There Goes the Neighborhood! Texans no longer buy into the war

What started out as one woman's anguish over the death of her son in Iraq has spiraled into what could be the beginning of the collapse Bush's strongest front in the support of the war in Iraq, his own home state of Texas. Cindy Sheehan who first kicked off this wave of anger at the war demanded to simply see the president to ask him for what purpose did her eagle scout, honor student, marine lost his life in a war that has been waged under false pretenses. Well Bush replied by saying that he realizes that some people have somethings to say but that needs to "get on with my [his] life". That did not go too well for the American people as hundreds are now marching on Crawford Texas in protest of the war and demanding some answers and accountability. Full Story (rising tensions Full Story)

I just have a couple of things to say. First off I feel for the Sheehan, I mean given his accomplishments and promise as a young man, I think we all lost a very valuable citizen of our country. But why did she only start protesting when her son died as opposed to when he was first deployed. Is there a disconnect in her mind between going to a battlefield and dying. It is hard to believe she did not at least entertain this possibility. In fact I think she never considered it would happen to her which tells a greater truth about the level of disconnect of the American people with harsh realities of wartime. She might have seen the US military as invincible and with all that strength and the odds with them and said how could anything go wrong. It is only when the worst happened that she began to question why it is that we are out there killing people for no honorable reason. Sure you might turn a blind eye to the justification when we have all the strength...we can always come up with any half-assed reason to march behind. But now when we seem to be losing, we sit down and really question why are we going through this. Well she is not alone, not only was she make a bet that was not as safe she thought but the whole country fell for Iraq being a cake walk, thanks to Pentagon officials and Israeli intelligence which is taking alot of heat right now for lying to the country into going to war. All I have to say is...let the backlash begin.