Posted on 02/20/2006 9:53:45 AM PST by ncountylee
(2/20/06 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - Iraq war activist Cindy Sheehan will be in Houston to help carry out a protest against President Bush's mother.
You may remember, Sheehan got national attention after refusing to budge from outside of President Bush's Crawford ranch last year. Sheehan and her supporters in Houston say they want to send a message to Barbara Bush because she has influence over her son.
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Beneath contempt, that's Cindy.
Ooh, Cindy may want to rethink this one. She really doesn't want to tangle with Barbara Bush.
Just when I thought dog crap couldn't smell any worse....
Get. A. Life.
May I be the first; "Cat Fight!!!"
Harrass his mother? LOL. What a drama queen.
She ain't for "peace" she just believes we are fighting for the wrong side.
Barbara Bush is the nation's mom. Cindy better tread lightly.
Barbara will chew her up and spit her out.
This could be interesting assuming Barbara is in town today.
Sheehan is going to mess with Barbara Bush? Hah! I'd pay cash to see that.
I'd love to see an 80 year old woman kick some hippy ass.
02/20/2006
Sheehan leads peace rally at Montgomery College
By: Nick Cenegy , Conroe Courier staff
In a charged rally Sunday evening, keynote speaker Cindy Sheehan and about 500 opponents of the war in Iraq gathered in the theater at Montgomery College to "Speak Out for Peace."
Sheehan, who gained notoriety after an extended peace demonstration at "Camp Casey," a protest camp, outside President George W. Bush's estate at Crawford Ranch, was one of several speakers to address the audience relating stories about the loss of loved ones in military service and seeking accountability on their behalf from the current administration.
Sheehan was greeted by a standing ovation. She made peace signs with her hands as she took her place behind the podium and greeted the audience with a gentle voice. After a few salutary phrases, she launched into criticism regarding the policies of the president.
"The response to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina were inadequate and inappropriate," she said, elaborating on shortcomings and their ramifications for the people of New Orleans as well as issues relating to the justification for the Iraq war.
"We've decided to invite some evacuees to stay on out at Camp Casey with us so that George Bush can't pass them without looking a few more policies that he messed up," she said.
Sheehan said that only through means like this will the president ever recognize the results of his actions.
"He doesn't see opposition," she said, and then pointed to the audience. "In a crowd like this everyone would have been screened."
Screening, she said, which she fell victim to during this year's State of the Union Address where she was taken into police custody for "Unlawful Conduct" after unzipping her jacket, while she was seated, revealing a T-shirt reading "2,245 dead. How many more?"
She was released after four hours and later received an apology from the police department.
Sheehan is one of the founding members of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization that advocates an end to the occupation of Iraq and supports the families of fallen soldiers.
Several of the evening's speakers had also lost loved ones in the military. Many of the speakers in fact, met "in the ditches at Crawford," while joining Sheehan in her quest to meet face-to-face with President Bush and "let him tell me what exactly the 'noble cause' my son died for was," she said.
"203 Texas families will never be the same again," said Amy Branham who lost her son Jeremy, in a car accident outside Ft. Hood five days before his Army Reserve unit's deployment to Iraq.
"Gold Star Families walk the floor at night and wonder did their sons go very quickly? Did they feel any pain? We will never be the same again," she said, "I don't want any other families to go through this."
Juan Torres, the father of Juan Torres, Jr., who was killed in Afganistan in 2004, said that he and his family moved from Argentina because he had been so directly affected by the military-led country. Moving to America, he said, was a way of restoring the hope of freedom.
"My American Dream is in the ground forever," he said.
One of the coordinators for the event was Danita Noland, minister of the Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church in The Woodlands, who said that she is motivated for peace because she doesn't want her 15-year-old son to suffer the same fate for a cause that she feels is unjustified.
Sunday's rally served to build momentum for a President's Day rally on the sidewalk along Woodway Road in Houston, in front of St. Martin's Episcopal Church. The church that Barbara Bush attends.
It is to continue the accusation that she began in a letter to Mrs. Bush a few months ago. "Your oldest child killed my oldest child," she wrote. "I taught my son to use words instead of violence to solve his problems. Did you teach George to use words instead of violence to solve his problems?"
Sheehan said that for Monday's protest, she will carry a sign with Casey's picture on it saying "Your son killed my son." She hopes the mother-to-mother appeal will work.
Many in the group of speakers plan to return to Camp Casey at Crawford for Easter, the next scheduled visit for President Bush. They will work, said Sheehan, to raise enough money through the sales of a CD compilation of music and other fund-raisers to buy a plot of land next to the president's ranch and put a Veteran's Rehabilitation Center on it for soldiers from Iraq as a constant reminder.
There were no apparent counter-protesters at the event.
Barbara should invite her for tea and then beat the sh-- out of her.....
Exactly what I am thinking!
I would love nothing more than for Barbara to tear that psycho b*tch a new one in front of a bevy of video cameras.
I'm betting on Barbara if confronted by Cindy. Barbara will knock her on her butt.
But it'd be fun to watch!
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