Sheehan steps off the stage

She lost a lot more than one son, but it was because she voluntarily gave up the rest of her family because one son, who made his own choice to serve his country, lost his life in doing so. She made her own choice too and the consequences of her actions–unlike her son’s actions–are less than honorable.

Congres, particularly Harry Reid, is not very good at this game of chicken. Yes, we all know that the troops need basic funding. But to have capitulated this quickly really looked weak and allows the minority party to come up with the ideas for moving forward.
I admire Ms. Sheehan greatly and feel great sympathy for her on a personal level.
However, rather than give up in disgust and despair, I think it might have been neat to seize upon the republicans’ newest tactic: we’ll leave as soon as the Iraq government indicates that they don’t want us there. Now is the time for a massive letter writing campaign to the Iraqi Assembly urging them to ask us to leave. It would certainly reflect the popular sentiment of their own people and would send a strong and deeply embarrasing message to our COngress and to Bush.

Good riddens, Cindy Sheehan. You won’t be missed, not by myself anyway. For you to say that, because Congress has decided to fund the war a little longer, that your son “did indeed die for nothing”, is to say that if the troops came home and left Iraq in the state that it is in, mission unaccomplished, that he would have died for something? Come again? I don’t get your comment. But then again, I never understood you. And frakly, your son would not have approved of your behavior. He chose to server this country and go and fight. Who are you to question his honor or taint his memory?

“MEDIA, MEDIA, Look at ME. But please leave me alone when my mother is ill. OK, I’m back, LOOK AT ME!!!!!!”

The only ones who thinks her son died for no reason are cowards and fools. She spits on his graver herself every day.

I still have my candles!

Cindy should realize that the republicans and democrats REALLY are on the same team of screwing us over—its just good cop/bad cop. Wake up folks! You guys are still squabling over the false left/right paradigm. Look at the immigration bill, look at how we should not be in Iraq and how the dems ‘supposedly’ cannot get the troops back home…..WAKE UP!

Unfortunately, Cindy Sheehan’s does still represent what the leader’s of the Democratic party stands for today. Just look at the traitorous comments by Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Pelosi. Cindy has shown that she, just like the Democrat leadership, is a quitter. Thank God our country was not represented by these people during World War II. We would be speaking Japanese, with German as a second language. Thankfully we do have people like Cindy’s son that still believe in our great Country.

To the Rightie loonies,
You really amuse me with your false bravado and your pretend John Wayne Americanisms. Your knowledge of civic duty, patriotism, bravery, courage, and wisdom is so convoluted with the propaganda the GOP feeds you thru Rush, O’Reilly, National Review, that your morals are turned upside down.
Who would’ve thunk it, that the GOP turn on their own all the time, saying they are conservative enough, make further splits that really define the right from the far right to the damn near lunatic.
Your idiocy in starting this war in Iraq shows that you don’t understand wise military teachings, and substitute courage for blind aggression. You don’t know your enemy, you don’t know the land, you don’t know what the hell you are doing. But yet, you keep yappin and yappin about “stay the course” and “9/11″ like a ninny.
The left? They are impotent and stuck in a day dream of peace and are so anti-military as to be unbelievable. The naivity of the left and right are equal in volume, stench, and consequence.
Paul, about that one way ticket to Iran, what sort of moron are you? Put that ticket in Bush International right now and I’ll take it to Iran. No problem. I’d like to go there anyway as I have many friends in Tehran. It would be good to see them.
Your sort of narrowmindedness is so old and unimaginative, unthinking, and lemming like, that you don’t realize how quickly most thinking people just discount your sort of jingoism.
and last, shame on the cowardly blogging punk who would dare accuse a mother of spitting on her son’s grave simply because you hate her, her kind, anyone who thinks like her, around here, the left, the media, liberals, and all the other hateful targets of your hateful little mind. Shame on you for such a suggestion.

Democrats blink. What a shame.

HELLO LIBERALS, ANYBODY HOME?
Quotes here from cindy herself about whay her looney left friends called her, the milder ones she said.
The daily kos headline:
“Good Riddance Attention Whore”
“I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called “Face” of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such “liberal blogs” as the Democratic Underground. Being called an “attention whore” and being told “good riddance” are some of the more milder rebukes.”
click the link in the article and read it for yourself.

