BUSH REFUSES TO MEET WITH SLAIN SOLDIER'S MOTHER

This is a heart-breaking piece about a mother of a slain soldier who is demanding answers about her son's death from Bush. She and other protesters went to Crawford Texas, insisting that Bush come out to answer for her son's death. Some of Bush's advisors came out and spoke to the mother, but not Bush himself. The cold hearted, mean spirited and cruel "president" is shielded; inside in his comfy cozy house, light years removed from the realities that his insane policies visit upon our people. Ms. Sheehan must be commended for her determination, bravery and for putting her unimaginable grief to work.

It takes a village of angry mothers to undo lying and corrupt government officials.

I offer my deepest and heartfelt condolences to Ms. Sheehan and to all parents of our dead soldiers. LS

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Supported by more than 50 demonstrators who chanted, "W. killed her son!" Cindy Sheehan told reporters: "I want to ask the president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?'" Sheehan, 48, didn't get to see Bush, but did talk about 45 minutes with national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy White House chief of staff Joe Hagin, who went out to hear her concerns.

Appreciative of their attention, yet undaunted, Sheehan said she planned to continue her roadside vigil, except for a few breaks, until she gets to talk to Bush. Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. He was an Army specialist, a Humvee mechanic.

"They (the advisers) said we are in Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that the world's a better place with Saddam gone and that we're making the world a safer place with what we're doing over there," Sheehan said in a telephone interview after the meeting.

"They were very respectful. They were nice men. I told them Iraq was not a threat to the United States and that now people are dead for nothing. I told them I wouldn't leave until I talked to George Bush."

She said Hagin told her, "I want to assure you that he (Bush) really does care."

"And I said if he does care, why doesn't he come out and talk to me."

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