Mainstream media continues to relentlessly hype loony Cindy “This country isn’t worth dying for” Sheehan; the latest gushing profile: A life turned public through protest.

CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) - Cindy Sheehan did not expect at the age of 48 to become an icon of opposition to the Iraq war in the United States.

But her decision to pitch her tent outside US President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch to demand a meeting about the death of her son Casey in Iraq has done just that.

“I don’t want George W. Bush to utilize my son’s sacrifice to justify the killing,” Sheehan said on August 7, at the start of her protest here.

Founder of a group called Goldstar Mothers for Peace, she had until then limited her activism to participating in public debates and anti-war conferences.

But her smile, her calm confidence accentuated by her height, her straw hat and the grief that frequently manifests itself in tears and hugs have made her a media star. For ten days, she has been front-page news in the United States.

UPDATE at 8/21/05 2:34:32 pm:

LGF operative zombie points out this page at the Lew Rockwell site with a transcript of a speech by Sheehan that is utterly, jaw-droppingly nuts: Pulling No Punches by Cindy Sheehan.

Don’t expect mainstream media to report this insanity.

Is there anyone in America who cannot yet see that Donald Rumsfeld is a liar…that he, as with Hitler and Stalin….will say anything so long as he thinks it will help shape the world to his own liking? Is there even one, sane adult among us who cannot see that Donald Rumsfeld is a threat to our nation’s security and to peace on our beloved earth?

Paul Wolfowitz, after months of not finding any Weapons of Mass Destruction….and after hundreds of US soldiers were killed….my son amongst them….and after tens of thousands of innocent Iraq citizens were killed….this same Paul Wolfowitz casually explained….with his kindly charade and his ever so soft voice…that a decision was made to put forth “Weapons of Mass Destruction” as the need for the invasion. Essentially, Paul Wolfowitz admitted that he and his fellow conspirators had decided amongst themselves “…let’s just go with the bit about Weapons of Mass Destruction. It’s the one thing that will scare the American people enough so as to cause them to get behind this invasion.”

As soft-spoken and sincere-sounding as Paul Wolfowitz is, is there yet any sane adult in this country whose skin does not crawl when this murderous liar opens his mouth and speaks? Am I the only person in this room who clearly sees that Paul Wolfowitz is a threat to our nation’s security…and to peace on our beloved earth?” …

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs….gangsters who lust after fortunes and power; never caring that their addictions are at the expense of our loved ones, and the blood of innocent people near and far. We’ve watched these thugs parade themselves before the whole world as if they are courageous advocates for Christian moral values….and for the spread of democracy. Yet we all know that they are now putting in place, all across this country, a system of voting that provides no way to validate the accuracy of the counting of the votes. Our loved ones have been buried in early graves even as these arrogant thugs parade themselves before the entire world, insisting that democracy is worth dying for, killing for, and destroying entire cities for, all the while they are busy here at home overseeing the emplacement of an electronic voting system that invites fraud at every turn, an electronic vote-counting system that provides no way to validate the votes cast, and that, by it’s very design, prohibits recounting the votes.

For these men to not see to it that our own system of voting and vote-counting is accurate, understandable and verifiable…all the while sending our loved ones to kill and to die so as to establish a democracy in some far away place……this is just one more staggering piece of evidence that the US government is now ruled by murderous hypocrites…criminals who should be arrested, charged appropriately, confined behind bars, and then tried in a court of law…not only here in our own country, but also in all the other countries which have suffered their incomprehensible greed.

In their secret hiding places, while celebrating newly won fortunes with their fellow brass, these men must surely congratulate themselves with orgies of carnal pleasure as they mock the multitudes who are yet so blind as to mistake them for God’s devoted servants.