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Cindy Sheehan was on the dreadful Keith Olbermann show last night and near the end of the interview Olbermann asks what he probably thought was a clever question and gets this startling answer;

OLBERMANN: Last question. It‘s pure politics. The nature of the media coverage you‘re getting now, the response from other families of soldiers killed in Iraq, all of that, from the perspective of your protest there, in a way, isn‘t it really better if President Bush doesn‘t meet with you?
SHEEHAN: I would think so, yes. I think it‘s great. And if he would come out right now, it would really defuse the momentum, and I don‘t want to give them any hints. And I think that‘s something they‘ve probably already thought about.

But, you know, but we‘re here. We‘re committed. We‘re staying the whole month of August, and then we‘re moving to Washington, D.C. And we‘re going to have a 24-hour vigil on his front lawn to keep the pressure on. The pressure is there. Sixty-two percent of Americans want our troops home. And this is giving them a voice to stand up and be counted and say, You know, we want our country back, and we want our troops home.

OLBERMANN: Cindy Sheehan, thanks much for taking time to join us tonight.

SHEEHAN: You‘re welcome. Thank you.

Huh? Did she just say that she doesn't want the President to meet with her? That it would take away some of the media buzz from her cause? I thought her cause was to confront President Bush over the death of her son?

Now compare that to this statement from her family members;

We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation.

The news media has been breathlessly reporting that all Cindy Sheehan wants is to ask President Bush some tough questions about how/why her son lost his life in Iraq. Well it looks like its a little more than that. And as each day goes on and we hear more and more from Cindy Sheehan we begin to see what this woman is really all about. Her family appears to have it nailed with their statement from yesterday.

She made some other incredible statements on the show;

But I‘m not in shock anymore. The Duelfer weapons of mass destruction report came out, the 9/11 commission report came out, the Downing Street memos came out, the Senate Intelligence Committee report came out. These have all come out since my son was killed. They show categorically that my son was—his murder was premeditated, that there was no reason to invade Iraq.

The 9/11 report seems to have come under serious fire of late calling into question the findings of the report, also see here. The Downing Street memos have serious authenticity questions. And the comment about premeditated murder is just lunacy.