old fashioned but it is.

That may be true patriotism but by protesting against your government you're a true American.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

oh yes by protesting the goverment that has held our country since the fore fathers created it? that is unpatriotic.

[Karzand]

At 5/29/07 06:56 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote: oh yes by protesting the goverment that has held our country since the fore fathers created it? that is unpatriotic.

Well George Washington was one of the most unpatriotic Britons in history. Yet he is one of our greatest Americans.

[hongkongexpress]

she goes bye bye

[Tony-DarkGrave]

At 5/29/07 07:06 PM, Karzand wrote:

At 5/29/07 06:56 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

Well George Washington was one of the most unpatriotic Britons in history.

thats wrong its the loyalty to the queen was what mattered to the Britrons.

[SyntheticTacos]

At 5/29/07 06:56 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote: oh yes by protesting the goverment that has held our country since the fore fathers created it? that is unpatriotic.

Protesting the government is not unpatriotic. The right to protest is part of what the USA was founded on. Now you may have heard the quote "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." (often misattributed to Thomas Jefferson, but it is not). But hey, why listen to me? How about we hear what the founding fathers had to say about the government?

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then." - Thomas Jefferson

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"- Benjamin Franklin

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams

" believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations
." - James Madison

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended from abroad. " - James Madison

It is a way too common misconception that the Founding Fathers would have wanted the government to restrict liberty like this. They encouraged and wanted people to protest the government and were very much against a huge wide-encompassing government that would cause citizens' to give up their rights to privacy and expression. But here you are complaining because a woman, her ideals aside, decided to exercise her rights supported by the Constitution AND Founding Fathers to tell the government that she did not agree with what was going on. Cindy Sheehan certainly wasn't right about anything but apparently you too have quite the misconception on what constitutes being pro-American as well.

The Founding Fathers found protesting the government to be VERY patriotic, and saying that it isn't when we have a government that was founded by people who wanted us to exercise that right seems very ironic to me.

[Demosthenez]

You people are all idiotic beyond all fucking hell trying to make this woman out as some crusading, rebellious woman standing up for Americas liberties. Since the fuck when does a fucking patriot or good American go the fuck to a country that likes telling us how bad we are and bad mouthing us with them? Who the fuck goes to this same country for a photo op? With a man who has been all buddy buddy with men like Ahmadinejad and Fidel Castro? Guess who it is yet? If not hit that big X on the top right and never return here.

How the fuck can a woman who takes photo ops with our enemies be deserving of any respect? Who speaks at rallys filled with communists who publicly proclaim their revolutionary goals? And quotes from men like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson? No, those were great men, some of the best that ever lived. Cindy Sheehan is a self interested ho who cant even step down gracefully without drawing attention to herself, not a revolutionary or bright mind or great American. She dishonored her son, she dishonored her country, she dishonored every serviceman who has lived and died in Iraq, and she has dishonored herself by her actions. Shame on her and shame on all you people aggrandizing this selfish ho.

The people that are being killed in Iraq are not terrorists. They're citizens of Iraq, they're members of the human race. They're our brothers and sisters. And last year, I worked really hard to defeat George Bush. But you know what? He refuses to be defeated, because if he loses, he cheats. And so he cheated himself into a second term.
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[Reading question submitted by an audience member.] "Cindy Sheehan: The empire can recruit war criminals because there are parents like you. Your son was one of those war criminals5. And they-- And not a hero. Who tortures Iraqi prisoners, kill their women and children and blow up their houses. You can't have it both ways. The majority of the people on the planet think the world is a lot better with the war criminals dead."
[Cindy speaking for herself:] Well, you know, unfortunately, part of that's true6. I didn't realize this before Casey joined the Army. And you can bet your life, if I had known this before my son joined, he wouldn't have joined. And we tried to talk him out of it, and we tried to talk him out of going. And, I don't think we can blame our troops, though. I think we blame the people, the war criminals who put them in harm's way. Some of our troops are doing horrible things. And we can't say that they're all honorable and noble. But before Casey went to Iraq, he told everybody he couldn't kill innocent people. And in the first battle he was in he was killed five days after he got there. So, he didn't torture anybody. He didn't kill anybody. And you can't say that all of the soldiers are war criminals. But I can say that everybody in the Bush administration is a war criminal. [Applause.]
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At 5/29/07 05:55 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote: 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."

Ohh, the irony. But then again that was why it was included, no?

Sheehan warned that the United States was becoming "a fascist corporate wasteland,"

Uhh------ : ) LOL

"that I was forced into when Casey died"

Forced? Damn is this woman full of herself.

"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."

What an absolutely TERRIBLE sentence. Mendacious marble? Dont make any sense to me. And a little overboard on the metaphors there, lady. And the alliteration.