One Mother in Crawford, Texas

Ever since Cindy Sheehan has been camping out near President Bush’s ranch near Crawford, Texas she has been in the news. And she tells everyone repeatedly that she will not leave until the President meets with her and explains to her why her son and the sons and daughters of some 1,800 plus other families have been forced to give their lives for his misguided war? There are a lot of reasons why the media are now finally picking up on this story. The main one however is the fact that the American public are just now waking up to the idea that the Bush administration is simply out of touch with the realities and the costs of the Iraq war. A war that was conceived many months prior to the 9/11 attack on out shores. The 9/11 attacks were simply used as an excuse to do what they had been planning to do based on lies from the very beginning.

Cindy Sheehan’s 24 year old son, Casey, was killed in Bagdad. She tells the world that she met with Mr. Bush two months after his death, and she is very critical of how the president treated her. She says that he didn’t even know her son’s name, and acted as if the meeting was a party and even called her “Mom” during their meeting, which she considered to be disrespectful.

Certainly the most troubling aspect of Cindy Sheehan’s plight is the president’s refusal to talk about where we stand with the future of the war with Iraq now. Mr. Bush simply continues to insist on his old refrain, “We will stay the course, we will will complete the job in Iraq.” The American public knows very well that things in Iraq are not going well on many fronts, and certainly deserve a fuller, more honest discussion led by the commander-in-chief.