Nice article from the BBC about Cindy / In search of an Iraq exit strategy

[DoYouEverWonder]

27 August 2005

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.

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Texans have traditionally never believed in getting the troops out of anywhere, much the opposite.

Yet now, they have a "troops out" movement incubating in their midst, within spitting distance of the holiday home of the Lone Star state's favourite son.

There are earth mothers talking about love, hugging each other, swapping recipes for organic stews.

Americans - even Texans - are rethinking the Iraq war, indeed rethinking war itself as a tool of foreign policy.

All the opinion polls this summer have pointed in one direction - out of Iraq.

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