American Idol
Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who became an anti-war leader after her son was killed in Iraq, declared she was walking away from the peace movement. Sheehan announced that her son "did indeed die for nothing."
Casey Sheehan, a 24-year-old Army specialist, was killed in an April 2004 battle in Baghdad. His death prompted his mother to found Gold Star Families for Peace.
Mrs. Sheehan wrote: “I have tried ever since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. 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.
“It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years, and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.”
Cindy 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.
In the meantime, she said her antiwar activism had cost her her marriage, that she had put the survivor's benefits paid for her son's death and all her speaking and book fees into the cause and that she now owed extensive medical bills.
“I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost.
“I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.”
Casey Sheehan, Andrew Bacevich and and more than 3,465 others didn’t die in Iraq for nothing. They died so that the ideological extremist warmongers, vested interests, the petroleum industry, profiteers allied with the military-industrial complex, and the entrenched interests of the professional military establishment could hijack our government.
Our troops have been deceived into swearing allegiance to corporate racketeers.
Casey Sheehan, a 24-year-old Army specialist, was killed in an April 2004 battle in Baghdad. His death prompted his mother to found Gold Star Families for Peace.
Mrs. Sheehan wrote: “I have tried ever since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. 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.
“It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years, and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.”
Cindy 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.
In the meantime, she said her antiwar activism had cost her her marriage, that she had put the survivor's benefits paid for her son's death and all her speaking and book fees into the cause and that she now owed extensive medical bills.
“I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost.
“I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.”
Casey Sheehan, Andrew Bacevich and and more than 3,465 others didn’t die in Iraq for nothing. They died so that the ideological extremist warmongers, vested interests, the petroleum industry, profiteers allied with the military-industrial complex, and the entrenched interests of the professional military establishment could hijack our government.
Our troops have been deceived into swearing allegiance to corporate racketeers.
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