Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Lee Miller Sheehanis an American anti-war activist, whose son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action during the Iraq War. She attracted national and international media attention in August 2005 for her extended antiwar protest at a makeshift camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch—a stand that drew both passionate support and criticism. Sheehan ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008. She is a vocal critic of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. Her memoir, Peace Mom:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 July 1957
CountryUnited States of America
Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.
We were all finally pleased that one of the liars was exposed. But how many more liars do we have to go after in this administration?
We are here ... to show our government, to show our media, to show America that we mean business, and we're not going home until every last one of our troops is home.
We want to hold this administration accountable. Nobody's asking them the hard questions but you know what, we're willing to come here.
What I hope to do with it would be to energize other anti-war candidates. If I entered it, it would bring attention to the fact that there are many, many races where pro-peace, anti-war candidates are running.
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.
I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.
'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.
I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.
Looking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life.
The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.
What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?
I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.