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Mattlage, who no longer lives near Crawford, said he is a registered Democrat but has not opposed Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq. He said he did not lend his land to the protesters for political reasons. Instead, Mattlage said, he was worried that someone would get hurt if anti-war advocates continued to assemble just off Prairie Chapel Road, leading up to the president’s ranch.
"We’re kind of peacemakers. We didn’t want to see anybody get run over on that road … and we knew nobody else would offer" land, Mattlage said.
Here’s what Mattlage said last August, when he allowed Cindy and her merry band to use his property:
Crawford resident Fred Mattlage — described as an Army veteran who sympathizes with the demonstrators — this week invited Sheehan and her supporters to set up their anti-war, anti-Bush shop on his property, located about a mile from Bush’s ranch.
"I just think people should have a right to protest without being harassed," Mattlage told The Associated Press Tuesday night. "And I’m against the war. I don’t think it’s a war we need to be in."
You’d think the Associated Press would remember him, since they did numerous articles about him. They even claimed (probably falsely) that Mattlage was a cousin of the gentleman who fired a shot in the air to try scare them off his property.
But the AP never brings up anything facts that conflict with their agenda.