Cindy Sheehan Resigns as Protest Leader

[KafirChobee]

No, I'm pretty sure she meant America - but, equated it with government (as most of us lazy americans do).

It has been frustrating for many how the Democrats in congress have handled their position on the occupation (war to the gopists). It is certainly understandable how someone that never asked to be the center of all protests against the Bushys' Iraq policy to feel betrayed, and quit in discust.

Never fear though. We will be out of Iraq before the 2007 elections. All the GOPists will blame its failure on the "cut and run" politics of the Dems, it'll give them something to howl about. Not that it'll do them much good outside their 22% faithful.

[Marshal Murat]

Cindy Sheehan (BBC)


Zak, take note of "The US will rapidly descend into "a fascist corporate wasteland," she said, if "alternatives to this corrupt 'two' party system" are not found."

[Samurai Waki]

I'll fight in the Great Patriotic War when they hand me a gun and the guy next to me a clip...

[Zaknafien]

hah, i couldn't agree more with what she said.

[Odin]

Zaknafien said:

what's sad about it? the majority of americans dont give a **** about this war because they're not fighting it. I am, my brothers are, and their our families. No one has to sacrifice anything except maybe reading a bit of unpleasant news in the paper if they happen to feel like it that day. Its pathetic, it really is.

I never really agree with Zak's presentation because its far to absolute, but I agree with his sentiment. I have family over there, in the "war on terror" and for the most part the country isnt fighting the war, the military is.

I have always said that if we are going to war, we need to become a wartime state. Bush chose not to do that, he did it on the cheap, and the result is a mess.

Sheehan for her part increased the awareness of sacrafice, something that most of us dont deal with. For those of us who have I commend her spirit and will to act. To bad she gave up now, as the political climate in the u.S. is heating up with elections.

She might have been able to parlay her stance into a louder voice on the issue of sacrafice, or lack there of.

[Don Corleone]

There's a lot to criticize in the way the administration has prosecuted the war in Iraq. For raising those issues, I think Cindy Sheehan should be commended.

However, she allowed her anger and pain (understandable) to blind her to reason and promptly lost credibility by making ridiculous statements publicly, with no effort to even attempt to validate them.

She then went on to fall in love with her celebrity status (who has it that doesn't) and this was when she really lost credibility. Her ranting over the hurricane victims in Galveston TX pre-empting a speech she wanted to make in September 2005 was the final straw in my book.

America needs people to dissent, now more than ever. However, we need intelligent dissenters that don't come off like mindless shrills.