Posted on 08/25/2005 7:15:56 AM PDT by CedarDave
CRAWFORD, Texas - Even when she was in California taking care of her mother, Cindy Sheehan said part of her remained at the protest campsite she had set up outside President Bush's ranch. On Wednesday, Sheehan returned to "Camp Casey," named after her 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year in Iraq.
"This is where I belong, until Aug. 31, like I told the president," Sheehan said at the Waco airport before driving about 20 miles to the Crawford site.
When Sheehan arrived at the campsite, she saw a large banner depicting her son's face. She sobbed and said she felt ill. Supporters brought her water and cold towels, and she recovered about 20 minutes later.
Sheehan began her vigil Aug. 6 on the road leading to Bush's ranch, vowing to stay through his monthlong vacation unless he met with her. She left last week to visit her 74-year-old mother in Los Angeles after the woman suffered a stroke. Sheehan said her mother has started physical therapy for paralysis on her right side.
Sheehan's protest in Crawford has encouraged anti-war activists to join her and prompted peace vigils nationwide. She also continues to draw harsh criticism.
Conservative activists and military families were en route to Crawford from California on a tour called "You don't speak for me, Cindy!" The caravan coordinated by Move America Forward plans to hold a pro-Bush rally in town Saturday.
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As a former soldier, I used to have some pity for her.
Out of respect for her son and HIS sacrifice (not hers, by any means), I held off on my criticizims.
No longer.
She and her useful idiots are DIRECTLY jeopardizing American soldiers and are explicitly supporting our enemies.
She's earned the same level of scorn as Jane Fonda.
I tried to tell 'em to empty those Port-a-Potties.
But nooooo!
Now she has a cause fer sure.
She sobbed and said she felt ill. Supporters brought her water and cold towels, and she recovered about 20 minutes later.
Was probably from the B.O. of all those unwashed hippies being around her. I'm sure by now, it could incapacitate a bull elephant.
Oh, what a drama queen you are, Ms. Sheehan.
I love that pic! The New Jersey Turnpike...Maybe Sheehan can get off at 15E and jump off the Pulaski Skyway!
"almost collapsing when she saw the picture of her dead son."
A picture is worth a thousand words:
To look at a picture of Casey, the man, is having to confront reality. We see the man who volunteered to serve his counrty. The man who believed in his mission enough to re-enlist. The man, who in his last noble,heroic hour, laid down his life to rescue fellow soldiers.
This is not what Cindy remembers. She remembers the child who was lied to by military recruiters and then brainwashed into re-enlisting.
I'm not surprised that seeing the picture of Casey, the man, is haunting enough to make her "almost collapse" .
I predict that picture will be deemed too upsetting for Cindy Sheehan to see and it will be removed.
This whole protest business is so 60's camp. It is annoying when nitwits in their teens and twenties do it. It is almost laughable when people in their 50's and 60's do it. It has that David Crosby-post-junkie-post new liver look. Get a life, you dopes.
What a drama queen. She is starting to sound more and more like a pampered celebrity.
I back to Dishonor my son, killed by a "Freedom Fighter" (Insurgent). He wasn't defending our country because "This Country is not worth defending". I'm so sad President Bush is doing all of this for the "Jews" and that I can't be a pawn of the democratic party and the mainstream media more. Boo Hoo!
/Sarcasm off
is that the NJ turnpike? I didn't know, just found the pic and altered it. :D
The left's grief-based politics.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/969abvgj.asp
(Have you noticed that when you see the admonishment
"Already posted" and a cite, you can also almost make out the tag: "you steaming pile of horse-droppings")
This Site is worth it just for the great graphics created by freepers or found elsewhere and posted here alone.
Oh, wow, she has the great American truthteller, Joe Wilson, on her side. Where is the word "discredited" when describing who he is?
Is he going to drive out to Crawford with his "top secret" wife in the car they posed in on the Vanity Fair cover?
I didn't include Wilson's comments in the excerpt, but indeed they deserve a BARF alert of its own.
Peace Mom? More like P.O.S. mom. CS and her leftist sympathizers are working for a US defeat. Along with the MSM they are the enemy's strongest weapon.
Enough with the Beer and Chili farts Moore, you fat pig!! Dammit my eyes are burning.
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