Sheehan

Just a quick note on self-aggrandizer Cindy Sheehan.

First, she already met with President Bush.
Second, Bush has already stated the reason we went to war.
Third, she's making her arguments in bad faith (i.e., asking for Bush to explain why we went to war, when he already has, and she still says it was a war for oil (a bogus theory that I might address some other time)).
Fourth, Casey Sheehan (her son) reenlisted after the Iraq war began. It was his own choice.
Fifth, this notion that we should all listen to her because her son died is bogus. First, her son apparently believed in the war (see last point). Second, if we were to listen only to military family members, the country would support the war by a wider margin.
Sixth, look at some of the rhetoric of this woman -- calling Bush the worst terrorist in the world, calling the Iraq war a war for Israel when not calling it a war for oil, protesting the Afghanistan war as well (saying that we were after al Qaeda, not Afghanistan), and questioning whether Osama bin Laden was really behind the 9/11 attacks. This isn't some "bereaved mother" -- this is a woman who needs a serious reality check.