Hello from the Green Dog --

If you hadn't heard much about Cindy Sheehan before August 6 -- and it's likely that you had heard a pretty fair amount -- you certainly have heard a really big amount since then, haven't you?

Probably the best explanation of why she is now so high-profile is in an editorial in The New York Times of Aug. 9. 2005. To wit --

"Summertime often produces unexpected media figures, and this is Cindy Sheehan's season. Ms. Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last year, is camping out near President George Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., and says she won't leave until Mr. Bush agrees to meet with her to discuss the war. [1] There are many reasons for the flood of media attention she is attracting: she has a poignant personal story and she is articulate -- and, let's face it, August is a slow news month. But most of all, she is tapping into a growing popular feeling that the Bush administration is out of touch with the realities, and the costs, of the Iraq war. [...] Read more about Cindy Sheehan at this mirror site
http://www.eurolegal.org/greendogdem/gdd0805/20050809gdd.htm or
http://tinyurl.com/8ekhn A number of other articles about Sheehan follow this one on the web site.



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