'Goodbye America': Anti-war mother ends protest
Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother who became a figurehead for the US anti-war movement, is abandoning her fight after growing disenchanted with the campaign.
Ms Sheehan has camped outside President George W Bush's ranch since 2005, demanding a meeting over the 2004 death of her son, Casey, in Iraq.Bush has refused to 'meet with' her.never
But announcing the end of her campaign in a blog post titled "Good Riddance Attention Whore", she has also hit out at Democrats and anti-war campaigners who put "personal egos above peace and human life".
"The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning ... was that Casey did indeed die for nothing," she said."I have tried every [day] 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."
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