Cindy: It IS An Oxymoron

Tweet "Currently, Sheehan's political activities include working with John Kerry's office to support his resolution to start bringing the troops home on May 22, and all of them home by the end of the year. She's been working with Rep. Jim McGovern and has been asking all the elected officiels she meets to stop voting for war funding. She's on the national board of Progressive Democrats, working to get not only Democrats elected but as the group's name would indicate, progressive Democrats. She said that "should be an oxymoron, they should all be progressive."

"I think we need to pull our military presence out of there, they never needed our military presence there. And like I said in the talk, to say that to be able to rebuild their country they need a U.S. military presence there is arrogant and racist. We need to withdraw all our troops, close the permanent bases. We need to bring the general contractors out of there, give Iraqi people back their jobs and let them rebuild their country because it's their country. It's not the 51st state of America. And right now, what's happening is our presence there is degenerating, the country is degenerating into civil war, chaos and confusion, and it's because of the occupation. Occupations, ... the goal is to create chaos and confusion in a country so they can't resist the occupiers."

Even though her analysis (see above) is right on, Cindy has made her role as an antiwar activist more difficult by joining the Dem political network. Maybe she wasn't paying attention at the last Democratic convention. Kucinich, someone I'm betting she would have supported, totally caved when his party called. Linda