Cindy is correct about everything she has said here. The Democrats have disappointed everyone who voted for them. They have sold out the troops and more of them will die needlessly in this pointless war.
But I do wish she would not give up the fight. There are countless thousands of Democrats who are on her team. We need some loud voices like hers to help us defeat those Democrats (and Republicans too) that voted to continue the funding. We need to get new candidates who will not back down to the fascists!
Bush keeps going on about how he wants to “let the generals run the war”. Since when did the military in the US get to make policy? I didn’t know we had a military dictatorship. We need to get back to the civilians in congress deciding which wars we get involved in!

Ok, neocons! Do you support a $1 a gallon war tax to support this occupation in Iraq? Yes or no?

what a half hearted effort of a war bring back the draft and see how long it lasts

I am so ashamed of what this country has come too, we are lambasting a woman who lost her son in battle. How many of you would be willing to make that sacrifice? The actual problem is that we are to afraid to admit that we are the “bully” of nations. People hate us because we think we need to stick our nose into other peoples buisness. no matter if you are with the right or the left, why cant we just worry about us the “US”? If we would spend more time doing that, maybe Cindy wouldn’t have to be front page news.

Cindy Sheehan deserved to speak to Pres. Bush a second time if she so requested. If my son died I would certainly hope that the president would take the time to speak to me if that is what I needed. I think that the presidents callous behavior caused the entire reaction from Cindy Sheehan and I do not blame her one bit. I have a son, and if my son died I do not know how I could go on. The grieving for Cindy Sheehan must be overwhelming. President Bush could only understand if one of his daughters went off to war and he suffered the same sort of lose. He was a young man, too young to die. Respect that. Respect his mothers grief and loss.

911 happened on Bush’s watch!! Anyone else would have been impeached!!The Afghanistan effort had everyone’s support–ANY President would have gone there–but look at Afghanistan after the no-it-all neocons abandoned the effort there so they could lie their way into Iraq as part of THEIR agenda–forget protecting the American public as W is so programmed & rehearsed to say–where is the support for the first responders in THIS country?–where is the renewed emphasis to wipe out the Taliban along with their heroin cash crop? Sheehan and others are on the right side of history to want an end to the collosal disaster brought on America by Bush Inc. The anti-war voices during Viet Nam were rigth to want a fast end to our bloody and wasteful involvement in that country’s civil war and Sheeahan and those like her are right now–but the no-it-all right-wing play all sort of games to attack the messenger and distract people from the obvious truths.

How many of us do not know that Saddam was funding Osama? There are many truths that I am sure we are not being told about. I don’t like the war, I detest it, but as a mother, and ex service member, I inderstand the reality of making sacrafices, sacrafies not everyone agrees with. I don’t agree with them. We all have have different views and beliefs. It’s good that we have places like this that we can vent it.

IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY!
Steven R.
US Army (Retired)

This disturbed lady was a trouble maker. She should have been blaming the terrorists and not Mr. Bush.

I see countless Sheehan supporters here making the same mistake. They keep saying the war in Iraq is unjustified because Iraq did not attack America. Do these people know that Sheehan also opposes the war in Afghanistan? Even though Afghanistan harbored Osama bin Laden? Sheehan doesn’t care how many Americans were murdered by Osama. She would have laughed at anyone here who suggests that our war in Afghanistan is justified.

One problem Ms. Sheehan and others have in their analysis of what has (not) happened within the anti-war dynamic is that you keep talking about the “left.” You have not yet encountered anything that resembles a left in the anti-war movement (or other political thrust) yet.
If there was a real left fighting this battle, it would not look like ANY of the contingents you are currently looking at.
Nieteh Move-on, nor any faction of the dems, nor the “netroots” or whatever they’re called should be thought of as the left wing.

Sheehan’s problem, like many of this war’s protestors, is that they are selfish. She speaks of the bloodbath, as if the 911 bloodbath, the Cole bloodbath, and others — never happened. She only cared for HER feelings. She wanted HER son back. She was not willing to sacrifice for this country’s freedom. On this Memorial Day, when we remember the selfless sacrifice of those that gave their life for our freedom, in wars popular and not, Sheehan deserves to be forgotten. Stephanopoulos once asked two anti-war parents (unrelated to each other) what they thought their deceased sons would have said about the war. The one parent told of his son’s letters and how he understood the sacrifices that had to be made, and that the son, before he died supported the war and was willing to die for the freedom he hoped it would bring us here at home. The father was very aware of his son’s feelings and thoughts. When Stephanopoulos turned to the other parent, and asked the same question, she was struck dumb. For the longest time she just starred at Stephanopoulos with a blank look on her face. She never said a word. From her non-verbal it was clear she had never communicated with her son about that question. The only person she ever asked was herself. She only cared about herself, and if she hurt, then the war was wrong. It’s sad when the predominate motivation of the anti-war, anti-Bush protestors, seems to stem from selfishness or political hate. That’s something to remember when, on this day, we celebrate the selfless love of our veterans, from past wars, and the one we fight now.

