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Anti-war protester Sheehan leaving camp because of mother’s stroke

by Open-Publishing - Friday 19 August 2005
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CRAWFORD, Texas - The grieving mother who started an anti-war demonstration near President Bush’s ranch nearly two weeks ago said Thursday she was leaving because her mother had a stroke.

Cindy Sheehan told reporters she had just received the phone call and would rush to her 74-year-old mother’s side. Her mother lives in the Los Angeles area.

"I’ll be back as soon as possible if it’s possible," Sheehan said. After hugging some of her supporters, she got in a van and left.

Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif., said the makeshift campsite off the road leading to Bush’s ranch would continue. The camp has grown to more than 100 people, including many relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq.

Sheehan had vowed to remain until Bush met with her or until his month-long vacation was over. (AP)

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  • Who gives a damn about Sheehan, or his mother or the grandmother’s stroke.
    I don’t.
    What I care about are the thousands of children who have been killed by people like Sheehan?
    They were innocent.

    VE Grablin

  • Funny isn’t it how this woman only decided the war was wrong after her own son was killed.
    We never heard of her when Fallujah was being napalmed and razed.
    In fact the American people don’t seem to give a damn about what they do to other people in other lands.
    Until it hurts them. Then suddenly they are anti -war.
    This war will end only when the US is defeated.
    Sheehan could have stayed at home but he chose to go and kill people.
    I am afraid we have no sympathy at all.
    All our synpathy and sorrow are on behalf of the terrible suffering of the Iraqi people - not to mention their country which has been pulverised.

    GHN

  • You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby....

    America needs to drop its obsession with being number one. It is time for the United States to become a member of the world community rather than a murderous bully. Obscene over-consumption has become a hallmark of the United States . While not all Americans fall prey to Madison Avenue’s propaganda glamorizing gluttony, many do. People of other industrialized nations enjoy a respectable standard of living without consuming a quarter of the world’s resources (while representing only 5% of the world’s population). Other nations face reprisals and penalties for the violation of international law. Without regard for justice, the United States wields international law like a club or blatantly defies it, depending on what best suits American interests at the time. Ongoing support of repressive regimes (like Saudi Arabia’s) to further America’s economic interests, unflinching support of its proxy military enforcer in the Middle East (Israel), disregard for the plight of the Palestinians, and hypocrisy over who gets to join the "nuclear club" are but a few more examples of how America’s government engenders more abhorrence of America and invites continued terrorism.

    From - Information Clearing House, says it all