Democracy Now! interviews Cindy Sheehan Part 2 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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[centurion180ad]

When War Criminal SHRUB said to Cindy Sheehan that Casey was in a better place, what he meant was that it is better that he is dead. As far as bankers and banker’s whores like Shrub are concerned, the only good soldier is a dead soldier. The mass murdering Debt Syndicate that controls the planet would not have to pay out any of its stolen loot for any GI benefits when soldiers are killed doing the Wet Work for the bankers.

[sucktubez]

very brave woman, wonderful job.

[angelasung]

fuck you

[kelliebelliebubble]

August 6th is the 3rd anniversary of the day Cindy first sat down in the ditch outside of George W. Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch to get him to answer the question, "For what noble cause," did he send her son Casey to die in Iraq! have to live in the 8th District of California to see that Nancy Pelosi is not interested in PEACE and you have a stake in Cindy's race for Congress!Send a message to Nancy Pelosi that she was wrong to take impeachment off the table and continue to fund BushCo's war!

[utahdonnie]

i served , shitstain.

[jamstrat]

She is awesome.

[kingobnoxious]

WTF? Are you serious?

[truthout911]

What have you done for your country, Asshole, besides attacking women. When you lose someone in a war, you can talk until then GO TO HELL.

[oliver556]

What a brave woman.

[utahdonnie]

she does he sons death a diservice in be coming a protester and not standing by her fellow parents of serivce members, what a selfish bitch. ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.