Don't you just love it when the whack-jobs embraced by the Left turn and eat their own allies?

The Vacaville woman who made national headlines with a peace vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch brought her rhetorical guns to bear Friday on one of California's U.S. senators.

Cindy Sheehan — whose son, Casey, 24, was a soldier killed in Baghdad in April 2004 — met briefly with an aide to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., before telling reporters the lawmaker's reasons for supporting Iraq's ongoing occupation are "very bogus."

The Iraqi constitution the United States purportedly is supporting is based on Islamic law and severely curtails women's rights, she said, and the leaders America is protecting are "puppet leaders who George Bush put into place."

Iraqi soldiers the United States is training are seen as collaborators and can do little more than fight for survival, and Iraq's crucial infrastructure continues to be eroded by an insurgency fueled by our military presence, she said.

Feinstein previously has acknowledged that she and other lawmakers were lied to about the reasons for going to war, and that if she knew then what she knew now, she would not have voted to support the conflict, Sheehan said.

"Well, if she knows it's wrong, it's time to bring our kids home," she said.

But Barbara Boxer has lined up right behind Sheehan, who calls teh al-Qaeda affiliates who murdered her son "freedom fighters" and her son's fellow soldiers "terrorists" and "murderers" -- and who has declared America "not worth dying for."

UPDATE: The more mainstream press provides coverage, too.

"If she is a strong leader, and if she's strong about bringing the troops home, we will support her," Sheehan said. "If she is not, we will withdraw our support from her."

Sheehan said Feinstein's reasons for supporting the occupation in Iraq were "very bogus."

"There is no noble cause," Sheehan said. "This war is based on lies. To me, it's not rocket science."

Which Democrat will she start gnawing on next?

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