Cindy Sheehan's mostly ignored bus tour made it to Batavia, IL yesterday, for a protest outside House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office. Hastert was in Washington. The bus tour then headed east a few miles to Wheaton. Cindy's supporters were there, as were some who don't agree with her far left beliefs.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
But the California woman was in DuPage County -- Bush country -- and the president's supporters turned out to say their piece, too.
"We support our president; we support our troops, in Afghanistan and Iraq," said Lois Finkel, 68, of Glen Ellyn. "I feel after the terrorist attack of 9/11, I think it's important to confront the terrorists on their land, and so far, I think it's working. So far we haven't had any other terrorist attacks in our land."
Finkel was among a handful of Bush supporters in a crowd of hundreds who attended the vigil at the Danada Equestrian Center organized by Sheehan supporters.
But Sheehan, 48, disagreed, telling the crowd the war in Iraq was not about fighting terrorism but about oil and handing off lucrative contracts to Bush's "buddies" to repair the war-torn nation.
Sheehan, showing she is not a one-issue moonbat, blamed the "slow federal response" to the Hurriane Katrina relief efforts on the war in Iraq.
She said Wednesday that the sluggish federal response to victims in a flooded-out New Orleans was linked to the war in Iraq. Sheehan said funding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could have been used to shore up the city's collapsed levees was diverted to the war effort.
Cindy, it's time to go home.
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