The mother camped out near President Bush’s Texas ranch reportedly has said her son, who died in the Iraq war, was killed to “benefit Israel.” Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Baghdad last year, told a Veterans for Peace conference earlier this month that she would tell the president, “You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.”
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