Cindy Sheehan: 'Good Riddance Attention Whore'

Get some much-needed rest and enjoy your children. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you have done... PEACE.

There can be little pretense anymore that Democrates and Republicans are anything more than faithful factions of a single PARTY dedicated to fossil fuel and Arms Contractor lobbies an to the U.$. as a global empire. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE FASISIM AMERICA ITS THE NEW WORLD ODOUR!

I thank you so much, Cindy, for all that you have done. I have watched you as you suffered mightily because you spoke truth to power, I have seen the grief on your face, the sorrow in your eyes. I see the burden you carry because of your son's death, and I know that he would never want you to feel such life-killing guilt. Let it go, you have done so much for so many, you have paid your dues. Go home and find your own peace and know that your son loves you and that wherever he is, he is aware of all that you have done. You will see your beloved Casey again someday.....This country has been taken over by a gang of thugs, and it is no longer a democracy, if it ever was. I believe that it will get much worse before it gets better, but I know that it will get better. God is watching, and he will come to our rescue, at the last. Someday Cindy, and not to far from now, we will live in a just world, a world of peace and harmony, where people share and work together for the common good of all. This is not wishful thinking, it is fact. I love you Cindy, don't worry, don't despair. Keep telling the truth, wherever you are, it is our saving grace. Regina Carpenter

I am so sad over what you have had to endure in the cause of peace. How terrible that people who consider themselves Christian can be so hateful and violent. I can't blame you for wanting some peace for yourself now. You have suffered a lot.

May I make a suggestion? Look up on the internet Fr. John Dear, a Catholic priest who practices total non-violence--toward people, animals and the earth. He has even been jailed for anti-war protests. If you write to him I'm sure he will respond. He has written many books on peace and non-violence. I think he is an inspirational figure.

I'm truly sorry you had to go through so much negative flack and I hope we see you on the frontlines again soon. But --- where did you get the idea that the Democratic Party is now or ever has been the "left"? Despite what the right wing wants us to think, it ain't so.

Dearest Cindy,

You really did your best. You braved through the mourning period of your son's death and took up the fight on his, his comrades in arms and the entire peace loving members of our country to bring this illegal war to an end and to stop the killing and bloodshed. You are a tribute to what America should be all about.

I am an American citizen who has been living in Canada for the past 22 years. Yet, I follow politics and policy in my home country constantly, and I vote in every election. I followed your brave fight for the past two years, and applauded you wildly whenever I heard you speak. In my own small way, I sent in donations to Camp Casey and the Gold Star Families to help support your work. You have been an inspiration to many other ex-pats living in Canada who have been embarrassed by the murderous activities of this president and his administration.

I thank you for all you have done and wish you many years of personal peace and contentment surrounded by the love of your family and friends.

Dear Cindy,
You do not know me, but I have followed your efforts to put a name and face on the horrors of the Iraq war. I watched while you -- as I did in the 60's -- petitioned your government for redress of your rightful grievances, believing that the American system of government would not abide what was going on, if only they became aware of it.
Yours was an honorable and noble effort, just as your son Casey's efforts were honorable and noble, far moreso than those who put him in harms way in service of lies, and far, far moreso than those who would deny the truth of your message by disparaging the messenger.
Take not their insults to heart. Good woman, you did the right thing by the light of your understanding of how American government and American social movements function. Alas, like me, you have come to realize that what we have been taught to believe about our government is not true: It is not a representative democracy where the populace decides who will lead the country; it is not dedicated to decency and the high-minded principles we were taught to associate with our country. And the anti-war movement is so easily co-opted by existing political organizations that mouth the solutions even as they sustain the economic system that survives on a constant state of conflict, casting our brave, naive young men into the furnace of war.
You are correct. The Democratic Party is as much a slave of the corporations that make profits from war as the Republicans. Neither seeks the radical re-formation of our political and economic systems that is necessary to bring about the end of the horrors our government is perpetrating -- and has perpetrated for most of its life -- upon the peoples of the world.
You have fought the good fight against insurmountable odds, Cindy. Your struggle has given you a bitter insight into the reality of the American politico-economic system. Take your pain and make your way proudly home, where-ever that may be. Know in your heart that you have borne witness more and better than anyone else to the mendacity of our socio-political system. Casey would be proud of you.
May you find peace and comfort.
- Rolf Wiegand

I can certainly understand your despair. All of us in the peace movement feel it sometimes, and I can only imagine how much worse it is for you.

As a member of CodePink I would like to say that we in my particular chapter, always supported you. We were always there for you when you came here. We surrounded you in an attempt to be a buffer from the right wing animals who would call you terrible names.

We are out there working for peace every day. The peace movement, with no draft, is small enough. We did not need your parting shot Cindy. The shot at the peace movement, claiming that we put egos before human lives, was not necessary. And that you felt compelled to take it, I think, shows that you had a falling out with someone, or someones. By taking that shot, aimed at them, but hitting the entire peace movement, you did exactly what you accused them of doing. You put your ego before lives. I for one, don't think you had any right to exit this way.

