What I understand from other threads about this woman is that she's been a member of Marxist and Communist groups for many years. I am in no position to judge the relationship she had with her son, or the sincerity of her grief. But the young man died in April 2004. So why is she showing up in Crawford now? Why not last year when her grief was fresh and there was an election on? The answer is because she and her Marxist cronies didn't think of it then. Now they're out for publicity and to raise her profile. You just watch. She's going to be all over the Today show, Good Morning America, and the cable news programs spewing her venom.
But now she's a commodity ...she's getting attention and fawning from a twisted group of people, but it's attention she craves. She's now the jewel and tool of the left, and they will use her up to suit their purposes until she can't see straight.
I think the effective and credible antidote to her poison is a strong voluntary movement on the part of parents who've also lost loved ones in this war who absolutely disagree with her viewpoint, and I pray a group like that gets angry enough to step up.
I keep thinking about the Mom who was honored by W at the SOTU address .. who hugged the Iraqi Mom.