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   Cindy Sheehan states she initially questioned the urgency of the   
   invasion of Iraq but did not become active in the antiwar effort until   
   after her son's death.[10] Sheehan and other military families met   
   with United States President George W. Bush in June 2004 at Fort   
   Lewis, near Tacoma, Washington, about three months after her son's   
   death. In a June 24, 2004, interview with the Vacaville Reporter,   
   published soon after the meeting, she stated, "We haven't been happy   
   with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his   
   reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an   
   objective reached."   
   Sheehan gave another interview on October 4, 2004, stating that she   
   did not understand the reasons for the Iraq invasion and never thought   
   that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States. She further   
   stated that her son's death had compelled her to speak out against the   
   war.[10]   
   For the presidential inauguration in January 2005, Sheehan traveled to   
   Washington, D.C. to speak at the opening of "Eyes Wide Open: the Human   
   Cost of War," a traveling exhibition created by the American Friends   
   Service Committee that displays pairs of combat boots to represent   
   U.S. military casualties.[12] She also traveled with the exhibition to   
   other locations and donated her son Casey's boots, stating, "Behind   
   these boots is one broken-hearted family."[13][14]   
   Sheehan was one of the nine founding members of Gold Star Families for   
   Peace, an organization she created in January 2005 with other families   
   she met at the inauguration. It seeks to end the U.S. occupation of   
   Iraq, and provides support for families of soldiers killed in   
   Iraq.[12][15] [16]   
   Sheehan attracted international attention in early August 2005, when   
   she traveled to President Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch, just outside   
   Crawford, Texas, demanding a second meeting with the   
   President.[17][18] She told members of Veterans for Peace, "I'm gonna   
   say, 'And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for.'   
   And if he even starts to say freedom and democracy, I'm gonna say,   
   bullshit. 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   
   that, you don't tell me my son died for freedom and democracy."   
      
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