Sheehan ‘Resigns' As Public Face of Anti-War Movement

FORT WORTH, Texas — Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized an anti-war movement with her month-long protest outside President Bush's ranch, said yesterday she's done being the public face of the movement.

"I've been wondering why I'm killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush," Ms. Sheehan told the Associated Press while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California.

"I'm going home for a while to try and be normal," she said.

In what she described as a "resignation letter," Ms. Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the Daily Kos Web log: "Goodbye, America ... you are not the country that I love, and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it. It's up to you now."