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Gathering of mothers in front of the White House for peace in Iraq and Iran
by Open-Publishing - Sunday 14 May 20063 comments
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WASHINGTON, May 13 (XINHUA) — Mothers, whose militant pacifist Cindy Sheehan, gathered Saturday in front of the White House to call the day before the Mother’s Day, at the end of the war in Iraq and to be opposed to a possible attack against Iran.
(Photographs: Xinhua)
This gathering was organized by the movement “Women for peace” and the mothers and their families gathered in front of the White House starting from 15H00 (19H00 GMT) and planned to remain there all the night until the same hour Sunday.
Cindy Sheehan, who lost a 24 year old son in the war in Iraq, declared: “I do not want that more mothers cry a son lost in this unjust and useless war in Iraq”.
In an official statement, Cindy Sheehan indicated that in this feastday of the mothers, “of innumerable mothers in Iraq has little to celebrate, whereas their families are torn by this violent occupation”.
“We will pass this Mother’s Day, the day and the night, to require that our children return from Iraq and are not sent in another war absurdity in Iran”, it added.
/Xinhuanet/
Forum posts
15 May 2006, 00:54
...a little bit mourning and a little bit patriotism. When will you ever learn?
15 May 2006, 12:15
Reminds of a Pete Seeger classic: "Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing. Where have all the flowers gone, long, long time
ago. Where have all the flowers gone, picked by young girls every one. When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?".
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind.
15 May 2006, 19:23
Blowing in my friend. It sounds.