Cindy Sheehan Resigns As Anti-War Activist
Robert Paul Reyes
May 28, 2007
The "Daily Kos", the online Bible of the left, has published an article by Cindy Sheehan in which she resigns "as the face of the American anti-war movement."
Sheehan is a mentally disturbed individual; the anti-war movement doesn't need the likes of her as a poster girl for peace. As a harsh critic of the Iraq war, I can only hope Sheehan disappears from the spotlight for good.
From http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/28/12530/1525:
"I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. 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.
Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford , Texas ? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too...which makes the property even more valuable.
This is my resignation letter as the 'face' of the American anti-war movement. This is not my 'Checkers' moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources."
Cindy Sheehan played the "mother card" to the hilt; because she was the Mom of a soldier killed in Iraq she was granted an audience with the President of the United States and given a platform to spout her nonsense to an audience of millions.
Please don't' misunderstand me, I am not stating that it doesn't make sense to be against the Iraq war. In fact, I fail to comprehend how any intelligent and decent person can defend such a criminal, unethical and immoral enterprise.
Sheehan's rants were disjointed, illogical and confusing; she was unqualified to be a spokesperson for the cause of peace. There are plenty of articulate, knowledgeable and credible anti-war celebrities -- Sheehan won't be missed.
Sheehan's only discernable talent was an uncanny ability to attract cameras; being an "attention whore" doesn't qualify you to be an anti-war speaker.
Sheehan has played the "mother card" and now she is going to "go home and be a mother to my surviving children." Women can have careers as peace activists and still be good moms, but Sheehan has been missing in action as a mother, staying away from her family for months at a time. Sheehan failed miserably as a peace activist; I can only hope she will do better as a mother to her children.
Sheehan is a mentally disturbed individual; the anti-war movement doesn't need the likes of her as a poster girl for peace. As a harsh critic of the Iraq war, I can only hope Sheehan disappears from the spotlight for good.
From http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/28/12530/1525:
"I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. 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.
Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford , Texas ? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too...which makes the property even more valuable.
This is my resignation letter as the 'face' of the American anti-war movement. This is not my 'Checkers' moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources."
Cindy Sheehan played the "mother card" to the hilt; because she was the Mom of a soldier killed in Iraq she was granted an audience with the President of the United States and given a platform to spout her nonsense to an audience of millions.
Please don't' misunderstand me, I am not stating that it doesn't make sense to be against the Iraq war. In fact, I fail to comprehend how any intelligent and decent person can defend such a criminal, unethical and immoral enterprise.
Sheehan's rants were disjointed, illogical and confusing; she was unqualified to be a spokesperson for the cause of peace. There are plenty of articulate, knowledgeable and credible anti-war celebrities -- Sheehan won't be missed.
Sheehan's only discernable talent was an uncanny ability to attract cameras; being an "attention whore" doesn't qualify you to be an anti-war speaker.
Sheehan has played the "mother card" and now she is going to "go home and be a mother to my surviving children." Women can have careers as peace activists and still be good moms, but Sheehan has been missing in action as a mother, staying away from her family for months at a time. Sheehan failed miserably as a peace activist; I can only hope she will do better as a mother to her children.
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