Dear Cindy,
All my friends in Portland will miss you. You've been a true heroine to us. Please don't stop writing and speaking truth to power.
With much love and affection,
Ellen Marie Hannan
Portland, OR

Well, I stand to attention and salute you. You have led by courageous example.

Cindy,

You did what no one else could do. You stood up to a tyrant while giving the rest of us permission to do the same. Think of the progress that one person has created. You told President dumb-bell he was wrong when the rest of the country approved of his actions by an 80% margin. Now the number has completely reversed and everyone knows you were right all along.

I completely understand the reasons on why you're leaving, and wish you nothing but good fortune in the future. In fact, the only thing left for you to do is to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. When it comes, take it...you've really earned it.

Stacey Tallitsch

Imagine a world without hypothetical situations.

I think that the real problem is not that we have a two-party system, but that we have a two-party mentality. There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- in the federal Constitution that demands there only be 2 parties. Perhaps the road to peace lies in breaking that myth in the collective American mind?

Cindy, You have worked so hard and for so long to wake up a sleeping American public that doesn't seem to care. I too am appalled by the apathy of our fellow citizens. Millions spend days at shopping malls and hundreds spend a few hours at a peace march. I believe it's due to the media focus, and that is slowly beginning to change the worse things get. Sometimes it's a matter of body counts. If a dynamic leader were to emerge, I believe we could see massive change in this country. Meanwhile you have lit a fire in our consciousness that will burn for a long time. For now, your work is done. Rest, recharge yourself, enjoy your family. Know that you have given your all for your beloved son's memory, your country, and humanity. You will be in our hearts forever, and we will miss you dearly.

I don't know what to say. I think all of the time about bumping into you in the throng behind the White House a year and a half ago, saying only "Hey, Cindy" and shaking your hand in my surprise. That encounter intensified the experience of that march for me, and it wasn't just "star power". You are not a star, although that is how you are percieved, judged, and dealt with in our woefully clueless press and by aparachiks of both parties; you are a principled warrior who has now been shoddily-treated by all sides. Please don't think that all you've done has been in vain. You've inspired millions, and we will continue to harrass our political "leadership", and the real whores in the media and blogosphere, until this war is ended and accountability for its crimes is realized. Thanks for everything you have done.

Ken Duerksen
Oxford, Ohio

I understand so much of what you are saying. Democrats.com has been kicking out posts that defend Dennis Kucinich, the one TRUE Democrat in a party long invaded by Republicans in Democratic clothing. And I have been dissed and slammed over there for criticizing the 'Democratic' candidates. They are behaving just like Republicans. I don't know how to wake the people up anymore, I really don't. I think, sadly, they will have to suffer more before they learn to see clearly.

I feel drained, and I can only imagine how you feel doing SO MUCH MORE than I have. Take time for yourself and your loved ones, Cindy. Our lives will be over all too soon, and the time we spend in solitude accounts for alot of growth.

You are hero and a role model, and NOTHING will ever change that.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your extremely hard work on this cause.

Dearest Cindy,
I'm so sad I almost don't know what to say. Your tremendous courage and love for your son and your country (and our world) are awe inspiring. That the movement and tne Democratic Party have been so cheap as to leave you feeling marginalized is a tragedy.

The Democratic Party proved last week that they have no courage or vision when they gave in to the Thug In Chief. I wrote the Dems in Congress that if they gave in they could forget about my money in the future. Their appeals will ring on deaf ears. Instead, I will work for and give only to those who stood up to Bush and those coming into politics who hold true values (real leftists).

In the meantime, thank you so much for all you have done, and in your own way, will continue to do. You inspired me when I saw you at Agape a while back and you still do. Like you said, it is up to us, all of us now to regain this country from the murderous facists who are in control.

God bless you and take good care of yourself Cindy. You deserve it. I love you.

It is indeed a question of right and wrong and not about the party.
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It is also true that all we have is a two party system, not because they have conspired, but because of mistakes made 230 years ago. As you know better than most fixing it is hard work and not magic, and even hard work can fail in the end.

It is easy to think amidst the horrors of the criminal Bush reign that any opposition understood what you understood and would act accordingly. They did not and do not, any more than those on the right.

All you can do is fight for what you do understand, and learn ever more deeply to understand more, that you might be still more effective at passing that understanding to others.

You did a tremendous job at passing that understanding to others and there are Millions more people who do understand what you do. That some do not(even in the Democratic party) is a lack on their part and not yours.

I do what I can inside the Democratic party because it is less a lost cause than trying to do so inside the Republican one.The time may come, possibly as soon as 2008, when there is no hope for a peaceful Democratic America, but I would be dearly sad to see that time. Your actions had a great deal to do with giving us one last hope to solve the Crisis, without it those times might be now.

Until then we are stuck with the system we have and not the system we wish we had. The forces of Fascism have been growing for 40 years or more, many have died and many more will die (on all sides) before it can be stopped.

The hope is not that we can keep the death toll to only the hundreds of thousands but that we can keep it from the Billions.

