There was an event this afternoon that was sponsored by a local activist organization, and we (CP) had a table there. I spoke to a man who was one of the people who escorted Cindy Sheehan out to Crawford and helped set up her campsite. This isn't something I'd heard in the news, but he said what happened was she was speaking at the Veterans for Peace convention in Dallas, and while she was on the stage she said something to the effect that she should just go camp out in Crawford until he talks to her. Then she said, "who wants to go with me?" and the place erupted. So many people wanted to go with her that their convention almost fell apart. So...all of the original group of about 50 people that escorted her out there and set up her camp were veterans. A number of the people who have since joined her are also family members of people killed in Iraq. The people who are trying to smear her are making it look like she's one grief stricken, deranged person out there being taken advantage of by those damned hippie liberals. Wrong.