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Cindy [Sheeham] and Amy Branham in front of the VFP Impeachment tour Bus

"This is something that can't be ignored," Sheehan said during a conference call with bloggers representing sites like democrats.com, codepink4peace.org, and crooksandliars.com. "They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state." "Our government is run by one party, every level," Sheehan continued, "and the mainstream media is a propaganda tool for the government." Sheehan also called the 2004 presidential election "the election, quote-unquote, that happened in November." Source

''Who knew that the beginning of the end of the occupation in Iraq was going to start last Saturday in Crawford, Texas?'' said Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif., who started the protest Aug. 6 in memory of her 24-year-old son Casey, killed in Iraq last year. ``We're here to change the world.'' Source

....TrueMajority, an antiwar group founded by Ben Cohen -- one of the creators of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream -- hired Fenton Communications, a Washington public relations firm that has worked intermittently with Sheehan over the past year to coordinate media coverage.

With this help, Sheehan has courted coverage from the traveling White House press corps with a news conference. A schedule of when relatives of other military casualties in Iraq are expected to join Sheehan in Crawford was distributed to reporters. Her team coordinated an antiwar rally attended by hundreds in Crawford yesterday. Sheehan also launched a television ad campaign yesterday, hoping to achieve what her roadside vigil so far has not: a second chance to directly tell Bush about the devastation she has experienced since her son's death. Source

The Sun also points out that Sheehan is working with the Crawford Peace House, and it says that group's website "includes a photo depicting the entire state of Israel as Palestine." Actually, it depicts a protester holding a sign showing four maps of what is now Israel and the Occupied Territories, noting how Palestinians have been allowed less and less land over the past 60 years.

"Nobody is anti-Israel here," says John Wolf, one of the founders of the Crawford Peace House. "We're just asking for peace with justice and respect for international law." Source

1 posted on 08/16/2005 4:23:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Bothered by what she laments as mounting "distractions," Cindy Sheehan sought Monday to refocus her peace vigil...

Like this "distraction"?

What a shame.

54 posted on 08/16/2005 6:06:09 AM PDT by XR7
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noting how Palestinians have been allowed less and less land over the past 60 years.

That's what happens when you keep losing wars you start.

57 posted on 08/16/2005 6:12:17 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Refill with only real Kikkoman Soy Sauce)
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Husband divorced her. I would have too. Of course, the media said it was over the stress of Casey. Horse droppings, Sheehan is a leftist twit and hubby finally saw the light.


60 posted on 08/16/2005 6:13:56 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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I haven't had a chance to read all the post regarding this lady so maybe you can help. I would like to know how this lady can afford this bus. Did someone give it to her? Did she buy it? She is traveling as a celebrity in this bus.


61 posted on 08/16/2005 6:17:49 AM PDT by Texagirl4W ("I am too blessed to be stressed and too anointed to be disappointed!")
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63 posted on 08/16/2005 6:25:21 AM PDT by EllaMinnow (Help stamp out unnecessary apostrophes.)
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Atmospheric reentry without a heat shield.
67 posted on 08/16/2005 6:34:22 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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Since she "came out here and sat down on a lawn chair" 10 days ago, Ms. Sheehan said, the situation has "got out of hand and just turned into a media circus."

"The media attention has been fabulous," she said Monday

She can't keep her story straight for even a day.

70 posted on 08/16/2005 6:42:15 AM PDT by foolscap
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got out of hand and just turned into a media circus."

Huh?? Lady, you ARE a media circus!!! And not paying taxes!! ROFLMBO!!! This woman has more skeletons...

74 posted on 08/16/2005 6:49:58 AM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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Since she "came out here and sat down on a lawn chair" 10 days ago, Ms. Sheehan said, the situation has "got out of hand and just turned into a media circus."

Really???

76 posted on 08/16/2005 6:54:39 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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For instance, she cited calls for the president's impeachment as "another distraction off of our original cause."

...that "original cause" being "pay attention to me, me, did I mention *me*?"

84 posted on 08/16/2005 7:12:33 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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Cindy [Sheeham] and Amy Branham in front of the VFP Impeachment tour Bus

CRAWFORD, Texas – Bothered by what she laments as mounting "distractions," Cindy Sheehan sought Monday to refocus her peace vigil near President Bush's ranch on her central anti-war message.

Since she "came out here and sat down on a lawn chair" 10 days ago, Ms. Sheehan said, the situation has "got out of hand and just turned into a media circus."

For instance, she cited calls for the president's impeachment as "another distraction off of our original cause."

what a loon.
99 posted on 08/16/2005 9:03:22 AM PDT by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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"They killed my son in an illegal and immoral war," she told a reporter who asked, "and I don't feel like I owe them anything."

I tried this several years ago and almost lost my House, Wife, Kids, Dogs, & Shirt. Trust me "It won't work!"

101 posted on 08/16/2005 9:05:25 AM PDT by rapture-me
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Get her a mic.camera man and a show on pmsnbc. She'd fit right in.


102 posted on 08/16/2005 9:05:54 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (<><)
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As soon as the protestors of Cindy's message showed up, I said the press would stop paying her as much attention. Because to give her attention causes supporters of the military and Bush to show up...and the OLD MEDIA hates that!

The counter to Cindy has mobilized and she is floundering. Keep up the good work Freepers. Write, call, e-mail the truth about this disgusting woman.

Her son is rolling over in his grave and that makes me very sad.


108 posted on 08/16/2005 9:40:14 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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