It isn’t surprising to see Cindy Sheehan jump on the “2000 deaths” leftist party wagon—after all, she’s been exploiting her own son’s death for months: Iraq war foes ready for 2,000th US military death.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son’s death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq.

“I’m going to go to Washington, D.C. and I’m going to give a speech at the White House, and after I do, I’m going to tie myself to the fence and refuse to leave until they agree to bring our troops home,” Sheehan said in a telephone interview last week as the milestone approached.
“And I’ll probably get arrested, and when I get out, I’ll go back and do the same thing,” she said.

The death toll among U.S. military forces since the March 2003 invasion stood at 1,996 on Sunday.

The milestone’s approach prompted plans for hundreds of other demonstrations across the United States, but for Sheehan, each military death in the Iraqi war has been a tragedy.

“To me, every single member since Number One has been tragic and needless and unnecessary,” she said. “My son was somewhere around 615, and I’ve been working so hard for peace since my son was killed and now almost 1,400 more soldiers have been killed since Casey died.”