CINDY 2004

    THE REPORTER of Vacaville, CA published an account of 
    Cindy Sheehan's visit with the president at Fort Lewis 
    near Seattle on June 24, 2004:

   "'I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the 
    Iraqis,' Cindy said after their meeting. 'I know he's 
    sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a 
    man of faith.'

   "The meeting didn't last long, but in their time with 
    Bush, Cindy spoke about Casey and asked the president to 
    make her son's sacrifice count for something. They also 
    spoke of their faith.

   "The trip had one benefit that none of the Sheehans 
    expected.

   "For a moment, life returned to the way it was before 
    Casey died. They laughed, joked and bickered playfully as 
    they briefly toured Seattle.

    For the first time in 11 weeks, they felt whole again.

   "'That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of 
    happiness, of being together,' Cindy said."

          CINDY 2005

    Sheehan's current comments are a striking departure.

    She vowed on Sunday to continue her protest until she can 
    personally ask Bush: "Why did you kill my son?"

    In an interview on CNN, she claimed Bush "acted like it 
    was party" when she met him last year...

    My son was in Iraq with the 2/4 Battallion the same time 
    Casey Sheehan was there. Eric had some close friends die 
    during the 7 months they were there. A couple of the moms 
    of the dead troops are a member of an email support group 
    I belong to and they both recounted their visit with 
    Bush. Bush makes every effort to meet with the families 
    of the fallen and he is very warm and loving toward them 
    all. He has cried with the families, has talked with them 
    at length, even about if the death was worth it, and for 
    one mom, he asked for the picture she showed him of her 
    son. Sheehan is dishonoring her son's memory and hurting 
    our troops.

    It was Freeper research that dug out The Vacaville 
    Reporter story Saturday evening. It was found on Cindy 
    Sheehan's own Website. We paid The Reporter for their 
    archived version to authenticate it. 

    I spoke with the news desks of Reuters, AP, Fox, CNN and 
    The Sacremento Bee Saturday night and Sunday morning. 
    None of them knew about the first meeting Sheehan had 
    with President Bush last year and asked me to e-mail the 
    information, which I did. I also e-mailed The NY Times 
    with the info after reading Richard Stevenson's first 
    article about Sheehan.

    With the exception of Reuters (which appeared to have 
    given Steve Holland the day off on Sunday) they all added 
    to their stories that Sheehan had met previously with 
    Bush. However, none of them challenged Sheehan on her 
    wildly differing versions of that meeting.

    AP's Deb Riechmann appears to have at least asked her, 
    but didn't use any of The Reporter's quotes. Instead she 
    let Sheehan get away with saying she was in shock at the 
    time of the meeting.

    We sent The Reporter story to Drudge last night during 
    his radio show and he picked up on it on the air. He also 
    allowed me on the show to talk about it. I told him that 
    Cindy Sheehan used to have photos on her Website of her 
    and President Bush and her family from that meeting in 
    2004 but that the photos were now delinked. However, the 
    captions were still there as of Saturday night.

    It was really appalling yesterday to watch Wolf Blitzer 
    let Sheehan get away with her horrid description of her 
    meeting with Bush when CNN's Washington bureau had The 
    Reporter article in their hands Sunday morning.

    The media is treating her as a sainted mother rather than 
    as the hardcore leftist agitator she has become.

    According to a Providence Journal article on July 27, 
    2005, Sheehan says she has stopped paying her taxes and 
    is daring the government to come after her.

    Also, in her speech Friday night at the Veterans for 
    Peace conference, Sheehan is quoted by an attendee who 
    posted a transcript of the speech over at DU that she is 
    so full of rage that if she started hitting something she 
    wouldn't be able to stop until she killed it. She said 
    that while talking about her reaction to President Bush's 
    remarks about the Ohio Marines killed in action last 
    week... 

   "We haven't been happy with the way the war has been 
    handled," Cindy said. "The president has changed his 
    reasons for being over there every time a reason is 
    proven false or an objective reached." 

   "...But in the end, the family decided against such talk, 
    deferring to how they believed Casey would have wanted 
    them to act.

   "...We have a lot of respect for the office of the 
    president, and I have a new respect for him because he 
    was sincere and he didn't have to take the time to meet 
    with us," Pat said.