Cindy Sheehan working with Sen. Kerry's office on Iraq

[TayTay]

Currently, Sheehan's political activities include working with John Kerry's office to support his resolution to start bringing the troops home on May 22, and all of them home by the end of the year. She's been working with Rep. Jim McGovern and has been asking all the elected officiels she meets to stop voting for war funding. She's on the national board of Progressive Democrats, working to get not only Democrats elected but as the group's name would indicate, progressive Democrats. She said that "should be an oxymoron, they should all be progressive."

And in response to the standard question about whether or not we can pull out of Iraq given its current state: "I think we need to pull our military presence out of there, they never needed our military presence there. And like I said in the talk, to say that to be able to rebuild their country they need a U.S. military presence there is arrogant and racist. We need to withdraw all our troops, close the permanent bases. We need to bring the general contractors out of there, give Iraqi people back their jobs and let them rebuild their country because it's their country. It's not the 51st state of America. And right now, what's happening is our presence there is degenerating, the country is degenerating into civil war, chaos and confusion, and it's because of the occupation. Occupations, ... the goal is to create chaos and confusion in a country so they can't resist the occupiers."

This is what Sheehan said she tells people they can do to raise support for getting out of Iraq: "They can urge their congresspeople to support such resolutions as McGovern's 4232 and John Kerry's S.R. 33. They can get out on the streets, they can write to their congresspeople. They can do counter-recruitment, dry up the cannon fodder, ... if they don't have soldiers, they can't fight wars. ... You know, just stand up and reclaim our country." Update: Altered the title.

from : http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/10/181122/700

[_dynamicdems]

1. This is awesome! Excellent news. n/t

[jenndar]

2. Fantastic! n/t

[ProSense]

3. Wonderful!

Everyone should get behind Kerry's withdrawal plan and make it happen.

[politicasista]

4. Cool

I heard she is supporting Gore for 08 as well (not that that's important right now). It's good to hear that she is supporting Kerry's resolution.

[jillan]

5. A perfect team - great news! n/t