Posted on 11/25/2005 12:51:00 PM PST by Tim Long
CRAWFORD, Texas - The mother of a fallen soldier who led a vigil against the war in Iraq outside President Bush's ranch returned to Texas, saying she is "heartbroken" that the troops are not home.
When Cindy Sheehan arrived at the Waco airport Thursday, three dozen supporters erupted into cheers and tears and grabbed her for lengthy embraces. Before they whisked her back to Crawford, the group chanted, "Stop the war! Bring them home now!"
"I feel happy to be back here with all my friends ... but I'm heartbroken that we have to be here again," said Sheehan, who hoped to arrive earlier in the week, but was delayed by a family emergency. "We will keep pressing and we won't give up until our troops are brought home."
Sheehan asked protesters to return to Crawford this week during Bush's family Thanksgiving gathering. She was unknown when she set up camp outside Bush's ranch during his August vacation, but as the vigil drew thousands, she attracted national attention.
Friday, Sheehan's itinerary included attending a dedication of a garden at the Crawford Peace House in honor of her 24-year-old son, Casey, who died in Iraq last year. An anti-war rally was scheduled at a downtown park Saturday.
A few miles away in a field beside the main road leading to Bush's ranch, a Bush supporter set up camp Thursday with a tent and signs saying "A Noble Cause" showing pictures of smiling Iraqi children.
The war protesters' camp this week is at the same 1-acre private lot that a landowner let them use in August when Sheehan's original campsite became too crowded. The grassy lot is about a mile from Bush's ranch.
Before Sheehan's arrival, more than 100 protesters at the camp ate a traditional Iraqi meal for Thanksgiving — salmon, lentils, rice with almonds and a salad of parsley, tomatoes, cucumbers and bulgur wheat. They said they wanted to call attention to the innocent Iraqi victims in addition to the more than 2,100 U.S. soldiers killed since the war began in March 2003.
"It's significant because the people of Iraq are suffering under our occupation, and for people in America it's business as usual stuffing themselves on fat turkeys," said Tammara Rosenleaf, whose husband is an Army soldier to be deployed in a few weeks.
The ulimate "Mommie Dearest".
Who?
She obviously doesn't realize that her 15 minutes of fame are up. Instead, she continues to dishonor her son's memory while making a fool of herself.
She is an embaressment to America.
emberrassed = embarrassed, like I am now for misspelling that...;^)
Hannity just said Mark Levin is going to be on debating the sheehan protesters at the top of the hour. At least I think he said at the top of the hour.
Too bad the weather has been mild. We will have thunder storms tonight and tomorrow so the Texas mud will make Msss Sheeeham right at home.
This wench is really getting tiresome.
Nothing more than a professional protestor and whore for the dim-o-crats.
"They said they wanted to call attention to the innocent Iraqi victims"
If they cared AT ALL about the Iraqis, they'd be supporting the mission and rooting for the defeat of the terrorists. They're fools.
This is why I don't listen to Hannity anymore. Always gives the libs a mike to voice their BS. You don't see Rush or Savage doing this.
What is great is I have see zero mention of this on the MSM. When Pravda West and Pravda East and the rest ignore you and you are carrying the Lefty message, that is it.
Democrat Party Future: A Spark Neglected Burn's The House
I'M MELTING! MELLTIINNG!!
403 to 3.
True.... but I think Levin will tear them apart.
The people of Iraq are suffering from the last holdouts of a brutal Baathist regime and, for these "Peace" activist, it is business as usual stuffing their own brains with anti-American hatred.
Sheehan and her ilk would rather see hundreds of thousands of Shiite and Kurdish Iraqis slaughtered by Baathist thugs reestablishing their tyranny than to see Bush gain the final victory.
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