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Mother's Protest at Bush's Doorstep Raises Stakes (Traitor Cindy Sheehan makes Iraq Daily News!)
Iraq Daily ^ | 8/11/05

Posted on 08/11/2005 9:37:59 AM PDT by areafiftyone

It links over to Newsday so here is an excerpt:

CRAWFORD, Texas — For more than a year, a modest bungalow known as "Peace House," located a few miles from President Bush's ranch, has served as a headquarters for antiwar activists. It is lonely work, with little more than a skeleton crew on hand much of the time.

But then Cindy Sheehan hit town.

The 48-year-old mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in an ambush in Baghdad last year, is consumed by the kind of grief that turns into a furious determination to do something — in her case, to confront the president and force him to explain why her son died.

Now, in the space of just a few days, what started out as a seemingly quixotic personal mission has become something of a phenomenon — with media swarming around Sheehan, leading liberal and antiwar activists parachuting in to try to make her their long-sought voice, and political experts in both parties working to assess what role she may have in galvanizing the public's gathering unhappiness with the increasing American casualties in Iraq.

Antiwar leaders hope that putting the spotlight on Sheehan will motivate Americans who oppose the war, creating a political force strong enough to compel the Bush administration to change course.

(Excerpt) Read more at iraqdaily.com ...


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To: areafiftyone

So sad - I wonder what her reaction would be if someone told her that the perps who killed her son are gratified to know that she is on their side.


81 posted on 08/11/2005 11:13:15 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: trebb

She's a fool. She could be honoring her son's memory by helping out our soldiers instead she is hurting our soldiers and her son's memory for her Kodak Moment!


82 posted on 08/11/2005 11:24:37 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: areafiftyone
The Cindy Sheehan's of the anti-war establishment are directly responsible for the death of Casey Sheehan and the deaths of our other sons and daughters in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is an absolutely reprehensible POS!
83 posted on 08/11/2005 11:26:07 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org • Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: brat41
If Bill Clinton was in office you people would be doing the same thing, screaming bloody murder.

Actually, many of us wanted Clinton to get tougher with Iraq instead of his unneccessary use of the US military as a meals on wheels program.

85 posted on 08/11/2005 11:32:25 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: CounterCounterCulture

There is a difference between being against the War and being for the Iraqi resistance. I AM NOT FOR THE IRAQI RESISTANCE NOR ANYONE ELSE TRYING TO KILL OUR TROOPS. I still say you should be able to stand up and say you are against the war and not be called a traitor, especially if you lost a son in Iraq.


86 posted on 08/11/2005 11:34:03 AM PDT by jackieaxe (English speaking, law abiding, taxpaying citizen)
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To: jackieaxe
I still say you should be able to stand up and say you are against the war and not be called a traitor, especially if you lost a son in Iraq.

People can stand up and say they are against the war all day long and not be called or considered traitors. Its when you align yourself with anti-american organizations and organizations that, yes, want to see the Iraqi terrorists kill our troops and defeat us and allow them to use you as a tool to advance their cause, or agree with them and proudly promote such that you fall into the traitor camp.

87 posted on 08/11/2005 11:36:20 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: brat41
You could at least give it some effort to avoid looking like a stupid troll from DUh. And give me a break on the Cindy-bashing crap too, you idiot. She long ago stepped over the line from grieving mother to anti-american shill doing the disgusting dirty work of dancing on dead soldier's graves on behalf of every maggot-infested leftist liberal group in this country!

Pack it up and slither back to DUh, troll - you've just been SPANKED!
88 posted on 08/11/2005 11:37:06 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Islam is war)
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To: PilloryHillary

I'm sorry, but this message, even if it is accurate, is next to useless. We need real verification. Why can't one of them get on TV or talk to a reporter?


89 posted on 08/11/2005 11:38:12 AM PDT by Democratshavenobrains
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To: brat41

Direct your outrage towards those who are doing the killings and terrorism, not the one fighting such atrocities.

