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One caravan called “You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy” is expected to arrive in Crawford by Saturday afternoon after spending the past week snaking through the Southwest from California. Supporters of the president and the Iraq war also are holding separate rallies in downtown Crawford and across from the original Camp Casey, located on a right-of-way on Prairie Chapel Road about four miles from Crawford. Organizers of the pro-Bush, pro-Iraq war events say that military families and families who have lost relatives in the Iraq war will attend Saturday's events. Kristinn Taylor, spokesman for FreeRepublic.com, a conservative Web site helping...

CRAWFORD, Texas - A woman whose son was killed in Iraq returned to Texas Wednesday to resume her anti-war protest near President Bush's ranch after a weeklong absence to care for her ailing mother. About a dozen protesters who have continued the peace vigil picked up Cindy Sheehan at the Waco airport Wednesday afternoon, six days after she flew to Los Angeles when her 74-year-old mother suffered a stroke. "This is where I belong, until Aug. 31, like I told the president," Sheehan said at the airport before driving about 20 miles to the Crawford site. Sheehan began her vigil...

I'm coming back to Crawford for my son. As long as the president, who sent him to die in a senseless war, is in Crawford, that is where I belong. I came here two and a half weeks ago for one reason, to try and see the president and get an answer to a very simple question: What is the noble cause that he says my son died for? The answer to that question will not bring my son back. But it may stop more meaningless deaths. Because every death is now a meaningless one. And the vast majority of...