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What happened to the antiwar movement? Cindy Sheehan hits 'hypocrisy' of Left, Democratic allies.

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
08/18/09 11:19 PM EDT

After my column, "For the left, war without Bush is not war at all," appeared Tuesday, I got a note from Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist who was the subject of so much press coverage when she led a protest against the Iraq war outside then-President George W. Bush's ranch in Texas.  This is what the note said:

 

I read your column about the "anti-war" movement and I can't believe I am saying this, but I mostly agree with you.

The "anti-war" "left" was used by the Democratic Party. I like to call it the "anti-Republican War" movement.

While I agree with you about the hypocrisy of such sites as the DailyKos, I have known for a long time that the Democrats are equally responsible with the Republicans. That's why I left the party in May 2007 and that's why I ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi in 2008.

I have my own radio show, "Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox," and I was out on a four-month book tour promoting the fact that it's not about Democrats or Republicans, but it's about the system.

Even if I am surrounded by a thousand, or no one, I am still working for peace.

Sincerely,

Cindy Sheehan

After receiving the email, I asked Sheehan to give me a call, so I could verify that the note in fact came from her.  She did, and we discussed her plans to protest next week in Martha's Vineyard, where President Obama will be vacationing.  "I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that even if they supported Obama, he doesn't represent much change," Sheehan said.  "There are people still out here who oppose the war and Obama's policies, but it seems like the big organizations with the big lists aren't here."

I asked Sheehan about the fact that the press seems to have lost interest in her and her cause.  "It's strange to me that you mention it," she said.  "I haven't stopped working.  I've been protesting every time I can, and it's not covered.  But the one time I did get a lot of coverage was when I protested in front of George Bush's house in Dallas in June.  I don't know what to make of it.  Is the press having a honeymoon with Obama?  I know the Left is."

After the protests in Massachusetts -- Sheehan told me she has no idea how many people might show up -- Sheehan will be in Washington October 5, for a protest at the White House to mark the eight anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan.  Not only is the president escalating the war there, she said, but he's not withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq as quickly as he originally promised. "That's why I was opposed to him," she said.




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Kevin Dayhoff

Aug 19, 2009

Great work. Thanks. I passionately support free speech, whether or not I agree… However, I believe that meaningful substantive free speech that is able to promulgate change comes with critical responsibilities and if there is no integrity behind the speech, then there is no credibility… Perhaps Ms. Sheehan is showing us that she actually does have some integrity behind her rhetoric. What will be interesting is how will the left, which embraced her as the darling of the peace movement when she protested President George W. Bush; treat her when she begins to protest against President Barack Obama.

PS: I trust you are not going to sell my e-mail address to the White House. Oh, that’s right – nevermind, they already have my address…

 

RHO1953

Aug 19, 2009

I can't say that I agree with her about anything, but at least she's consistent and not a hypocrite, unlike the vast majority of democrats. They were anti-war until their man decided to be a war-monger. Now they are silent. I suppose they will go back to being anti-war after Obama leaves office.

 

Timothy

Aug 19, 2009

For those who rememeber, the same thing happened when President Clinton order our military to attack Serbia. It seems we were fighting for ethnic self-determination for the Kosovars, Croatians, and Slovenians, but for the need for a post-ethnic diversity state in Bosnia - Whatever. Anyway, all the usual knee-jerk anti-war types had nothing to say, because it was their guy doing the bombing. When these same people came around and were suddenly so in love with non-violent solutions in Iraq, I asked them point-blank, why the double standard? Answer: Blank Stares; it had never even occurred to them. To me this shows that politics becomes so easily one's religion, and to guard against that, you need always to respect your political opposition, and listen to their arguments with interest.

 

Aug 19, 2009

I voted for Cynthia McKinney.

 

dippy

Aug 19, 2009

So, the natural question for Sheehan to answer is, since she now knows that the press merely used her as a prop to bash George W. Bush, and never had any further use for her, why she continues to seek out the press?

The press are FOR the war in Iraq. The press dutifully report every robot drone attack in Pakistan without telling us how many innocent women and children died in Obama's illegal war there.

The press is the ENEMY of the anti-war movement. Why isn't Cindy Sheehan protesting in front of the NY Times building?

