I would like to meet her personally to hear her explain herself in her own words. I appreciate her sentiment and her love for her son, but I don't agree with the extent of her actions which are clearly treasonous. Sure, she has the right to protest, but her aiding and abetting the enemy is unforgivable, and I would like to learn how she can justify what she did.

A woman looking for attention & popularity, of course i would'nt want to be tested with her situation, but unfurtonatly there are over 3000 mother's or have the same sorel and i never heard them protesting so much.

I believe she raised a very valid question about this war and I believe for that she was punished. I believe her when she wrote that she is disillusioned by the failure of Democratic politicians to bring the unpopular war to an end and tired of a peace movement she said "often puts personal egos above peace and human life." I believe that she is right when she announced that her son "did indeed die for nothing." "I have tried ever since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful," she wrote. "Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives. "It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years, and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most." Most of all I believe she is right to go back to her own life and loved ones and to leave this "single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble." where it stands. I believe she did her best. Not everybody can say that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10704025/ shows Sheehan and Chavez in a buddy pose, with a photo and the following text: Sheehan, Chavez join to bash Bush, Iraq war Anti-war mom, left-wing Venezuelan president meet at World Social Forum Image: Cindy Sheehan and Venezuelan President Chavez U.S. activist Cindy Sheehan, left, meets Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his weekly broadcast 'Alo Presidente' in Caracas on Sunday. CARACAS, Venezuela - Cindy Sheehan, who gained international fame when she camped outside President Bush’s ranch in an anti-war protest, plans to pitch her tent again, Venezuela’s president said Sunday as he urged activists worldwide to help bring down “the U.S. empire.” Hugo Chavez, an arm around Sheehan’s shoulders, told a group of activists that she had told him “she is going to put up her tent again in front of Mr. Danger’s ranch” in April. In some of his strongest recent comments aimed at Washington, Chavez condemned the Bush administration and said his audience should work toward ending U.S. dominance. Story continues below ?advertisement “Enough already with the imperialist aggression!” Chavez said, listing countries from Panama to Iraq where the U.S. military has intervened. “Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!” Chavez said Sheehan had invited him to join her April protest at Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, held a vigil outside Bush’s ranch during the president’s vacation in August, attracting some 12,000 peace activists and reinvigorating the national anti-war movement. “Maybe I’ll put up my tent also,” Chavez said, to applause from an audience invited to his weekly broadcast on the final day of the World Social Forum, an annual gathering of anti-war and anti-globalization activists. Chavez said his government would help protest the war in Iraq by supporting a drive to gather petitions and delivering them to the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. Chavez, who before the war in Iraq had friendly relations with Saddam Hussein, has been a frequent and strident critic of the war. Sheehan thanked Chavez for “supporting life and peace.” She said earlier that she was impressed by his sincerity when they met privately on Saturday. “He said, ’Why don’t I run for president?”’ she said. “I just laughed.” Sheehan also noted that singer and activist Harry Belafonte recently called Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world,” and said, “I agree with him. George Bush is responsible for killing tens of thousands of innocent people.” Sheehan, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., said Saturday that she is strongly considering challenging Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California because the lawmaker will not support calls to immediately bring the troops home. Sheehan, 48, who was visiting Venezuela for the six-day forum, said running in the Democratic primary in June would help “bring attention to all the peace candidates in the country.” She said she will decide whether to run after talking with her three adult children in California. Feinstein’s campaign manager, Kam Kuwata, said the senator did not support Bush and felt she had been misled by his administration. But with troops committed, Feinstein believes immediate withdrawal is unworkable, he said. “Senator Feinstein’s position is, ’Let’s work toward quickly turning over the defense of Iraq to Iraqis so that we can bring the troops home as soon as possible,”’ Kuwata said in an interview Saturday. Also joining Chavez on Sunday was Elma Beatriz Rosado, the widow of slain Puerto Rican nationalist Filiberto Ojeda Rios. Holding back tears as she stood at Chavez’s side, Rosado accused the United States of killing her husband, a 72-year-old militant independence activist. Rios was slain in a September FBI raid on a Puerto Rican farmhouse where he was living in hiding while being wanted for the 1983 robbery of $7.2 million from a Wells Fargo armored truck depot in Connecticut — funds intended for the independence cause. “They murdered him,” Chavez said. “Viva Filiberto!... Let’s follow his example.” © 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

My take is this..she is a mother wracked with grief over the loss of her child in a senseless, mistaken war and in order to survive and move on she needs to do "stuff"..anything..sitting home and missing your child..that is unacceptable. Any parent will understand..those who don't understand either are not parents or they are not good parents.