Issue and Opponent: Cindy Sheehan is from Vacaville, California. Her son Casey Sheehan was killed in Baghdad’s Sadr City on April 4, 2004. Shortly after her son died in Iraq, Sheehan co-founded the group Gold Star Mothers for Peace, an anti-war organization. Based on alternative media sources, Ms. Sheehan became convinced that the war in Iraq was preplanned and unrelated to the rationale fronted by the federal government based on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. Ms. Sheehan proclaimed the war to be senseless, greedy, and illegal. Over time, Ms. Sheehan became increasingly invested in exposing the injustice of the Iraq War and devoted her energy to anti-war activism. Sheehan became one of the strongest, most personal, and most persistent voices in the movement against the war in Iraq. Her quest to end the war, bring soldiers home, and hold politicians accountable for the decisions that sent the troops to Iraq in the first place, has been indefatigable. Dilemma Action: In August 2005, President George W. Bush took a vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Ms. Sheehan was scheduled to give a speech at the Veterans for Peace (VFP) convention in Dallas, Texas on 5 August. In the lead-up to her speech, on 3 August 2005, Ms. Sheehan wrote an e-mail to 300 of her contacts declaring that after her speech, she would drive to Crawford and demand a meeting with the President. She described her intentions to in-person challenge Bush’s rationale for the Iraq War. She left Dallas with a busload of veterans and anti-war activists and camped out near Bush’s ranch. This demonstration became known as “Camp Casey”. The media was already waiting to capture the beginning of the action and Ms. Sheehan and her supporters held a press conference. Police instructed the protesters to stay in the ditches and off the public road, which the police had barricaded from traffic. Over the first week, 700 people made their way through Camp Casey. Protestors expressed their determination through signs, songs, and prayer services. Despite smears by far-right hate media and threats of violence by Bush supporters, people continue to pour into Crawford. Between Camp Casey operations, Sheehan traveled extensively to join anti-war rallies and to meet with activists and leaders from around the world. She is credited with having revived the anti-war protest and being the face of the peace and justice movement. On 26 August, 2,500 people gathered at Camp Casey for an anti-war rally. The press referred to these rallies as the peaceful occupation of Crawford. Outcome: Bush acknowledged the protest but refused to meet with Sheehan, because he had previously met with her as part of a larger event in which he addressed several grieving military families in Fort Lewis, Washington, in June 2004. On 30 August, President George W. Bush made a public statement that invading Iraq was to secure the oil fields from terrorists. From Ms. Sheehan’s point of view, the President’s statement confirmed her suspicions and supported her accusations. Protesters at Camp Casey II dispersed on 31 August. Ms. Sheehan subsequently staged protests around the country against what she characterized as the violent, imperialistic nature of U.S. foreign policy. In 2008, she ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in California, mounting an unsuccessful challenge to the long-serving Democrat Nancy Pelosi. As a candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, Sheehan was Roseanne Barr’s vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. On the ballot in three states, the ticket received a total of about 50,000 votes. Sheehan then ran for governor of California in 2014, but her bid failed.