From Reuters:
President Bush, trying to counter the message of anti-war vigils outside his ranch and growing public discontent with Iraq, leaves Texas on Monday for the first of two speeches on the war and the September 11 attacks, but more protesters await him.
Bush, appearing at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Salt Lake City, will weigh in on attempts by Iraqis to meet a deadline for a draft constitution and may reiterate his stay-the-course message to Americans who are increasingly uneasy about his handling of Iraq.
At a park near the VFW venue, Celeste Zappala, 58, the Philadelphia mother of a National Guardsman killed in Iraq, plans to lead a protest. Her son Sherwood Baker was killed in Iraq last year and she is part of anti-war mother Cindy Sheehan's group, Gold Star Families for Peace.
Baker was killed while assigned to the Iraq Survey Group, which was on the hunt for stockpiles of illicit weapons but concluded they were never there.
"We all know that noble cause for war that Bush talks about has changed several times," Zappala said.
Remember that episode of "Happy Days" where Officer Kirk tries to kick Fonzie out of town, then Richie, Potsie, Ralph, Mrs. C, Mr. C, Joanie, and about two dozen extras all show up in white T-shirts and leather jackets, and ask Kirk what he's going to do about them? Then Al tells Kirk to sit on it? I wonder if Bush saw that episode. It first aired in November of 1976, a year in which he was probably doing a lot of drinking and snorting. But maybe he caught a repeat on Nick at Night.
So, I wonder if he's realizing that all the mud his chickenhawk pals are throwing on Cindy Sheehan is only making more "Cindy Sheehans" rise up and take a stand against this illegal, immoral, imperialist invasion, against the murder of Iraqis and Americans for oil and profit. I wonder who's gonna get to tell Bush to sit on it.