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funkybutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 06:34 PM
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I met Cindy Sheehan today! Ask me anything.
heard her speak too! Unbelievable
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 06:36 PM
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1. Damn.
A wonderful, courageous woman. Just so impressive.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 06:39 PM
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2. I'll bet it was poignant!
Edited on Sat Jun-18-05 06:40 PM by zidzi
Thank you, Cindy Sheehan, for standing up for your son..what a mom to be proud of. O8)

Edit~ Can you tell us anything she said?:)
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funkybutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 06:46 PM
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3. She said that...
she's not on a mission to remove Bush from office. She said she's on a mission to return these troops to their mothers. She said, "impeachment is too good for that Son of a bitch!"

She said she works 14 or so hours a day at this.

She said that the most important activity right now for "peace activists " is counter recruitment.

She read us that wonderful poem by her daughter, Carly and that that poem saved her life.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 06:52 PM
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4. I haven't seen or heard of the
"poem"..now I'm all choked up.

Cindy's right.."Impeachment is too good for that son of a BITCH"..and she has bigger things to do.

The Best Of Luck to Cindy Sheehan and everyone working on "counter recruitment".
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funkybutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:03 PM
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5. Here's Carly Sheehan's Poem about burrying her brother, Casey
Edited on Sat Jun-18-05 07:04 PM by funkybutt
It's called "A Nation Rocked to Sleep"

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0616-07.htm

It's amazing! Please read it.
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:07 PM
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7. He is reading the poem on air right now
:cry:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:38 PM
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11. Thank you!
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:45 PM
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13. Damn, that is one great poem
This nation is waking up from its "sleep" and hopefully we can drive these fascists from office and destroy the Republican party that allowed them to seize power.
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 09:15 PM
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15. Oh, thanks, now I'm crying! (n/t)
I really am crying.

But its not your fault.

Thanks for the post.

I got involved in the antiwar effort shortly after I was blessed with my daughter. The thought of her being 'cannonfodder' just brings me to tears.

My daughter is not going to die fighting a war for a Booosh - I will fight with everything I have for it not to be so.
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funkybutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 09:50 PM
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16. How can you not cry?
It's an amazing poem and to hear Cindy recite it really moved me to a place I can't say I've been before. It broke my heart. Please pass the poem along. We've got a nation to wake.
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 10:49 PM
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17. Exactly! (n/t)
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:06 PM
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6. She is comming up on the Guy James Show right now
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:07 PM
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8. Thank You Funkybutt for being there
We appreciate your reporting. I must agree with Cindy, Impeachment is too good for him.
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Obamarama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:10 PM
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9. Where did you hear her speak? Is she on a speaking tour?
If so, I'd love to hear her message. What a brave woman.
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funkybutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:23 PM
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10. I heard her speak at the Blue Nile in New Orleans on Frenchman
She was the "keynote" speaker at an anti-war march/event.

Here's some info.

http://www.newdemocracyrising.com
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 07:42 PM
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12. Thank you funky for this post,
it's the first time I've read the poem her daughter wrote. :cry:

She's a brave & wonderful woman/mother.
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funkybutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 08:20 PM
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14. She was upset with Dean.
She says he's backed away from his anti-war stance. She heard him speak recently and she noted that he didn't even bring up Iraq until the very end. Then all he said about it was that our troops should have the equipment that they need! WTF is that?

She said she tried to confront him about it but he was moving very fast and was surrounded by a lot of people.
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