AMY GOODMAN: There is a major rightwing attack on you led by Bill O'Reilly, the Drudge Report. They call you a traitor. Your response?

CINDY SHEEHAN: I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. I’m not one of the immature patriots who say my country, right or wrong, because my country is wrong now, and my country -- the policies of my country are responsible for killing tens of thousands of innocent people, and I won't stand by and let that happen anymore. And I believe that anybody who tries to tell me that I don't have the right to say what I’m saying, they're unpatriotic, they're un-American, and their attacks are not going to stop me.

AMY GOODMAN: Are you going to follow President Bush back to the White House? Are you going to follow him from now on?

CINDY SHEEHAN: We're going to do a bus tour from Crawford to D.C. on the 31st, and it's going to -- we're going to take three buses through different parts of the country, going through different cities, picking up different people, and we're going to converge together on D.C. on September 24th for the big United for Peace and Justice rally. And I won't be able to be on those buses because I have commitments. My whole entire month of September is committed. And it was even before I decided to do this, so I’m going to be meeting up with everybody on September 24 in D.C. And then we'll see where we're going to go from there.

AMY GOODMAN: Do you plan on taking up the same vigil in Lafayette Park outside the White House?

CINDY SHEEHAN: There's a group of us planning on doing that. I won't, of course, be able to be there 24 hours a day forever, but it's going to be like a rotating vigil. And then when he goes back to Crawford, we'll go back to Crawford.

AMY GOODMAN: That is Cindy Sheehan, she was speaking to us at Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport, as she caught the next plane to Los Angeles to see her ailing mother. Her mother had a stroke yesterday. She is 74 years old. Cindy Sheehan, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, also founder of Camp Casey, named for her son, Casey Sheehan, who died April 4, 2004, in Iraq in Sadr City.

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