[Notwithstanding]

I did not know this.
Are you certain?

If true, your analysis certainly makes me pity her absolutely empty soul.

A son who did not care about the mom who abandoned him.
A war he wanted to fight.
A mom who shamelessly denigrate the war and its warriors.
And pretends that her son was and is her sole raison d'etre.



Wow.

[new yorker 77]

I am simply using deductive reasoning.

This woman has been anti-war her entire life.

Her son obviously has heard the echo chamber of her disdain for the military, yet he chooses to sign up.

Secondly, after six months of war in Iraq, this man, who according to his mother, hates Bush and the war, decides to re-enlist when he does not have to.

Why?

His actions do not mimic the rhetoric his mother professes that he spoke.

I believe that Cindy Sheehan is trying to justify the fact that her son chose to listen to President Bush rather than her. He died and she will reinvent her son's story in order to justify her lifelong belief system.

It is easier for her to pretend that her son is a mirror reflection of her rather than a hero who volunteered to serve in a war under the leadership of President Bush.