“Why did you kill my son"?

[IndianaGreen]

Mother of fallen soldier camps outside Bush ranch: “Why did you kill my son?”

By Kate Randall
11 August 2005

To date, 1,843 US troops have been killed in the Iraq war. Cindy Sheehan, the mother of one of these soldiers, has put a public face on the suffering of the families left behind by the deaths of these men and women. Her personal cause has also brought to light the anger of growing numbers of Americans over the war, and their contempt for George W. Bush.

Ms. Sheehan’s son Casey, a 24-year-old Army specialist and Humvee mechanic, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. Since her son’s death, the 48-year-old from Vacaville, California, has taken a courageous stand in the face of tragedy, becoming an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, appearing at antiwar rallies and calling for US troops to be brought home.

Speaking at a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, last March, Ms. Sheehan said, “I didn’t lose my son. I know where he is. He is buried here. He was put in a grave by George Bush and the neo-conservatives, a government of psychopathic killers.”

Last Saturday, Ms. Sheehan brought her battle to Crawford, Texas, where the president is spending a five-week “working vacation” on his ranch. She arrived in Crawford aboard a bus with the words “Impeachment Tour” painted on its side, fresh from a Veterans for Peace convention in Dallas with other antiwar activists.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/shee-a11.shtml