Sheehan's position does not only clash directly with President Bush's policy, which he reiterated on Thursday: "Pulling the troops out would send a terrible signal to the enemy." Her call for complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq also amounts to a firm rejection of the ongoing stance from Howard Dean, the head of the national Democratic Party, who told a Minneapolis audience on April 20: "Now that we're there, we're there and we can't get out."
I am firmly in the Cindy Sheehan camp of let's get out now! I do not see our staying in Iraq ever having a calming and peaceful impact on that country. I believe that they will never even come close to having peace until our influence is no longer evident. We can stay and allow more of our young people to die, but it will change nothing!
Cindy speaks for me far more then Howard Dean does, or John Kerry, or even Hillary Clinton. Cindy has no political aspirations so she speaks from her heart and that is what I have been wanting to hear from our leaders. I don't not want to hear carefully structured sentences that straddle the middle so as to offend as few potential voters as possible. I want to hear passion! I want to hear dissent! I want to hear the truth!
