Mas1946- your points are well-taken. I'm not that fond of the Dems either, and the current voting system is too easy to rig, even easier with electronic voting.

iwarrior

"I think aside from storming Washington and wreaking utter havoc, the best people can do is simply vote these bastards out of office, and replace them with decent men and women who have the world's best interests at mind."

Until there is substantial voting reform-changing the electoral college, and secured, transparent vote counting, your "wish" that voting will change anything is just a wish. The Democrats have proved themselves to be a mere shadow of the Republican Party, also beholden to corporations and lobbyists. It's not a two party system and the government is broken.

I'd like to see all the progressive organizations, libertarians, populist groups, greens, independent voters, band together...forgetting individual and group identity egos, to advance a real Revolution of change.

"You praise Cindy, but what has she - or vastly more importantly, WE, done to stop the war and imperialism - DOODLY SQUAT!"

I'd say she's done a lot. As for US, well, the people didn't start this war. The elites are to blame for it. They know that the majority of people in this country are against what is going on. The cabal that's in power right now didn't really get elected

I dunno. Tussling with some cops and shouting protest slogans isn't gonna do a whole lot.

I think aside from storming Washington and wreaking utter havoc, the best people can do is simply vote these bastards out of office, and replace them with decent men and women who have the world's best interests at mind.

Hey, there's a bunch of people in the White House deserving of a bullet. But I'm not going to be a martyr, and frankly neither should any of the rest of us.

"Now, go back to your privileged upper-middle suburban spreads and drown your sorrows in a good bottle of California Chardonnay."

Great. I can go back to my urban house that's falling apart and drink some iced tea, while I figure out how to pay my bills.

"Cindy you are becoming a casualty of this war. Stop it! You do no one any good by grinding yorself into powder and dust. Sit down, keep quiet, and rest. Once you say "good bye" let that suffice. We love and respect you too much to want to see you continue to destroy yourself."

Exactly.

"Please, enough with teh sentimental crap! We are talking abour abject failure, people!"

I don't think she failed in the least. In fact, I think she played a role in helping to turn public opinion against the war.

"Cindy burned out because so many express these cloying sentiments but refuse to lift a finger if it might risk their middle-class comfirts in the least…"

So what do you want people to do? Quit their jobs and go camp out in front of the White House? Then they won't have a home to go back to. I guess their kids can starve.

"Middle-class comforts." Yeah right. What middle-class comforts?

"You can blow out a candle

But You Can't Blow Out A Fire"

Ron June 19th, 2007 11:24 pm

Thanks for what you wrote here. Tis quite clear for those who can see and hear, those with clear, open hearts and clear, open minds.

And I do recall that it is only fools who take themselves seriously! ;) ;)

Peace ever'one,

P.S.
And all those Bastards were not only in Viet Nam.
some were working in VA, mixing chemicals of orange, old farts in VFW who said they were not real soldiers but a bunch of complaining dopers, and many wore buisness suits and ran for office.

