Andrew Warner: Cindy Sheehan sticks it to the Democratic Party

I've never been a big fan of peace advocate Cindy Sheehan. I agree with most of what she says so it must be a personality issue... But she is "resigning" as the "face of the peace movement" to spend time with family and get away from politics.

Who can blame her?

But her farewell letter is poignant and targeted at the Democrats who abandoned the peace cause. She has this to say:

I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland. I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

Labels: Iraq, National Politics, peace