UK Guardian's article on Cindy

[Nikki Stone1]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2090192,00.html

Sheehan quits as face of US anti-war fight


Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Tuesday May 29, 2007
The Guardian

Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq three years ago, said yesterday she was stepping down from her role as the figurehead of the US campaign against the war.
"This is my resignation letter as the 'face' of the American anti-war movement," she wrote in a sometimes bitter diary entry on the website Daily Kos. "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."

Ms Sheehan, 49, rose to prominence when she voiced her discontent with President George Bush's policies when he met her and other grieving members of military families.
Announcing her decision on Memorial Day, the anniversary on which the US remembers its war dead, she said that her announcement had been prompted by the recent hostility she had faced from Democrats.

"I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican party," she wrote. "However, when I started to hold the Democratic party to the same standards that I held the Republican party, support for my cause started to erode, and the 'left' started labelling me with the same slurs that the right used."

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I have tried ever 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."

[janx]

1. It's everywhere...

:(

[glaeken777]

2. Just wait for Faux tomorrow

Hannity's gonna be short-strokin' it all over this story, after years of pushing his "grieving mom brainwashed and misused by the Left" meme.

[silverlil]

3. Cindy

And someone called her a whore on this website! I have been a member for sometime and paid my way. Who was the witch who called her a whore?
Whoever you are, shame on you and have you lost a child in this war?

[acmavm]

6. Don't make it sound worse than it was. The term used was

'attention whore'.

[UndertheOcean]

4. May who ever called that brave , honest , compassionate lady a "w$$$re" live in everlasting shame

she was called such here ? on DU ?

Saddening , since the best of us are not worth the soles of her shoes ...

[unkachuck]

5. very sad....

....and this is how the system wins; it beats good people into the ground....