Peace mom refocusing vigil near Bush ranch

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http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050816/1065947.asp

Peace mom refocusing vigil near Bush ranch

CRAWFORD, Texas - Bothered by what she laments as mounting "distractions," Cindy Sheehan sought Monday to refocus her peace vigil near President Bush's ranch on her central anti-war message.

Since she "came out here and sat down on a lawn chair" 10 days ago, Sheehan said, her vigil "got out of hand and just turned into a media circus."

For instance, she cited calls for the president's impeachment as "another distraction off of our original cause."

Sunday, she faced reports that she was not paying her federal income taxes. "They killed my son in an illegal and immoral war," she told a reporter who asked, "and I don't feel like I owe them anything."

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1. I like the "Peace Mom" label.

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2. think of the contrast--Peace Mom vs War President.

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3. WH declines to say if Jr. will attend Fridays's prayer service. umm..

I think this is going to be big Dilemna for them!!



......Supporters are planning candlelight vigils Wednesday across the country. Sheehan is urging a worldwide moment of silence Friday to honor the war dead and hopes that the president will attend a noon prayer service at the anti-war camp.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino declined to say whether Bush, who is on vacation this month at his ranch, would attend. The president, she noted, has said he sympathizes with Sheehan and shares her pain and that of others who have lost family and friends in Iraq.

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4. I think it is a good move for her to step back and refocus--I think this

will be more effective.


.....She has been besieged not only by burgeoning numbers of her own supporters, with all sorts of agendas of their own, but also by counterdemonstrators over the weekend and by an angry neighbor who fired a shotgun into the air Sunday near her camp.

"The media attention has been fabulous," she said at a news conference to introduce other military families opposing the war in Iraq. "We have finally gotten this war back on the front page and back in the headline news where it belongs."

Still, she said she had stayed awake all night reviewing recent events and now wants to get back to the basics of her vigil and her demand to meet with the president.

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5. Of COURSE he will NOT attend!!!!

If he attends, he will have to TALK to her.

He'll probably go golfing, or fart around with his chainsaw. Or invite someone from the House of Saud over to skip through the bluebells....