Cindy Sheehan: "Why I'm camping out in Crawford, Texas"

[sabra]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/aug05/348021.asp

Why I'm camping out in Crawford, Texas
BY CINDY SHEEHAN

I will never, ever forget the night of April 4, 2004, when I found out that my son Casey had been killed in Iraq.

I will also never forget the day when we buried my sweet boy, my oldest son. If I live to be a very old lady and forget everything else, I will never forget when the general handed me the folded flag that had lain on Casey's coffin, as his brother and sisters, standing behind me, sobbed.

I think of Casey every day as I wait outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, determined to meet with him.

I want to let the president know that I feel he recklessly endangered the life of my son by sending our troops to attack and occupy a country that was no imminent threat to the United States.


Cindy Sheehan holds a cross marked with her late son's name at the protest site.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Ding dang! This is in the Milwaukee Jenital??

Wow. Anyone checked the temperature in Hades lately?

NGU.

[sabra]

2. suprising?

It spreading...

[ClassWarrior]

3. I'm not surprised that it's spreading. I'm just surprised it's spread...

...to that particular corporatist fishwrap so soon.

NGU.

[MelissaB]

4. I love a woman who tells it the way it is.

I'm angry because every reason the Bush administration gave for the invasion of Iraq has been shown to be false.

The 9-11 commission's report concluded there was no link between Iraq and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The weapons inspectors gave up searching for weapons of mass destruction and wrote in the Duelfer report that there were none to be found.

From the Downing Street memo, we learned that the Bush administration "fixed" intelligence to justify the Iraq invasion.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. An amazing person.

An inspiration to us all! I am sure Casey would be proud of his Mother.