Cindy's ends stay at Crawford and begins bus tour

Cindy packed up and left Camp Casey today and is getting ready for a month-long bus tour around the eastern half of the country to continue to rally against the war in Iraq:

Here is a list of where the tour will stop

The antiwar mother of a fallen hero told reporters today before she stepped into the bus that this month started with a thought and ended with a movement:

"When I first started here, I was sitting in the ditch thinking, 'Whatthe heck did I do? Texas in August, the chiggers, fire ants,rattlesnakes, uncomfortable accommodations' -- but I'm going to be sadleaving here.  I hope people will say that the Camp Caseymovement sparked a peace movement that ended the war in Iraq and thatCamp Casey was a place for love and hope."

Whether or not you agree with pulling all the troops out of Iraq immediately -- which I don't -- you still have to hand it to Cindy Sheehan for raising awareness about the most important issue facing America.  This is a subject that until now was dominated by one viewpoint (Bush), while everyone else's opinion on Iraq was drowned out because the mainstream media was too lazy to cover it.  Now that both sides are getting their equal say, it is up to the rest of us in the middle to hear both sides, find a pragmatic solution to the mess we are in and hold our representatives accountable.