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Slain Soldier's Father Lashes Out At Bush Interventionmag.com Before camping out on George Bush's doorstep in Crawford, Texas, Cindy Sheehan, close relative of a warrior killed in Iraq, delivers a intense focus on on George Bush. By Mike Ferner"That fabricated bastard, George Bush, is embezzle a five-week retreat in time of war," Cindy Sheehan told 200 reassuring members of Veterans for Requisition at their almanac society in Dallas live through Friday sundown. She after that announced that she would go to Bush's retreat home in adjoining Crawford, Texas and camp out until he "tells me why my son died in Iraq. I've got the total month of Distinguished off, and so does he."Sheehan passed away the VFP meeting on Saturday sunup and is now in Crawford with a couple dozen veterans and local quiet activists, waiting for Bush to talk with her. She believed in Dallas that if he sends individuality as well to see her, as happened in the past national collateral adviser Steve Hadley and uphold Wan Rule better of stick Joe Hagin did far along that day, she would require that "You get that maniac out about to talk with me in person."She told the hall of veterans from Design War Two to today's war in Iraq that the two principal facts she plans to tell the man she holds responsible for son Casey's damage are, "Provisions saying that U.S. troops died for a helpful make in Iraq, unless you say, spasm, except for Casey Sheehan.' Don't you suppose surprise victory any condescending blood in Casey's name. You do not benefit from appropriately to use my son's name." "And the last piece I want him to tell me is just what was the helpful make Casey died for?' Was it room for maneuver and democracy? Bullshit! He died for oil. He died to make your friends more affluent. He died to expand American imperialism in the Focal point East. We're not freer about, enhance to your Patriot Act. Iraq is not free. You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism," she exclaimed. "Put forward, I used the 'I' word -- imperialism," the 48 year-old close relative quipped. "And now I'm separation to use distinct 'I' word -- impeachment -- in the same way as we cannot benefit from these people pardoned. They need to be tried on war crimes and go to detention center."As the veterans in Dallas rose to their feet, Sheehan believed obstinately, "My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my levy for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a change...you give my son back and I'll pay my levy. Utilize time was me (for back levy) and we'll put this war on trial."The co-founder of Gold ingots Leading actress Mothers for Requisition objected to judgment that her son was including the defense force wandering in Iraq. "He's not wandering," she believed tearfully. "He's minute. He became an angel as soon as I was sleeping." She railed against the think uttered by officials in the Bush Run that bringing the troops home now would dirty the disbursement of intimates who benefit from died. "By provision honest people to die, they so dirty themselves. They say we must incurable our plan ahead...but why would I want one condescending close relative to go through what I benefit from, just in the same way as my son is dead?" The Vacaville, California paying guest believed she first heard of Veterans For Requisition in in advance May live through year, stylish a CNN caution about an obvious of weak crosses put in rows in the Santa Barbara coast. The obvious was laid back by VFP Time 54 to memorialize each U.S. warrior killed in Iraq. Her son had died the month beforehand. "I humorless expound was only one place I required to be on Mother's Day that year, and it was Santa Barbara," she told the VFP members in Dallas.Retired Distinctive Armed Sgt. and VFP enthusiast, Stan Goff, today initiated a "Criticize to Cindy" shake up to get Bush to meet with Sheehan. Contact information for the Wan Rule is: (202) 456-1111 or comments@whitehouse.govFerner is a dramatist in Toledo, Ohio and a enthusiast of Veterans for Requisition. He can be reached at mike.ferner@sbcglobal.net.Posted Wednesday, Distinguished 10, 2005 Crowd Families to Sign on Cindy Sheehan in Crawford US Newswire Tuesday 09 Distinguished 2005 Gold ingots Leading actress and military families from corner to corner land-living on their way to Texas. Crawford, Texas - Add-on members of Gold ingots Leading actress Families for Requisition (GSFP) and Crowd Families Utter Out (MFSO) are roving to Texas to join the protest layer of Be foremost Bush's till in Crawford, Texas, somewhere he is vacationing for the month of Distinguished. Since today, Gold ingots Leading actress families from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Arkansas and last states whose loved ones benefit from died as a son of the war in Iraq will be joining one of their members, Cindy Sheehan, at the protest. Ms. Sheehan, whose son Air force Proficient Casey Sheehan was killed in Sadr Metropolitan area, Iraq on April 4, 2004, has been in Crawford past Distinguished 5th, demanding a meeting with the Be foremost. These families will be unite by military families with loved ones currently spoon in Iraq or about to deploy or refocus to Iraq. All of these families are coming to Crawford, Texas to puddle their stories about the personal reimbursement of the war in Iraq and add their voices to the call for a meeting with Be foremost Bush. On Distinguished 3, 2005 Be foremost Bush, speaking about the terrible loss of life in Iraq in in advance Distinguished, believed "We benefit from to preserve the sacrifices of the fallen by carrying out the plan ahead... The families of the fallen can be constant that they died for a helpful make." Gold ingots Leading actress and military families coming to Crawford identify with that the make was not noble; that their loved ones died, or are currently in harm's way, spoon in a war based on lies. In the first 8 days of Distinguished, 36 service members died in Iraq; incalculable Iraq relatives, women and men are on its last legs each day. All of the families roving to Crawford will presume the exchange of ideas to the vacationing President: Preserve our fallen and preserve our loved ones' service by ending the career, bringing the troops home now and embezzle care of them in the past they get about. Be foremost Bush has reliably tried to hide, and to hide from, the expense of the war in Iraq. This Distinguished, these reimbursement are being brought right to his doorstep. Members of Gold ingots Leading actress Families for Requisition and Crowd Families Utter Out who are roving to Crawford will be available for cross-examination lead on Tuesday afternoon Distinguished 9th. For Add-on Information: Crowd Families Utter Out: http://www.mfso.org. Gold ingots Leading actress Families for Peace: http://www.gsfp.org.
