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  • A Daytrip Without Cindy: Friday at Camp Casey
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Moses
    Not having Cindy Sheehan in Crawford Friday turned out okay. Her absence didn’t stop the media from crowding around a noon prayer vigil. And nobody I talked to was planning to cut short their stay on account of her absence. In fact, as usual, folks were sort of falling in love with the land and each other, wondering how many days more could they squeeze in.
    Take the example of Katie Sterling of Fort Worth and her traveling companion Pam Humphrey of Burleson, Texas. In the (…)

  • Hypocrites and Liars
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hypocrites and Liars By Cindy Sheehan t r u t h o u t | Letter
    Saturday 20 August 2005
    The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. Now I am urged to use softer language to appeal to (…)

  • Sheehan’s vigil touches, angers war moms
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    State women who have lost sons, daughters differ on her protest
    By SCOTT WILLIAMS
    swilliams@journalsentinel.com
    All of them have lived through the same horror as Cindy Sheehan, a grieving military mom whose anti-war protest at the president’s doorstep has captured the national spotlight.
    But Wisconsin mothers who have lost children in the Iraq war do not necessarily feel a kindred spirit with Sheehan - or agree with her tactics.
    Most identify with the protester on at least one (…)

  • Canadian activists support Cindy Sheehan
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity vigils planned for this weekend
    The Toronto Coalition to Stop the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign will hold a jointly-sponsored vigil this Saturday in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan and American military families who continue to protest the war in Iraq. Although Cindy herself has temporarily suspended her protest due to a family illness, anti-war activists across the United States and Canada - including military families in Crawford, Texas - will go ahead with vigils (…)

  • GOOD, BAD AND UGLY : Peace vigil near Bush ranch puts Texas stereotypes on national display
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In portraying Texans, visiting journalists have embraced a host of well-worn images of typical residents of the Lone Star state, ranging from self-reliant and generous farmer-ranchers to loutish, swaggering bullies with guns in pickups. Last week at the media circus surrounding Cindy Sheehan’s antiwar encampment outside Crawford, both images were in plain view.
    First Larry Mattlage, a bearded homeowner, showed up inside his property line near the protesters’ site and fired several blasts (…)

  • US met Taliban secretly before war
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States was "not out to destroy the Taliban," a US diplomat told the government just a year before a US-led invasion toppled Afghanistan’s Taliban government that had harboured al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
    US Ambassador to Pakistan William B. Milam held a secret meeting with an unidentified senior Taliban official in September 2000 and assured him that international sanctions on the Taliban would end if bin Laden were expelled from Afghanistan, newly declassified documents (…)

  • US mly presence in Kyrgyzstan will end
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    MOSCOW: There is "no doubt" that the US military presence in Kyrgyzstan will end as the new leadership in the Central Asian state does not intend to allow it to continue indefinitely, a top Russian lawmaker said on Friday.
    "In the eyes of the new Kyrgyz leadership, the issue of the withdrawal of the Americans must be resolved when the time comes," Sergei Mironov, leader of the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, told a small group of journalists.
    For the (…)

  • GOOD REASONS WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    I looked at some of my files on the Bush War with Iraq. I wanted to find good reasons why Bush, or anyone, would declare war, cause death and destruction, incur enormous expense, and generate endless hatred and revenge. I don’t know how many are “legitimate”, if any, but here are some reasons I found in the news, on blogs, and in commentaries.
    TOP REASONS THAT GEORGE W. BUSH INVADED IRAQ Because he couldn’t catch Osama bin Laden Because he didn’t (…)

  • Former aide: Powell WMD speech ’lowest point in my life’
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (CNN) — A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state’s presentation to the United Nations on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was "the lowest point" in his life.
    "I wish I had not been involved in it," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. "I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life."
    Wilkerson is one of several insiders interviewed for the (…)

  • We continue to be part of the vigil at Crawford, Texas, even as Cindy Sheehan had to leave to be with her mother
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Julieanna,
    We continue to be part of the vigil at Crawford, Texas, even as Cindy Sheehan had to leave to be with her mother, who suffered a stroke. We pray for her mother’s recovery and for Cindy’s return.
    On Thursday, we had a wonderful “mother’s day” at the camp where all day long, women at the vigil and around the country wrote letters to Laura Bush asking her to intercede with her husband on Cindy’s behalf. In just 24 hours after putting out the call, we received over 500 (…)