I agree with some, PJD and warzoned, enough of this mush and fluff, I checked to see if their was water under the PC or even pee, Cindy got her butt kicked royaly by the anti groupies as well as the pro war crowd.
Why, because of too damn many people like those wriing in here, whimps.
Damn I hate victims clinging to each other crying woe is me , the major problem with peace movement is they like feeling vicitmized. The enablers of the drunken spouce, the battered women who keep returning to be battered once more, the molested feeling it was partially their fault, instewad fo kicking butt they look for solace among the whipped.
Sheehan put too much trust in the figures who have made a career out of manipulating people, Democrats and their celebrity compatriots, the same people many of these weeping willows herein will vote for this fall.
The biggest failure is in thinking so many of the larger organizatins will compromize their elevated positions with the Democrats as it is their capital. Move On has moved on.
When we want a Peace march do we get anti war or do we get Save Mumiahs, trees, nuts, squirrels, whales aand the homeless and a hundred other special groups each with their own causes sucking off our work, work that they then profit from leading?
Cindy is but one casualty and now she has been wounded and is going to join another cause, one less dangerous but still necessary to rest of humanity.
As Scott Ritter so ably points out,"If you want Peace you have to wage it just as agressivley as those who wage war do."
As I, as do so many other military combat veterans know you may lose friends in war but you do not stop fighting, sit down cry and head home, or else you deny the cost of that friends sacrifice.
You get up, arm yourself as best you can, and go looking for the Bastards who harmed him; and God help anyone who stands between you and them.
You may want peace but it is a war you are in wether you wanted it or not,; a war of ideals and it is time to stand up to defend them.
If we have to have others in our parades then they do not carry signs for helping wales it is a peace march and a hard core dedicated group is all that is needed so tell the nuts defending nuts that uhnless they go anti war they will never get their nuts out of the wringer.
Harsh and crude? Yup and I will not give up easily just becsause someone smiles, for I know some of them mean to steal from or even take away my ideals.
Sheehan can go and form another group but I damn well better see her or at least some of her members carrying signs for peace in the next peace march, and not just asking for coins to her group.
I had a fiend lost both hands in Viet Nam and was left with limited mobility in legs who succeeded quite well in buisness world: once when he and I over a beer I complimented him for such, He Said I was injured not killed, I got to visit names of those on wall, I was one hell of a lot luckier then they." I din't stop when they died before my eyes but went on in memory of them and hense that is where my saying, he went looking for the Bastards that killed them.

Enough with "dissing" Cindy!
She's perfect- so FUCK OFF!

IT'S YOUR BOY THAT MATTERS

The Government declares war. To say helplessly: As individuals we have nothing to do with it, can't prevent it. But WHO ARE WE? Well, "WE" right now are the mothers and fathers of every able-bodied boy of military age in the United States. "WE" are also you young men of voting age and over, that they'll use for cannon fodder. And "WE" can prevent it. Now--you MOTHERS, particularly. The only way you can resist all this war hysteria and beating tomtoms is by hanging onto the love you bear your boys. When you listen to some well-worded, well-delivered speech, just remember that it's nothing but Sound. It's your boy that matters. And no amount of sound can make up to you for the loss of your boy.

Smedley D. Butler, Major General
United States Marine Corps, 1935
Double recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
http://www.warisaracket.org

Oh Cindy, I am so sorry for too much heartbreak. I remember when I first started emailing you a long time ago. I told you about my sister losing her son and how our family pain was horror, but that I knew I could never really know her grief. I still feel that way. Noone can ever know the multitude of emotions you feel now. I'm so sorry for all the insane anger you suffered from others and grateful for those you found who genuinely loved you for just who you are and loved you unconditionally.

I hope you can accept how incredibly generous your personal vulnerability was and is for a peace movement that can be so messed up, but glowed in moments that can only be because of your truth that you gave us.

I love you Cindy and wish I could be at your birthday celebration. I'll email you in case you ever feel like venting confidentially.

Love from that psych nurse in Madison

Mr. P. Bramscher has it right, I think. Simply do NOT let your kids--or anyone's kids--enlist. For some time now, I've been involved in the counter-military recruitment effort; many of my efforts have been centered in the local schools here; some of my own personal efforts have been aimed at friends who are parents of enlistment-age kids. Little-known but true, recruiters troll the halls of many high schools with the stated purpose of "owning the schools." Too many of the youth--seemingly without options, especially in rural areas where unemployment figures are high and educational opportunities seem out of reach--succumb to the allure of recruiters whose tactics have been at the very least deceptive, coercive, and sometimes illegal. For more information, go into www.countermilitary.org for more information. You may find an active and supportive group in your area that you can network with.
Also, you may want to consider devoting time to volunteer work in the VA facilities; our soldiers need every bit of help they can get. Things have not changed one iota since the Walter Reed Army Hospital story broke months ago. A simple, regular visit--a kind "hello"--means everything in the world to these guys and gals whose lives will never be the same.
I share, perhaps, Cindi Sheehan's sense of burn-out; hey, I've been there, done that. But I keep doin' it.