The American Army in Iraq is not the only one that is underfunded and over extended, the aware progressive Americans suffer the same issues. You have been foremost among all the troopers and now have your own PTSD issues to deal with, you deserve a rest, but there will be a giant hole in our lines where you have been, because we have no one able to fill it.

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If the Gang Of Predators think that the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, only a fool would think it BiPartisan to accommodate them by acting the part.

Cindy,

You did your very best and that is all anyone could expect from you or what you should expect from yourself.

I guess you learned better than anyone of us that America is void of leadership that holds honesty and personal integrity in high esteem.

True leaders like Martin Luther King, JFK and RFK were murdered because they were incorruptable. The men behind these cold blooded murders have not been brought to justice to this day.

We have leadership in the Democratic Party that is very much afraid for their lives. They know all too well that George W Bush could declare Marshall Law today and the public outcry would be muted. The Democratic Leadership has already been branded traitors for proposing to end the illegal Iraqi War. The difference between today and 40 years ago with the Viet Nam War is that George W Bush has the power and the means to instantly turn this country into a dictatorship. The Democratic Leadership would all be thrown in jail and ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX/WB/CSPAN/NPR/NY Times/Washington Post/WSJ et al would report that this is all perfectly normal. This is truly scary.

So keep your spirits high. Recharge those batteries. The day will come that George W Bush or his successor despot will declare Marshall Law and the American people will finally wake up and say, "NO, We don't want a dictatorship!"

We need you more than ever for when that day comes.

May Love and Peace Be Always With You

Dear mother of Casey.
I can only try to understand your pain but I share in your despair. You have been and inpiration to many. Sadly I have come to feel as you do about most of the people around me and about our leaders in particular. Promises that go down the drain, petitions signed that go nowhere, elections that speak for the majority but get manipulated by the minority, a constitution that speaks to and for some but not for all!! What is the sense??!! I threw in the towel last week when the Democrats bowed once again ..what is the sense??!! and what for??!!
Thank you for your work for Peace and for your attempts at minimizing our youg people's useless loss of limbs and lives.
Laa

Or their current supporters are going to reach the same breaking point that Cindy Sheehan has reached. With every new political maneuver they leave thousands looking in other directions. They still fail to comprehend that true leaders lead with their hearts, not minds. Cindy Sheehan inspired more people by her direct, passionate action than all the officials of the Democratic Party combined.

Some Democrats have commented that she shouldn't have appeared with Hugo Chavez, etc., that she should have focused only on the war in Iraq. Those people fail to comprehend what inspires mass movements. With their self-congratulating analysis and their political point counting they will allow the right wing in this country to maintain and increase control. Would they have told Martin Luther King to stick to "his issue," Civil Rights, when he began to speak out against the Vietnam War? Do they pretend that the issues Cindy confronted, which are separte in their compartmentalized brains, are actually separate in the real world?

I saw Nelson Mandela on Nightline not long after he was released from prison. Ted Koppel asked him if he wasn't worried that most Americans would be bothered by his positions on Israel. Mandela replied, "What kind of man do you think I am that I would change my views based on what someone else thinks?" Koppel was dumbfounded. He couldn't reply. In the realm of American politics, he'd never met anyone who put principle and integrity above popularity. Wake up, Democrats!

Cindy Sheehan is a person, like Nelson Mandela, who refused to change her opinions and actions based on the desires of others. If the Democrats don't realize that it's people like her who inspire real change, this election of 2006 will appear as one last small bump on their decline to irrelevance rather than the change of direction they claim it to be.

Cindy, I am one more who has lost faith with the Democratic party (the Peoples party). They have moved toward "the money" and no lie they try to spin will justify this abandonment of the people. And if there is an anti-war movement in this country it has gone to sleep. I am one who believes time is running out. Soon we will find the only way to stop this militarization of our country will be to oppose it in the street with our bodies and our lives.

Ugly, cheap shot headline..."Cindy Sheehan: Good Riddance Attention Whore." Cindy had it 100% right. The Democrats turned their backs on her, betrayed her when they realized she was serious, and not just another attention whore. My heart goes out to you, Cindy. I am a Viet Nam vet, and have been working against the war that murdered your child and thousands of others since before the first shot was fired, and I'm tired, too. The majority of Americans now want the U.S. out of Iraq, and our politicians have betrayed us. You threw yourself on the gears of the war machine and everyone just stood by and looked. Your grace and courage have empowered many, but sadly shown many more for cowards. I'm sorry you were left hanging.

Nice one Cindy, you did your damnedest and you deserve some rest.

I am saddened that Ms. Sheehan has been worn down by the apathy of today's Peace Movement in this Country. I attended the Peace March in DC two years ago, and that experience nearly drove me to despair. It is disheartening to be marching for peace alongside people screaming for the violent overthrow of this or any other government in the world. I can understand why Ms. Sheehan, a truly spiritual person, has reached her limit, but I do hope that she will find comfort and strength in knowing that she has made a difference, not only here at home, but also in presenting a peaceful face to the world, which views most Americans as ignorant and violent.
Thank You, Cindy Sheehan, for having spoken what is in the hearts of many of us who believe that Peace is the only sane answer to warmongers of both Parties.