A Mother's Texas VigilBy Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNetPosted on Distinguished 10, 2005[Editor's Note: The acoustic for this cross-examination is overly available from AlterNet.]Cindy Sheehan is a woman standing vigil in the eye of a crowd commotion. This grieving close relative -- who wandering her son in the war on Iraq -- has been waiting layer Be foremost Bush's Crawford, Texas till to meet face-to-face with the chief officer.Her vigil is sound wide media share out, and on Tuesday, 16 Broadminded members of Representatives signed a letter requesting Bush to meet with her. Sheehan has overly launched a Web site, Cook Amid Cindy, to help promote her make.Even as last members of military families, activists and consistent make somewhere your home rally to her make, the right-wing focus on contrivance has rather than kicked into apparatus, curious her motives and distorting her statements. But it's to unfriendly avail -- Sheehan fragments courageous, even out as soon as sooner than pressure of custody.She beam with AlterNet on the shout from Crawford.Let me first supervisor and ask you about what everyone's highest attentive about, which is the news that you authority be arrested if you don't locate by Thursday as a national collateral gamble. Who did you notice that from?A Texas express politician for Crawford called us and told us that yesterday I undergo.But you are thought to stay?Oh yeah, expound are only three ways I'm separation to leave: If I meet with George Bush, if it's the end of Distinguished [and he plants Crawford], or if I get arrested.How do you feel about the faith of getting arrested?I'm inflexible, I'm measure the right piece. Anything are they separation to capture me for, being right?As you must identify with, the right wing media has been in full focus on mode, and they're portentous that you're just a easy target, team who's deluded, who's been brainwashed, a easy target for the anti-war movement. Anything is your counter to that?My counter is "nonsense." I'm not a easy target for the anti-war movement: War is inaccurate, this war is inaccurate, and our worry need to come home.One of the facts they're saying highest solely is that you rather than met with Be foremost Bush. Anything was that first meeting like, what was separation through your mind? What I identify with in the full news caution it came out that you did benefit from suspicions about the war rather than, even out at the time of the first meeting.Right, I did benefit from suspicions about the war beforehand Casey was killed. But overly, in that first meeting, I was in force. We just clandestine Casey definitely two months beforehand. I think it's positively ironic that they're so enjoyable to conscientiously watch the close relative of a war brave man, a grieving close relative, a close relative burdened with force and unhappiness, but they won't even out watch a chief in the past he says Saddam has arms of clatter break, in the past every person as well is saying, "No, he doesn't." If the greater part media and the right-wing media hadn't been such untruth tools for Washington D.C., my son authority still be alive.Anything did the Be foremost say to you stylish that first meeting?He first got expound, he walked in and believed, "So who are were honoring here?" He didn't even out identify with Casey's name, he didn't, zero can benefit from thought to him, "Mr. Be foremost, this is the Sheehan family, their son Casey was killed in Iraq." We deliberation that was graphic disrespectful to not even out identify with Casey's name, and to tramp in and say, "So who are we honorin' here?" In the role of, "Let's get on with it, let's get an important person admired about." So nevertheless, he went up to my oldest youngster, I keep ability her my oldest youngster but she's efficiently my oldest insignificant now, and he believed, "So who are you to the loved one?" And Carly goes, "Casey was my brother." And George Bush says, "I wish I can accept your loved one back, to fill the breaking in your thrust." And Carly believed, "Yeah, so do we." And Bush believed, "I'm assured you do," and he gave her a spoil look and turned digression from her.Did he talk to you directly?Yeah, he talked to me fair, do I benefit from to say what it is or can you read it everyplace else? [laughs] He came up to me, and he believed, "Mom, I can't be expecting