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Sheehan calls for students to join peace movement (Barf Alert!)
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 4/24/06 | Karin Stanton - ap

Posted on 04/24/2006 9:23:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Cindy Sheehan said that before her son was killed in Iraq, she didn't buy into the idea that one person could make a difference. Now, she does.

Young people should resist the American military war machine and instead fight for global peace and prosperity, Sheehan told a receptive audience of about 200 at the University of Hawaii-Hilo on Monday, before another appearance across the island in Kailua-Kona.

After her son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, was killed April 4, 2004 in Iraq, Sheehan began traveling the world speaking out against the war.

"I need to stop this war," she said. "They are not doing this in our name, not in my name. I am working for peace, justice and freedom."

The Berkeley, Calif., peace activist said speaking on college campuses is an important part of her mission. "We need the young people in this movement right now," she said. "The peace movement comes from the bottom up, not the top down."

She encouraged teens and young adults to resist fighting a war she called illegal, unlawful and immoral.

"I encourage you not to join this war machine. I encourage parents to hide their children from this war machine. I encourage young people already trapped in this system not to go," she said.

Sheehan said her son was against the war before he deployed, believing it was an irresponsible use of force.

"But my son was an honorable man and his buddies were dying, so he went," she said. "I wish I had kidnapped him and run to Canada, or run over his legs with the car so he couldn't go."

"I wish he had spent that year in jail rather than spend the rest of his life in his grave. But he didn't and I will regret that for the rest of my life."

Sheehan said she will not stop speaking out until the American and British military presence in Iraq is removed.

"I'm not advocating abandoning the Iraqi people," she said, "but the military presence fuels the violence and insurgency."

She called for multinational peacekeepers and an army of diplomats to help Iraqis build a country they want.

Finally, she urged people to fight for something that will have a positive impact on society, such as access to better education for poor students so they will have career choices beyond the military.

Following the speech, Sheehan posed for photographs, shook hands and signed copies of her book, "Not One More Mother's Child."

Not all members of the audience shared Sheehan's views.

"I'm interested in what she has to say and I'm interested in what kind of crowd shows up," said Tate Cole, a psychology major.

"Fundamentally, I disagree with her position, but I'm open to hearing her arguments."

But the audience interrupted her remarks more than two dozen times with applause.

Gay Barfield, a Hilo psychotherapist and former director at the La Jolla, Calif.-based Carl Rogers Institute for Peace, said she found the talk inspiring.

"She reflected the latent and emerging longing in the United States for a return to our principles," she said. "Her educated and informed voice models the ways we need to become informed to mobilize for peace."

Political science major Lee Gibbons said he just wanted to hear Sheehan for himself. "I've seen her on the news and some of her issues I don't think get true reporting," he said. "I wanted to hear it straight from the horse's mouth."

Gibbons, who grew up near Fort Rucker in Alabama, said he hates the war, but supports the troops.

Sheehan's appearance was sponsored by Big Island advocacy group Malu Aina Center for Non-Violent Education and Action and the University of Hawaii-Hilo student group Global Hope.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: hawaii; peacemovement; peaceniks; sheehan; students
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1 posted on 04/24/2006 9:23:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
"I wanted to hear it straight from the horse's mouth."

:-D )))

2 posted on 04/24/2006 9:25:28 PM PDT by RichInOC (Casey Sheehan, R.I.P. In your shoes, son, I would have enlisted too.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Cindy Sheehan said that before her son was killed in Iraq, she didn't buy into the idea that one person could make a difference mockery of herself. Now, she does.
3 posted on 04/24/2006 9:26:05 PM PDT by edpc
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To: NormsRevenge
Dignity always comes first with Mother Sheehan:


4 posted on 04/24/2006 9:29:31 PM PDT by JennysCool (Liberals don't care what you do, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: NormsRevenge
"She reflected the latent and emerging longing in the United States for a return to our principles," she said. "Her educated and informed voice models the ways we need to become informed to mobilize for peace."

Wonder what these people add to their Kool-Aid. With the Clintons, Pelosi, Kennedy,and Kerry's leadership in returning "to our principles" how can we lose?

