"Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives." Cindy Sheehan, the mother who became an anti-war leader after her soldier son was killed in Iraq, said.

Abashing, isn't it? Perhaps people are too nonchalant to ponder over this painful remark of this distraught anti-war activist.