Cindy Sheehan had an online discussion at the
Washington Post discussing her new book.
Here is
some of the transcript: (emphasis added)
Knoxville, Tenn.: Please explain how you have somehow forgotten a meeting with President Bush and the photos, with you all smiles, that were taken with him? You do remember the photos, they were posted on a family Web site and conveniently removed?
Cindy Sheehan: First of all, I don't forget that meeting and I don't forget the photos. They were removed because I didn't support the president and the meeting was not a good meeting and he didn't ask permission to kiss me.
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Annandale, Va.: Do you believe George Bush is a greater threat to America than terrorism?
Cindy Sheehan: Oh, absolutely. I believe that he has damaged our credibility in the world; he has increased, as I said earlier, the amount of jihadism in the world; he has made my children and my grandchildren more vulnerable -- not only physically but economically -- and our country used to be respected. Now we have no moral standing to tell other countries how they should behave.
On Sept. 11, almost 3,000 of our citizens were tragically killed. Now over that amount of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have been killed and tens of thousands of innocent people.
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Stockton, Calif.: Since you started your activism on a national scale, has any government agencies harassed you or has led investigations about you?
Cindy Sheehan: I'm not 100 percent sure about that and since I'm not 100 percent sure I'm not going to answer it because I don't want to sound paranoid for no reason. In other words, I don't have hardcore proof that I am being harassed but it seems like it.
Washington, D.C.: You also don't support the war in Afghanistan either. What war would you ever support?
Cindy Sheehan: I don't believe that killing and violence are solutions to any problem. I believe that the only just war is to defend yourself or your family. So basically in self-defense or in defense of our nation.
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Washington: Since you do not believe in fighting other than self-defense, what do you think would have been an appropriate response to 9/11?
Cindy Sheehan: Going after the people who perpetrated the crime -- not innocent people in two countries that had nothing to do with it.