Democracy Now! interviews Cindy Sheehan Part 1 of 4

Amy Goodman interviews Cindy Sheehan, who has just announced that she is stepping away from the antiwar movement after two years of being the nation's most visible critic of the war in Iraq.

She began speaking out against the invasion and occupation of Iraq after her 24-year-old son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004.

Cindy Sheehan made headlines around the world in August of 2005, when she staged a camp-out to pressure President Bush to meet her as he vacationed at his Crawford estate.

On Monday, Sheehan announced her resignation as the face of the antiwar movement. Sheehan said she is stepping down in part because of hostility from Democrats, whom she has criticized for supporting the war. Sheehan also cited repeated threats on her life, strains on her health and family, and divisions inside the peace movement.

She wrote, "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. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of 'right or left', but 'right and wrong.'"

Cindy Sheehan joins us from Sacramento, California.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/30/1343232

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[plenty2see]

how can freedom of speech be a traitorious act, hey what did the founding people of your country say , people in power are never absolute and that it is every citizens duty to question and hold your government accountable, why are you shutting the debate down by labeling people like cindy sheehan a traitor,

[macflyfilm]

Cindy Sheehan is courageous.

[centurion180ad]

@str8jacket5150 No playing NEOCON word games. Cindy Sheehan is a Gold Star Mother, and she has every right to protest AS SHE SEES FIT as a Free American under our Constitution & Bill of Rights. The insane people that want to do and ARE DOING things to us are the mass murdering Debt Syndicate, and the crazy banker’s whores of Washington DC at its annex in Alexandria VA.

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@str8jacket5150 We have been a country of war my entire life. The Cold War was rife with Hot Actions. Libya. Panama 1, Panama 2, Nicaragua, El Salvador Et Alli. The end of the Cold War heated up. Kosovo. Gulf War 1. Invasion of Afghanistan. Invasion of Iraq. Now we are invading Pakistan, Yemen, and probably Somalia, Iran or North Korea. We have slaughtered, kidnapped, staved, mutilated, and poisoned MILLIONS of people. The banker's WHORES of Washington DC ////DESIRE WARS////.

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BELLA DETESTA MATRIBUS // Cindy Sheehan (a Gold Star mother) knows why, and for what her son was killed for. She also knows who the mass murdering War Criminals are, and what Crimes Against Humanity they have and are perpetrating. I appreciate Cindy Sheehan. 

[dancebaby808]

"our new left is barely right of center"

so true!

[SLYGARR]

Don't be so hard on your self.

[uyd]

This woman has so much courage character and grace.

[DrumKey38]

One word: IDIOT!

[Thrice13]

Support Cindy for congress! Pelosi has failed in getting the US out of Iraq.