A woman who led an anti-war protest for nearly a month near President Bush's ranch said Tuesday that she's glad Bush never showed up to discuss her son's death in Iraq, saying the president's absence "galvanized the peace movement."For the record, it was never about meeting President Bush. It was all about getting a forum for her wacky anti-war views. And all the anti-war wackos whose views include anti-semitism, zionist conspiracies, and every assorted fringe group latched on to the messenger, in part because she shared those views.
Cindy Sheehan's comments came as war protesters packed up their campsite near the ranch and prepared to leave Tuesday for a three-week bus tour.
"I look back on it, and I am very, very, very grateful he did not meet with me, because we have sparked and galvanized the peace movement," Sheehan told The Associated Press. "If he'd met with me, then I would have gone home, and it would have ended there."
And the media was complicit in this by not highlighting her words and deeds. And, the media should be held accountable for failing to reveal that the counter protestors were actually significantly larger in number and that they too have been galvanized.
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