5 posted on 04/24/2006 9:31:51 PM PDT by fuzzthatwuz
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To: NormsRevenge

"I wish I had kidnapped him and run to Canada, or run over his legs with the car so he couldn't go."
________

Isn't that child abuse, Cindy?


6 posted on 04/24/2006 9:33:02 PM PDT by DemforBush
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To: NormsRevenge

Right. Just in time for summer break.


7 posted on 04/24/2006 9:40:49 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: NormsRevenge
Al Qaeda Cindy just doesn't seem to want to leave Hawaii.

She's workin' Casey's death hard. Typical boomer baby maggot. It's all about Cindy. Only Cindy. She could care less about Casey. It's all about Cindy. What a hag.

8 posted on 04/24/2006 9:42:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Defend America's Freedom and Sovereignty. Pick your own lettuce and strawberries.)
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To: NormsRevenge

If she loved her son so much, why did she give him up? She loves the limelight, doesn't she?


9 posted on 04/24/2006 9:42:54 PM PDT by garylmoore (Homosexuality: Obviously unnatural, so obviously wrong.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

She gives gals named Cindy a reason to maybe consider changing their names,, I have a niece and sis in law named the same..

I guess the Easter Ditch visit to Crawford didn't play too well.


10 posted on 04/24/2006 9:47:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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"She reflected the latent and emerging longing in the United States for a return to our principles," she said. "Her educated and informed voice models the ways we need to become informed to mobilize for peace."

There are so many things the matter with this guy's quote. I'm speechless.


11 posted on 04/24/2006 9:48:06 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: RichInOC
"I wanted to hear it straight from the horse's mouth."

Instead, he heard it straight from the horse's a$$.
12 posted on 04/24/2006 9:50:16 PM PDT by econjack
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To: NormsRevenge
"I need to stop this war," she said

Mighty powerful ditch dweller we have there - "I" need to stop . . .. But then it has always been about her hasn't it, it never was about Casey. How pathetic - I hope he doesn't have the ability to look down and see what has happened.

13 posted on 04/24/2006 9:50:52 PM PDT by p23185 (Being trashed by the Stone Age Press should be worn as a badge of honor by Repubs and Conservatives)
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To: NormsRevenge

I've got a daughter in law by that name too. LOL! Well, maybe she has a middle name she can start using.


14 posted on 04/24/2006 9:52:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Defend America's Freedom and Sovereignty. Pick your own lettuce and strawberries.)
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Her educated and informed voice

more like a mid-intellect fourth-grader.

15 posted on 04/24/2006 9:52:58 PM PDT by JennysCool (Liberals don't care what you do, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: JennysCool

Isn't that Patty Murray? Or her lookalike?


16 posted on 04/24/2006 9:53:55 PM PDT by lawdude (Liberalism is a mental illness!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Only Osama bin Laden gets more direct quotes from the AP. Mamma Shehadi is a close second. There's little doubt that the AP wants everyone to know what the neurotic thinks.


17 posted on 04/24/2006 9:55:27 PM PDT by Reactionary (The Barking of the Native Moonbat is the Sound of Moral Nitwittery)
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To: JennysCool
I couldn't sit for 5 minutes listening to that nasally, whiny voice. Yuck!
18 posted on 04/24/2006 9:57:37 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: NormsRevenge
"I need to stop this war," she said.

If the U.S. pulls out of Iraq, the Baathist thugs will unleash a bloodbath as they try to re-enslave the Shiites and the Kurds.

Sheehan, however, only thinks about her next media fix.

19 posted on 04/24/2006 9:59:30 PM PDT by Polybius
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I wonder just how hard she tried to talk Casey out of joining the Army? A lot of parents discuss enlistment at length before their son or daughter goes into the delayed entry program. I nagged all three of our sons for a solid year before I signed paperwork. I have a feeling that she didn't discuss things nearly enough before SHE signed the paperwork. Casey was a DEP that reenlisted after his initial duty was fulfilled.
20 posted on 04/24/2006 10:01:50 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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