Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan is one of many American mothers who tragically lost a son in the Iraq War. She has received heavy media coverage of her inflammatory remarks regarding President Bush, such as calling him "the biggest terrorist in the world today," and at the same time personally praising the authoritarian president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez for "supporting life and peace" .

On 29 May 2007, Sheehan resigned as the "leader of the anti-war movement" after Congressional Democrats "caved into Bush", saying "Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love."

Activism

Fox News conservative activist Sean Hannity claimed that Sheehan agreed to make commercials for John Kerry and was put on his campaign payroll. However, no evidence has been produced that any such commercials were produced or aired.

Some parents of soldiers killed in action have taken issue with her actions, specifically her use in protests of the names of other soldiers who have been killed in the Iraq War. Other parents of slain soldiers have supported her activism.

She has also made remarks regarding the conflict between Muslims and Jews in the Middle East, which Jews criticized as against Jewish interests.

Specifically, she stated:

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[My son] was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy … not for the real reason, because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our middle-eastern foreign policy.

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Support

Cindy Sheehan and her Gold Star Families for Peace anti-war group have received much support from Democrats, World Can't Wait Coalition, CODE PINK, and Women for Peace.

Opposition

"Sheehan has obviously taken a short course in the Michael Moore/Ramsey Clark school of Iraq analysis and has not succeeded in making it one atom more elegant or persuasive." [1] --Christopher Hitchens