Cindy Sheehan Breaks Through Apathy

I applaud mother of fallen soldier, Cindy Sheehan, for her vigil outside Bush’s retreat ranch in Texas. I like how she is not content to sit at home and do nothing about the Iraq war.

Cindy Sheehan is not apathetic. How could she be when she has experienced the heart break of losing a son, who was deployed in Iraq? Cindy Sheehan cannot be apathetic. She wants answers and she is willing to go to great lengths to get them.

The rest of us, as Americans, cannot afford to be apathetic about Iraq as well. We were misled, told there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none.

We should be enraged --- because now the U.S. is in a mess over in Iraq – we’ve fostered insurgency after insurgency. We have begun turmoil in the country and new leader after leader is killed there. When we leave, there will probably be coup after coup, until another dictator rises to power.

We cannot invade countries and attempt to apply U.S. laws and politics onto a completely different country with different history and culture.

So, we should all be speaking out like Cindy Sheehan, in our own way instead of allowing our leaders to invade countries without just cause.

While Bush vacations on his 1,600-acre ranch (and yes, he does like taking vacations) there is a sticky mess in Iraq that he should be discussing exit strategies for instead of golfing or fishing.