Cindy Sheehan Demands US Surrender, Pay Reparations -- From Jordan

Sweetness & Light ^ | August 5, 2006 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

From Mother Sheehan's loyal fans at the DNC's Associated Press:

US Activists, Iraqi Lawmakers Demand US Troop Withdrawal

Saturday August 5th, 2006

AMMAN (AP)--"Peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, Tom Hayden and 13 other U.S. activists on Saturday joined Iraqi lawmakers in demanding a timetable be fixed for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

"I'm optimistic that the majority of the American people want a withdrawal sooner, rather than later," Hayden, a former California state senator told reporters in the Jordanian capital after talks with seven Iraqi Shiite and Sunni lawmakers.

"It's going to be an important issue in the Congressional elections and the (2008) presidential campaign has already begun," he said.

About half of the activists will head to Syria on Sunday and Lebanon on Monday to "assess the humanitarian crisis" caused by the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah over the past 25 days, killing hundreds and displacing hundreds of thousands. Neither Sheehan, who returned earlier Saturday to the U.S., nor Hayden would be part of the team.

Hayden wondered whether the Lebanon conflict was "a desperate effort by the Israeli and U.S. neoconservatives to escalate their way out of defeat in Iraq before the November elections."

"Are they trying to scramble and subdivide the whole Middle East? Do they hope this escalates into a conflict with Syria and Iran which some of them want," he said.

The activists, representing the largest U.S. anti-war coalition, United for Peace and Justice; the national woman's peace group, CODEPINK; and Global Exchange, arrived in Jordan Thursday for two days of talks with the Iraqi members of parliament.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to meet the activists during last month's talks with U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington in which he asked for more U.S. troops and finance for his beleaguered government.

Salman al-Jumaili who is the speaker of the largest Sunni coalition in the Iraqi parliament and his Shiite counterpart, Jabar Habib Jabar, joined the activists in issuing three demands: a fixed timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops; a commitment not to have permanent U.S. bases in Iraq; and a commitment by the U.S. government to "pay for rebuilding Iraq."

"We have found a voice inside the U.S. that backs us. We told them that we in Iraq want to see the light at the end of the tunnel," al-Jumaili told reporters.

On Thursday, two of the Pentagon's most senior generals, Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, and Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Congress that Iraq could move toward civil war if the violence raging in Baghdad between Sunni and Shiite Muslims continued.

U.S. officials have been pressing Prime Minister al-Maliki, a Shiite, to disband the Shiite militias and make overtures to Sunni insurgent groups saying restoring security in Baghdad is essential if the government is to survive.

Hayden called Iraq "a gradual shrinking space for the Bush administration."

This sure is news. America-haters demanding we surrender to our enemies.

No word about Cindy's (already broken) fast. Alas.

Note this from the Sunni (terrorist) al-Jumaili:

"We have found a voice inside the U.S. that backs us."

Yes, they sure have. And terrorists everywhere.

[HarleyLady27]

Isn't there something called 'treason' somewhere in our Constitution???????

[Sam Hill]

"She looks pretty good for being on a hunger strike. /sarc"

That's actually a "file photo" from her presence in a DC protest last September.

Weirdly, there haven't been any photos of her out of Jordan yet.

I guess they're still staging them.

[Doctor Raoul]

Who's photos are they? Don't see them on any newswire?

[Enchante]

"We have found a voice inside the U.S. that backs us"

Don't be too pleased at finding these slimy treasonous weasels, dude. They are the contemptible laughing stock of the country and will not exactly do your cause any credit.......

[Lion Den Dan]

Looks like Sheeithan has nearly matched Hanoi Jane for depravity.

[COEXERJ145]

Article III Section 3

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted."

[ac-rep]

Whatever happened to the Logan act? Aren't US private citizens forbidden from engaging in foreign policy with foreign govt officials?

[ac-rep]

Whatever happened to the Logan act? Aren't US private citizens forbidden from engaging in foreign policy with foreign govt officials?

[Sam Hill]

The photo at the top? Originally it was published by AP, I believe.

[ClaudiusI]

Good luck getting back in the country, bitch.

[highlander_UW]

AMMAN (AP)--"Peace mom" Cindy Sheehan...

AMMAN (AP)--"Idiot mom" Cindy Sheehan...

There, fixed.

[mountn man]

Go be a human shield, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease!!!!

Shalom.

May she rest in peaces. (Many,many peaces)

[Doctor Raoul]

Tried wire photo search from Drudge and it doesn't come up in the gallery.

So far the Pinkos aren't getting much publicity out of the fast. Probably won't get much out of this, unless of course Laura Ingraham invites Medea on to play pattycake instead of hardball.

[Springman]

Ping.

[lionheart 247365]

Get the title right next time , no excuses ok .

" Media whore demands US surrender, pay reparations etc ."

Isn't that more like it ???

[mcar]

[Bogtrotter52]

Uh yeah Sheahan.....we'll get right on that.

[Doctor Raoul]

That's great....LOL....ROFLMAO!

[Doctor Raoul]

Looks like Sheeithan has nearly matched Hanoi Jane for depravity.

What's with Cindy blowing kisses to the crowd?

[Sam Hill]

No, as I said in an earlier reply, it's a "file photo" from the Sept 24, 2005 rally in DC.