Wolf Blitzer/CNN - talking about Cindy Sheehan

[dooner]

Blitzer is asking Rep. Senator George Allen if Bush should meet with
Sheehan. Allen is saying yes. Boxer is also saying yes.

Blitzer says they are going to talk to Cindy Sheehan later in the show.

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

1. YES!

*AND* Wolf is going to talk to Cindy Sheehan herself in a little while -- so here is your heads up!

[Skink]

2. Who's Cindy Sheehan? I'm kind of out of the loop..

:shrug:

[dooner]

3. Mother of soldier killed in Iraq

Currently in Crawford, Texas trying to get a meeting with George Bush.
Supported by peace activists and veterans for peace. Check the "greatest" page for a lot of posts about Cindy.

[Bumblebee]

4. here's a bit more

Mom of Deceased GI Seeks Meeting With Bush

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 7, 2005

Filed at 10:51 a.m. ET

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- A determined mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who has pledged to hold a roadside peace protest near President Bush's ranch until he talks to her said Sunday that she met with the president shortly after her son died.

Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., said she was among several relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq who were invited to meet with Bush in June 2004 at Fort Lewis near Seattle, Wash.

She said her meeting with Bush occurred two months after her son, Casey, was killed in Sadr City, Irag, on April 4, 2004. Since then, she said, various government and independent commission reports have disputed the Bush administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had mass-killing chemical and biological weapons -- a main justification for the March 2003 invasion.

''I was still in shock then,'' Sheehan said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. ''It takes about eight or nine months for the shock to subside. Now, I'm angry. I want the troops home.

''All of those reports prove my son died needlessly. This proved that every reason George Bush gave us for going to war was wrong.''

Sheehan has not seen Bush, but she did talk for about 45 minutes on Saturday with Steve Hadley, Bush's national security adviser, and Joe Hagin, deputy White House chief of staff, who went out to hear her concerns.

Appreciative of their attention, yet undaunted, Sheehan said she planned to continue her roadside vigil, except for a few breaks, until she gets to talk to Bush. Sheehan, who formed a group called Gold Star Families For Peace, has spoken out against the war across the nation.