Sheehan says she considered suicide

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said the pain of losing her son in Iraq led her to consider taking sleeping pills to commit suicide.
Sheehan, who visited the city Friday for a "teach-in" on the Iraq war, told a crowd of about 650 people that the thought of her other children stopped her.
"How could I put them through another death in the family?" she said.
Her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was killed in Baghdad in April 2004. She gained international attention when she led an anti-war protest near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, for nearly a month last summer.
In Cincinnati, Sheehan urged those against the war to continuously voice their opposition.
"It's important that we all do something," she said.
Sheehan said the recent killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, will not put an end to the violence.
"Putting his picture in a golden frame and displaying it won't help anything, because murder begets murder," she said.