Good BBC article on Cindy Sheehan & Camp Casey

[theHandpuppet]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4187502.stm

By Justin Webb
BBC News, Texas

At the beginning of August, Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier who died in Iraq, set up camp in front of President Bush's Texas ranch, vowing to stay there until he agreed to meet her. Justin Webb considers the impact her protest has had on US politics.

(snipping)

Every serious candidate (including those from Mr Bush's Republican Party) is going to have to have a plan to declare victory and get out of Iraq.

President Bush cannot look Cindy Sheehan in the eye and tell her that her son died because the White House messed up.

But a future president will.

MORE...

[Roland99]

1. Cuts right to the quick and sheds off the distractions surrounding Cindy

[tocqueville]

2. Maybe George will have a quarrel with a neighbour...

"My guide that day stopped the tractor at one stage and pointed to a gloomy-looking house with a rotting porch and weed-encrusted driveway.

"Two brothers live there," he said. " got drunk one night and had a fight. And one shot the other then hanged himself from the porch."

The engine was switched on and we lurched off.

The president's neighbours are not, in other words, a bunch of city slickers."