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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 05:31 PM
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'Peace Mom': Spearhead of Peace Movement?
By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer
30 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - What began as one mother's vigil on a country road in Texas two weeks ago has grown into a nationwide protest, putting a grieving human face to the miseries of war and growing misgivings about President Bush's strategies in Iraq.

It's still not clear whether Cindy Sheehan's effort was the start of a lasting anti-war movement or a fleeting summertime story fueled by media-savvy liberal interest groups.
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One activist has called Sheehan "the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement," a reference to the civil rights heroine who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955.

What happens in Iraq the next weeks and months may determine whether the "Peace Mom" finds her own place in history, or becomes a footnote.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050818/ap_on_re_us/peace_mom_impact
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 05:34 PM
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1. Please rate this up.. has already been freeped..a little over 200
votes and it is a one...
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gademocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 05:35 PM
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2. Voted
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DemsUnited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 05:41 PM
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3. "Peace Mom" --- I like that.
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 05:45 PM
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4. Read, rated and a little kick - needs help, folks.
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