 

Brian Macker

Aug 19, 2009

Now all she has to figure out is that pacifism is BS also. Some day that may dawn on her if she thinks about it.

 

George

Aug 19, 2009

I suddenly have a lot more respect for Cindy Sheehan.

 

Laura61

Aug 19, 2009

Bravo, Cindy Sheehan. Like some other posters here, I don't agree with her - much - but I truly appreciate her honesty and willingness to call out hypocricy when she sees it. In this day and age, that takes courage and intestinal fortitude (not to mentional intellectual integrity) that too many on the Left have utterly abandoned.

 

datechguy

Aug 19, 2009

From now on I name you: Byron York Migrant Reporter!

You do the reporting American reporters are unwilling to do.

 

bingon29@hotmail.com

Aug 19, 2009

Hmmmm...now let's see...

"Perhaps Ms. Sheehan is showing us that she actually does have some integrity behind her rhetoric" and...

"...at least she's consistent and not a hypocrite, unlike the vast majority of democrats."

This apparent new-found deference from right of center to Cindy Sheehan's "integrity" is both amusing and troubling. Amusing as it appears to represent a simple antithesis of Kossack political opportunism. Troubling as it appears to reflect some cognitive failure in recollection of just what Sheehan and her agenda represents.

Cindy Sheehan is not an enemy of Republicans, nor is she an enemy of Democrats. She is an enemy of America. It would be wise to keep that in mind as she commences to gore THEIR particular ox.



 

pablo panadero

Aug 19, 2009

Lenin had a term to describe people like Cindy Sheehan : Usefull Idiot. Thanks, Cindy, for being a gullible pawn and your help in paving the way for the sweeping election of Marxists to power into the highest levels of US government.

 

Koblog

Aug 19, 2009

I love how my two furry local anti-war protesters stand on the corner with their signs in safety and prosperity, their right to free assembly and expression having been secured by the blood of American soldiers who fought wars.

 

ranger

Aug 19, 2009

Im sitting here in Iraq and I do belive in the war effort. I do admire her because she too has resolve for her cause. You gotta give ole girl her props no matter what your beliefs are, she is no hypocrite.

 

myna

Aug 19, 2009

At least she is consistent, Cindy Sheehan loves Hugo Chavez. What a big joke! How does it feel being a useful idiot by the Left?

 

mwalimu_d@yahoo.com

Aug 19, 2009

Why should I suddenly start admiring Mother Sheehan? Because she is consistent in her beliefs? Well, the same is true for Osama bin Laden.

Sheehan knowingly worked for genocide, the extinction of liberty and the spread of Islamofascism. The fact that the totalitarian Left has abandoned her in their own mad pursuit of power means nothing to me. Sheehan and the Left parted ways for the same reasons that Hitler and Stalin eventually broke up their agreement.

 

t131

Aug 19, 2009

Ms. Sheehan seems to be honest and sincere in her beliefs, for which I give her credit even though I do not agree with her, and in stark contrast to the Democratic party and mainstream media which used her for their own purposes and now ignore her.

 

Jim Treacher

Aug 19, 2009

"Is the press having a honeymoon with Obama? I know the Left is."

Redundant, innit?

 

Sanjuro

Aug 19, 2009

So Cindy is heading for the Vineyard to protest "obama's war".
I'm sure it'll be front page news and first story reported by the nightly news.
Uh huh.....Riiiiight.

 

bjjfiter

Aug 19, 2009

There was no anti-war movement. There was an anti-anything-Bush-did movement.

 

Denroy3

Aug 19, 2009

bingon29@hotmail.com : We're not agreeing with Sheehan. We're simply saying she's
being forthright. Which is more than the Democrats or most Republicans. Integrity
doesn't make you right, just honest about your intentions. Would Obama be so honest?

 

TW

Aug 19, 2009

I was wondering what happened to all the "STOP THE WAR NOW!" stickers that were pasted up and down the escalators of the Dupont Circle Metro Station.

 

Annoyed

Aug 19, 2009

Why doesn't she go over to Afghanistan to get the Taliban to lay down their weapons and pick up farming and mining tools to help their country's economy grow? This would go a long way to stopping war there, ya know. Next time you talk to her, tell her that.

