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Something got into me this morning on the drive into my church and I listened to talk radio. Every once and awhile this happens. It is like watching a car crash and you just can’t pull yourself away.

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American solider killed in Iraq that is holding vigil outside President Bush’s vacation home in Texas, was topic number one. Ms. Sheehan wants the opportunity to talk with the president about her concerns over the war. But you would have thought she was Osama bin Laden for all the comments being made about her on the radio this morning.

She was called a communist, terrorist, unpatriotic, and a feminist (is that still supposed to be a bad thing?) all in the space of my 15-minute commute to work.

I’ll throw in a label of my own: hero.

People have not only the right but the obligation in a democratic society to petition their government with grievances.

Ms. Sheehan is appropriately focusing the nation’s attention on the fact that Americans are dying every day (not to mention Iraqis) for a war fought under a false premise. That war has increased instability in the Middle East and been a rallying cry for real terrorists who seek to do this nation harm.

Why is the president so afraid of meeting with this mom?

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