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AUSTIN - Joking that she'd like to come back and run for mayor, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan made the Texas capital her first stop on a cross-country tour to promote her mission to end the war in Iraq. About 1,500 supporters greeted her at a rally outside City Hall. Local musicians sang protest songs while about two dozen supporters of President Bush demonstrated quietly across the street. Sheehan pulled up stakes earlier in the day at Camp Casey, the site near Bush's ranch in Crawford named after her son who died last year in Iraq. "I really believe Camp Casey...

(CNSNews.com) - The anti-war group Code Pink, slammed by conservatives and some wounded veterans for co-sponsoring recent protests in front of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., now suggests that the most inflammatory signs held up at the protests might have been the work of "infiltrators whose aim [was] to disrupt the vigil." Among the most controversial signs held up at the protests was the one reading "Maimed for a Lie." But far from qualifying as an "infiltrator," Stephen McCarron, a spokesman for another anti-war group sponsoring the demonstrations, was photographed on June 17 holding the "Maimed...

Anti-War Group Suspects it May be Victim of 'Infiltrators' By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer August 30, 2005 (CNSNews.com) -- The anti-war group Code Pink, slammed by conservatives and some wounded veterans for co-sponsoring recent protests in front of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., now suggests that the most inflammatory signs held up at the protests might have been the work of "infiltrators whose aim [was] to disrupt the vigil." Among the most controversial signs held up at the protests was the one reading "Maimed for a Lie." But far from qualifying as an "infiltrator,"...

Dana Milbank and Alan Cooperman do a pretty good job of making John J. Tierney look like an alarmist nut based on their report of his presentation at the Heritage Foundation yesterday. His upcoming book apparently researches the funding and momentum behind the burgeoning anti-war protest industry and finds a lot of evidence that it primarily consists of unreconstructed communists. The Washington Post report of the event has Tierney painting a pretty broad brush on this score, however, and starts out by using what it believes to be a killer emotional rebuttal: Cindy Sheehan: anti-American communist? That was the accusation...

In an introductory speech in Madison for antiwar British politician and author George Galloway, actress Jane Fonda is making her first public statement against the occupation of Iraq. Fonda is scheduled to give her 20-minute introduction to Galloway, a Member of Parliament, at the Wisconsin Union Theatre Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. She is also scheduled to speak the following night in Chicago as Galloway continues his national speaking tour. Chris Dols, the local organizer for Galloway's tour, said that these two speeches are the only that Fonda will give with Galloway, who was expelled from the Labor Party after...

The leftist protesters who gather every Friday night outside Walter Reed Medical Center are inspired by a radical agenda that few if any soldiers share. The protesters -- organized by the radical antiwar group CodePink and others -- have been photographed with signs bearing insults like "Maimed for a Lie" and "Died for Halliburton." They have lined mock flag-draped coffins outside the hospital. These cannot be meant to heal the wounds of those whom the nation has sent to battle. The protesters insist they have the soldiers' best interests at heart, and that they don't intend to demean anyone. This...

Anti-war defeatism By: RICK REISS - For The Californian Recently anti-war protesters staged a demonstration at the Temecula Duck Pond in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan, an anti-war activist who lost her son in battle in Iraq. Anti-war advocates frequently throw out the line that "you can support the troops while opposing their mission." This is to somehow imply that all dissent is patriotic. Sorry, but that dog don't hunt. Suppose that you are a pro football fan and your favorite team is the San Diego Chargers. Imagine again that as a Chargers fan you claim to support the football players...

WASHINGTON - Since spring, long before an angry mom named Cindy Sheehan set up camp outside President Bush's Texas ranch, anti-war activists have been holding vigils outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday nights, when many soldiers and their families venture off-campus for steak dinners. They've called for better health-care benefits for soldiers wounded in Iraq, protested an early policy of making some soldiers buy their own meals while in care and accused the military of purposely flying injured troops in under cover of night to play down the volume of casualties. And they've waved signs protesting the war...

WASHINGTON, DC, 8/26/05 – They are tall and muscular, with tanned arms bare to the shoulders. Their black leather vests are encrusted with insignia from their exploits, in the military and on motorcycles. Virile men with long gray hair and weathered skin, they are ageless bad boys with cordially menacing attitudes. They are bikers, and not just any bikers; they are three of the five board members of DC’s Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally and Thunder buddies from North Carolina, and they have just arrived, with heart-stopping engine roars and banshee brake stops, in a hospital zone. They have come to...

