Cindy Sheehan's trip to Crawford, Texas -- as covered by The Lone Star Iconoclast

Please click here for more pictures and a blow-by-blow first impression of Cindy Sheehan's arrival in Crawford Texas on August 6 to confront the vacationing President Bush about the war that killed her son.
I've said all along that this is the reason our brave Flyboy-in-Chief hasn't gone to any of the 1,800+ funerals of Americans killed in Viet... Iraq - - uncontrollable next-of-kin. And even if the parents and siblings could be properly vetted by Diebold to insure that they voted correctly in the last election, there's no telling when some mad uncle or cousin or old girlfriend isn't going to stand up from their pew and start asking uncomfortable questions about Downing Street Memos and sexed-up intelligence and the relative worths of blood and oil or the President's own inability to serve in the war that he supported and that he was trained to fight.
No, we'd better keep him protected from the tens of thousands of close friends and relatives of the men and women who have died and are still dying for unknown reasons (because it's no longer about the nonexistent WMDs, and maybe it never was). We'd better keep him secluded behind layers of security and sycophants whether he's in DC or Crawford or on the road with the Privatize Social Security tour. We better make sure that he doesn't hear or read anything that hasn't been filtered through Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. We wouldn't want to upset him by letting Cindy Sheehan continue:

“I didn’t come all this way from California to stand here in a ditch,” said Cindy Sheehan, 48, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, attempting to continue her trek to the ranch.
Even though two of the President’s aides later agreed to deliver her message to him, Sheehan said that she would remain in Crawford for the whole month, if need be, until she is granted a private audience with the commander-in-chief to ask him for what “noble cause” did her son die overseas.
“If he doesn’t come out to talk to me in Crawford, I’ll follow him to D.C., and I’ll camp out on his lawn,” she said, to a round of applause from her supporters. “I’ll go to prison. I don’t want to live in a country where people are treated this way.”
Sheehan’s actions, she said, were sparked by President Bush’s comments like those made last Wednesday in Grapevine to about 1,800 members of the American Legislative Exchange Council: “Our men and women who’ve lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and in this war on terror have died in a noble cause and a selfless cause.”
“We all know by now that that’s not true, and I want to ask George Bush, ‘Why did my son die? What was the noble cause that he died for?’” said Sheehan. “I don’t want [President Bush] to use my son’s name or my family name to justify any more killing or to exploit my son’s name, my son’s sacrifice, or my son’s honor to justify more killing. As a mother, why would I want one more mother to go through what I’m going through, Iraqi or American?
“And I want to tell him that the only way to honor my son’s sacrifice is to bring the troops home now.”

This quote is also from The Lone Star Iconoclast,
"President Bush Ditches Mother of Slain Soldier," by Nathan Diebenow.

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