Chris Matthews just had Cindy Sheehan on “Hardball.” This is Matthews’ idea of a hardball interview, I guess:

SHEEHAN: I don’t think the Afghan people did anything to America. You know, they weren’t responsible for flying the planes into the buildings. It was al-Qaeda and we should have gone after al-Qaeda and not the people of Afghanistan.
MATTHEWS: Where should we have pursued them?
SHEEHAN: In Afghanistan but not against the people of Afghanistan. There were a lot of innocent Afghani people were killed.
MATTHEWS: How would we have dealt with the problem that the government of Afghanistan was in bed with the Taliban government and they were supporting al-Qaeda? How could we have gotten to al-Qaeda if the government was standing in our way?
SHEEHAN: Well, the government was but not the people.

Questions Matthews could have asked Sheehan but didn’t:

1. Do you still believe that the terrorist forces in Iraq are “freedom fighters“?

2. Do you still believe your son’s death was the result of a neocon / Jewish conspiracy to benefit Israel?

3. What is your opinion of International ANSWER, the group that co-sponsored this weekend’s protests?

Video here.