Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan only wants to talks to President Bush and if my moronic president and his equally moronic spin doctors had any sense, they would have done just that when she began her vigil on August 6. He could have asked his motorcade to slow down and told his secret service agents that he'd be just five minutes, but that he needed to talk to Cindy Sheehan, a mother in pain. He needed to hear her and he needed to express his sorrow at her loss. He didn't need to say he agreed with her. Hell, he goes close to 365 days per year without saying anything of substance...he just needed to listen to her and now it's too late. Now, a Bush neighbor is firing a rifle in the air and another is running over crosses in the ground: crosses with dead soldiers' names on them.

Her vigil is snowballing and gaining more and more attention and even if Americans can't make it to that armpit of America, Crawford, TX, they need to talk to people and the most important people they can talk to are those who somehow believe this war is justified. That's the hard part, because anyone who truly believes this war is justified only reads what he wants to read and only hears what he wants to hear.

Fred Mattlage is a decent man, a distant cousin of the anti-protestor who fired his rifle, and an Army veteran who sympathizes with the demonstrators. He knows that most local residents are angry with the demonstrators and think they should go home. You see, it's no longer just supporters of Cindy Sheehan, but crowds of pro-Bush and, I guess, pro-war folks who are on the opposite side to the Sheehan camp, shouting and waving their signs. Mr. Mattlage feels the group will be safer on his corner one-acre lot so today they are moving camp. He is a brave man, and he has made his views very clear to the mostly Bush-supporters in his town. He's saying very little and nothing personal about the President, but he is letting the world [and more importantly the people he lives next to in Crawford, Texas] know what he believes is wrong.

So this week, while the right-wing propagandists spin their pro-war, anti-Cindy Sheehan web, keep a close eye on just how low these anti-truth weavers can go. Now, they're tackling a mother's grief. An easy target? Hardly, and you get a true idea of just how out of touch these people are. What moron (or in the case of those anti-Sheehan demonstrators in Crawford, morons) in his right mind would go up against a mother who has lost her child?