I haven’t written about Cindy Sheehan lately, so I suppose she is due.  Since her lecture circuit has brought her to Seattle, I suppose now is a good time to see whats new in her camp. 

It is strangely appropriate for her to come here on her crusade, as this is, in a sense, where it all began, where she first took her personal drama public and began her overextended 15 minutes of fame:

Speaking at Town Hall, Sheehan’s visit is part of a series of anti-war demonstrations planned around Mother’s Day, including a protest at a Central Area recruitment station and a parade through Columbia City this weekend. The events are organized by Mothers Day Original Movement Against the War and CODEPINK, a group opposed to the Iraq war.**

This is the second time Sheehan has been in Seattle. The first was two years ago, when she traveled to Fort Lewis to meet with Bush, who held a closed-door gathering with military families.**

Though an opponent of the war at the time, Sheehan initially described the president as "a man of faith." She later became involved in the fledgling peace movement and gained national attention last August when she kept a vigil outside Bush’s Texas ranch.**

She wasted no time of course in hitting her first and favorite target:  George Bush.

Before an enthusiastic Seattle audience, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan ripped into President Bush, describing him as a "maniac," "the biggest recruiter for al-Qaida ever" and a "bigger terrorist than Osama bin Laden ever thought he would be."**

She urged those in the crowd to do more than just voice their opposition to the war, saying, "Shame on me for supporting George Bush and his murder."*

I note she continues to call the President a murderer, one of her favorite and most tiring labels.

She of course was kind enough to mention the oil companies in her continuing effort to blame the US for all aspects of the conflict with terrorism: