To the editor:

In recent weeks, Cindy Sheehan, the protesting mother in Crawford, has been quoted on various Web sites as saying:

¢ her son was “killed for lies and for a PNAC (Project for the New American Century) Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel.”

¢ “America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.”

¢ Lynne Stewart is her “Atticus Finch.” Stewart last February was convicted of providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy to kill persons outside of the United States and conspiring to defraud the U.S. government when acting as counsel to Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. Both Stewart and Sheehan on April 27 participated in a San Francisco State University forum sponsored by Students Against War and the International Socialist Organization (ISO). ISO is an organization that advocates the overthrow of the U.S. government.

¢ She would not pay her federal taxes for 2004.

¢ She also would be protesting if her son had been killed in Afghanistan instead of Iraq because “Afghanistan is almost the same thing” and “we’re obviously not having any success in Afghanistan.”

The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) official blog on Aug. 11 called Cindy Sheehan’s protest “patriotism in action.” Three days earlier, DNC Chair Howard Dean spoke at a fundraiser and said, “We need a message. It has to be clear.”

Gov. Dean, your party’s message to Americans and the world couldn’t be any clearer.

Kevin Groenhagen,

Lawrence