 

Jane-too

Aug 19, 2009

Cindy - I admire the fact that you don't waver. I also want to say - I am so sorry for your loss. War is hell.

 

Truth

Aug 19, 2009

Who knew that the Democrats would co-opt the Left and make THEM the "useful idiots" that Lenin talked about.

We knew. We told them. They just wouldn't listen. Sheehan may be utterly off-base in many ways, but at least she's beginning to get a glimmering (and only that--look how bemused she is in the quotes) of how she was used for political gains by those who care not about war or peace but only about power in D.C.

 

Drew_ROC

Aug 19, 2009

Why doesn't Sheehan just let Obama live in Peace? Why does she keep fighting for "pacifism"?

 

GregGS

Aug 19, 2009

Why is it that people on the left actually think that if they can force American troops off a battlefield that they have created peace. It didn't create peace in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. Decades of fighting, still going on is some places.

 

Frank

Aug 19, 2009

Mao once said: "we communists do not oppose "just" wars (those that advance the cause of communism) but actively participate in them". They are not opposed to "war" itself, but only to "unjust" wars that are "counter-revolutionary", i. e., that oppose their ideology. Anyone remember Jane Fonda's whinning about the "unjust" war in viet-nam? Go figure.

 

ME

Aug 19, 2009

bingon29 and mwalimu_d

You can admire sincere if misguided consistency from someone. I've always though Sheehan was a person who had been broken by her son's death in Iraq and turned to pacifism as a way to try to answer that loss.

That doesn't make her right or even noble, but it is very interesting to see her recognize the hypocrisy of the Democrats and begin to understand that the press used her to attack Bush, not because they had any long term interest in opposing the war.

I think she'd be better off working for military families or supporting those like her in the terrible situation of having lost a loved one in the service of our country.

However, it's the continued obvious reality of the symbiotic relationship between the MSM and the Democrats that is the story here, and the way in which they use people with a common interest until their political value is gone.

 

TexasDave

Aug 19, 2009

As much as I disagree with Ms. Sheehan, I have always believed in her right to say what she thinks. I will admit that I am a bit amused that she is JUST NOW figuring out she was a tool of the Democrat Party and the so-called Mainstream Media used to get at BUSH. Now that he is gone, she is no longer useful to their message. I applaud her continued opposition to what she believes is wrong, and I hope she makes herself as obnoxious in Martha's Vineyard as she did in Crawford!

 

miles

Aug 19, 2009

I supported the war from day one. President Bush was spot on calling Saddam Hussein a permanent (not imminent) threat that would have to be dealt with sooner or later. But I agree with Sheehan that it should not be a perpetual open ended commitment without clear goals. I applaud her for keeping the heat on even when it's not politically correct.

 

Firebee

Aug 19, 2009

I really thought she'd go away once Obama won the election. That she is still protesting - while I fundamentally disagree with her premise - is inspiring. She is no hypocrite.

 

KansasGirl

Aug 19, 2009

I'm waiting for the libs to go to Afghanistan as human shields.

 

Chris Jones

Aug 19, 2009

I don't agree with anything Sheehan has ever said, but I give her props for admitting the hypocrisy on the left. The left wasn't against the war they were against George Bush.

 

It's Me!

Aug 19, 2009

Also MIA is Code Pink! I guess the press doesn't need them anymore either.

 

DanT

Aug 19, 2009

Just like the Vietnam Era...all those anti-war/peace protestors were silent following the fall of Saigan even though millions suffered under the VC and then Khmer Rouge.

So a lot of these protests are not about peace, but about self-perservation or feeling trendy amongst friends in making a political statement.

 

j holguin

Aug 19, 2009

Like Cindy Sheehan couldn't believe that she mostly agreed with b. york, I find it hard to say the same about Cindy, I agree with her about the war's. I cannot believe that we are going to send more troops for a county that USSR couldn't win. There are more deaths of our troops and it continues to grow. The press, my union SEIU, and most democrats that I know pretend that nothing is happening. I am an Independent and my union friends/staff keeps labeling me as republican because I want out of these wars. Good Luck Cindy, I actually thought that obama would not keep his promise and pull out totally, but I was fooled.