Dear Sheehan,
You can’t do anything as long as the AIPAC
is in favor of the Iraq war.

I feel for Cindy’s plight and I agree with her now realization that this government whether Democrat or Republican is the most corrupt in history and could care less about anything but pure power. As long as the choices are only Republican or Democrat there will never be a change. While I have been appalled from the beginning with this whole affair in which over 3 thousand American soldiers, and over 100 thousand Iraqi citizens have died for nothing more than a Bush Power play to control Middle Eastern Interests, I also am appalled at the lack of serious effort the Democrats have made in stopping it. Every empire eventually falls, and while we may have a few more glorious years, we are definitely on the declining trend. While most of the comments I have read have been respectful no matter the writers viewpoint, I find it unfortunate that there are still so many that are hateful towards Cindy Sheehan. How can you hate someone that cherishes and respects life enough to stand up for her beliefs. I guess its just further evidence of the collapse of our Democracy, and we had better get it back soon before it is too late.

Ms. Sheehan is now the face of a conceding nation, one in which the citizen’s, collectively, and previously designated representatives, no longer have a true voice to demand what is in the best interests of Americans…There is no party of the people…neither party is one of integrity nor common sense….I grow fearful and disheartened by what is to become the future of this country based on the current state of affairs….Republicans have the brutality and sense of action, but one that stems out a cloud of insecurity that debilitates any ounce of rationality….The Democrats only have their good intentions, but no spine, resolve, dedication, or integrity to stand up for their convictions; theirs is more a matter of destroying the path of the Republicans (reaction) and not blazing their own (inaction).

I remember receiving nasty letters sent by my Republican so called friends castigating Cindy for her position. They made me angry then and their blame game now makes me even angrier now. How can anyone say they care about our troops and still force them to stay in Iraq fighting in this useless, pointless, manufactured war? I shudder each time I hear the sound bite used that they are fighting for our freedom. It is not our freedom or the Iraqi peoples freedom that they are there fighting for (that just sounds so noble)so lets be honest enough to admit that this is just a game politicians (both sides)play with their lives and our lives and taxpayers money for oil and power so you and they can continue to drive those big SUV’s and fly those Jets that destroy the earth’s atmosphere. Cindy has finally given up the fight to change the status quo and who should be blaming her. No one can do it alone..in fact since the Dem’s faked everybody out and turned tail and ran from the fight I too and my entire family have decided to give up our Democratic membership. Maybe the time has come for a third party victory.

It is time for US interventionist policies to come to an end. That would be the best way to honor the fallen.

As an American today on Memorial Day, I want to say that,we as a Nation need to find a way to peace within our own nation about an issue that divides us and pits each of us against one another which is weakening our nation at this time amd place. There is no peace in the world and now there is not peace in our land. We can discuss issues in a civil manner and hopefully have a government do the same but there are forces at work that want our nation fighting within and bickering towards one another. Compromise is called for here and reason and peace so that we as a nation can feel strong and not so polarized. I respect the passion towards the ideals that we all have come to know and share as Americans and pray for peace to be in all of our hearts today. God bless the fine soldiers who sacrificed their all for the cause of freedom and peace.

Hey, Best news I’ve heard all day. So she’s finally getting off the soap box and going home. Good Bye, you turn coat witch. Being against the one is one’s personal choice, and as an American she had that choice, but meeting with Chavez and Castro, she should be arrested for ging aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States!

Cindy Sheehan’s frustration serves to highlight the Democrats’ dilemma. Republicans tend to be more single-minded and hence, easier to woo. The opinions of Democrats are much more diverse. Consequently, no Democratic candidate is going to please all Democrats. If those who want to see an end to the Bush/Cheney regime do not show more tolerance, we could find ourselves right back with another 4 years of Republicans.

Go back to mexico Michael, and stop mooching off of the US economy. Mucho Gracias, bentayo.

Sigh. Another illegal alien cut and runner gone again. Next?