IRIQUOIS/ZENMASTER - Get the knots outta your colons before it kills you. That kinda venom/hatred is poison to your Spirits. And to ascribe such garbage to a Spiritual People as the Iriquois and to PUSH the CONCEPT of ZEN shows an amazing amount of ignorance for just two people! Are you guys in a club(cult)?
Thank you Cindy for all you have done.

Dear Cindy,

I am so saddened by the death of your son, Casey and all the other young men and women. Also, for all those injured and maimed and returning home so damaged physically or mentally that they cannot live normal lives; and angered by a government who sends them to harms way; and will not even adequately take care of them when they return; and for all the families shattered by this war.

I was raising my children during the Viet Nam war and they were too young then and too old for this war. But my grandchildren are growing up and I fear for them if this war isn't stopped soon.

Thank you for all you have done and it is not in vain. This war will end one day and you have helped to make that day come sooner. You are an inspiration.

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God". May you be blessed and granted peace.

Ron, I certainly hope that Cindy takes herself seriously, because many people seriously take her as a selfless ambassador for those of us who lack her courage and her uncommon ability to give voice to our primal screams to stop the killing, which makes a lot more sense than your psycho-babble.

Cindy, a great Zen master once said that suicide is the result of taking one's self too seriously. You are not suicidal, but you do take yourself too seriously. Nothing is really happening - we are just thinking, that's all. One thought leads to another and some thoughts come to dead ends. Your mind is buried in matter. Dig it out, and aim for the paradise of no self. Every moment spent in self pity is a moment spent in hell. You don't have to be there - you can be anywhere you want to be. Read the Three Pillars of Zen and free yourself from the glue you are stuck in.

We might all make it a personal mission to convince young men and women not to join the military or Guard.

Is this anti-patriotic? On the contrary -- having road-tripped this continent about a dozen times I've got no doubt that Joe Sixpacks everywhere would pull out his firearm to defend the US in a genuine situation of national defense. But so long as our foreign policy is driven by Halliburton, the m.i.c., AIPAC, or whoever they are -- it's arguably our duty not to join. If it's a corporate war, let them rely on mercenaries.

We can bang our heads against Bush all we want. He's corrupt and won't change. We can bang our heads against the Democrats all we want. They're the good crooks, and won't change either. But if we aim the message at one another, young people, we might effect real change.

Yup, Mr White, but I'd recommend some domestic fragging myself.

The world-jubilation that would ensue if that guy at the top would..lets say... meet his demise could possibly be the transformative event for amerikkka.

As someone of Irish descent, I understand that you don't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

I repeat, you don't seem to get it!

You praise Cindy, but what has she - or vastly more importantly, WE, done to stop the war and imperialism - DOODLY SQUAT!

Now, go back to your privileged upper-middle suburban spreads and drown your sorrows in a good bottle of California Chardonnay.

tedbohne,
you can't write, you can't spell and you don't make sense. Why don't you go hunting with Dick Cheney instead of spitting your
brainwashed homophobic venom on us?
Thanks.

Funny , donèt see anyone here telling the boys and girls over there to fragg.Ièm not surprised though ; itès just such an un-American but effective thing to do.

Maybe in a few years if Americans can ever turn off the set and srart telling , the boys and girls over ther will start fragging . I wouldnèt want to be an officer if they do

You better have a lot of room at Camp Casey this time.

It's going to be quite birthday party!

See you there.

You will always be a hero to me. My son was a medic in Iraq in the summer of 05. You helped me survive that. I have so much respect for you. Thank you for everything you've done.

R Swan
http://www.goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com

See the WSWS.org web page for a three parter, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, on the silence of THE NATION magazine on Cindy's rejection of the Democratic Party.

