Cindy Sheehan, the mother whose son Casey’s death in Iraq caused her to be a peace activist, has given up her public fight against the war. See here and here.

She says her son’s death was in vain, she has lost her marriage, her health and her savings for her cause and now she is being criticized by some on the far left for criticizing Democrats for the same actions for which she criticized Republicans.

In a lot of ways I feel Cindy Sheehan was a victim of her own making. No, she didn’t cause the death of her son, which is what she says brought her to the public eye, but she allowed others to benefit their cause by her own grief.

Now that she has forsaken the Democratic party she has been called unsavory names at Democratic Underground, a site that is so far to the left it’s ready to drop off the face of the earth, but it was a place that praised her and glorified her before she turned against the democrats.

“I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a ‘tool’ of the Democratic Party.” Sheehan wrote. “However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the ‘left’ started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. “

She has been quite a celebrity for the far left for the past two years, but is now giving it all up, including selling Camp Casey in Crawford, TX, to go back home to her other children and try to patch up relationships that have been strained due to her so-called “fame”.

Maybe now she can actually take the time to grieve over the loss of her son in a way that will be cathartic for her, and she will be able to re-start her relationship with her other children whose needs have come second to the anti-war movement for the past two years.

As as conservative Republican who believes her son will have died in vain only if we leave without bringing about a peace that is elusive at best, I feel no ill feelings toward her. I wish her Godspeed and the peace she so desperately seeks for herself.