Post Seems To Report on Cindy Sheehan

I keep trying not to blog on weekends and I have to rush out the door, but there's a front-page account, Cindy Sheehan's Pitched Battle by Michael Fletcher. In typical glossing-over mode, we finally get an acknowledgment about Sheehan's past meeting with Bush:

Others have also raised questions about Sheehan's account of her first meeting with Bush, which occurred two months after her son's death in April 2004. Sheehan was part of a larger group of grieving family members who met with Bush at Fort Lewis in Washington state.

After the meeting, she was quoted by the newspaper in her hometown of Vacaville, Calif., as saying that the president seemed sympathetic.

Then we have a long list of post-meeting explanations--no WMD, "mixed signals" on withdrawal (what does that have to do with anything?) etc. But come on, Fletcher, you make Sheehan sound much more tentative than that Vacaville Reporter story related:

"'I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis,' Cindy said after their meeting. 'I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith.'

"The meeting didn't last long, but in their time with Bush, Cindy spoke about Casey and asked the president to make her son's sacrifice count for something. They also spoke of their faith.

That's how it seemed.