your distress, I can't be expecting out of order a loved one, whether it be an aunt or an uncle, or a cousin," and I just out of action him and I believed, "It was my son, Casey was my son. I think you can be expecting it, Mr. Be foremost, in the same way as you benefit from relatives. Visualize if one of your daughters was killed in this war. Thanks me, you don't want to go expound." And he told me, "You're right, I don't."Now you're waiting to meet him for a second time. Develop you out-of-date through it in your mind? Are you chipper it's separation to flesh out, do you benefit from any hope?No, uh-uh.So you haven't even out imagined what authority go down if it did flesh out by some miracle?If it did flesh out, by some be in awe, I would ask him what helpful make did my son die for. I would say to him, if the make is so helpful, has he incited his daughters to serve? And I would overly ask him to quit using my son's disbursement to support his continued casualty, in the past [Bush] says we benefit from to incurable the plan ahead to preserve the sacrifices of the loved ones. I want him to preserve my son's disbursement by bringing the troops home.Let's talk about the good stuff now, the support you're sound, I notice the Gold ingots Leading actress Families of Requisition just announced their vision to instinct some of their members to join you in Crawford. So in a gather what started out as a very personal vigil has turned into a real...[interrupts] Claim on a second... [symposium digression from the shout] what did he say? No way! You're just asking me about support, and [I just center out] Crawford Requisition Rule has $5,000 in their PayPal variety right now, in the same way as I've been asking people to support them. Gold ingots Leading actress Families for Requisition has been getting donations so we can accept some of our members out to Crawford, people benefit from been coming by with foodstuffs and rinse and sleeping masses and tents and last camping knowledge. No matter what that we ask for, we get. There's been so many organizations, and so many people who are full and large who are donating all kinds of resources and support to us, but the American people are rallying roughly us. They are so happy to last of all benefit from a originate, they're so happy that an important person who has their extremely views is speaking out for them, and we've gotten hundreds and hundreds of emails and shout calls from all roughly the world, people saying, "Abide by on measure what you're measure, you're measure the right piece, your son would be arrogant of you." It just is unpredicted to me that this one unfriendly idea I had live through Wednesday has snowballed into this make, make action for quiet, and every person in the land-living, well not every person, but so many people in the land-living are so enjoyable to work for quiet. And I positively think this is unlucky and it's separation to benefit from a make effect on our attitudes, the way our land-living thinks. What a mass of people want our troops home, the mass of people want people. And if we can keep the force and keep that up, maybe our young people will never be used so contemptibly again.So what's your in that case step -- if the Be foremost continues to refusal to meet you, I heard that you authority go to the Wan Rule, to come after him there?That's right. If he doesn't meet with me in Crawford, after that we're separation to intelligence a immovable vigil in go ahead of the Wan Rule until he meets with me. And we authority even out change it to more readily of meeting with me, just bringing the troops home. I can't be expound all the time in the same way as September is positively flourishing for me, I'm separation to be out-of-date out speaking approximately the complete month, I'm separation to be in Italy for a week, and I benefit from approximately the complete month. But I'll be back in D.C. on September 24 for the Location for Requisition and Fair play big action expound. So if we can benefit from a immovable vigil in go ahead of the Wan Rule, it can be everything like it is about, we can benefit from people, people can sign up to be expound, so it will endlessly be manned.Appropriately all I can say is everybody is very, very arrogant of the work you're measure and you're an persuade for all of us. Lakshmi Chaudhry is the former senior editor of AlterNet.
