She finally gets it

Cindy Sheehan has resigned to spend more time with her family.

Wait...you mean she wasn't holding an office to resign from? Could've fooled me.

I'm not going to say everything that comes to my mind, because of my respect for her loss, a loss she has done much to disrespect. (Damn, I said I wasn't going to say stuff like that. This is difficult.)

The most telling point in her statement is this:

The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

Now you get it! You finally understand. He died for nothing. They're all dying for nothing. You can't "make it meaningful" because the only meaning it has is that there is NOTHING worth dying for in this clusterfuck.

Partisanship means nothing. You found that out when you disaffiliated with the Democrats. It's too bad for you that you didn't know it going in. They used you. But you used them. So it goes.

And the anti-war movement means nothing, either. The war machine does control us. They control us because they have better guns. A movement is only as powerful as those who enforce its results.

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