"Hello. This is your mother. Are you there?"

The lady in the photo above is named Cindy Sheehan. She lost her son Casey in Iraq on April 4, 2004.

Ever since the worst day of her life she has been trying to get an answer to the question every parent asks when they lose a child: "Why?"

Iraq didn't attack us on 9-11. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqis did not greet us as liberators. Instead, they have killed almost two thousand of our daughters and sons. This illegal, immoral war is creating an average of 60 Cindy Sheehans a month.

It's been two years and three months since George Bush declared this war won and the mission accomplished.Yet the war is still going and we are still losing our daughters and sons.

What is our Commander in Chief doing while our children are dying? He's taking a vacation. His 49th vacation. Five weeks in the flatlands of Crawford, Texas.

Just before Dubya split for the pig farm, he made this statement concerning the recent deaths of 20 American soldiers in a 48-hour period in Iraq:

"First, let me say that we mourn the loss of every fallen troop. And the community outside of Cleveland, Brook Park, Ohio, suffered mightily over the last couple of days. It's -- the people of Brook Park and the family members of those who lost their life, I hope they can take comfort in the fact that millions of their fellow citizens pray for them. I hope they also take comfort in the understanding that the sacrifice was made in a noble cause."

That statement pissed Cindy off and she decided it was time to find out what was so damned noble. She got with the folks at Veterans for Peace, Code Pink, her own organization Gold Star Families for Peace and the Crawford Peace House. She rode a bus to Texas and brought her cause to George Bush's back yard. As Cindy said: "I want to ask George Bush what noble cause my son died for... I don't want him to use my son's name or my family's name to justify more killing."

Cindy arrived in Crawford Texas on Saturday, August 6. She's still there. She will be there until she gets her answer. She needs money, support and your prayers.

To keep up with the events surrounding this brave mother, read the Crawford, TX newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast.