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."
States Sheehan’s letter.
Tuesday, 29 May 2007 00:29
Cindy Sheehan, the "Peace Mom" No Longer Leader of the Anti-War Movement
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Cindy
Sheehan, the "peace mom" who made headlines in 2005 by staging a
marathon protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, announced on Memorial Day that
she no longer wants to be seen as a leader of the anti-war movement. In
a 1,245-word letter posted on the liberal DailyKos blog, Sheehan said her campaign to end the war in
Iraq had strained her relationship with her remaining 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."
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."
States Sheehan’s letter.
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