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CRAWFORD — Minutes before the “Peace Mom” was arrested Thursday for blocking a road near President Bush’s ranch, Cindy Sheehan said she plans to become more “confrontational” and that it’s time to “ramp up” peace efforts. “We’re the only people that can stop Bush now,” she said, standing with about 30 other peace protesters at a barricaded Secret Service checkpoint outside the Crawford-area ranch. Bush was meeting with top advisers to consider strategy in the Iraq war, including a possible surge in troop levels. About 20 minutes after talking about her new plan, called a “peace surge” as a poke...

From the Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald: Sheehan, other protesters arrested near Bush ranchThursday, December 28, 2006 By Erin Quinn Tribune-Herald staff writer CRAWFORD — War protester Cindy Sheehan and several fellow peace activists were arrested this morning outside President Bush’s ranch where Bush is meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others on Iraq war policy. Sheehan, arrested just after 11, said she and others were conducting a “peace surge” to address concerns that Bush may increase U.S. troop numbers in Iraq. The Bush administration is under mounting pressure to change its...