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Washington - U.S. activist Cindy Sheehan, whose protests against the Iraq war has drawn widespread attention and criticism is quitting her public role, saying that the US was becoming a “fascist corporate wasteland” facilitated by a two-party system in which both parties were equally to blame.

Here are some vistor comments regarding her annoucement:

All I can wish for Cindy Sheehan is that she can find the peace and meaning that is so hard to come by for parents of dead children. To read her saying, “Casey did die for nothing,” drives home the enormity of her loss and reminds us that, after all, she is a grieving mother first and foremost.

Her criticism about support for her cause is apt - as soon as she expanded the scope of her criticism from the Republicans to include the system in general then all of a sudden she wasn’t the left’s darling any more. It points to the bigger issue of partisan politics in the U.S. and how entrenched people are in their positions.

Comment by Maria E. Andreu

It’s about time that she realize that what she needed to do was be with her family and not trying to change the president mind which is already made up. and she just lost more love ones instead of gaining more.

Comment by Eddie

While I am anti-war in Iraq, I have to say this poor lady needs help. It has always been with her: if you don’t totally agree with me, you are totally wrong and without values. After 9/11, there are a lot of grays out there and people realize it. It is militant terrorists under the Islam banner against everyone else–including their own people. What I hate to see more than anything is what this is doing to the Iraqi people. After Saddam, they don’t deserve it.

Comment by M L Parker

Cindy has it right! IF the number of the military killed & maimed even came close to that in Veitnam there would be an uproar in this country. There aren’t enough people that give a damn about this war. No one of note has had to be put in harms way. In that case the wealthy would be put at risk. That would be a different story. Good luck Cindy.

Comment by William Gleason

Maybe instead of trying to stop the war, Sheehan should have run for a political office at the national level. She could have done much more. I would have voted for her. Sheehan is correct. America is not America any more. It’s a third world country with nuclear capabilities.

Comment by J.A. Clark

[Her son] did not die for nothing he died protecting this country .Thank god for all the men and women over there fighting for this wonderful country…

Comment by mike

Start the draft and watch the peace movement take off. She is right the general population is not concerned enough to do any thing but watch TV and go to work, one would think that double gas prices would do something. To all of you couch creatures buy your gas from small independents not the majors and that will do something, without you having to spend to much energy.

Comment by duke mcclain

Sheehan suffered a great loss and unfortunately that fed her uncompromising view of the war in terms that did not allow her to see beyond her immediate tragedy. Few individuals are “for” war, but the question rests on determining if there was a perceived “value added” when the war started. The country’s safety is a president’s over-riding responsibility. If Sheehan felt that politics was a greater motivation then she had a valid point. Problem is that politics seems to infect the Democratic party equally and thus the dilemma of identifying an honest broker whose motivations are untarnished. The realization must have added to her pain.

Comment by Bud