According to Pinkcode, a women peace movement which is organizing the event, participants will also write letters to First Lady Laura Bush, urging her to persuade her husband to make a decision to end the war.

    The Mother's Day vigil reflects the growing anti-war sentiments across the U.S. society.

    A series of latest polls showed that Americans are increasingly seeing the war as a mistake and calling for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.

    According to a CBS/New York Times poll, 67 percent of the respondents said they are unsatisfied with the Bush administration's handling of the war while 60 percent support a withdrawal schedule and 56 percent think the war is wrong.

    Seventy two percent of deployed U.S. troops and 62 percent of American women favor a full withdrawal of troops before the end of 2006, based on the findings of a Zogby poll in February and a Gallup poll of last December, respectively.

    On the other hand, the war is driving down the approval rating of U.S. President George W. Bush, who has been repeatedly insisting on his war policy, though.

    On May 12, a Wall Street Journal/ Harris Interactive survey found the president's rating slipped below 30 percent for the first time since he took office.

    At 29 percent, he is within reach of becoming the least popular sitting president in over 60 years and pollsters believe he has yet to hit rock bottom.

    John Zogby, head of the polling firm Zogby International, said growing unease about the war in Iraq is the single biggest reason for Americans' unhappiness with Bush.

    His opinion is shared by James M. Lindsay, Vice President of the Council of Foreign Relations, a leading think-tank.

    "In the case of Iraq, the president can try to repackage the policy, but the public seems to have really sort of moved decisively to being unhappy with the Iraq war itself and the occupation," he pointed out.

    In her Mother's Day message, Cindy Sheehan called for U.S. mothers not to vote for any candidate who support the war.

    Though it is still unknown that how many will follow her call, but the message from this year's Mother's Day may serve as another wake-up call for some of the war hawks. Enditem

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