'Peace Mom' Sheehan brings message to Canada

'Peace Mom' Sheehan brings message to Canada
CTV.ca News Staff
Cindy Sheehan, an American whose son was killed
serving in Iraq in 2004, has brought her anti-war
message to Canada.
She's visiting Canada for the first time and plans
to speak in Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver, to
urge Canadians not to let the new Conservative
government back the U.S. presence in Iraq.
Sheehan became an icon for activists protesting
the U.S. presence in Iraq after she camped outside
U.S. President George Bush's Crawford, Tx. ranch
last summer, demanding a meeting with him.
The request was never granted.
The 48-year-old former Catholic youth minister
staged the protest after 20 Marines were killed in
Iraq in two days and Bush described their deaths
as "noble."
"I didn't want another family to go through what
we did," Sheehan told the Toronto Star.
"My son died for lies."
Grief is horrible but this woman is something else.
Maybe a year living in Iraq or Afganistan or a
muslim country will cure her.