Mr President, there's someone waiting, and waiting, to see you

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/mr-president-theres-someone-waiting-and-waiting-to-see-you/2005/08/08/1123353263101.html?oneclick=true

August 9, 2005 (this is the current date in Australia)

Crawford, Texas: The US President draws anti-war protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road towards George Bush's ranch last weekend to try and tell him face to face to pull all US troops out of Iraq.

Mrs Sheehan's son, Casey, was killed last year in Iraq, after which she became an antiwar activist. She says she and her family met Mr Bush two months later in Washington state.

But when she was blocked by the police a few kilometres from Mr Bush's 650-hectare ranch on Saturday, Mrs Sheehan, 48, was transformed into a media phenomenon, the new face of opposition to the Iraq conflict at a moment when public opinion is in flux and the politics of war have grown more complicated for Mr Bush and the Republican Party.

Mrs Sheehan has vowed to camp out on the spot until Mr Bush agrees to see her, even if it means spending all August under a broiling sun beside a dusty road.

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