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  • Cindy Sheehan’s Message Repudiates George Bush — and Howard Dean
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 1972, after many years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: “In that time, I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime.”
    That aptly describes three key American perspectives now brought to bear on U.S. involvement in Iraq.
    The moral clarity and political impacts of Cindy Sheehan’s vigil in Crawford are greatly enhanced by the basic position that she is taking: U.S. troops should not be in Iraq.
    Sheehan’s (…)

  • Smearing Cindy Sheehan
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conservatives are attacking her as a dupe of the left who’s exploiting her dead son. Some relatives have piled on too. But the grieving mother says her well-timed Crawford visit is "my idea, my mission, my vision."
    By Farhad Manjoo
    Aug. 13, 2005 | August was supposed to have been a quiet month for George W. Bush. Last year, the president cut short his customary weekslong vacation in order to campaign for reelection, so this year, unencumbered, he’d planned to spend more than a month in (…)

  • Wake Up America
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The situation in Crawford this month could be thew difference between World War III or not. Do whatever you can to support the cause of the Veterans for Peace and Goldstar Mothers, etc. Go visit, send money, tell all your friends. I’ve read they are trying to organize a Woodstock 2005 for the"mother of all vacations" in Crawford this August. This song is dedicated to all true patriots doing whatever they can. Start singing everybody
    peace, love, end the Bush Administration
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  • Camp Casey Day 7- We Don’t Have to Be Angry Anymore
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    My day started way too early today. After 3 hours of sleep, I was being shaken awake by someone at 6:30am telling me that the Today Show wanted me to be on their show. I had come into town to sleep in a trailer because my tent had been infested with fire ants. I turned the today show down for 7:15am, so we did it at 9:00am.
    We had a very interesting day. We had Bush drive by really, really fast twice. I caught a glimpse of Laura. I was hoping after she saw me that she (…)

  • It is not only Iraq that is occupied. America is too
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My country is in the grip of a president surrounded by thugs in suits
    By Howard Zinn
    08/12/05 "The Guardian" — — It has quickly become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. We became familiar with that term during the second world war. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied countries. The United States (…)

  • American Graffiti : Signs of the times
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush used to enjoy healthy support for his Iraq policy. But now freeway ’bloggers’ are speaking out, writes Rupert Cornwell
    Feel like getting something off your chest against that iniquitous warmonger in the White House? Well, you can write a letter to your newspaper, tune in to liberal talk radio, or click to a reliably leftie website. Alternatively, you can take a drive on the highways of the United States.
    These are the domain of the freeway bloggers, a breed that have (…)

  • The Murder of Casey Sheehan
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Marjorie Cohn
    For seven days, Cindy Sheehan has been camped down the road from George Bush’s Crawford ranch where the President is on a five-week vacation. Cindy says she will never enjoy a vacation again. Her heart is broken. Her precious son Casey was murdered in George Bush’s war on Iraq.
    Cindy Sheehan is a patient woman. She will wait until Bush comes out and talks to her. She will wait until the man who ordered the invasion of a country that posed no threat to us explains why (…)

  • Israeli jailed for killing activist
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAN WILLIAMS
    AN ISRAELI soldier was jailed for eight years yesterday for killing the British activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot while protecting Palestinian children during violence in Gaza in 2003.
    The sentence was the harshest punishment meted out to an Israeli soldier for actions in a combat zone since the start of a Palestinian uprising nearly five years ago.
    Taysir Hayb, a Bedouin Arab soldier, was convicted in June of manslaughter for shooting Mr Hurndall, an activist with (…)

  • In Iraq, No Clear Finish Line - Timing Is Muddy For U.S. Pullout
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Peter Baker
    The Bush administration has sent seemingly conflicting signals in recent days over the duration of the U.S. deployment to Iraq, openly discussing contingency plans to withdraw as many as 30,000 of 138,000 troops by spring, then cautioning against expectations of any early pullout. Finally yesterday, President Bush dismissed talk of a drawdown as just "speculation and rumors" and warned against "withdrawing before the mission is complete."
    If the public was left confused, (…)

  • Video: Mother of fallen soldier asks questions of President Bush
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    VIDEO ONLINE HERE
    by John Byrne
    The above ad, paid for by Gold Star Families for Peace, will air on Crawford cable channels near Bush’s ranch. The total ad buy is currently $15,000. The group plans to air the ad throughout August and wherever Bush visits during his vacation.
    Sheehan’s son, Casey, was an Army mechanic who was killed just five days after arriving in Iraq.
    "He was only 24 and he died in his best friend’s arms," Sheehan says in the ad, directed at President Bush. "Casey (…)