A study of successful people showed that they have one over-riding trait in common; when the situation changes they change direction. That's what Cindy is doing, and she will continue to be successful in whatever she does.

I led a blogger's mini-campaign to nominate Cindy Sheehan for the Nobel Peace Prize last year because I thought that she deserved it. The Nobel committee in Oslo, in their wisdom, thought otherwise and awarded the Peace Prize to a Bangladesh banker. That doesn't matter to me because Cindy won MY peace prize, someone who energized the peace movement and represented it well. She will always be The Peace Goddess, supporting America against those who write that it is "the home of the gutless and the mindless." She proved otherwise.

IRIQUOIS227...tedbohne

you're a cruel sadistic idiot...what are you doing on this site...it's clear you haven't taken your medication today...

Dear Readers,

All I know is that this is one mother who felt helpless to help my soldier son, until Cindy came on the scene (yes, I read about her and heard about her in the media) and asked us to light a candle and go out and say bring the troops home. I told a few other moms and grandmoms and I asked my pastor for a few candles and we took to the street in our barrio. No one expected it; no one had seen anything like it, a bunch of Latina's in their tennis shoes, abuelitas and younger moms with their son's framed pictures. Some of the neighbors, came and joined us. We finally numbered about 100 mostly Latina women with candles, some with rosaries and a huge lettered sheet we hung over a bridge. The honks and the horns and the way people responded, tells me that people do care, and that was when Cindy first started.
The good people of these United States remind me of the gentlemen who are interested in a woman, but doesn't have to wolf whistle, ogle her, or lustily make noises. In due time, my friend, he makes his move without fanfare.
I do believe there is a groundswell of support for the anti-war candidates, and in the next election, it won't matter if the candidate is from the opposition party; if he doesn't promise to end the war immediately, he won't get elected.

July 6? You're going back to Crawford on July 6, Cindy? That's Junior's 61st birthday. How do I know this? Because I read earlier today that Laura emailed supporters of the RNC (yes, both of them), urging them to send $61 to the RNC to commemorate W's birthday.

I have a better idea. Send $61 this week to your non-Republican candidate of choice, indicating that it's a gift being made in protest of the life, times and politics of George W. Bush. Then spread the word.

And Cindy? Illegitimus non carborundum.

Cindy:

Thanks for writing this. I was one of those thousands of people who were touched by, and participated in, the amazingly organic experience of Camp Casey I. I am pleased to hear you say it was your favorite time. That was certainly the case for me too.

I have very specific memories of my time there, and they can be read here:
http://www.ericfolkerth.com/wheneftalks/files/prairiechapelroad.html

I am convinced that Camp Casey I can never be re-created. The growth and energy that swelled during those few weeks truly did light a spark under so many people around the country. It was truly organic. And, for many of those who came, it was an organic experience of just wanting to BE there.

One of the things I heard, over and over, from folks on my visits to CC1 was that they were simply *compelled* to be there. I think it really was a turning point in the public's view of the war.

You are right that not all the peace groups get along. I knew it before then. I noticed that even in those times I was there, and it's still troubling to me now.

However, while I know you are worried about who will "step up" next in the movement, I thought I might share a little story about Camp Casey I that might give everyone hope.

On a Friday in August during CC1, I was invited to be a part of an interfaith prayer vigil with ministers from all over the state, there at Camp Casey I. I brought my guitar, my prayers, a new song, and the hope to be there with you again. (We had met about a week earlier there at CC1...)

But, alas, you were not there because your mother (I think?) had taken ill.

While everyone was disappointed, a beautiful thing happened that day:

Many of the other mothers and family members stepped into the breach, and filled in at the press conference. Then, after the short prayer service (where I played my song about Camp Casey) we all marched to the gates of Bush's ranch once again...the clergy and the family members hand-in-hand.

I knew in that moment, Cindy, that you had inspired a movement far bigger than you. I knew in that moment, that even though the public would continue to believe it was about *you,* it really wasn't at all.

