Posted on 03/02/2006 6:16:17 PM PST by armymarinemom
CNSNews.com) - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Thursday denied that she participated in a protest organized by the group Code Pink and conducted in front of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center last October.
Cybercast News Service reported Wednesday that Sheehan did take part in the Oct. 28, protest, but has since changed her mind about demonstrating at hospital venues. She has labeled a planned anti-war demonstration for March 11 in front of the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany inappropriate.
On Thursday, Sheehan was urging Cybercast News Service to "correct our article."
"I did not participate in the vigil outside of Walter Reed. I delivered flowers and get well card...and then left," Sheehan wrote in an e-mail.
"I have always been opposed to the vigil that my dear friends do outside of Walter Reed...they know it. I have encouraged them to move it to the Pentagon," Sheehan wrote.
Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in the Iraq war in 2004, is the author of "Not One More Mother's Child" and the founder and president of Gold Star Families for Peace.
"I love Code Pink and everything they do, but have been philosophically opposed to their vigil in front of WR (Walter Reed) ever since they started it," she added.
"I never would go there and hold a sign or stand out in the vigil. I just drove up, went into Walter Reed, gave them a get well card and then left," Sheehan later said in a telephone interview.
However, Code Pink's own website features an article from Oct. 28, 2005, -- the date of the protest in question -- describing Sheehan's involvement.
The Code Pink article, entitled "Walter Reed Vigil Report No. 11," stated that "twenty to thirty people participated in tonight's vigil, including Cindy Sheehan who took flowers and a large 'get well' card signed by many fellow Americans into Walter Reed, where she was greeted warmly."
As Cybercast News Service previously reported, the protesters outside the Walter Reed Army Medical Center sparked controversy, not only for their choice of location, but for their signs, which read "Maimed for a Lie" and "Enlist here to die for Halliburton." The protesters stood in front of the same entrance to the hospital that some wounded soldiers and their family members were using.
Kristinn Taylor, the co-leader of the District of Columbia chapter of FreeRepublic.com and an eyewitness to Sheehan's Oct. 28 visit to Walter Reed, dismissed Sheehan's attempt to distance herself from the Code Pink sponsored anti-war protest at the hospital.
"Scheduling her media stunt to coincide precisely with the Code Pink demonstration and standing with them for about five minutes definitely puts her seal of approval on Code Pink's vile demonstration outside the gates of the hospital," Taylor told Cybercast News Service.
Sheehan's current view of the protests outside hospitals reflects her concern "about getting yet another black eye in the media."
"She has come under intense criticism from some on her side about her antics," Taylor added.
On Thursday, Sheehan reiterated her bitterness about the war in Iraq and the pain of her personal loss. "I feel my son died for a lie. I feel that Casey did die for a lie," Sheehan said.
Who is Cindy Sheehan? Was she someone important?
Wow, Cindy Sheehan was just proven to be a blatantly lying, evil b*tch. Who would have imagined this possible?
Photos?
No. Just someone who wants to be.
A legend in her own mind.
Wasn't she one of them Dixie Chicks thingys?
Bump
Ping. I figure you might have some comments on this one.
I didn't participate before I did bump.
Go, Kristinn!
Did anyone ever think that this piss-ant, traitor, grave-stomping woman would ever need to do her own "media spin" ala Hillary to try to come back to center, covering up who she really is?
Every day is an Adventure in Media, isn't it? Yeesh.
She has earned her PINK FLIP FLOPS.
It was merely a coincidence that she just happened to be entering Walter Reed with flowers and Candy at the same Friday night Code Pink was tyhere demonstrating.
Does anyone believe that?? If you do I have a bridge in can sell you--cheap.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Lots of pics always taken at those counter protest's aka freeps I suspect that someone has one of of this trash doing just what she denies......
"If you do I have a bridge in can sell you--cheap."
And I have Arizona Lakefront Property for sale if you're interested, LOL! ;)
So? In my humble experience, every staffer at Walter Reed is as nice as can be. They smile and greet everyone warmly.
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