TO:vetfromhell …I believe she was doing what she was doing out of LOVE for her lost son, and to prevent other parents from going through that same loss. You are a sick individual to make such a statement. And obviously a fine BRAINWASHED product of the Bush administrations all volunteer military, which is actaully made up of 50% no-bid contrat forces. She did not pick the democrats…they picked her. Your mentality is what has manged to keep the OCCUPATION going. We as Americans have gained NOTHING from this. Except of course more distrust and disrespect from the rest of the world. She can not change what did happen to her son. But she may have helped open the worlds eyes to the boy Bush and the NeoCons. Saddam wanted to open talks with the USA prior to our “going in” with just about the same reactionless Bush attitude. I feel sorry for all involved. While the troops were over ther thinking they were fighting for America and Freedom, the government was over here eviserating our constitution. I sure hope none of them feel proud of that when they find out what went on while they were gone.

Also, whether I agree with Cindy or not, whether I am Republican or Democrate, Man, Woman, married or single. . . I thank GOD I live in a country where you can still say what you think! God Bless America! I pray we still defend our rights to speak freely!

I wept for a mom who sacrificed ALL she had out of her compassion for others, hoping that no other mother, father, wife, son, daughter, step children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends need not suffer the dept of loss of their precious loved one. She, like most of us, expected those elected by “we the people” to do their utmost to preserve life, liberty and justice for all.
The remarks lack any compassion for her and her loss. what is wrong with America? How could we beat down and disrespect a citizen how practice the freedoms her son died for SHAME ON US!!!
The estimated 500,00 deaths of Iraq’s are primarily Iraqis killing Iraqis. I can not imagine their pain or the pain of our military personnel who witness the devastation and loss of fellow soldiers as they help the Iraq’s not only rebuild but create a system of freedom seemingly unfamiliar in that part of the world. I am pro peace, yes I support the troops, and I want them home! Please elected people stop playing politics and get serious about leading.

The train wreck has left the station. This attention grabbing witch is now doomed to her isolated idealisms in the tragic depths of her illogical idolism of social change. She started the left onto a path of division and craziness that will rip the party apart. She leaves destitute and dissillusioned wallowing in her twisted mind. Good bye. I hope this is her last breath…

I agree with Cindy. The Republicans are incompetent but the Democrats are cowardly. Both are fatal qualities in times of war. We need to get out of Iraq NOW. No more dithering about. I completely believe that if Hillary Clinton were President tomorrow the war in Iraq would drag on another 4-8 years. I don’t think the Dems are really invested in ending this war, any more than BushCo is.

Maybe you would have felt better if your son died in a car accident, Your son is up in Heaven and he is so pissed at you for dishonoring his name, and you are a terrible Mother who abandoned your other children when they needed you most. You are a Self-Centered person and you failed in Life!!In Iraq under Saddam you would have been shot in the head your first day of protest, because of hero’s like your son you are able to make a fool of yourself everyday since his death!!

I believe that the soldiers marines and airmen in Iraq are there mostly for each other. They support each other and die for each other. They do not have the luxury of opposing the war and accept that because they have taken an oath to obey their commander in chief.Wether the war is right or wrong has no bearing on how they conduct their lives. They are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. I love and support them all because I feel I am one of them. I only wish I could do more for them.

Some of you people have no idea how correct Ms. Sheehan is about her son dying for no reason. You must be the the Bush lovers, and the communists that this country is becoming…
I served in the service for Six (6) years, and did Granada, and Desert Storm.
I did not believe in those wars, nor do I believe in this one.
Our country has not fought for our land, or freedom since the World Wars, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
We are fighting wars, and killing our own children, for political reasons.
We are not protecting our freedom, nor are we protecting our children.
We are dying so that we may show power, sell our weapons, and be a dictator as bush has become.
We have lost our morals, and meaning of the land of the Free and the Brave. I have no respect for the Presidency of this country any more.
Lets take care of our people in our house first, then help the other countries, not destroy them.

Mrs. Sheehan is a poor, pathetic mom who lost her son. Her son was a brave, courageous, American, who saw his duty to country and answered its call. She never understood the war, doesn’t now. She has never understood her son, nor had the pride she should have in him. He gave his all and he gave it freely. He was not forced into military service. He volunteered to serve his country. He died defending the principles of his homeland. He died desiring freedom for a people that have been brutalized for over 30 years. He held their children, he heard their cries for freedom. He rests in peace and valor in God’s hands. He is an American hero. One, of whom, she should have taken such joy and personal pride for his honor. She should have walked taller, talked smarter, been braver. Instead, she trampled on his valor, made him out to be some pathetic man who did not know his own heart, who threw away his life. That is sad. Her son could have been like the thousands who die senselessly in auto accidents in this country each year, or he could have died from drug over-dose, or alcohol abuse, or he could have been imprisoned for life for some horrific crime, or murdered by some stranger for no reason. Instead his life was pertinent to a free nation being born, to growth industrially, economically, to a population being able to vote in their own constitution, their own leaders. His actions are a part of history now. Does Iraq have its problems, of course, it does. God knows we had ours in the creation of this great country, and we continue to struggle for the sake of liberty. She lost her son long before he left for Iraq, for she had never known him or understood him, or respected him, or she would never have defamed his efforts and his death as she has. She needs your prayers. Her son does not – he is raised up in glory.