It was about those brave family members, and about the new faces I met the last weekend at Camp Casey I, who perhaps for the first time in their lives, were speaking their truth about the war.

Thank you for allowing your life and experience to challenge, inspire, and motivate so many. Sometimes, things get so painful that it's hard to really see your own place in events. I trust that as time passes and you recover some of your "normal" life, that you'll be able to see just what an amazing thing Camp Casey was.

Thanks...

Dear Cindy, I know your son's death is heartbreaking, and I'm so sorry he's gone; but he not die in vain. He had a courageous mother who cared and did something to make his life and death count, and to bring awareness about the evils of war.

Much love and appreciation,
a sister in the Northwest.

What grit Cindy Sheehan has shown.As if the world at large needed any confirmation of the inhumanity of the shrub's cabal-her efforts exposed this sad reality to all. The same people who tried to paint Max Cleland as unpatriotic didn't even blink while smearing her.
To those who like to describe the actions of these neo-cons as something other than evil-I'd ask-what would ever fit that definition for you?

Cindy, you still here? I thought you quit...

Actually, Crawford is not always a 1/2 horse town, just when the Horse's Ass is in DC.

Right on sister Cindy!

Here are the words to a song I wrote in 2001 when my brother died. Somehow, they seem to pertain.

Tim's Song
(1)
A corner's turned, we can't look back to what has come before;
Relentlessly the hands of sorrow keep on turning round;
So cherish those you love and when you're done, love them some more;
Some day may never happen, and the good old days are now.

(Refrain)
And the flame that burns the hottest will burn out before too long;
Elusive beauty is the most intense, so I have found;
It's best to leave them wishing that you'd sung another song;
Than to wait upon the stage until they bring the curtain down.

(2)
Some live more in 50 years than most by 95;
The artist and the scholar, the musician and the bard;
The space they leave in all the souls of those who still survive;
Make their going seem too easy, and our staying much too hard.
(Refrain)

(3)
Heaven may be waiting for us, still somehow it seems;
What happens to us when we're gone is just philosophy;
The passions of the larger life are left for those who dream;
The poet's words, the potter's urn, true immortality.
(Refrain)

(c)LeeAnn Gallucci 2001

Here's to you, Cindy, and to all the young men and women who left the stage with so many songs left unsung.

Someone and something else are indeed manifesting themselves imprudently in Crawford and the Capital, Bush and his Manifest Insanity. A time to IMPEACH and a time to IMPEACE.

Cindy, here's a Brit adding to the thankyou's for all you've done and *actually achieved*.
I wrote somewhere else on this site about how we need lot's more of you... You achieved a huge amount, so how much more would 5, 10 or even twenty more Cindy's achieve?

Answer: One heck of a lot!

I also mentioned in my previous post a man you met over here in the UK: Brian Haw, who, -like you, is not a 'media whore' (-as your last post here was entitled!) ;) -but instead a truly committed man who's likewise helped raise consciousness regarding the current barbaric warfare, among the ill-informed and naive voting public.
[see http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/ for details on this guy's courageous efforts)].

I think you know, without me saying Cindy, that *not one iota* of your efforts were in anyway wasted. Every trial you went through was added to the store of genuine 'righteousness' which benefits the human race, (-even though we less-perceptive little ones rarely see the overall picture).
Fighting 'on the side of the angels' is never a lost cause. ~ It only ever does good.

Your hard grind and brilliant efforts have (internationally) inspired many to at last get up off their couches, and put their shoulder to the (collective) wheel; and as we turn it, so we cause more LIGHT to enter in to human consciousness.
As that wheel turns, the dinosaurs will be buried in the dust of history, and we -as a race- move on from (their) current day of ascendancy, -into our new and brighter phase of existence.

"Every dog has it's day" ~ (but angels have Eternities!) :)
____________________________

To some, that may all sound a little hyperbolic and 'airy-fairy'? But no. It's actually based on insights and facts that not many today are party to. This time, this age, and it's conspicuous hurdles were predicted aeons ago.