The Hidden Agenda Behind the "Peace" Rallies..... As evidenced by the throngs of people attending the recent anti-war rallies in cities across America and around the world, the contemporary "peace" movement is one of the truly significant social phenomena of our time. It has organized a number of massive, synchronized demonstrations -- attended by millions -- in hundreds of cities all over the globe. On 15 February alone, simultaneous protests against US military action in Iraq were held in more than 600 cities. Though virtually unreported by the mainstream press, the organizers of every major rally to date have deep,...

Did you know that back in June of this year a “world tribunal” was held to put the United States and its allies in Iraq on trial for their actions in that country? It’s true. They held it in Istanbul.You know what one of their findings were? That the terrorist insurgency in Iraq was and is justified in its murder of Iraqi civilians and coalition troops.It was finding number eleven in the tribunal’s “overview of findings:” 11. There is widespread opposition to the occupation. Political, social, and civil resistance through peaceful means is subjected to repression by the occupying forces....

On my heart is to share a prayer and some scripture and invite others to join in agreement on this thread. Lord, I pray: * For the humiliation and spiritual 'breaking' of our enemies, without bloodshed, that they be in disarray as a group and come to spiritual repentance individually. * For the enlightenment of the many naive and apathetic people who finally start to understand the agenda of the Radical Left and renounce and reject it, * For the encouragement of the Conservative Right, that they will renew their strength, that they will have both the compassion and the...

I came driving out of a parking lot of a corporate office to be met by a group of protesters who were holding up some sign about Venezuela. There were about eight people involved in the protest, and their obvious “spokes-person” was some lady who was being interviewed by a press-person with a camera, a video type camera that looked like one that would be used by a television news crew. I didn’t spot the television van but this was a busy boulevard, and clearly the person taking the interview wasn’t among the protesters and was some sort of media...

JINSA Report #512 Readers know JINSA has been supporting dinners at Fran O'Brien's Steakhouse for soldiers recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (JINSA Report #448:  Veterans Day & Fran O'Brien's Steakhouse). In fact, you raised several thousand dollars for the effort - thank you. So we are disgusted by news that anti-war protesters have been congregating at Walter Reed and heckling the buses that leave to take the soldiers to the restaurant on Friday nights. Protesters hold signs reading "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton." Among the props are mock caskets. These people claim to...

White supremacists are planning to swarm the protest site of Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Texas this weekend, claiming that this whole anti-war thing was their idea. Bringing their white dunce caps with them, Stormfront.org plans to show up and “git ‘r’ done.” Their battlecry? To “let the world know that white patriots were first and loudest to protest this war for Israel.” Yawn. “We don’t want leftist Johnny-come-latelys who are misleadingly protesting this war – as if the war is about oil (not true), or as if it’s right-wing patriots who launched this war (not true) – to hijack the...

FreeRepublic.com had an excellent Freep tonight of Code Pinkos. WE SUPPORTED OUR TROOPS! Someone else will do the full after action report. Here are just a few quick photos. We outnumbered them about 100 to 25 by my estimate. See Photos: http://TroopsSupport.com/WalterReed082605a/index.htm

The people who have decided to protest in fornt of Water Reed Hospital holding signs that read "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton," apparently do not take into account the feelings of the wounded soldiers who can see them from their windows. These are recovering soldiers who believe in what they do and the very people who defend American's right to protest. To stand outside their hospital windows and spit on their sacrifice is a new low for the liberal estalishment.

-snip Current Democratic National Party Chair Howard Dean's organization Democracy for America is also involved, as is the more radical anti-war group Code Pink organized by San Francisco's Medea Benjamin. -snip-

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Thousands of war protesters have come and gone since a grieving mother started camping off the road leading to President Bush's ranch three weeks ago, from business executives to young parents and their children spending a few hours or days for the cause. But for more than a dozen people, their home for much of the sweltering month has been the makeshift campsite of tents and portable toilets in ditches and anti-war banners hanging from trees. "It's staggering what's happened," said camp leader Ann Wright, who resigned her post as a senior diplomat at the U.S....

Kevin McCarron, a leader of Veterans For Peace, is the second protester seen in the CNSNews produced video report on the Code PINK sponsored anti-war protest held Friday evenings at Walter Reed. In Issue 227 of SOCIALIST REVIEW Published February 1999 in an article titled "Oil on troubled waters, Mister McCarron calls Desert Storm troops "baby killers: The December bombing of Iraq, moreover, has sparked a protest movement against both the bombing and the sanctions. By the hundreds and thousands, demonstrators protested against the bombing in cities across the US. Town meetings organised by socialists and other anti-war activists drew...