Angry in the Great White North

From the Washington Post:

But if Sheehan's vigil says something important about Iraq, it also says something important about President Bush. Sheehan, after all, has only one demand: She wants to confront the president face to face.

He goes about the President being in an echo chamber and being shielded and so forth.

Hey, maybe that stuff is true. I'm not a Washington insider. But I do know that the idea that Cindy Sheehan "has only one demand" is absolute nonsense:

My vacation probably - -this is really sad because I have a really cute dress I was going to wear to the banquet tomorrow night, but I'm either gonna be in jail or in a tent in Crawford, waiting until that jerk comes out and tells me why my son died. [Demand #1]

And I'm gonna say, "OK, listen here, George. #1, you quit, and I demand, every time you get out there and say you're going to continue the killing in Iraq to honor the fallen heroes by continuing the mission; you say, except Casey Sheehan.'" [Demand #2]

You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don't tell me my son died for freedom and democracy.' [Demand #3]

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine [Demand #4, Demand #5]

And we have to have everybody impeached that lied to the American public, and that's the executive branch, and any people in congress, and we gotta go all the way down and we might have to go all the way down to the person who picks up the dogshit in Washington [Demand #6]

Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done [Demand #7]

Another thing that I'm doing is - - my son was killed in 2004, so I'm not paying my taxes for 2004. This war is immoral; this is why this war is immoral. You killed my son for this. I don't owe you anything. [Demand #8]

We would like for him to explain this "noble cause" to us and ask him why Jenna and Barbara are not in harm's way, if the cause is so noble. [Demand #9]

That's enough. There may be more, but I don't feel like looking any further. Suffice it to say that if Peter Beinart thinks this will all end with a simple twenty minute meeting, he has clearly hasn't been paying attention.

[Michelle Malkin points out the abuse taken by main stream reporters like herself who don't write sympathetic stories like Peter Beinart's.]