Sheehan steps off the stage

Perhaps Cindy is right to step down.

Other comments range from bitterness against her to not understanding what it is to "walk in her shoes" as a woman who has lost a son in the war.
I agree I cannot "walk in her shoes" but I do have question for Cindy. "You walked in your shoes a number of years ago when you left Casey and his father. You walked back to Casey in your shoes" to challenge the reason for his loss of life since you,like many others, do not seem to or want to understand. Why are you "walking away in your shoes again?"

She disgraced her son and what he stood for. Her son, joined the United States military of his own free will and with that, came the knowledge that he may have to die for his country. If he wore that uniform with honor and pride he would be turning over in his grave with what his mother has done the past 4 years. I know that it must be hell losing a son, and that must be especially painful when he dies as a US soldier, when you are obviously an anti-American. When she says she is going back "home" but then has the nerve to say that this isn't the country she loves anymore, why doesn't she take her butt to Iraq and make her home there!

I find it amusing how everyone just loves to blame the Bush Admin. for Sheehan's naivety, self-centeredness, and self-righteousness.

When are we going to realize the Baby Boomers began all of this whining and temper-tantrums in the '60s, and haven't stopped since???

If we can't commit out military to defend our country, then why have one? The people who denigrate our military (and police) one moment are the same who depend on them the next...

Hypocrits, just like Cindy & the Dems.

Where is the middle ground? What America really wants is a leader who can stand up and say, "Yes, there have been mistakes in the past, but we are now going to move forward and do this right." Some Republicans are trying to do this now, but after 4 years they have lost credibility. The Dems can't separate the reasons for the war from the war itself, for fear that fixing this problem will make them look like they support Bush's policy. But this is the very reason they lost the last election (Kerry spent way too much time telling people it was the wrong war, wrong time, and not how fix it). Sheehan is right in calling this a political war, but the problem is we already knew this. Everyone seems to feel that it is important to point to the past to show who did and didn't support the war, not focus on a present solution (armor, troop support, Iraq infrastructure and jobs). If the Dems simply use the failings of the Rep party as their platform next year, they will have a hard hill to climb.

I can not even know what it is like to loose a child in this way. So many families have done so. My thought and prays go out to Mrs. Sheehan. I feel bad that she allowed herself to be use.Everyone has a policial motive, but the Dem are at there peak of using people, which does not make it OK for the GOP to do the same.

This is the first thing she has done correct!, only 4 years too late , what a stupid, ill planned, disgraceful,backward, overstated way to honor your son.
Stay gone this time

This woman has a lot of integrity, passion and understanding, and I believe that she introduce deferent perspective about is the American character that the whole world should see.

If we have more of her kind, at least the rest of the world will stop seeing us through George Bush character.

This is the first thing she has done correct!, only 4 years too late , what a stupid, ill planned, disgraceful,backward, redneck, overstated way to honor your son.
Stay gone this time

This woman is a disgrace to everything her son stood for - honor, integrity, allegiance to God and Country. I can hear her and the rest of the far left chanting hysterically, like hungry wolves, "you either do what I say or we'll dispense with you". That's what the Cindy Sheehans of the world do. They allow themselves to be used by radicals to pursue an extreme ideology and when they realize that these extremes cannot and will not prevail, they spit on the very forces that put them into the limelight.

Look at the hate in all these comments. Very sad. We are a divided nation that is in trouble. When everyone, not just Cindy suffers a loss of a loved one is when we may heal. Keep up the fear, the removal of rights, and the rep. party telling us who to hate.

Wow, Wat a lady that Mrs Sheehan is. I respect her.
All these folks that are for the war probably have no children or relatives over there.
The Bush administration has ruined Iraq
and the lives of a lot of people

We, all of us, every single American of voting age is responcible for this war. To the boomers, the products of the sixties,where are the protestors, the fighters agaist an unjust war? Why have we become so complacent? Why have'nt we raised are voices and stomped our feet and screamed, enough is enough, like we did during the sixties?
We took over University buildings because of Vietnam, we died at Kent State, we marched, we protested, we collectively raised our voices until finally we admitted a defeat in V. Was it really so bad to bring home the troops then? We trade with Vietnam now, we will trade with Iraq in the future.
Remember when Johnson could only visit military bases because if he went elsewhere the protestors shouted him down. Remember the helicopter taking the last out of Vietnam off the roof of the embassy.
If we leave now, right now, Iraq will survive in their own twisted way. We, all of us, were the agressors in Iraq, we cannot change 2000 years of conflict though some think we can. We have no right to. We can give them aid without giving them more precious honorable American lives.
Where are the protestors who, forty years ago would not have stood for one moment of this insanity? Get up off your couches, step off your boats, get out from behind your desks and let your voices be heard because it is our sons and daughters who are dieing.
Do we have to reach 55000 deaths before we yell, enough is enough? For Gods sake I hope not.
Where are you, where are you, where are you ?

I wish she continue. It's just too bad we have so many politicians that don't listen to the consequences that Bush, Cheney & Co. got us into.

I agree with Cindy. We who supported the actions of the Democrats now feel sold out. Some of them even got there own funded amendments as a result of the war funding. When are our elected officials going to begin to listen to those who elected them? I say vote all of them out and start anew. It couldn't get any worse!

Ms. Sheehan tried to change minds and served as a catalyst, I think, to turn national public opinion against the "stay the course" mentality in Washington. That the Dems betrayed her when they promised otherwise is unconsionable, but the Dems have a lot to answer for in not getting even a funding bill with a non-binding timetable passed. Politics as usual, I'm afraid.

So Ms Sheehan finally realized she was being used. Why did it take so long? All that time you wasted, all those people you needlessly trashed and it seems to me you were angry and hurt your son was killed and expressed it publicly and hatefully. I am happy you finally got your head on straight.

Finally!! It's about time she quit stomping on her son's grave!

Cindy Sheehan is absolutely right in all she says. As a former vet who has a son stationed in Iraq, I can tell you HE wants to come home, and says the war is "waste"
and is "unwinable". I feel somewhat guilty that I have not supported Mrs. Sheehan more than I have because I DO agree with what she says. I can no longer stand to look into the face of our Commander-in-Chief.

Maybe this woman will now get a life. Does she think that she is the only one that has lost someone? Did she think that when her son entered the service that no real guns would be used? And what made her think that democrates would make any difference? Our mem have been dying for years because we think that we need to fight wars and be the police of the world.