Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan Opts Out
An Open Letter to the Democratic
Congress
Why I Am Leaving
the Democratic
Party
By Cindy
Sheehan
Hello, my name is Cindy Sheehan and my son
Casey Sheehan was killed on April 04, 2004 in Sadr City , Baghdad , Iraq . He
was killed when the Republicans still were in control of Congress. Naively, I
set off on my tireless campaign calling on Congress to rescind George’s
authority to wage his war of terror while asking him “for what noble
cause” did Casey and thousands of other have to die. Now, with Democrats
in control of Congress, I have lost my optimistic naiveté and have become
cynically pessimistic as I see you all caving into “Mr.
28%”
There is absolutely no sane
or defensible reason for you to hand Bloody King George more money to condemn
more of our brave, tired, and damaged soldiers and the people of Iraq to more
death and carnage. You think giving him more money is politically expedient, but
it is a moral abomination and every second the occupation of Iraq endures, you
all have more blood on your hands.
Ms.
Pelosi, Speaker of the House, said after George signed the new weak as a newborn
baby funding authorization bill: “Now, I think the president’s
policy will begin to unravel.” Begin to unravel? How many more of our
children will have to be killed and how much more of Iraq will have to be
demolished before you all think enough unraveling has occurred? How many more
crimes will BushCo be allowed to commit while their poll numbers are crumbling
before you all gain the political “courage” to hold them
accountable? If Iraq hasn’t unraveled in Ms. Pelosi’s mind, what
will it take? With almost 700,000 Iraqis dead and four million refugees (which
the US refuses to admit) how could it get worse? Well, it is getting worse and
it can get much worse thanks to your
complicity.
Being cynically
pessimistic, it seems to me that this new vote to extend the war until the end
of September, (and let’s face it, on October 1st, you will give him more
money after some more theatrics, which you think are fooling the anti-war
faction of your party) will feed right into the presidential primary season and
you believe that if you just hang on until then, the Democrats will be able to
re-take the White House. Didn’t you see how “well” that worked
for John Kerry in 2004 when he played the politics of careful fence sitting and
pandering? The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow
where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and
borrowing money from our new owners, the
Chinese.
I knew having a Democratic Congress
would make no difference in grassroots action. That’s why we went to DC
when you all were sworn in to tell you that we wanted the troops back from Iraq
and BushCo held accountable while you pushed for ethics reform which is quite a
hoot...don’t’ you think? We all know that it is affordable for you
all to play this game of political mayhem because you have no children in
harm’s way...let me tell you what it is
like:
You watch your reluctant soldier
march off to a war that neither you nor he agrees with. Once your soldier leaves
the country all you can do is worry. You lie awake at night staring at the moon
wondering if today will be the day that you get that dreaded knock on your door.
You can’t concentrate, you can’t eat, and your entire life becomes
consumed with apprehension while you are waiting for the other shoe to
drop.
Then, when your worst fears are
realized, you begin a life of constant pain, regret, and longing. Every day is
hard, but then you come up on “special” days...like upcoming
Memorial Day. Memorial Day holds double pain for me because, not only are we
supposed to honor our fallen troops, but Casey was born on Memorial Day in 1979.
It used to be a day of celebration for us and now it is a day of despair. Our
needlessly killed soldiers of this war and the past conflict in Vietnam have all
left an unnecessary trail of sorrow and deep holes of absence that will never be
filled.
So, Democratic Congress, with
the current daily death toll of 3.72 troops per day, you have condemned 473 more
to these early graves. 473 more lives wasted for your political greed. Thousands
of broken hearts because of your cowardice and avarice. How can you even go to
sleep at night or look at yourselves in a mirror? How do you put behind you the
screaming mothers on both sides of the conflict? How does the agony you have
created escape you? It will never escape me...I can’t run far enough or
hide well enough to get away from
it.
By the end of September, we will be
about 80 troops short of another bloody milestone: 4000, and MoveOn.org will
hold nationwide candlelight vigils and you all will be busy passing legislation
that will snuff the lights out of thousands more human
beings.
Congratulations Congress, you
have bought yourself a few more months of an illegal and immoral bloodbath. And
you know you mean to continue it indefinitely so “other presidents”
can solve the horrid problem BushCo forced our world
into.
It used to be George Bush’s
war. You could have ended it honorably. Now it is yours and you all will descend
into calumnious history with
BushCo.
The Camp Casey Peace Institute
is calling all citizens who are as disgusted as we are with you all to join us
in Philadelphia on July 4th to try and figure a way out of this
“two” party system that is bought and paid for by the war machine
which has a stranglehold on every aspect of our lives. As for myself, I am
leaving the Democratic Party. You have completely failed those who put you in
power to change the direction our country is heading. We did not elect you to
help sink our ship of state but to guide it to safe
harbor.
We do not condone our
government’s violent meddling in sovereign countries and we condemn the
continued murderous occupation of
Iraq.
We gave you a chance, you
betrayed
us.
Sincerely,
Cindy
Sheehan
Founder and President of Gold
Star Families for Peace.
Founder and Director
of The Camp Casey Peace Institute.
Eternally
grieving mother of Casey Sheehan.
Posted: Fri - June 1, 2007 at 06:30 PM