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
We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace. We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts.
We're here to say that the killing has to stop and we're not going away. We want people to be held accountable and just because someone's president of the United States, it doesn't guarantee them immunity from accountability.
We have to stop it as soon as possible.
We need to stop the war in Iraq, we need to bring our troops home immediately.
I want Bush to stop using my son's sacrifice to justify the killing.
So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.
What I think it?s going to take now is non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience all over the country, ... Go to your senators? offices, to federal buildings. Sit down and say enough is enough. The killing has to stop sometime.
We're going to get the troops back, and we're going to get George Bush impeached this year.
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're here to energize most of the people in America who are with us.
Our country does not really know what war is about.
President Bush says we're safer fighting them there than over here. Why are we safer because 120,000 civilians are dead? What makes their babies less precious than ours?
I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.
I think our senator needs to be held accountable for her support of George Bush and his war policies.