Now I feel sorry for her

[VOR]

It's tough to learn a lesson the hard way, especially when you've been used and then thrown away like a tissue by the people you thought genuinely cared about your cause. I'm glad to see someone finally figure things out about the right and the left, but sorry to see someone figure it out at their personal expense.

Anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan gives up her protest

She wrote that she is disillusioned by the failure of Democratic politicians to bring the unpopular war to an end and tired of a peace movement she said "often puts personal egos above peace and human life."

"I have tried ever since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful," she wrote. "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 warned that the United States was becoming "a fascist corporate wasteland," and that onetime allies among Bush's Democratic opposition turned on her when she began trying to hold them accountable for bringing the 4-year-old war to a close.

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[Gunthr]

she really was used - by the Democrats AND the progressive far left in this country - for all the milage they could squeeze out of it.  but she used them, as well, for the spotlight (according to some of her family members).  

 i can't feel sorry for Sheehan beyond my empathy for her as a grieving parent.

[Maverick]

I don't feel sorry for her a bit. She chose to take the actions she did and after starting them was taken in by the left. She's leaving simply because she has found out she's far more left than the majority of liberals she wanted support from and they wouldn't provide it.

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Maverick
I don't feel sorry for her a bit. She chose to take the actions she did and after starting them was taken in by the left. She's leaving simply because she has found out she's far more left than the majority of liberals she wanted support from and they wouldn't provide it.

Spot on!

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

She gets no sympathy from me. She made her choices. If you ever read what she writes, or listen to her speak, that'll be all you'll need.

[whels]

I fell sorry for her loss. but she getting what she deserves, for making a mockery of her sons death the way she has.

[Eagler]

what did she expect ...
the global warming folks should take a lesson from her .. they will be dropped by the left as soon as they get what they want in 08

[SteveBailey]

I'm sorry for her loss but my sympathy goes no further, like others have posted.
She has uttered many disparaging and unfounded things and it's no surprise that her support has faded.  Her last support was the left wing kook division of the dems but when she started blasting dems for not stopping the war... game over.

Quotes:

"The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush,”

"The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.”


"That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of war"


"  I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny...you give my son back and I'll pay my taxes. Come after me (for back taxes) and we'll put this war on trial.”

“I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.”

"The Iraqi people aren't freer, they're much worse off than before you meddled in their country."

[Yeager]

She said her son died for nothing.  Her son died serving our country and that says it all for me.  He died in service of every american, and there is a an infinite amount of value in that, at least in my reasoning.

[Sikboy]

It's funny to see people become dissapointed when they find out that not everyone agrees with them. Really, she's a political amature that lacked the patience to see something through. Now, instead of working to ensure that she can attain whatever relief she can, she's just going to take her ball and go home.

The process won't miss her.

-Sik

[FiLtH]

B-bye.

[Sixpence]

"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."

That's almost sig material

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by Yeager
She said her son died for nothing.  Her son died serving our country and that says it all for me.  He died in service of every american, and there is a an infinite amount of value in that, at least in my reasoning.

Have you lost a son?

If not, you have no clue what you are talking about.  Trust me on this one.  I didn't lose mine in combat, but until you've dealt with that kind of loss, you can't know what it's like.

It changes your perspective on everything and I mean everything.  What holds value and what doesn't comes into very sharp focus.

I'd suggest that on some level, she was desperate in her grief to find some meaning or understanding to her son's death, and in the end discovered it isn't there and that the pain and the grief isn't going to go away.  He didn't come back despite her efforts

Now she's stuck with the hard truth and it sucks cause despite everything you try, it's there every morning when you wake up and every night when you go to bed.

I can't condemn her for trying to find some peace with it regardless of the politics.  She lost the far tougher battle she was fighting.


Just an after thought about one of the Dads that is part of the Compassionate friends group my wife and I belong to.  (Compassionate Friends is a group for parents who've lost kids)  He's career military and his 20 year old son died in a car wreck on the way to being deployed to Iraq.  His son died two days after my 21 year old son and 15 year old daughter were killed in a car wreck, 21 months ago now.

part of his military time was spent leading an honor guard for military funerals.  He very much bought into the pomp and circumstance of it and the 'sacrifice'.   This was until he was sitting there polishing his son's brass for the funeral.  It no longer meant a thing.  All he cared about was that his boy was never coming home.  That hasn't changed for him.  It's hard seeing this strong, proud man, so crushed by what he's lost.

[Curval]

Originally posted by Guppy35
Have you lost a son?

If not, you have no clue what you are talking about.  Trust me on this one.  I didn't lose mine in combat, but until you've dealt with that kind of loss, you can't know what it's like.

It changes your perspective on everything and I mean everything.  What holds value and what doesn't comes into very sharp focus.

I'd suggest that on some level, she was desperate in her grief to find some meaning or understanding to her son's death, and in the end discovered it isn't there and that the pain and the grief isn't going to go away.  He didn't come back despite her efforts

Now she's stuck with the hard truth and it sucks cause despite everything you try, it's there every morning when you wake up and every night when you go to bed.

I can't condemn her for trying to find some peace with it regardless of the politics.  She lost the far tougher battle she was fighting.


Just an after thought about one of the Dads that is part of the Compassionate friends group my wife and I belong to.  (Compassionate Friends is a group for parents who've lost kids)  He's career military and his 20 year old son died in a car wreck on the way to being deployed to Iraq.  His son died two days after my 21 year old son and 15 year old daughter were killed in a car wreck, 21 months ago now.

part of his military time was spent leading an honor guard for military funerals.  He very much bought into the pomp and circumstance of it and the 'sacrifice'.   This was until he was sitting there polishing his son's brass for the funeral.  It no longer meant a thing.  All he cared about was that his boy was never coming home.  That hasn't changed for him.  It's hard seeing this strong, proud man, so crushed by what he's lost.

Quoted again for the politicos who just seem upset that she criticised Bush.

[Shifty]

^^^^^^^^^
Well said Dan, I'll never agree with her politics.

More importantly.... I have no idea how the loss of one of my children would affect me, my beliefs, or behavior. I hope I'll never have to endure her grief. I hope she finds peace somewhere.