 

StepIntoTheLight

Aug 19, 2009

Many others have already commented on the fact that she has remained consistent in her message, the Left-controlled media spin machine no longer has any use for her since the hypocrite Obama took office in January.

She has every right to her opinion, until the Obama Administration finds her "fishy" comments attacking their agenda. Then watch and see what happens.

 

JFP

Aug 19, 2009

Yes, I'll give Sheehan marks for more consistency than the average "anti-war" people. And there were a few of them, not many, who didn't like Clinton's bombing of Serbia. But the anti-war movement showed its true colors when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Did any of them protest against this act of war? No. Instead, they protested against America's eventual involvement in it.

 

salubrius

Aug 19, 2009

Will she confine her protest to Chilmark and Oak Bluffs?

 

Tonus

Aug 19, 2009

"The press are FOR the war in Iraq."

If this were the case, we'd have seen a lot more stories about progress made there in terms of elections and rebuilding of infrastructure. Instead, the only news we get from Iraq is when terrorists detonate an IED and how much money is being spent to keep troops over there. The press has not supported the Iraq war.

 

beast dog

Aug 19, 2009

Well Ms Sheehan, after all these years you have finally realized that all you were was a usefull idiot of the left who's only goal was to get Bush? To me and many people like me, people like you, as well as the Left (Democrats you are included as well) in this country were and still are the enemies of freedom. I sorry about the death of your son he is a hero, but Ms Sheehan how did you honor his death? Instead of prasing him for his sacrifice to protect your freedom and the freedom of others, you became an tool and usefull idiot of the Left and its agenda, I have no sempathy for you.

 

n_danger1@yahoo.com

Aug 19, 2009

Cindy Sheehan = Useful Idiot

 

Fallon

Aug 19, 2009

Cindy Sheehan always struck me as a tragic figure. In true grief, she was used by those who purported to hold her anti-war beliefs. But she is right, what they held was simply an aversion to Republicans, nothing deeper than that. She has held true to her cause. She has given more to the country through the sacrifice of her son than many politicians and commentators.

While I don't agree with her, I respect her and would defend her right to voice her opinion any place, any time.

 

kdizzydaze

Aug 19, 2009

"While I don't agree with her, I respect her and would defend her right to voice her opinion any place, any time."
I think the time has come to re-evaluate the validity of such a statement. In order to defend someone's right to say what they want should first require them to (like me) swear to defend and uphold the constitution and to also pledge allegiance to the United States - then I will defend their right to say whatever it is they want.
But to be real clear - Cindy Sheehan is a useful idiot and guess what, she will be again if and when a Republican takes the oath of office for President and a war is ongoing. of course then she will have the media back on her side.

 

RobbyS

Aug 19, 2009

Like the Trotskites of long-ago, Sheehan is sincere. But like them she is anti-American.

 

Jonathan

Aug 19, 2009

The lady is no hypocrite. I feel bad that I had her pegged as one all these years. Ms. Sheehan, I sincerely apologize.

 

Jack T. Ripper, BG, USAF (ret)

Aug 19, 2009

Check Sheehan's precious bodily fluids.

Mandrake, another grain alcohol & rainwater please.

 

mperek

Aug 19, 2009

Ditto: "I suddenly have a lot more respect for Cindy Sheehan."

 

paige

Aug 19, 2009

while i dont necessarily agree with sheehan... at least she is sincere. and i applaud her for that.

 

Lynn

Aug 19, 2009

It wasn't the war they really hated, it was Bush. The far left is a fickle crowd. It's unseemly to them to have values so their passion comes and goes with the wind.

 

craig

Aug 19, 2009

She's completely right. The "anti-war movement" is part of a foreign policy perspective, basically a conservative one, including paleocons, isolationists, america firsters, Noam Chompsky/Ramsey Clark pseudo-leftists, that basically lost in the court of public opinion after 911. But they were instinctively used to bash Bush.

For example, "The World Can't Wait" that lead many protests was lead by Ramsey Clark the head of the committee to defend Sloboden Milosovic, an Orthodox Christian fascist who was liqudating the Muslim population of the Balkans. Hardly the kind of thing Democrats would want to associate with.

