Posted on 08/08/2006 11:20:05 AM PDT by McLynnan
CRAWFORD — Cindy Sheehan is back in town.
After flying in from Jordan on Saturday night, Sheehan led a day of anti-war protests that culminated in an afternoon march in heat exceeding 100 degrees from the site of Camp Casey I to a checkpoint outside President Bush’s ranch. The president visited Sunday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
About 40 protesters joined Sheehan, many toting signs that read “The War is A Lie” and “Bush Betrayed Our Troops,” while Sheehan carried a sign asking “For What Noble Cause?”
The march followed a short protest at the Crawford Peace House, where about 50 people gathered to voice their displeasure about Israel’s attacks in Lebanon.
Sheehan’s arrival attracted the usual media frenzy. McLennan County sheriff’s deputies also were out in full force, some issuing citations for violations of an ordinance passed in September prohibiting parking on roads around the Bush ranch. Media members were among those cited.
Sheehan said that she intends to stay in Crawford — on her recently purchased land not far from Bush’s ranch — until Sept. 3.
Her goal is the same as last August when she came to Crawford: to meet with the president, whose stay is expected to be about 10 days.
“I want to meet with the president and ask him ‘for what noble cause?’ ” Sheehan said as she began the more than mile-long march to the checkpoint. “He still hasn’t met with me and answered that question.”
There has been no indication that the president plans to meet with Sheehan, she said.
“It’s still status quo, I think,” Sheehan said. “But this time, if he meets with me, we’re still going to stay because we’ve got the property now. It’s turned from, not just a place to hold George Bush accountable, but it’s also a place where peace people gather to get re-energized and refreshed for the struggle. And we’ll be here every time he’s supposed to be on vacation.”
Bush met with Sheehan and other parents of slain soldiers after Sheehan’s son, Casey, was killed in action in Iraq in April 2004. He has not met with her since she began her vigil last August.
Sheehan said that after Bush’s presidential term expires, she plans to donate her land to the city of Crawford to be used as a park named after her son.
When the procession arrived at the checkpoint, Sheehan told one of the secret service agents that she was there to invite Bush to speak with her and then sat down in a chair on the side of the road.
As the group of protesters crowded around the checkpoint, they chanted, “This is what democracy looks like! This is what democracy sounds like!”
Not everybody was there to protest the war, however.
Missy Overton, of Lubbock, was in town to see Crawford with her family when they unexpectedly happened upon the protest. Overton said she disagrees with Sheehan’s stance on the war.
“I think it’s awful,” Overton said of Sheehan’s quest to have American troops withdrawn from Iraq. “I believe that we’re at war because we have to be at war and a lot of what she stands for doesn’t make sense . . . Bush did not kill her son. And she spent his insurance money on buying property out here. I think it’s ridiculous and I think that she’s ruining his memory.”
"Peace Mom" should be anti-war activist.
No,it is not "peace mom."
It is hate America and what America stands for mom.
It is defeat America on the field of battle mom.
It is love the forces of evil mom.
It is traitor to the Country you live in and contempt for those who shed their blood that you could live free mom.
It is many others too numerous to list mom but "peace mom" will not be numbered anoung them. Regardless of how long the list.
And on second thoght, the term mom which most, including myself,hold to be dear and honorable should never be mentioned in the same breath as Cindy Sheehan, in my opinion.
There is a better pic that shows the entire line of the march. There's 14 people!!! On the crawford peace house website there's someone journalling each day claiming that SEVENTY people went on the march and so happy that they were being photographed. Don't these people know these photos get posted and show them to be lying?
well if they post the picture of 14 people 5 times that is 70 : )
Are porta-johns permitted?
Or has she actually built a house on that land?
Kinda pathetic actually. I'll bet if he could, her son would rise up from his grave and slap her.
Who cares? If it were overoccupied (whatever that means), do you want the Marines to storm her house?
Of course not. Just give her a ticket is OK by me.
Billy Jack will make another appearance at Camp Casey!
Promoting his new (old film) scaming his contributors.
Sheehan's already leaving her post to go protest elsewhere...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/280567_vets09.html
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Anti-war veterans to gather in Seattle
Sheehan, Perkins among speakers at event
By MIKE BARBER
P-I REPORTER
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and best-selling author John Perkins will headline a who's who of peace proponents this week as the national convention of Veterans for Peace convenes Thursday on the University of Washington campus.
You think she has ADD? I swear she said she would fast and sit by Prairie Chapel Road until Bush visits with her. What a misleading diva she is.
That sounds about right.
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