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Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan Says Her Son “Did Indeed Die for Nothing,” Drops Movement
It has been nearly two years since Cindy Sheehan became the face of the US anti-war movement and now, after mounting frustration with Republicans and Democrats, she has stepped away from the cause.
Sheehan hit headlines in August 2005 when she camped outside President George W. Bush’s ranch in Texas in an attempt to discuss her son’s death in Iraq in 2004 and the U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
In the end Sheehan’s crusade took its toll on her marriage, her children and wiped out her bank account. Upset by the Democrats inability and unwillingness to do anything different despite controlling the House and Senate Sheehan opted to abandon the cause on Monday, writing in a blog entry, “This is my resignation letter as the 'face' of the American anti-war movement.”
She continued “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.”
“The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing.”
Speaking about her desire to make her son’s death mean something Sheehan stated “"I have tried every (day) since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. 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 while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.”
Sheehan concluded her entry wit the line “Goodbye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I cant make you be that country unless you want it.”