 

Banjo

Aug 19, 2009

Sheehan protesting in Martha's Vineyard brings to mind the question as to the tree falling in the forest. If the MSM isn't there to report her protest, does it happen? My guess is the JournoListers will decide Cindy is so over.

 

Jon Brooks

Aug 19, 2009

Hey TW I was in dupont circle metro last night in Fallout 3, what a mess. Super mutants everywhere.

As for Cindy. regarding her fall from news graces: Sic Semper Tyrannis!

 

IntoTheWild

Aug 19, 2009

Very sad that she realized so late that she was being used by the Democrats. It was so obvious to (most of) the rest of us. And now we get to watch the rusty gears in her head slowly grind away figuring out that the mainstream media IS the left. Poor woman is awfully slow.

 

Jim C.

Aug 19, 2009

Laura61 wrote, "Bravo, Cindy Sheehan. Like some other posters here, I don't agree with her - much - but I truly appreciate her honesty and willingness to call out hypocricy when she sees it. In this day and age, that takes courage and intestinal fortitude (not to mentional intellectual integrity) that too many on the Left have utterly abandoned."

Sheehan isn't brave so much as foolhardy, naive, and just plain stupid. She's still doesn't understand she was used and thrown away. The left will steamroller her IF she ever starts to look dangerous, which is unlikely.

 

spamster

Aug 19, 2009

I knew it! She was just a shill for the "hate Bush" movement. I called her on it back then and I was roundly criticized for being so cynical about a poor grieving woman. So much is not what is seems...

 

spudder

Aug 19, 2009

Alas poor Cindy thrown out like yesterdays bathwater. Theu used you like a rented mule took advantage of every fiber in your body, Cindy who?

 

NOMOREWARS_FORISRAEL

Aug 20, 2009

More about Cindy Sheehan at the following URL which you may find of interest after your articles there:

http://america-hijacked.com/2009/08/19/what-happened-to-the-antiwar-movement-cindy-sheehan-hits-hypocrisy-of-left-democratic-allies/

http://tinyurl.com/lkge93

 

sgi

Aug 20, 2009

Everybody uses everybody.

Miss Sheehan used the far left democrats who despised President Bush and the republicans to publicize her anti-war position. Their hatred of the president was palpable.

I am sorry Miss Sheehan lost her son. Some losses are unbearable, from which we never recover our former selves. I am sure Miss Sheehan needs peace, but she will not find it where she is looking.

 

Vegetta

Aug 20, 2009

I called her out in this when she first started with her protest. Stevie Wonder could have seen that she was being used by the Left. Republican pundits called her out, yet she (Cindy) thought they were just "shils" for George W. Bush. I knew she was really toast when she decided to run against Pelosi, the hand that fed the anti-war, anti-Bush movement. Not to be callous but as a mother, I could only imagine the lost of my child, but to be used and not fully understand that she is, ha.

 

Bash Crandicoot

Aug 20, 2009

Heh. "The enemy of your enemy is your friend." Go, Cindy.

 

Hawaiison

Aug 20, 2009

Until Sheehan and a substantial majority of Americans realize and speak out against the dangers of the US' passionate attachment to -- its entangling foreign alliance with -- the Zionist state of Israel, we will not have delved into the core problem of the world. All other festering extant and looming potential issues spin off it, to one degree or another. As a Vietnam-era enlisted Army vet and aside from any humanitarian-level empathy I have for the Muslims and Christians of Palestine (this century's victimized "Jews"), it offends me as a patriot that the national-security interests of Israel universally, reflexively take precedence over the national-security and morality interests of the United States of America. That, readers, is a/the huge problem...the proverbial elephant in the room.

 

Voltaire

Aug 20, 2009

I fully concur with writer Hawaiison's comments. The US only acts to support the interests of Israel even when by doing so it harms the interests of the US abroad.

The Democrats and Republicans are just puppets controlled by the real political power in Washington, the Likud. Cindy Sheehan found this out when she dared to openly blame Israel for pushing us into the Iraq war. She was then roundly and savagely attacked by both the right and left wing media for exposing this very politically incorrect, but widely accepted, bit of dirty linen.

