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Cindy Sheehan has left the Peace Movement. It is as sad as it is inevitable. Her diary entry on dailykos.com exudes defeat, resignation and weariness. No as many people are cheering her "demise" as are saddened by it.

Cindy, you did Good. And you did it well. You kick-started a national awareness movement, and that alone justifies your sacrifices. Only in the face of great adversity will people arise from their self-imposed stupor to pay attention, let alone take action, and to peer around blinking. You started this. Thank you.

In fantasy fiction the largest beats always move slowly. Much energy is needed to more such mass. So, too, the bureaucratic behemoth that is the United States also moves ponderously. Once it does, it moves inexorably. You started it. You’ve done more for America than anyone else by awakening sleeping beast of Democracy. Again, thank you.

Two questions remain: Where will it go? How far will it travel? Only fools will guess. While the entrenched Republic half of our Great Experiment continues, the Demon of Democracy is now alert and pondering. What more can one person do?

You’ve earned your rest. Go home not in defeat, but peaceful in the realization that you, on behalf of Casey, did more for the future of this nation than anyone in recent years. May your years be good ones.