Lean to the left and the Republicans hate you, lean to the right and the Democrats hate you, tell the truth and everyone hates you.

Ms. Sheehan is right; she was politically necessary to help some Democrats get elected. Now, she is a burden to those same Democrats who voted for this disasterous conflict.

Cindy Sheehan is absolutely right in all she says. As a former vet who has a son stationed in Iraq, I can tell you HE wants to come home, and says the war is “waste”
and is “unwinable”. I feel somewhat guilty that I have not supported Mrs. Sheehan more than I have because I DO agree with what she says. I can no longer stand to look into the face of our Commander-in-Chief.

So Ms Sheehan finally realized she was being used. Why did it take so long? All that time you wasted, all those people you needlessly trashed and it seems to me you were angry and hurt your son was killed and expressed it publicly and hatefully. I am happy you finally got your head on straight.

I agree with Cindy. We who supported the actions of the Democrats now feel sold out. Some of them even got there own funded amendments as a result of the war funding. When are our elected officials going to begin to listen to those who elected them? I say vote all of them out and start anew. It couldn’t get any worse!

We, all of us, every single American of voting age is responcible for this war. To the boomers, the products of the sixties,where are the protestors, the fighters agaist an unjust war? Why have we become so complacent? Why have’nt we raised are voices and stomped our feet and screamed, enough is enough, like we did during the sixties?
We took over University buildings because of Vietnam, we died at Kent State, we marched, we protested, we collectively raised our voices until finally we admitted a defeat in V. Was it really so bad to bring home the troops then? We trade with Vietnam now, we will trade with Iraq in the future.
Remember when Johnson could only visit military bases because if he went elsewhere the protestors shouted him down. Remember the helicopter taking the last out of Vietnam off the roof of the embassy.
If we leave now, right now, Iraq will survive in their own twisted way. We, all of us, were the agressors in Iraq, we cannot change 2000 years of conflict though some think we can. We have no right to. We can give them aid without giving them more precious honorable American lives.
Where are the protestors who, forty years ago would not have stood for one moment of this insanity? Get up off your couches, step off your boats, get out from behind your desks and let your voices be heard because it is our sons and daughters who are dieing.
Do we have to reach 55000 deaths before we yell, enough is enough? For Gods sake I hope not.
Where are you, where are you, where are you ?

Look at the hate in all these comments. Very sad. We are a divided nation that is in trouble. When everyone, not just Cindy suffers a loss of a loved one is when we may heal. Keep up the fear, the removal of rights, and the rep. party telling us who to hate.

This is the first thing she has done correct!, only 4 years too late , what a stupid, ill planned, disgraceful,backward, redneck, overstated way to honor your son.
Stay gone this time

This is the first thing she has done correct!, only 4 years too late , what a stupid, ill planned, disgraceful,backward, overstated way to honor your son.
Stay gone this time

Where is the middle ground? What America really wants is a leader who can stand up and say, “Yes, there have been mistakes in the past, but we are now going to move forward and do this right.” Some Republicans are trying to do this now, but after 4 years they have lost credibility. The Dems can’t separate the reasons for the war from the war itself, for fear that fixing this problem will make them look like they support Bush’s policy. But this is the very reason they lost the last election (Kerry spent way too much time telling people it was the wrong war, wrong time, and not how fix it). Sheehan is right in calling this a political war, but the problem is we already knew this. Everyone seems to feel that it is important to point to the past to show who did and didn’t support the war, not focus on a present solution (armor, troop support, Iraq infrastructure and jobs). If the Dems simply use the failings of the Rep party as their platform next year, they will have a hard hill to climb.

She disgraced her son and what he stood for. Her son, joined the United States military of his own free will and with that, came the knowledge that he may have to die for his country. If he wore that uniform with honor and pride he would be turning over in his grave with what his mother has done the past 4 years. I know that it must be hell losing a son, and that must be especially painful when he dies as a US soldier, when you are obviously an anti-American. When she says she is going back “home” but then has the nerve to say that this isn’t the country she loves anymore, why doesn’t she take her butt to Iraq and make her home there!