 

Drew

Aug 21, 2009

Cindy the Democrats pimped you into getting the Congress and the White House, I was over there in Iraq in '03 and when I got back and saw your quest to embarrass the President Bush and the Republican Party (MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!) it was boarder lie TREASON!!! And the Democratic Party backed you and put you up to this pedestal and pimped you!!!! Now look at you; now that the Democratic Party got what they want out of you; YOU ARE NOT RELIANT ANYMORE!!!!! Pimps throw away their "employees" to put it as softly as I can. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEMOCRATS AND THE MEDIA DID TO YOU!!!!!

 

connie

Aug 21, 2009

I do not agree with Cindy on the issue of fighting terrorism, but I will stand by her and support her freedom of speech. I have new found respect for Mrs. Sheehan; she honestly believes war is wrong and is not playing politics. I really think people that stand up for their principles are honorable!!!

 

Sea_Dog

Aug 21, 2009

Gee - Ya Think? Ms. Sheehan is an aging hippie wantta-be, not realizing that the movement moved on to AARP seminars and Medicare. The only thing she had going was the BDS of the Democrats.

 

jerryl2

Aug 21, 2009

many many people are so right in saying that if a dem is in office there are no war protest i gre up in the 1960s and there were no huge protest till Nixon got elected in 1968 same now with their man in office now our heros are stil dieing but the left dont give a crap period

 

chaps

Aug 21, 2009

Lie down with dogs; wake up with fleas.

 

MerNJ

Aug 22, 2009

I heard Codepink on Mike Gallagher the other day and they realize the media used them. At least they are cognizant of this. When will the black community and union members wake up to the fact that the Dems have been using them for decades?

 

Snowwalker

Aug 22, 2009

The Cindy Sheehan's of the world will never wake up to the fact THEY are the reason there will always be WARS...

 

California

Aug 22, 2009

Now that Ms. Sheehan's eyes have been open to the Democrats way of using people against the opposing party,or for the fact, anyone who does well in this society that they don't agree with, when will the SEIU, ACORN, AARP, and the rest of the organizations that support this Administration wake up? They should recognize that is is the people at the top using the people at the bottom as stepping stones to pass their agendas and to rule the Country. Once at the top the folks on the bottom are forgotten and the promises will be broken. Fool me once. . . .

 

g55rumpy

Aug 23, 2009

Ms. Sheehan should have followed Mrs. Sullivan`s example see http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/sullivan-brothers.htm

 

Spudder

Aug 23, 2009

Your son is dead, but his memory lives on. What happen to your democratic support, they have left you for dead with no memories to live on.

 

Bob Brolwn

Aug 24, 2009

Don't think that the anti-war movement went away. The Americans have to be concerned with their plight now because of the unemployment problem in our country. Americans are continuing to lose their homes because of the foreclosures. The right wing of the Republican party will never recover from their recent defeat on Nov 2008. George Bush was warned by the Republican hierarchy in Congress that if he didn't come up with some new ideas and change course in Iraq, that he will destroy the Republican party for years to come. Both Republican and Democratic parties are corrupt. I am glad that I voted as an independent. The American people will never forget what the Republican party did when they owned the White House and the Congress. They gave billions to contractors without holding them accountable. Bush borrowed money from other countries to keep his war alive making the USA a debtor nation for the first time. The money that went for Bush's war was always off-budget.

 

SummerofDiscontent

Aug 24, 2009

Add the hispanic community to the list that is being used now...and only for votes to keep them in power..they could really give a rats a** about them otherwise.

 

GotLipstick

Aug 26, 2009

Now, there's a headline. Cindy Sheehan wakes up to the fact that Democrats "use" people. What an "Oh, duh" moment.

 

Gabriel

Aug 27, 2009

Consistency is very important, and Sheehan has known for a long time that the Dems could have stopped the wars had they wanted to.

The only significant anti-war group left are Ron Paul's grassroots, all the other groups are far too smitten with Obama. I don't know much about Sheehan's personal beliefs, but we'd support her anti-war efforts. We've been protesting Bush since 2007 and Obama since 2009.

 

Bob

Aug 29, 2009

Another lie by the left is that the media is for the war in Iraq. The media is for the war now because Obama is in office but they were against it when Bush was president.