There is a phrase from certain esoteric Eastern teachings: "Blessed be the obstacles, through them we grow."

Our current phase is one wherein we are being stretched to change, stretched to achieve more, stretched to help challenge and conquer darkness, stretched to achieve our best, and in this upward spiralling process, *we* grow, ~and darkness shrinks...

Agreed. -This is not an easy job of work, **but one we are fully able to accomplish!!** -once we set our minds and hearts to it. And in the doing, we also discover the meaning of sacrifice (variously) and the true meaning of love, and we discover that selfishness is one of the greatest evils in this world today...

Thankyou for your selfless striving Cindy.
Come the day, -if nothing else- you can be assured that while you and Casey meet up again in the 'Higher Echelons', so too will the selfish, greedy, insane warmongers be on their way down to 'The Basement', where the heating is always turned up waaaaaay too high! :)

Be assured, dear bereft mother, that your loss and your subsequent work, has not been unnoticed by 'the powers that be'...
Nor us hereabouts.

With love,

A brother in the UK

Thanks for your sacrifice and work.

thank you Cindy from one mother to another, I think you started moms wondering what's going on, even if no one else would say it aloud.

Let's Fire the Grid.

www.firethegrid.com

I had a feeling that Cindy's was gonna' be like Cher's perpetual, repetitive, and maudlin "Farewell Tour(s)" ;)

Cindy,

This will sound perverse, but I think that the most effective way end this war is to have the draft reinstated. As during Vietnam, the draft is what got the masses of (young) protesters out on the street. The protests essentially disappeared when the draft was suspended, even though the war was still going on. Humans will always be more motivated by being at risk than by listening to stirring rhetoric.

Additional - See Gold State Parents Paul Schroeder's and Rosemary Palmer's website, www.fofchange.com (Families of the Fallen for Change).

Another someone with OVARIES and brains ... Rosemary Palmer ... another Gold Star Mother ... many of you have heard of her and her husband, Paul Schroeder, in interviews on national and international news and print media. We'll be hearing more from Rosemary this week as she - who has met with Cindy Sheehan and discussed their shared views - makes a political announcement that will hopefully change NE Ohio for the better and America for the far better. Those of us who understand that war is failed communication (in this case, NO communication) and madness understand you Cindy, and vow that we will never forget you. We will speak for you when you cannot, and when you rise up again (and I believe you shall) - we'll help you carry the torch. God Bless the entire world - no exceptions. See Paul and Rosemary's website - www.fofchange.com (Families of the Fallen for Change).

The reason Nader, Jackson and yes, even Sheehan were/are not able to mobilize an anti-war movement is because the War is just a little nasty abstraction to the U.S. public. The public does not care as long as it doesnt get in the way of Monday nigh football.

For every season, turn turn turn. For Bush, every foreign policy is Burn Burn Burn.

Cindy Sheehan expressed my ideas and concerns so well that I will miss not having someone in public expressing the anti-war statements and root causes that need to be expressed (and aren't being expressed by mainstream politicians except for a few like Russ Feingold).

The war needs to end and justice needs to prevail. But Bush and company are now saying what some of knew all along- Iraq is going to be a permanent colony that we will continue to militarity occupy with permanent military bases. Generals are already saying that they forsee at least 10 years of more occupation and fighting.

Who knows, it might take 59,000 dead like Vietnam before the American people wake up. And remember, each death will effect somebody adversely. Each dead and injured soldier, and Iraqi civilian, is a friend, son, father, mother, uncle, aunt, or loved one to somebody.

And in Iraq, like Vietnam, it was the soldiers coming back who also have to be healed though many won't be.

