Frustrated Sheehan gives up anti-war role saying “Democrats caved in to Bush”

Houston Chronicle | May 29, 2007

If only Cindy Sheehan knew that both parties are owned and controlled by David Rockefeller’s Council on Foreign Relations, then she might understand why there is no real opposition to Bush in the congress. If she only knew that politics is a staged theatrical Good-Cop/Bad-Cop dog-and-pony show, she might start to think that the real powers behind the war are the New World Order banking elites who own it all and act as if we were their chattel property to do with as they see fit. If she really wanted to protest the war, she would have gone and stood in front of 146 65th St in New York, where that spider, David Rockefeller, weaves his web of intrigue. But instead, she allied herself with the Marxist Left who are also controlled and bankrolled by the same banking elite money and have been since before the Bolshevik Revolution.

Everybody, no matter where you are on the political spectrum, it is time to take off your blinders and see the big picture. It is not a matter of Right vs Left. It is about the elites vs the people. This is true political maturity.

PW

Leading voice against the war says she’s had it

Cindy Sheehan, the soldier’s mother who galvanized an anti-war movement with her monthlong protest outside President Bush’s ranch, said Tuesday she’s done being the public face of the movement.

“I’ve been wondering why I’m killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush,” Sheehan said while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.

“I’m going home for awhile to try and be normal,” she said.

In what she described as a “resignation letter,” Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the Daily Kos blog: “Good-bye America … you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

“It’s up to you now.”

Sheehan began a grass-roots peace movement in August 2005 when she camped outside Bush’s Crawford ranch for 26 days, demanding to talk with the president about her son’s death. Army Spc. Casey Sheehan was 24 when he was killed in an ambush in Baghdad in 2004.

Sheehan’s protest started small but swelled to thousands and quickly drew national attention. Over the next two years, she drew huge crowds as she spoke at protest events. But she also drew criticism for some actions, such as meeting with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s leftist president.

Anger over son’s death

“I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called ‘Face’ of the American anti-war movement,” Sheehan wrote in the diary.

Kristinn Taylor, spokesman for FreeRepublic.com, which has held pro-troop rallies and counterprotests of anti-war demonstrations, said dwindling crowds at Sheehan’s Crawford protests since her initial vigil may have led to her decision. But he also said he hopes she will now be able to heal.

“Her politics have hurt a lot of people, including the troops and their families, but most of us who support the war on terror understand she is hurt very deeply,” Taylor said Tuesday. “Those she got involved with in the anti-war movement realize it was to their benefit to keep her in that stage of anger.”

When Sheehan first took on Bush, she was a darling of the liberal left. “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,” she wrote in the diary.

She said she sacrificed a 29-year marriage and endured threats to put all her energy into stopping the war. What she found, she wrote, was a movement “that often puts personal egos above peace and human life.”

She said the most devastating conclusion she had reached “was that Casey did indeed die for nothing … killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think.”

Sheehan said that she had considered leaving the peace movement since last summer while recovering from surgery.

A significant date

She decided on Memorial Day to step down and spend more time with her three other children. She said she was returning to California on Tuesday because it was Casey’s birthday. He would have been 28.

“We’ve accomplished as much here as we’re going to,” Sheehan said, saying she was leaving to change course. “When we come back, it definitely won’t be with the peace movement with marches, with rallies and with protests. It will be more humanitarian efforts.”

Last year, with $52,500 in insurance money she received after her son’s death, Sheehan bought five acres near downtown Crawford as a permanent site for protests.

“Camp Casey has served its purpose,” she wrote in the diary. “It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford, Texas?”