To be honest, Cindy Sheehan has not impressed me much as a figure for the antiwar movement to rally around.
(1) Anecdotal arguments are not the best arguments against the war. That one person was killed is not a good argument that the war was unjustified, in my opinion.
(2) Her reaction to her son's death is not necessarily typical; a lot of parents think that their children made admirable sacrifices.
(3) Some of her statements (referring to non-Iraqis aiding the insurgency as "freedom fighters from other countries," saying that America is "not worth dying for") seem to reflect a pro-insurgent, anti-American, rather than a pro-American, antiwar point of view.
That is all.
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