Perhaps Cindy is right to step down.

The Democratic Party should welcome Ms. Sheehan’s departure. Many disagree that the fight should center in Iraq, but most do not disagree that a fight is necessary.
While many Democrats and Republicans agree that entry into Iraq may have been a mistake, down deep, they also agree that once there, we could not simply hand over power to a new group of generals and Baathist party officials who would solve most of the problems there in a brutal manner but end up with insufficient power to prevent infestation by sectarian radicals. This is the ill considered approach we adopted in many interventions across the globe over past decades.
Most Democrats probably also feel (secretly at least) that we should not now abandon the democratization process we have initiated. Many people want out of Iraq, like Sheehan, but unlike Sheehan, they sense that the stakes are high, and they hold out hope for some kind of success. If none of this were true, the Democratic-controlled Congress would find it easier simply to cancel military action.
Sheehan is a tragic fortune of war, and much of the tragedy comes from her hate of fellow citizens. It is difficult for most people to understand precisely what she thinks would need to happen in order to give her son’s death meaning. Her harsh, often coarse rhetoric interferes with her message, and it seems doubtful that a change in political affiliation will increase her audience.

I have never been a fan of most of Ms. Sheehan’s radical (and thus, ineffective) comments, but I sure do admire and respect her persistence after losing a child.
I hope she, like Mr. Bush and his family in 2009, can find peace following such an intense period in the limelight.

This to me is very sad. She chose this path and she has done great harm to herself, her family, and her son’s memory. She cannot blame Bush anymore. She brought this misery on herself.

This women was given fuel by the liberals and made a fool out of herself. I feel sorry for her pasted son. I am sure he did not want this to happen and i am sure he has turned over in his grave, time and time again. His mother surely wanted the best for him, but this was insane. I disagree 110% with this lady, but feel so sorry for her, she desperatly needs to get help. Just goes to show you how misinformed and mislead the liberals are. They dont do the research and speak out of their rear-ends.

Grenada was in 1983. Desert Storm was in 1991. You claim you served six years in the military. Which one are you lying about?
BTW, did Sheehan ever put a tombstone on her son’s grave? Or did she use the VA payout to fly to her boyfriend Chavez?

MAN! Is this country ever divided. I bet the CONTROLLERS just love this kind of divide and rule soap opera. You-all are playing right into their hands. And while you get so pathetically hostile over one woman who lost a son and found her way to standing up against BIG GOVERNMENT, they sit back and set up for the next move. Oh my poor poor little sheeple.

I understand what she was trying to do. Now it is time to go home and take care the rest of her family,and let go. I believe her son would want that. God bless Cindy and the her family. Greg Boone

moosemeat – interesting nick anyhow :)
Do you know that the goverment made 4 time more then the oil companies did, Oile companies make approx 10 cents on the gallon, the goverment depending on the state make 33 to 62 cents on the gallon.
Note – Governor of NJ thinks he needes to raise the tax on gas now.
If the libs would allow drilling in the US, and building of new refineries then we would have no issue.
Secondly, you do know it is the lib environmentalists that are stopping building of new technology, Right?
Also please explain the high gas prices under Carter, If you account for inflation, you were paying alot more.

In a movie about Vietnam call “Gardens of Stone” One of the two main characters makes a quote:” You must stay here and protest against the war, I must go and help bring as many of these boys(now girls too) home”. Cindy was doing what every American should be doing, being critical of the war. As a former Soldier it was my job to carry out the orders given by my superiors, and as a leader it was my responsibility to help bring all my troops home. Now that I’m a civilian it is my job to be critical of war, it is my job to be critical of wanting to go to war, and it is my job to be critical of when a war should continue or end. TO Cindy: I want to express my condolences for the loss of a loved one to war, to your sons life and his memory you have my complete respect. I did not always support you methods but I do support your voice and your opinion.

prana – Maybe if the World and the anti-American people would wake up this war would be over.
You use word games such as anti-war, to appease the people, well I know of no one that is for War. so everybody is antiwar.
So the groups that name themselves as antiwar are really ANTI-American, and thats is it. You can tell by the way they only report or talk about our troops never what the enemy does.
So Please stop with the word games and call yourselves what you really are, anti-Americans.
You call Iraq a civil war and we should no be involved, but yet your draft-dodger Clinton sends our troops to an actual civil war and that is ok. Hypocrites.