Cindy Sheehan

[sabrina 1]

68. We were ignored by the MSM. I asked a friend recently if they remembered the huge

anti war protests during the Bush years, and she had no idea what I was talking about.

Cindy Sheehan got the publicity only a mother who was speaking out against the war could get. Sorry, but half the country supported that war and Bush used it to get reelected. A huge segment of the population still does.

What she achieved, and how thrilling it was at the time after several years of being unable to get the media to cover anti-war protests, to finally see the media covering HER, was to shine a light on the lies we were told. No anti-war protest was able to achieve that. She was a perfect icon, a mother who had lost her son in Bush's war, people listened as this was new. Up til then, people just assumed that those who lost loved ones in Iraq, loved Bush.

She was untouchable in a way, partly, ironically, due to the war propaganda itself. And she used it so effectively. Bush ran from Texas rather than face her to explain to her what her son had died for. And that was covered by the media also.

Cindy wiped the smirk off Bush's face, she made him run an hide and the country got to see a different side of him.

She continues to fight for peace, while a large majority of the former anti-war crowd have caved and even excuse the multiple wars we are now engaged in, since their party is in power. Silence from the left and worse, condemnation for those they used, it seems now, only for political purposes. We are all learning about this political process and it's pretty disappointing. I see comments here on DU that I used to see only on rightwing boards. Making everything she and OWS says, to be correct.