Cindy Sheehan is a habitual liar and should be put in a mental institution before she hurts somebody or herself.


90 posted on 08/11/2005 11:42:04 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: Phantom Lord
I just pulled this President Bush quote from the wires:

"I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan," Bush said. "She feels strongly about her position, and she has every right in the world to say what she believes. This is America. She has a right to her position, and I thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from others, which is: Get out of Iraq now. And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so."

Again you should be able to dissent with your government and not be called a traitor. And for good reason, group think is a dangerous thing.
91 posted on 08/11/2005 11:42:43 AM PDT by jackieaxe (English speaking, law abiding, taxpaying citizen)
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To: jackieaxe
Again you should be able to dissent with your government and not be called a traitor.

I said just that in the above post. An no President is going to come out and say "this women is a barking moonbat who supports our enemies."

92 posted on 08/11/2005 11:47:15 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: brat41
You'd rather we fight the war in THIS country? Do you need to be reminded about 9/11? You don't see the parents, wives, husbands and children of those who died on that day protesting the war...troll!

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93 posted on 08/11/2005 11:48:10 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: jackieaxe

Let me tell you a little something about this person. I have done some searches on what she has said. She hates this country, hates President Bush and VP Cheney for winning in 2000 and 2004. I was on a site which has a list of groups who support her. Nothing but anti-President Bush groups. She is a disgrace to other families who have lost children in wars. She is in this only for her anti war and anti-President views. She is a traitor.


94 posted on 08/11/2005 11:50:08 AM PDT by MamaB (mom to an angel)
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To: brat41

brat41 registered Aug 11, 2005. In before the ZOT!


95 posted on 08/11/2005 11:52:04 AM PDT by DarthVader (Islam is not something to be understood, it is something that must be utterly destroyed)
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To: brat41

Yes, I know what it is like losing a child. Believe me, this is not grief but absolute hatred for this country. She has been a hate filled leftist for many years and this is just one way she has to do something against President Bush. She has never, ever supported this way. Do some searches on sites which have statements by her.


96 posted on 08/11/2005 11:54:11 AM PDT by MamaB (mom to an angel)
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To: brat41
First of all let me say that I am a Rebublican and have been all my life . . .

Glad to meet you. I'm Tip O'Neill.

97 posted on 08/11/2005 11:54:45 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: jackieaxe; CounterCounterCulture; Phantom Lord; MamaB; reagan_fanatic

She is a liar. Proven liar. And filled with hate for this country.

Call it dissent. I call it traitorous.

President Bush is the President, and he is in a different type of position than I am, wherein he is as diplomatic as possible, while totally rejecting her demands. I expected him to do it that way. Does not mean the rest of us have to.

And btw, I actually think she is a threat to get more of our young warriors killed. I think she is on the side of the terrorists. Her rants against this country, against Israel, etc. sound just like the terrorists. There is virtually no difference in their words.

The President would be true to his Oath of office to Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution, and true to his role as Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces if, in those capacities, he had this national security threat removed from near his ranch, so that she could spew her hatred and lies from some other location and have to stop stalking him and using the situation of his location and his Presidency to harm our troops and our security around the world.

I disagree that she should be allowed to continue forever doing what she is doing WHERE AND UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES SHE IS DOING IT, AND I DON'T CARE IF THE PRESIDENT ALLOWS HER TO, I THINK THAT IS WRONG!


98 posted on 08/11/2005 12:07:45 PM PDT by txrangerette
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To: txrangerette
And btw, I actually think she is a threat to get more of our young warriors killed.

To comply with the new NCAA rules I have to ask you to refrain from using the word warrior as it is offensive to native Americans. In the future please use the word soldier.

99 posted on 08/11/2005 12:38:12 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Admin Moderator
Glad to meet you. I'm Tip O'Neill

LOL! Looks like you've lost some weight, Tip!

Is it just me, or has the quality of the trolls been on the decline lately?
100 posted on 08/11/2005 12:53:09 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Islam is war)
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