I can't imagine the pain of loss of a child, and I empathize with her loss. However, her son was a volunteer .. I think she descrates his valiant service by these actions, and I think she's being used by the all-too-willing Bush enemies. Whenever I see her, I have to turn her off. I can't stand her voice and whining.
I don't think she's being used at all. If anything, she's the one doing the using.
I'm not one who automatically assumes that there was a loving parent-child relationship in such cases. I am sorry for the death of her son, but for him, not for her. One is not necessarily a mother because one gave birth to a child. With her Marxist background, I'd lay dollars to donuts she didn't approve of his entering the military, and it's a better than even month bet that he did so to get away from an unhappy home life.
Now that the young man has died tragically, she gets her 15 minutes of fame and turns his death into a Marxist cause celebre. Sorry. That [boy am I ever itching to use a blue word]...chick gets no sympathy from me whatsoever. I hope she stays out in the Texas sun for the next several weeks and fries her brains out.