ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the left dismisses Cindy Sheehan on political terms, it ignores important ethical questions about voice and public speech that she raises largely because her politics are not sufficiently 'pure'. Such wide draw is precisely why the right finds it necessary to attack both her person and her politics as the many sites generated on Google searches indicate. However, the ethical issues both Sheehan and Zappala raise are in fact the same, and to dismiss those because Sheehan's positions on the war are accompanied as well by, to use a shorthand, 'Jamba Juice politics,' is a failing on the part of the left that is at once ethical and political. Despite Cindy Sheehan's iconic value to the right, and the shorthand way they can invoke her to dismiss the anti-war movement more generally. Testimony by those who have lost family to the war on terror, wherever they are located, demands a challenging ethical engagement, one not found in censuring attacks or acts of censorship.
