Posted on 08/11/2006 10:32:54 AM PDT by kristinn
It was at the Veterans for Peace national convention in Dallas last year that Cindy Sheehan says she was galvanized to seek a meeting with President Bush at his Crawford, Texas, ranch.
The result was a 26-day sit-down protest near Bush's ranch that attracted common folk and luminaries from across the nation, rejuvenating the anti-war movement. On Thursday, Sheehan, who became a peace activist after her soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004, was at the Veterans for Peace national convention at the University of Washington.
Now almost 40 days into her fast supporting war resisters and their families, Sheehan, though weak, announced that she is offering land she bought in Crawford near Bush's ranch as a refuge for U.S. troops who desert to resist the war in Iraq.
"What is the noble cause that my son died for in Iraq?" Sheehan asked, echoing her remarks from last year as she spoke Thursday on the steps of the HUB on the UW campus.
Joined by conscientious objectors from the Vietnam War, the 1991 Persian Gulf War and Iraq, Sheehan said she decided to offer her land because 12,000 more U.S. troops are being deployed to Iraq, calling the war "this nightmare, and it's breaking my heart."
Sheehan is among what Veterans for Peace leaders bill as an "all-star cast of war resisters" in Seattle this week. At least 425 of its 5,000 membership signed up for the convention, which opened Thursday with calls for disengagement by the United States in Iraq and Israel in Lebanon. Gray-haired veterans from the Vietnam War joined fresh-faced veterans from the current war. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Seattle, a Navy doctor in Vietnam and early opponent of the war in Iraq, is slated to speak to the group today.
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Quite a bit ... of course she is a liberal and will think she is above the law.
the last person I knew on a 40 fast (water only which is what a FAST means) lost 100 pounds.
He was 6'8" and had the weight to lose. I have fasted for 4 days several times and each time I lost 20#.
Cindy sure doesn't look like she is fasting.
The insanity continues....
It's high time she learns what "don't mess with Texas" means. She isn't doing a very good job of assimilating with her new neighbors.
Being AWOL, however, has been "hell," he said, not only because of rifts in his family, but also because of "the uncertainty of not knowing if I will be caught as a deserter or if I should go public and turn myself in. I am constantly back and forth; it's always on my mind."
Damn! I wish I had been there. I've got the piece of metal on my chest that allows me to grab persons in his category and deposit them at the front gate of Ft. Lewis.
Probably would have caught a lot of grief in the press but it would have been SWEET!
The reserve officers in our agency would have loved me and I would have gotten a lot of beer.
That was my first thought. But I'm living the fantasy that he's out there and I'll find him.
I have a suggestion....
Someone (or a group of someones) should buy the land next to Sheehan's and build a gun range. I am quite sure that Sheehan and the moonbats that follow them would not enjoy the sounds of weapons fire nearby.
Awesome idea! I'd drive cross country to spend a day at that range.
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