Activist Holding Vigil Near Bush's Ranch Met With the President Last Year

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Activist Holding Vigil Near Bush's Ranch Met With the President Last Year
A determined mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who has pledged to hold a roadside peace protest near President Bush's ranch until he talks to her said Sunday that she met with the president shortly after her son died. Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., said she was among several relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq who were invited to meet with Bush in June 2004 at Fort Lewis near Seattle, Wash.

She said her meeting with Bush occurred two months after her son, Casey, was killed in Sadr City, Irag, on April 4, 2004. Since then, she said, various government and independent commission reports have disputed the Bush administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had mass-killing chemical and biological weapons - a main justification for the March 2003 invasion. "I was still in shock then," Sheehan said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It takes about eight or nine months for the shock to subside.

Now, I'm angry. I want the troops home. "All of those reports prove my son died needlessly. This proved that every reason George Bush gave us for going to war was wrong." Sheehan has not seen Bush, but she did talk for about 45 minutes on Saturday with Steve Hadley, Bush's national security adviser, and Joe Hagin, deputy White House chief of staff, who went out to hear her concerns. Appreciative of their attention, yet undaunted, Sheehan said she planned to continue her roadside vigil, except for a few breaks, until she gets to talk to Bush.

Sheehan, who formed a group called Gold Star Families For Peace, has spoken out against the war across the nation. She alleged that Secret Service agents in Crawford were trying to coerce her into leaving. She said the agents have told protesters that if they stay along the road, about five miles from Bush's ranch, they may be hit by Secret Service vehicles. The Secret Service in Washington said it was unaware of any such incidents.


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBHBLOE3CE.html

[thecrow]

1. They are threatening her?

This is despicable!

[Barrett808]

6. Here's the whole "intimidation" story:

Cindy Sheehan: "The Secret Service is Trying to Intimidate Us"
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/

[devinsgram]

2. She also said that when she looked at him, she

could see she was looking into a void. Nothing there.

[Tesla]

3. they are trained to not care!

There is nothing in there but hate and greed!!!

[xchrom]

4. i believe that's what she said about bush.

last year.

i could be wrong -- but it sounds like an apt description of bush.

[VegasWolf]

5. Keep the heat on and watch out for government or expensive vehicles! nt

[DELUSIONAL]

7. She is far braver than I am

I would never think of going anywhere near where Der Bushita was -- mostly because he is surrounded by highly unstable people who carry weapons.

[Karenina]

8. *dauphin has yet

to answer her questions. This guy is down there with her, covering her back... Hope a LOT MORE FOLKS show up!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

9. That does sound rather threatening...

She is one brave woman!

[Lisa]

10. more on what Bush said and did in that private meeting last year

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/5/194826/1471

"an arrogant man with eyes lacking the slightest bit of compassion, a President totally "detached from humanity" and a man who didn't even bother to remember her son's name when they were first introduced."

(so much for him being so charming and having such a great memory for names!)

""My daughter said to him directly `I wish I could bring my loved one back' and he said something like `so do we.' Later she told me that after he made his remark he gave her one of the filthiest looks she had ever had gotten in her life."

(this isn't the first time his eyes have given him away -- remember the time at that church service when he was Governor, and he started winking and wiggling his eyebrows at the reporters because he was bored? And I've seen pics of him spying around to see if he's being watched and photographed, when he does photo-op poses with black people, the elderly, etc.)