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Cindy Sheehan Quits as 'Face' of Anti-War Movement
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Cindy Sheehan, the "peace mom" who made headlines in 2005 by staging a
marathon protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, said
Monday that she no longer wants to be seen as a leader of the anti-war
movement.
In a 1,245-word missive entitled "Goodbye Attention Whore" posted on the
liberal DailyKos blog, Sheehan said her campaign to end the war in Iraq had
strained her relationship with her children, cost her a marriage and left
her nearly penniless.
"This is my resignation letter as the 'face' of the American anti-war
movement," Sheehan wrote. "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."
Click here to read Cindy Sheehan's letter on the DailyKos blog:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/28/12530/1525
Sheehan founded the Gold Star Families for Peace after her son, Casey
Sheehan, a 24-year-old Army specialist, was killed in an April 2004 battle
in Baghdad. Sheehan was an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's
policies and was often a target of criticism herself for visiting with
leftist leaders like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
Sheehan, however, said she had become increasingly disillusioned with the
Democratic Party. In an open letter to the Democratic members of Congress on
Saturday, however, she announced that she was leaving the Party because she
believed its leaders had failed to change the country's course in Iraq.
"I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to
George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled
by the right as a 'tool' of the Democratic Party." Sheehan 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 labeling me with the same slurs that the right used."
Cindy Sheehan Quits as 'Face' of Anti-War Movement
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Cindy Sheehan, the "peace mom" who made headlines in 2005 by staging a
marathon protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, said
Monday that she no longer wants to be seen as a leader of the anti-war
movement.
In a 1,245-word missive entitled "Goodbye Attention Whore" posted on the
liberal DailyKos blog, Sheehan said her campaign to end the war in Iraq had
strained her relationship with her children, cost her a marriage and left
her nearly penniless.
"This is my resignation letter as the 'face' of the American anti-war
movement," Sheehan wrote. "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."
Click here to read Cindy Sheehan's letter on the DailyKos blog:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/28/12530/1525
Sheehan founded the Gold Star Families for Peace after her son, Casey
Sheehan, a 24-year-old Army specialist, was killed in an April 2004 battle
in Baghdad. Sheehan was an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's
policies and was often a target of criticism herself for visiting with
leftist leaders like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
Sheehan, however, said she had become increasingly disillusioned with the
Democratic Party. In an open letter to the Democratic members of Congress on
Saturday, however, she announced that she was leaving the Party because she
believed its leaders had failed to change the country's course in Iraq.
"I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to
George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled
by the right as a 'tool' of the Democratic Party." Sheehan 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 labeling me with the same slurs that the right used."
