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Cindy Sheehan Is Right

By Matthew Vadum on 8.19.09 @ 12:03PM

I never thought I would agree with Cindy Sheehan but she actually said something that makes sense.

The Washington Examiner's Byron York says the antiwar movement that stirred up trouble during the Bush administration wasn't really an antiwar movement at all: it was an anti-Bush movement.

York shared his thesis with antiwar activist Sheehan that the antiwar movement has slipped into hibernation because President Bush left office, and she was honest enough to admit she agreed with him. She sent him the following email):

I read your column about the "anti-war" movement and I can't believe I am saying this, but I mostly agree with you.

The "anti-war" "left" was used by the Democratic Party. I like to call it the "anti-Republican War" movement.

While I agree with you about the hypocrisy of such sites as the DailyKos, I have known for a long time that the Democrats are equally responsible with the Republicans. That's why I left the party in May 2007 and that's why I ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi in 2008.

I have my own radio show, "Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox," and I was out on a four-month book tour promoting the fact that it's not about Democrats or Republicans, but it's about the system.

Even if I am surrounded by a thousand, or no one, I am still working for peace.

Sincerely,

Cindy Sheehan

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Bob Dylan| 8.19.09 @ 3:05PM

Oh... how does it feel?
Tell me, how does it feel?
To be on your own?
A complete unknown?
With no direction home?
Just like a rolling stone?

Mike| 8.19.09 @ 3:32PM

The socialist Democrat party used her up and spit her out. Many of us on the right new this was happening at the time...I think maybe Cindy knew it at the time as well so my sympathy for her can be measured by a thimble.

ClaireSolt| 8.19.09 @ 3:35PM

Such a naif. She never said anything that you can't find said better in documents that are thousands of years old. So, twas slwaydss thus. Relatively speaking, we are in a very peaceful time.

Kevin| 8.19.09 @ 4:23PM

Cindy is right though, Bush sucks. Obama is making Bush look like a choir boy. NWO started the war. Mrs. Sheehan needs to direct it at the Federal Reserve. Its not funny when u loose yer son to an unjust war, and then find out that u have been used. That is what liberals do, use others to get their nutjob agenda through.

Angel| 8.19.09 @ 10:07PM

I felt sorry for her because I knew she suffering over the loss of her son. I hope she has found peace.

Nivek| 8.20.09 @ 1:04AM

No, Cindy is just an insane attention whore who shopped out her faked-up grief for her son to push her retarded anti-semitic screeds against Israel while helping her fellowAl-Qaeda-loving Bush-hating leftist traitors (but I repeat myself) bash our liberation of Iraq. You've GOT to be an idiot to believe the crap she does; the leftraitors knew how to take advantage of this Jew-hating nutjob's hypocritical attacks on Bush (her moral superior in EVERY respect), but pretty much any band of evil sociopaths could have done the same. That's what you get for sucking on all those lefty posteriors for so long, Cindy! Ha ha!