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  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 11 - 12)
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 12); Vigils
    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
    Our candlelight vigil at Camp Casey was beautiful tonight. There were hundreds of people here and we are hearing that hundreds of people were involved in vigils around the country. We at Camp Casey are so amazed and gratified that there were almost 1700 vigils around the country.
    CNN followed me around for the morning to do a ’Day in the Life’ of Cindy Sheehan. I kept asking them if they were falling (…)

  • Cindy, the Peace Train, and the Little Ditch that Could
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Greg Moses
    Two months ago while exhausted from a Summer Soulstice peace festival, and while looking with dismay into a long hot summer of war, Louisiana attorney Buddy Spell, his spouse Annie, and their guest of honor Cindy Sheehan decided they needed to do something, but not something too high energy. So they browsed through the train schedule and designated an Amtrak Crescent as their Peace Train. Come September they’d board the train in New Orleans and put out word to folks along the (…)

  • An article of hope for Cindy Sheehan
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan a concerned parent waiting in the Texas sun for accountability from the President for going to war is not alone. The revolutionary council of concerned citizens (RCCC) is an attempt to focus the national debate on Informed Consent. The manifest for the revolution is a PowerPoint presentation commissioned by the Department of Defense (DOD) and prepared by three physicians, defining Informed Consent. Although Informed Consent is usually considered an individual contract it also (…)

  • Secrets of the morgue - Baghdad’s body count
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpses are being brought to the mortuary that human remains are stacked on top of each other. Unidentified bodies must be buried within days for lack of space - but the municipality is so overwhelmed by the number of killings that it can (…)

  • Help Support Cindy Sheehan, whose son was kill
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Salutations,
    Please forward widely
    Cindy Sheehan’s son, Casey was killed in the Iraq War. She is turning her tragic loss into a relentless anti-war campaign that has brought her to Crawford, Texas to occupy a space outside G.W. Bush’s ranch until he agrees to speak with her. As I write this, supporters in Crawford have been harassed by the police, gone on huner strike and are in need of your support. Rumsfeld and Rice are expected to arrive at Crawford tomorrow to meet with G.W. Bush so (…)

  • Would You Sign This?
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. military enlistment form should raise many serious questions
    by Brian Richards
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/17/05 — Reading a current U.S. military enlistment form recently, I was surprised to discover that once enlisted and in the event of war, such as a war declared against a relative intangible such as ’terror’, an enlistee might never actually get out of the military.
    Forget the fact that enlistees are required to serve a total of eight (8) years; combined active and (…)

  • Michael Wright’s Improved Antiwar Chant
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael Wright —
    Norman, Oklahoma USA
    mpwright9@aol.com
    Not long ago I posted this as a suggested chant for antiwar demonstrations:
    "Excuse me, GWB
    How many coffins will there be?"
    It needs to be modified to this:
    "Excuse me, GWB
    How many coffins will we see?"
    The reason is that, in the original version, B in the first line had the same sound as "be" in the second line; therefore there was no rhyme.
    Now it rhymes !
    See the summary of my 9/11 investigation: (…)

  • In Defense of Cindy Sheehan
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Drink-soaked Trotskyite popinjay slimes antiwar Mom
    by Justin Raimondo
    All the usual suspects are lining up to slime Cindy Sheehan: Mr. Smarm, AKA James Taranto; the pretentious twits over at Powerline blog; and of course Matt Drudge, who ought to make his role as a sounding board for the Republican National Committee official. Yet none of these worthies were really up to the task. Drudge took Sheehan’s statement after her first meeting with Bush out of context and was contradicted by (…)

  • Senate Intelligence chairman quietly ’fixed’ intelligence, and diverted blame from White House over Iraq
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Larisa Alexandrovna
    Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush issued an order to the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department, and his cabinet members that severely curtailed intelligence oversight by restricting classified information to just eight members of Congress.
    "The only Members of Congress whom you or your expressly designated officers may brief regarding classified or sensitive law (…)

  • 77 year old harassed by police for calling Bush a Liar on Radio
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Law Abiding Ohio Resident And Korean War Veteran Has Authorities Illegally Swarm On His Property Just Hours After He Called President Bush A Liar On A Local AM Radio Station
    by Greg Szymanski
    Although Doug Stout, 77, won’t pin illegal entry on his property to his harsh comments about Bush, but says one thing for sure "I don’t smoke pot and everybody in town knows it." After hovering over his property with a helicopter, officers then swarmed on his land, looked at some shrubbery and then (…)