CINDY SHEEHAN IN CRAWFORD

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[smokeman]

CINDY SHEEHAN IN CRAWFORD [Byron York]
There has been lots of coverage of the anti-war protest of Cindy Sheehan -- the woman whose soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq -- outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. There has also been plenty of mention of the fact that Bush has so far not met with Sheehan (although he did meet her in June 2004). But there has been somewhat less discussion of the remarkable attention Sheehan has received from top administration officials. Just look at this picture from the weekend:

The man sitting on the pavement is National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, while the man sitting in the chair to the right is White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin. They discussed with Sheehan at length the president's thinking in the decision to go to war in Iraq, and Sheehan simply refused to believe that they might have been sincere. Here are portions of an interview with Sheehan on the liberal Air America radio network:

We were setting up our little camp and all of a sudden like 6 secret service SUVs come pulling up and screeching to a halt, and they all jump out and kind of surround us, and I'm like "Oh my gosh, what did we do?" You know? And then these two men get out and walk over. It was Steve Hadley and Joe Hagin. They sat down with me and were talking with me asking "What do you want to do?" I said I want the president to explain what was the noble cause that my son died in, because that's what he said the other day when those 14 marines were killed. He said their families can rest assured that their sons and daughters died for a noble cause. And I said, "What is that noble cause?"

Joe Hagin told me that he goes with the president when he meets with families, and that George Bush really cares about the soldiers and the families, and I said, "Don¹t even tell me that! Because I met with him before, and that man doesn¹t even have an ounce of compassion in his body." And he looked really surprised. Don't you think that's something they would have known about before they had this little tete-a-tete with me yesterday? Besides, why is my meeting in June of 2004 relevant? Over 1100 more soldiers are dead since then, the Downing Street Memo report came out, the Senate intelligence report has come out, and the 9/11 Commission report has come out. Saddam is gone, they¹ve had free democratic elections in Iraq, and our troops are still there.

But anyway, I finally got to a point where I just said, "You know what? I might be a grieving mother but I am not stupid. I don¹t believe your lies and I really don¹t believe you believe them either."

They just said, "Well, we didn¹t really expect to come out here and change your mind about policy."

I said I want to speak to the president, and they said, "Okay, we'll convey your concerns to the president."

In her interview with Air America, Sheehan encouraged listeners to go to pro-Democratic websites to make their feelings known:

We need more people hereŠwe¹re getting a lot of press attention and it would be nice for as many people to come whenever they can come. To show them that, truly, 61% of American people want this war over and believe it was a mistake to begin with. So lets show them that. There¹s also vigils and protests and demonstrations being organized around the country. People should go to the Progressive Democrats of America site, or After Downing Street . Daily Kos is posting a lot of events that are happening and ways to support us.

Posted at 04:57 PM

[xroadie]

"...truly, 61% of American people want this war over..."

WRONG
Probably 100% of us want this war over.
Some of us would just rather see it won first.

[Halls]

I'm seriously thinking of driving down to Crawford tomorrow(hour drive from Dallas) and taking a sign protesting this women! The sign will say exactly what is in Drudge's article about this women where she goes on to praise the Presidant when she met her the first time.

[Halls]

Also, wonder how much publicity I'd recieve for doing this?

[finnman69]

The WH should stop wasting its time with this attention seeker. Clearly she is not willing to listen.

[oust the louse]

"You know what? I might be a grieving mother but I am not stupid."

Oh yes your are...the media is pulling you around the country with thier fingers in your nose and won't let go and you are letting them get a way with it....

[ExcursionGuy84]

Sheehan now claims she is going to be arrested as "a threat to national security">

Har-HAR, YOU wish , Cindy

Barking Dogs [pun intended] rarely bite.

[tiredoflaundry]

the media is pulling you around the country with their fingers in your nose

More like Moveon.org, and Code Pink doing the pulling. The media are willing accomplices.

[Maria S]

Cindy has apparently aligned herself with some heavy-hitting lefties:



http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=WO0506/S00280.htm
Cindy Sheehan's Speech At The DSM Hearings
Friday, 17 June 2005, 3:19 pm
Speech:
Cindy Sheehan's Speech At The DSM Hearings
My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings
By Cindy Sheehan


Help Air Cindy Sheehan's Ad
https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/sheehan.html

[basil]

Ping

[fhlh]

she'd be dead.

[Mister Baredog]

Drudge has her comments from last year posted, b4 the DUmmies got ahold of her, she seemed quite appreciative of our President then.

Her dead son is turning over in his grave, sadly.

[BookaT]

I feel sorry for her son.

Now having said that. If I was the Crawford Law or neighbors of the Bush's I would cut that nice shde tree down right now.

If you want to to protest the best POTUS then you are going to sweat doing it.

Get out of the shade HOG!

[Beckwith]

Well, it's her 15 minutes.

But I'd hate to hang if she thinks she's going to get the President to come out to speak with her with his hat in his hand any time soon.

[Dahoser]

Can you imagine what Clinton's people would be doing to this woman if he were facing the same criticism.

Offering some ice?

[pankot]

How about "what would Clinton be doing TO this woman". After all she's better looking than the mummy he lusted after.

[liberty2004]

IF she has special rights because her son died in the war, I suggest a couple of pro Bush mothers who lost sons in the war go down there and even things out by telling her to shut the hell up.

very good point. This Sheehan woman is dishonoring the sacrifice of her son. She is a slime bag who deserves no respect for her actions of late. I heard this woman for about one minute and I could tell she is mentally unstable and an evil tool of the left. It is easy to sense that she is genetically a leftist. It is in her nature to attack the cause of Liberty. She is vile and deserves not any respect, but scorn. She and her ilk or purposely giving aid and comfort to the enemy. She is lower than pond scum.

[BoBToMatoE]

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE. She wrote this. She claims that we are the terrorist.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0606-29.htm

[toddlintown]

"Can you imagine what Clinton's people would be doing to this woman if he were facing the same criticism."

Breaking out cigars?

[reagandemocrat]

Thank you for the link.

Accoding to Ms. Sheehan, "Casey (her son)was killed in the Global War Of Terrorism waged on the world and its own citizens by the biggest terrorist outfit in the world: George and his destructive Neo-con cabal.

The evidence is overwhelming, compelling, and alarming that George and his indecent bandits traitorously had intelligence fabricated to fit their goal of invading Iraq. The criminals foisted a Lie of Historic Proportions on the world. It was clear to many of us more aware people that George, Condi, Rummy, the two Dicks: Cheney and Perle, Wolfie, and most effectively and treacherously, Colin Powell, lied their brains out..."

She's mad.

RD

[Alia]

According to Daily Kos and DU, Sheehan now claims she is going to be arrested as "a threat to national security">

lol. Yep she's a major threat. Definitely. Fer sure. Really worried, here.