By the time she is finished protesting at President Bush’s ranch in Texas, Cindy Sheehan may well have expressed an opinion on every pressing issue of modern life. Today, she vented her anger at people who sent her e-mails saying, “Go home and take care of your kids.” Nobody tells George W. Bush to take care of his kids, Sheehan wrote, and besides:

We as mothers need to stop buying into the load of misogynistic crap that our children need our constant presence in their lives so they can thrive and grow. What we need as families are strong support systems that allow each family member to grow and achieve his/her full potential as human beings. What we as Moms need to stop doing is giving our children to the military industrial war complex to be used as human cluster bombs: to kill innocent civilians and to perhaps die enriching and feeding the gluttonous war machine… I AM taking care of my kids, and yours, too.