Sheehan's Return

While The Administration is taking breaks from their vacation to re-propagandize the nation during the worst Presidential approval ratings storm ever, Cindy Sheehan has returned to Crawford.

Even when she was in California taking care of her mother, Cindy Sheehan said part of her remained at the protest campsite she had set up outside President Bush's ranch.

On Wednesday, Sheehan returned to "Camp Casey," named after her 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year in Iraq.

"This is where I belong, until Aug. 31, like I told the president," Sheehan said at the Waco airport before driving about 20 miles to the Crawford site.

When Sheehan arrived at the campsite, she saw a large banner depicting her son's face. She sobbed and said she felt ill. Supporters brought her water and cold towels, and she recovered about 20 minutes later.

Sheehan began her vigil Aug. 6 on the road leading to Bush's ranch, vowing to stay through his monthlong vacation unless he met with her. She left last week to visit her 74-year-old mother in Los Angeles after the woman suffered a stroke. Sheehan said her mother has started physical therapy for paralysis on her right side.

Sheehan said she realizes that Bush has no intentions of meeting with the protesters, but that her vigil has accomplished other things.

"I absolutely think it's worthwhile because we've galvanized the peace movement," she said. "We've started people talking about the war again."

Sheehan's return marks a proud moment in her protest. Those on the right that thought she was cowering, when in fact she was dealing with personal pain, are fools bent on personal destruction. Sheehan, indeed, is a threat to them: a personal symbol of their support for a flawed and dangerous war, and she has inspired many others to take up that argument once again.

The threat is in her timing. She has found a way to invigorate the left's perception of this debate, to infuse it with personal meaning.

Yet we are still waiting for the political figures, those Democrats, to take a stand... Not for political gain off of Sheehan's name, but out of disdain for this callous, manipulation-based war.