I'm thankful for Cindy, and hope that 100,000 Peace camps are set up in front of each military recruiting station.

peace, justice, human rights
AG

www.NotOneMore.US - Take the Pledge for Peace

Though I am and always have been a Peacenik and "anti-war", your stand at Camp Casey in your son's name filled me with hope that NOW people would pay attention, NOW the insanity called war would end.

I was naive to think all it took was awareness or that change could come quickly. Nevertheless you have had a huge affect on the world. People, now realize that so many have lost loved ones, so many are still in harm's way, so much loss is yet to be, that the war must be ended. The numbers who want PEACE have grown in leaps and bounds. In every country, they are now the majority.

You showed a better way. A mother's way.
Stand with integrity, Speak Truth to Power, Come from the Heart. Remember those without voices and use yours in their stead, Believe that because of your efforts, in time, with patience, better things will come.

You made a difference Cindy Sheehan. Your son's life will not be forgotten, and though it must be near unbearable, the way you carried your pain brought a lot of people lost in delusions of victory and retribution to a better understanding - one I believe will grow in time to create Peace.

Thank you for all you've done and given

So Cindy,

Enough goodbys.
People should do what they are good at. You are good at this.

What's next?

This is something we can do.
global project-- see the personal story of how bio-energetic healing can occur...
Visit firethegrid.com
and prepare to join us as we Fire the Grid on July 17th.

We can be defined by our focused heart-centered intentions; or we can remain on the fence and co-miserate with our common nightmares.

There is a plan.

I am afraid that PJD is right. The fact that it took an unknown person like Cindy Sheehan to jump-start the peace movement speaks volumes about the ineffectiveness of other long time activists who were not able to show any leadership around this issue. Where were people like Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, etc.? Oh, I am sure they spoke out but apparently they can't rally the peace forces. They are so diminished now -- for various reasons -- that it takes an unknown, unpretentious person like Sheehan who lost her son in the war, to put the movement in front of the American people.

And now we have people like ANSER and UFPJ who can't seem to get along with each other; we have a movement that lacks cohesion. When are we ever going to learn that you can't create meaningful social change in this country with these ad hoc organizations that respond to the crisis of the moment, but are incapable of long term organization with the goal of taking power. As long as that is the state of affairs, good people like Cindy Sheehan will become frustrated and decide to bow out. I can hardly blame her as I share many of her feelings.

Cindy you are becoming a casualty of this war. Stop it! You do no one any good by grinding yorself into powder and dust. Sit down, keep quiet, and rest. Once you say "good bye" let that suffice. We love and respect you too much to want to see you continue to destroy yourself.

She epitomizes virtues that humanity can attain: bravery, fortitude, love and compassion.
The world is a better place because of her.

I'm very sorry for your loss, and the loss of all the families that have suffered under this criminal policy. And I thank you for your efforts.

Please, enough with teh sentimental crap! We are talking abour abject failure, people! Cindy burned out because so many express these cloying sentiments but refuse to lift a finger if it might risk their middle-class comfirts in the least...

Even after a candle is blown out the light that emanated from it still travels to infinity. Your light will shine forever.

Cindy,

I am not sure any of us who have not experienced the pain of losing a son or daughter to war can really say much with validity, except express our deepest sympathies and anger about this war. It really is shameful to hear other people bashing you when you really were seeking the truth - why you had to lose Casey? I think you did what any parent would do when they lose their child. Sadly, the Bush Administration and the Congress have set this country back more than half a century and arrogantly dismissed anyone who challenges their myopic and baseless policies. While I cannot be at Camp Casey, I just want to express my sincere and deepest sympathies to you. I truly am sorry that you lost your son, and since the Bush Administration does not have the internal fortitude or the class to apologize for your loss, I will do it for them. Good luck to you, and I hope that you will someday find happiness again without having to go through the hell of experiencing the ultimate sacrifice.

Somebody with balls and brains... Cindy Sheehan. Would that we never had to know of her name and her son was home mowing the lawn now. Twas not to be with the leaders we have been annointed with. Rot in your hell, George Bush. Long live Casey...