Sheehan Will “Die” At White House Gate

Isn’t that fascinating? Well, the people at the DNC-owned Associated Press seem to think it is:

Posted on Tue, Oct. 25, 2005

Peace activists to "die symbolically" outside White House

ELISABETH GOODRIDGE
Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Cindy Sheehan and other peace activists plan to "die symbolically" for the next four days outside the White House to represent the American soldiers who have died in Iraq.

Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year, organized the vigil as the U.S. military death toll in the war neared 2,000.

"I’ll be laying down and not getting up," Sheehan said Tuesday to a small crowd in which the number of journalists exceeded the number of protesters. "When they let me out, I’ll do the same thing if I get arrested."

She said she hoped 2,000 people would attend the vigil throughout the week to represent each American death. Each participant was to receive a wrist bracelet with the name of a fallen soldier.

Sheehan brought attention to the anti-war effort last summer by camping outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. She was arrested outside the White House in a protest last month.

Sheehan also said she would visit Arlington National Ceremony, Walter Reed Hospital and the Iraqi Embassy this week.

"Two thousand families have been destroyed for nothing," Sheehan said. "Enough is enough. The killing has to stop sometime."

Given that Cindy has talked quite regularly about how suicidal she is, and how she wished she had died when Casey did, what is the real point?

In fact, one of her (seemingly endless) "founding" partners for the Gold Star Families For Peace scam, Nadia McCaffrey, is a big fan of dying — having tried to off herself at least three times.