Raw Story: Mother protesting at Crawford ranch speaks out

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Raw Story: Mother protesting at Crawford ranch speaks out
John Byrne



RAW STORY got a chance to chat late Monday with Cindy Sheehan, the mother who lost her son in Iraq and is holding vigil outside President George W. Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch.

August 8, 2005—Cindy Sheehan is angry and exhausted. Camped outside President Bush's 1600-acre Texas ranch, the California mom's throat hurts; she has yet another interview at 11 p.m. By the road, where Sheehan stands, there’s little friendly greeting: from the outside, a passerby can see only pastures, barbed fences, and signs that warn would-be-tourists from stopping, standing or parking.

Sheehan says she will camp outside the President's ranch until the end of August, or he meets her. After a long, hot day, she expresses amazement that she is even there.

"It's incredible and it's amazing to me because I got this idea last Wednesday," she told RAW STORY. "I wrote an email and sent it out to my whole group about that and it turned to this amazing action and thousands and thousands of people wanted to help and be involved."

Even reporters, she says, have quietly expressed their support.

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1. "Even reporters, she says, have quietly expressed their support."

Finally, a chance for the good guys in the press to step out of the shadows.

Thank you Cindy Sheehan. Who has greater authority in these matters than the mothers who have sacrificed their children? Who would have thought that America would come to the point where the press had to hide behind the "skirts" of a mom?

The administration can cow everyone but the mothers of our troops.

May there be a Cindy Sheehan for every season that Bush remains in our White House.