From war heroes to mothers who have paid the ultimate price for George Bush's catastrophic folly, there is no limit to how low the Right will go.
Bradblog has a post about the neocon's effort to "swiftboat" Cindy Sheehan.
Raw story responds to Drudge's attack on Cindy: Drudge Report takes anti-war mom out of context
As the right hurls their garbage at Cindy, we need to offer her all the support we can muster.
If you can't be there for what looks to be a showdown and an explosion of publicity on Thursday and/or Friday, you can:
Send her an email.
Make a donation to Gold Star Families for Peace. Cindy is one of the founders of Gold Star Families for Peace.
Snail mail postcards and letters of support to:
Cindy Sheehan
c/o Crawford Peace House
9142 5th Street
Crawford, TX 76638-3037
Info on the postcard project came from DU (sorry I don't have the specific link).
Check out the Meet with Cindy website.
The Crawford Lone Star Iconoclast has lots of pictures and a running commentary.
Below is an excerpt from an essay written by Cindy, followed by an account of her visit with Bush last year. Cindy's description of Bush playing at paying his idea of respect to grieving families is a shocking account of the insensitive-stone-cold-fool-in-a-bubble that this worst-president-ever is.
"I will also never forget the day when we buried my sweet boy, my oldest son. I’ll never forget the playing of taps, or the violent, and in hindsight, thoughtless, volley of the 21-gun salute. If I live to be a very old lady and forget everything else, I will never forget when the general handed me the folded flag that had lain on Casey’s coffin, as his brother and sisters, standing behind me, sobbed. " -- Cindy Sheehan
New York Times:
As the mother of an Army specialist who was killed at age 24 in the Sadr City section of Baghdad on April 4, 2004, Ms. Sheehan's story is certainly compelling. She is also articulate, aggressive in delivering her message and has information that most White House reporters have not heard before: how Mr. Bush handles himself when he meets behind closed doors with the families of soldiers killed in Iraq.
The White House has released few details of such sessions, which Mr. Bush holds regularly as he travels the country, but generally portrays them as emotional and an opportunity for the president to share the grief of the families. In Ms. Sheehan's telling, though, Mr. Bush did not know her son's name when she and her family met with him in June 2004 at Fort Lewis. Mr. Bush, she said, acted as if he were at a party and behaved disrespectfully toward her by referring to her as "Mom" throughout the meeting.
By Ms. Sheehan's account, Mr. Bush said to her that he could not imagine losing a loved one like an aunt or uncle or cousin. Ms. Sheehan said she broke in and told Mr. Bush that Casey was her son, and that she thought he could imagine what it would be like since he has two daughters and that he should think about what it would be like sending them off to war.
"I said, 'Trust me, you don't want to go there'," Ms. Sheehan said, recounting her exchange with the president. "He said, 'You're right, I don't.' I said, 'Well, thanks for putting me there.' "
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