The media is basically whatever the Democrats are for and against whatever the Democrats are against. They are the Democrats lapdog.

 

Jester

Aug 29, 2009

One almost has to feel sorry for such a woman. All the while people sympathized with her losing her son, she took the wrong road, and now the bandwagon has left her like yesterdays thrill ride.
And the thing about it is, she still has some manner of idea that somebody is going to listen to her. So sad to see such a woman fall so hard, but, could everybody say "I told you so"?
I personally think she owes the Bush administration an apology, then I'd have some respect for her, maybe.
But to have one's eyes opened is no reason to give her anything.

 

Robin Foreman

Aug 29, 2009

Now she sees what the rest of us see. Congrats to Cindy. Perhaps an invite to a tea party is in order.

 

wathingfreedom

Aug 30, 2009

this is free press and she is telling the truth as she feels, when will the other editors wake up? Who owns the newspapers where is the unbiased reporting?

 

Sandy

Aug 31, 2009

First they promise (and we pay for) Medicare/Social Security and they spend it all before we get it. They promise withdrawl and peace and then esclate the war. I have been duped again by the left. Thanks Cindy. Keep up the good work!!

 

modelguy

Sep 15, 2009

I regularly have email sparring matches with Sheehan. She is no worthy opponent. When cornered she always resorts to profanity and insult. She is intellectually vapid and not to be taken seriously. I don't know why someone who camps in a bar ditch to protest war gets so much press. What she should be most famous for is dishonoring her patriot son's memory.

 

Cindyfan

Nov 20, 2009

Cindy Sheehan lost her son to the pack of lies pushed by the pack of liars in Washington,DC. Time after time, the off election year Democrats helped pass Bush's
war funding bills,they gave his war efforts their desultory support, and they did NOT insist that the US cease and desist its endless tramp through Islamic countries. They did not challenge the logic in attacking millions of innocent people about the acts of a few. The Democrats are very little different from the Republicans at all, as is now quite obvious.

 

leslie

Nov 22, 2009

My son served in Iraq. I received many calls,in the middle of our night,about killing the enemy, IEDs, and other tragic events. Luckily my son was not seriously wounded. I disagree with Mrs. Sheehan about the nature of this war, but she is right in adducing that her story was popular because of the larger political sympathy of the press. I respect Mrs. Sheehan for her consistency and commitment to her cause, but she is wrong about one thing: her son's sacrifice was noble. The enemy is evil. It is intolerant. It chose this battle. We only joined it.

 

eq

Nov 29, 2009

This Cindy Sheehan is nothing more than a cowardess, megaphone in the face of a veteran, loud mouth b**tch who has no idea of the lies she is spouting.

 

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Nov 29, 2009

I agree, a useless idiot making blood money off of her son who died fighting for a greater cause than himself.

 

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Dec 11, 2009

Cindy got almost twice as many votes as the republican candidate. Unfortunately, she was defeated by nancy "impeachment is off the table" pelosi. the only effective enemy of the progressive movement is the democrat voter. your votes against ralph nader, green party and other anti-war candidates are the reason why the world still sucks. LIFELONG DEMOCRATS MUST VOTE GREEN INSTEAD OR WE WIL NEVER HAVE PEACE OR SINGLE PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTCARE. if you are willing to keep providing the apartied regime of israel with wepons to continue thier ethnic cleansing campaign, keep voting for your war-pig democrats.

 

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Jeremy

Jan 16, 2010

As reasonable and admirable as her comments here may seem, Ms. Sheehan remains in need of effective grief counseling. Protesting every aspect of our government's military operations overseas is not going to bring back her son, although it may make her feel psychologically like she is saving someone else's. The fact is the use of unmanned drones is leveraging technology to a tactical advantage, and often keeps U.S. pilots out of harm's way. Or perhaps she thinks we should go knocking door to door and asking each home if there are any bad guys inside and would they mind stepping out into the street so we can shoot them.

Just thinking about her naivete makes makes me feel very sorry for her. Seriously, every time I see her anguished face I don't see a rational thinker, but rather a mother who just can't cope. Ms. Sheehan, please get some help, and at the same time realize the world is not the fair and happy place you want it to be.

 

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