"This is where I belong, until Aug. 31, like I told the president," Sheehan said at the Waco airport before driving about 20 miles to the Crawford site.
Sheehan's protest in Crawford has encouraged anti-war activists to join her and prompted peace vigils nationwide. She also continues to draw harsh criticism.
Among those defending Sheehan are former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, who believes his wife's identity as an undercover CIA operative was leaked in retaliation for his criticism of the Bush administration in a 2002 New York Times op-ed piece.
"The Bush White House and its right-wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and the military families' vigil in central Texas in the same way that they always respond to bad news - by unleashing personal attacks and smears against her," Wilson said in a statement released Wednesday.
It is pretty clear that this movement is much bigger then Cindy Sheehan. She will undoubtedly go down in history as being the one who ignited the fire, but the inferno that is coming is going to be fed by hundreds of families of the fallen. And these pro-war families are going to do nothing to slow down the protests. They lack the passion of Cindy and her followers.