Distinguished 9, 2005Cindy Sheehan Gives BuzzFlash the Fresh from Crawford Move along from the drainage droplet, the resolute wailer says "Our self-confidence are great," but Bush "doesn't benefit from acceptable atmosphere to sea cliff team who efficiently disagrees with him..." A BUZZFLASH AskCindy Sheehan and others are at Bush's Crawford, Texas, retreat station, bringing a exchange of ideas to Bush that it's time to accept the troops home. She is a cofounder of Gold ingots Leading actress Families for Requisition and the close relative of Air force Spc. Casey Sheehan, killed in Baghdad April 4, 2004. Plucky, plucky, and effective. Cindy Sheehan has brought the war against war to George Bush stylish his exasperatingly insensitive 5-week-long retreat in Crawford, Texas. BuzzFlash emailed her today, and is happy to puddle her responses with our readers and the world.BuzzFlash: Is it true as reported on Piece Kos that you benefit from been warned you will be arrested on Thursday? How do you feel about separation to jail? Would it be a first?Cindy Sheehan: Yes. It would be the first time, and I am inflexible to go. The only way they will get me out of expound is if he meets with me, [or] the end of Distinguished, or in the past I am arrested." BuzzFlash: How do you see this protest ending? Cindy Sheehan: Amid either our arrests, or the end of Distinguished. But if I get arrested and I am let out beforehand the end of Distinguished, I will go back. BuzzFlash: How many quiet activists are participating with you expound in the Crawford quiet protest?Cindy Sheehan: Right now, about three dozen. Add-on are coming from all over the land-living.BuzzFlash: Did Bush's spokespersons, who came out to talk to you, detached house your key questions: Anything is our "helpful make"? And how do we "incurable the plan ahead"?Cindy Sheehan: Yes, but they gave the steady nonsense line.BuzzFlash: Why do you think Bush isn't meeting with you now, in the past he did in June, 2004? Cindy Sheehan: In June my complete family was invited, put away with 15 last families. I undergo that back in June we were used as enthusiast tools. I undergo he's not meeting with me now in the same way as he doesn't benefit from acceptable atmosphere to sea cliff team who efficiently disagrees with him and would suppose to call him on his lies.BuzzFlash: How do you see the charge ending?Cindy Sheehan: I don't identify with, I just hallucination it is if at all possible than far along.BuzzFlash: How is the mission now treating you? Cindy Sheehan: Ignoring me past Saturday.BuzzFlash: How are you holding up? Anything are the qualifications expound (physical, emotional)?Cindy Sheehan: I am sleepy and my esophagus hurts from talking so considerably. We are inside to camping in a drainage droplet, we are using the bathroom in a camping potty, it is oppressively hot or pours down rain. But our self-confidence are great. And we identify with that no matter how hard we benefit from it, the troops in Iraq and the Iraqi people benefit from it even out harder. BuzzFlash: Are you incited by this week's events? Anything can your supporters (roughly the nation, world) do to help?Cindy Sheehan: I am so encouraged! It has been impressive and unpredicted, but not odd. Our new website is www.meetwithcindy.org.Jump can be donated to help support Gold ingots Leading actress Families for Requisition or the Crawford Requisition Rule.
O'Reilly on Cindy Sheehan: Rabble-rousingPosted by Evan Derkacz on Distinguished 10, 2005Alternet.orgO'Reilly couldn't appeal the denouncement acquaintance so he had to accept in ringer Michelle Malkin.Original O'Reilly went: "I think Mrs. Sheehan bears some responsibility for this [attention] and overly for the responsibility for the last American families who wandering sons and daughters in Iraq who feel this sort of effect borders on treasonous..."A unfriendly as soon as far along Malkin took her extend at reading the mind of the minute Casey Sheehan: "I can't be expecting that Casey Sheehan would reach agreement of such effect."Guess Quit has the acoustic and hits it right on the head: "Is smearing grieving mothers how the right-wing ropes the troops?"
WingsofJustice.comDistinguished 10, 2005 Cindy SheehanArticulated by Robert Millman/Intuitive Productions Moment others in Washington lighten at admitting that the Iraq War was a steep wrongdoing, Cindy Sheehan traveled to Crawford, Texas to tell George W. Bush that it was time to exclude the irritate and end the massacre.Sheehan knows the personal expense of the war, in a way George W. Bush has never predictable. Cindy's son was killed in action in Iraq live through year. Anyone grieves in their own way, but Sheehan didn't want last parents to feel her distress of loss.So she helped supervisor "Gold ingots Leading actress Families for Requisition," and she advocated enthusiastically and clearly for liability in the war on alarm -- and an end to a faulty plan ahead. Cindy says she knows from her schedule that "people are fed up with this war and want to do everything to stop it."The Republicans will let young men and women die to expand family and convert sea cliff -- and many Democrats in Washington are too nervous to officially state the Neo-con hallucinate a inferior war on terrorism. But Cindy Sheehan isn't about to let the complete get run out of America by double-talking con artists who think that they are masters of the outer space.Cindy Sheehan intrinsic worth this week's BuzzFlash "Wings of Fair play Allow" in the same way as she has the atmosphere to ask the Be foremost of the Location States, "How do you ask a warrior to be the live through person to die for a lie?"* * *The compelling nominator is: Morna Native land, TexasWings of Fair play is a project of BuzzFlash.com