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  • CINDY SHEEHAN MEETS JOHN McCAIN
    28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    Cindy Sheehan has aroused several hundred conservative bloggers, all determined to Swiftboat her in very strong terms. It seems that she met with Senator John McCain, and later called him a “war-monger.” This, to a loyal Bush supporter is intolerable.
    She and several supporters met with John McCain. She said that McCain simply told the group what George Bush might have said, and that she didn’t believe his answers to her questions. She stated: “He is a warmonger, and (…)

  • British commandoes with bombs in Basra: Another Milestone in the War on Terror.
    28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "What our police found in their car was very disturbing - weapons, explosives, and a remote control detonator. These are the weapons of terrorists. We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a market or other civilian targets." Sheik Hassan al-Zarqani, spokesman for the Mehdi Army
    We are only interested in one thing regarding the melee that broke out in Basra following the arrest of two British commandoes on September 20: whether or not the car they were driving contained (…)

  • War protests, by the numbers
    28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Crowd counting isn’t an exact science. And even at its best, it’s not much of a proxy for a well-conducted public opinion poll. But still, isn’t it at least a little interesting to compare the numbers generated by the big antiwar protest in Washington Saturday with the two pro-war rallies that came before and after it?
    As Jeff Horwitz writes in Salon, the organizers of Saturday’s protest "claimed as many as 250,000 demonstrators attended; though D.C. police estimates were more (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan: My First Time Arrested
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    The rumors are true this time. I was arrested in front of the White House today. It was my first time ever being arrested.
    We proceeded from Lafayette Park to the Guard House at the White House. I, my sister, and other Gold Star Families for Peace members and some Military Families requested to meet with the President again. We again wanted to know: What is the Noble Cause? Our request was, to our immense shock and surprise, denied. They wouldn’t even deliver any letters (…)

  • How stupid can you be, arresting Cindy Sheehan while the whole world is watching?
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Does having Cindy Sheehan arrested and hauled off to the pokey to be photographed and finger-printed make you feel like a man, Dubya? Is this payback for Cindy’s Camp Casey in Crawford?
    Better pour yourself another drink, George. Maybe pop some more pills, too. You’re gonna need ’em.
    Nothing can ignite our determination to rid our country of you and your band of criminals than seeing a mother, who opposed your illegal war before her son died in it and who wants all the killing stopped, (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Arrested During Anti-War Protest
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who has used her son’s death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House.
    Sheehan and several dozen other protesters sat down on the sidewalk after marching along the pedestrian walkway on Pennsylvania Avenue. Police warned them three times that they were breaking the law by failing to move along, then began making arrests.
    Sheehan, 48, was the first taken into custody. She stood up (…)

  • A WHIFF OF TURD
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A WHIFF OF TURD
    By Peter Fredson
    September 26, 2005
    Yesterday I returned from a walk around the block, turned on my TV and saw a blurry picture of Cindy Sheehan, with muffled sound. The picture was shot from below the lady, perhaps surreptitiously, at a bad angle. I could not make out what Ms. Sheehan said.
    Then the picture changed. A woman was shown in full clarity, with full clear sound and from the front. The contrast between presentation of the two speakers was remarkable, and (…)

  • Hart Viges: ’You can’t wash your hands when they’re covered in blood’
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My name is Hart Viges. September 11 happened. Next day I was in the recruiting office. I thought that was the way I could make a difference in the world for the better.
    So I went to infantry school and jump school and I arrived with my unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. I was deployed to Kuwait in February 2003. We drove into Iraq because Third Infantry Division was ahead of schedule, and so I didn’t need to jump into Baghdad airport.
    As we drove into Samawa to secure their supplies my (…)

  • "No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die" Katrina and Cindy Blow into Town
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Engelhardt
    George was out of town, of course, in the "battle cab" at the U.S. Northern Command’s headquarters in Colorado Springs, checking out the latest in homeland-security technology and picking up photo ops; while White House aides, as the Washington Post wrote that morning, were attempting "to reestablish Bush’s swagger." The Democrats had largely fled town as well, leaving hardly a trace behind. Another hurricane was blasting into Texas and the media was preoccupied, but (…)

  • Sunday on the National Mall about 400 people in the DC pro-war rally
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ELISABETH GOODRIDGE
    Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied Sunday on the National Mall just a day after a massive protest against the war in Iraq.
    "No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom," said Marilyn Faatz, who drove from New Jersey to attend the rally. "We are making a mockery out of this. And we need to stand (…)