"Why did you kill my son?" is a loaded, politically charged question to begin with, which is why the president doesn't want to answer it. And by all accounts, the president isn't a suspect in her son's death, he wasn't in Iraq at the time it occured and the perpetrator was most likely an arab. We all know she just wants to talk to the president so she can argue with him in front of a bunch of reporters, so can you blame him for sending out his aides with whom she has no personal grudge?
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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."
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The media is going to take this woman's grief and turn it into a crusade against the president, which will do nothing but prolong Ms. Sheehan's mourning period. The media's obsession with turning tragedy into entertainment sickens me to no end.