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by Cindy Sheehan
Today when I was driving back and forth between Camp Casey II and the Crawford Peace House, I saw a lot of signs that say "I’m4W" "Support our Troops" and the one I hate the most: "Freedom isn’t Free." I have excerpted an article I wrote a few months ago called: A Lie of Historic Proportions. I am not feeling well tonight, so I am heading to bed before six a.m. tonight.
Iraq has been the tragic Lie of Historic Proportions of Washington, DC since before the first Gulf (…)

From YubaNet.com
[to see cartoon, click on http://yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_23683.shtml]
Columns Daryl Cagle: How to Draw President George W. Bush Author: Daryl Cagle Published on August 9, 2005, 07:04
Political cartoonists are not much different from comic strip cartoonists; both draw an ongoing daily soap opera featuring a regular cast of characters. While comic strip cartoonists invent their own characters, the political cartoonist’s characters are given to him by events (…)

For BBC Television and the Guardian newspapers of Britain, Greg Palast has conducted two award-winning investigations of both Pat Robertson and Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. To understand who these guys are — why Robertson would shoot at Chavez, and why Chavez would laugh at Robertson, read on...
WHY DICK CHENEY WON’T PLAY IN HUGO CHAVEZ’ BAND
There’s so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. (…)

Sharon Springs man flies to Texas to be with group outside Bush ranch
By Jake Palmateer
A Sharon Springs Vietnam veteran has joined Cindy Sheehan and other anti-war activists outside President Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch.
Elliott Adams, 58, a member of the national organization Veterans for Peace, flew into Waco on Thursday afternoon to relieve fellow members of the group who are returning to New York City.
Adams said the flight from Dallas-Fort Worth was "a little bumpy" and (…)

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By WILL LESTER
WASHINGTON - An overwhelming number of people say critics of the Iraq war should be free to voice their objections - a rare example of widespread agreement about a conflict that has divided the nation along partisan lines.
Nearly three weeks after a grieving California mother named Cindy Sheehan started her anti-war protest near President Bush’s Texas ranch, nine of 10 people surveyed in an AP-Ipsos poll say it’s OK for war opponents to publicly share their concerns about (…)

Saddam Hussein’s political party is staging a comeback, and US military commanders are debating how far to accommodate it in Iraq’s coming constitutional referendum.
While less tied than before to the ousted dictator, the Ba’athist movement has become an important channel for Sunni Arab political expression, say US officers, helping to promote voting in the October 15 referendum.
But the New Ba’ath party, as military planners now call it, still flits between engagement in the US-backed (…)

You can tell in five minutes of channel surfing how Cindy Sheehan frightens the pro-war crowd. One bereaved mom from Vacaville, California, camped outside Bush’s home in Crawford, reproaching the vacationing president for sending her son to a pointless death in Iraq has got the hellhounds of the Right barking in venomous unison.
Sheehan is castigated in the press, by mainstream liberals as well as mad-dog rightists, for not leaving any wriggle-room on this central point. She says, "Bring (…)

On April 4, 2004, Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq. His mother Cindy Sheehan wants President Bush to explain why. He might answer thus:
"The hard truth is your son’s life was wasted. I accept a share of blame, but only a share. Others must accept theirs, my advisors and supporters, my political opponents and ordinary Americans - particularly ordinary Americans."
Can good people do bad things? I consider myself a good person. Yet, upon receipt of a coded message, I would have killed (…)

By DOUG THOMPSON
While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who dares disagree with him.
“I’m not meeting again with that goddamned bitch,” Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. “She can (…)