Party Over? On Cindy Sheehan (Juan Cole).

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Bob Harris has a must-read meditation on what things are important to George W. Bush and what aren't, in light of the treatment of bereaved mother Cindy Sheehan, who wants to know from Bush why her son was killed in Sadr City in April, 2004.

I found her account of Bush's meeting with her last summer chilling. She recounted it during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on Sunday (chilling parts in bold):



' BLITZER: All right. So tell us a little bit about what you're doing now. You had a chance to meet with the president, we're told, last summer. Is that right?

SHEEHAN: I met with him, I think, about June 17th last year. It was about two and a half months after Casey had died. And it was me...

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