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War protest resuming despite Sheehan's delay to Crawford
KRISTV,COM ^ | November 22, 2005

Posted on 11/22/2005 12:14:31 PM PST by Howlin

CRAWFORD, Texas -- War opponents say their protest near President Bush's ranch will resume this week although the fallen soldier's mother who led a 26-day vigil this summer will arrive later than planned.

Cindy Sheehan of Berkeley, Calif., has a family emergency and is scheduled to arrive Friday in time for the dedication of the Camp Casey Memorial Garden at the Crawford Peace House. It is named for her 24-year-old son who died in Iraq last year.

Other peace activists have been arriving in Crawford and plan to return Wednesday to the roadside where Sheehan set up camp in August. They say they expect to be arrested, because in September county commissioners enacted two ordinances banning roadside parking within a 7-mile radius of Bush's ranch and prohibiting camping in any county ditch.

On Monday, three protesters filed a federal lawsuit against McLennan County, claiming the ordinances limit their free speech rights.

The demonstrators say they are returning to protest the war with Iraq to coincide with Bush's Thanksgiving ranch visit and that the county ordinances will not stop them.

"Our holidays will never be the same, so we want him to remember that," Sheehan's sister Dede Miller, who has already arrived in Crawford, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Protesters will hold a Thanksgiving meal and other activities on the same private 1-acre lot that a sympathetic landowner let them use for several weeks of the August protest. An anti-war rally is planned for Saturday in a downtown Crawford park and an interfaith service is planned for Sunday.

Sheehan's summer protest drew thousands but also spurred counter-protests of Bush supporters who said she was hurting troop morale. Bill Johnson, who started a pro-Bush camp beside his downtown Crawford souvenir shop in August, said he will hold a pro-Bush rally at the same site Saturday.

"Our goal is to get our story out because she'll get her story out," Johnson said Tuesday. "We see things differently than she does."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; cindy; cindysheehan; crawford; sheehan
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To: Howlin
Will Sheehan, like Estrich, look completely foolish when interviewed about the book they supposedly wrote? I give O'Reilly credit for pushing Estrich on the Mrs. Clinton book and proving Estrich had no idea where Mrs. Clinton stands on anything.

When did Sheehan have time to write a book? Between media pressers, interviews, the mock impeachment hearings and hug-fests with Jackson, Rengel et al, when did she have time?

Wonder how long it will take FReepers to learn who "ghost" wrote Sheehan's book?
41 posted on 11/22/2005 12:52:39 PM PST by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: Howlin

I would laugh my butt off if the President and Laura Bush had plans to spend Thanksgiving somewhere other then Crawford.

That would be too funny! All the air would come out of sheehans protest balloon and they'd just be setting out there in the ditch, in the cold and looking like the fools that they are.



42 posted on 11/22/2005 12:53:19 PM PST by GloriaJane (http://music.download.com/gloriajane "Seems Like Our Press Has Turned Against Our Country")
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To: Howlin
Cindy Sheehan of Berkeley, Calif., has a family emergency and is scheduled to arrive Friday

Sounds like her kids told her "If you don't spend Thanksgiving with us, we'll never speak to you again". How else would she know the emergency would be over the next day?

43 posted on 11/22/2005 12:53:23 PM PST by Krodg
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To: ConservativeGreek

>>>I don't know, she was pretty close to Jessie the race whore, as I recall. >>>

This is true. Maybe they made a new rainbow baby.


44 posted on 11/22/2005 12:54:11 PM PST by sandbar
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To: Txsleuth
Yep..bet ya it's tied to her book release somehow..FRAUD..
I hope she spends her time down there slamming Hillary and the rest of the Dems for voting down troop withdrawal
45 posted on 11/22/2005 12:56:22 PM PST by binkdeville
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To: sandbar

Maybe they made a new rainbow baby.

Man, that would be one very ugly kid!
What an awful thought.
Moonbats do breed.........I'm starting to frighten myself.


46 posted on 11/22/2005 12:56:26 PM PST by ConservativeGreek
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To: BlessedByLiberty

When did Sheehan have time to write a book?

MoveON or Progress wrote the book. Just like they write these moonbat letters to the editor and have local loons submit them.


47 posted on 11/22/2005 12:58:18 PM PST by ConservativeGreek
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To: TC Rider

600k for 'katrina victims'..HUMMMM No THERE is something we need to look at ..Where IS that money ? This could be big I'd say . How can we find out?


48 posted on 11/22/2005 12:58:28 PM PST by binkdeville
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To: Howlin
Family Emergency

Yeah, it's called Thanksgiving !!!!

49 posted on 11/22/2005 12:59:02 PM PST by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: Howlin

Sheehan is a hatemonger.


50 posted on 11/22/2005 12:59:19 PM PST by sauropod ("The love that dare not speak its' name has now become the love that won't shut the hell up.")
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To: YouPosting2Me

The acronym means what?


51 posted on 11/22/2005 12:59:45 PM PST by sauropod ("The love that dare not speak its' name has now become the love that won't shut the hell up.")
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To: Howlin

I would love it, if, claiming the press of the nation's business, GWB suddenly announced he will have to stay close to DC this Thanksgiving and go to Camp David instead.


52 posted on 11/22/2005 12:59:55 PM PST by Let's Roll ( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
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To: ConservativeGreek
I don't know, she was pretty close to Jessie the race whore, as I recall.


53 posted on 11/22/2005 1:01:56 PM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: Krodg
What is interesting is that she is now from "Berkley" CA and not the family home in Vacaville in Solano County.

From what we hear in NOCAL Sheehan now lodges with the two lawyers in Berkley who hung the effigy of an American soldier from their home.
54 posted on 11/22/2005 1:04:18 PM PST by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: Recovering Hermit

Thanks, I couldn't find the pic.
Like what you've done to it. She is hard up.
Jessie's face is beginning to look like a Botox treatment gone bad!


55 posted on 11/22/2005 1:07:13 PM PST by ConservativeGreek
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To: ConservativeGreek

Jesse is the ultimate slim bag . I had the pleasure of refusing to shake his hand when I met him in NYC at an affair a few years ago. He was stunned that I wasen't impressed with the might JJ.Screw him that racist fraud.


56 posted on 11/22/2005 1:09:16 PM PST by binkdeville
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To: Howlin

Dirty filthy souless Darwinist chaff.


57 posted on 11/22/2005 1:11:00 PM PST by Baby Driver
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To: All
off topic, please forgive me.

I'm looking for that picture named..."The women of the democraticunderground'. It's the picture where there are 5-6 women hefty, big, large women in two piece bathing suits. I had it months ago and have lost it. It must be floating in the netherworld. Sorry about off topic again. I want to give it to my sister.

58 posted on 11/22/2005 1:19:47 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: binkdeville
600k for 'katrina victims'..HUMMMM No THERE is something we need to look at ..Where IS that money ? This could be big I'd say . How can we find out?

There was some thread and blogs about the whole stinking mess a month or so ago. As I remember, Michael Moore had a link on his website to the sheehan site where funds were collected. Some was given to a commie commune for use as a 'shelter', they couldn't figure out how to shower themselves with the rest. It seems like some incriminating emails had surfaced.

Someone else will surely find the appropriate links.

59 posted on 11/22/2005 1:22:10 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Howlin

Bush should go to Kennebunkport instead of Crawford at the last minute. *Snicker*


60 posted on 11/22/2005 1:25:16 PM PST by veronica (....."send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.")
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