It's Up To You Now (by John Nichols for The Nation)

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BLOG | Posted 05/29/2007 @ 09:39am
It's Up To You Now


The decision of Congressional Democrats to hand George Bush a blank check to maintain a war they were elected to end has frustrated a lot of Americans -- even the until-now indefatigable Cindy Sheehan.

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of slain soldier Casey Sheehan whose 2005 decision to camp out in Crawford, Texas, until George Bush heard her complaints about the war made her a hero to activists around the world, is one of them.

Here is what Sheehan, one of the most self-less campaigners this reporter has had the privilege of covering, wrote on her website after another Memorial Day with no end in sight to a war that should never has started:

I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning. These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.

The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our "two-party" system? .......(more)

THe complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=200090