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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 09:22 AM
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Here's what Cindy Sheehan is up to
Fron CNN's web site this morning:

Cindy Sheehan: The anti-war activist — who camped near former President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, five years ago demanding an explanation for her son's death in Iraq — is building a tent city today near the Washington Monument.

The Hill reports Sheehan wants Obama to pull troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan
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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 09:23 AM
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1. And most likely Yemen also. n/t
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 09:24 AM
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2. Good for her.
:) K&R
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 09:24 AM
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3. yay For Cindy.
God bless her. hoping the anti war marches in DC and the country on March 20 get some actual news coverage
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 09:27 AM
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4. k/r
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 09:28 AM
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5. Yes, I get her emails.
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shockra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 09:37 AM
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6. I was just thinking about her.
And looking at her new website recently.

http://peaceoftheaction.org/
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 10:09 AM
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7. We are ALL Americans! Cindy Sheehan interviews Hugo Chavez
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 10:38 AM
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8. Isn't there progress in doing that.
why doesn't she direct her efforts to something else. They are starting to pull them out of Iraq and soon the other places. I think since she is such an activist she should start to concentrate her efforts on Health Care, Jobs, and the rest of the stuff Obama administration is trying to pass. Better yet start a campaign against the obstructionist republicans. She can really get things going and this would be a wonderful effort on her part.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 10:41 AM
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10. Why don't you tell her?
She has a Facebook page and a couple websites. Let her know what you think and then report back to us with her reply.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 10:43 AM
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11. if one of your kids was blown to bits in an insane corporate war
you would be pissed off too.
until you have that happen, you dont know what the word 'anger' even means.
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Jester Messiah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 10:50 AM
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12. She's beyond anger. I believe the loss drove her mad. [nt]
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 11:17 AM
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13. again, unless you have had a child die
you have no idea.

and her son died in a war criminal's war..for corporate profit. think about it. your child dying to enrich oil companies.

she is doing exactly what any parent who loves their child would do.
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Jester Messiah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 12:51 PM
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14. Such would probably drive me mad as well.
Madness is madness, however.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 01:06 PM
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15. imagine for one second, that someone murdered your child
would you want to go out and fight against whomever murdered your child?

I would.

Thats not madness, thats LOVE of a PARENT for her child.

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Jester Messiah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 02:12 PM
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17. I think she's taken it a good bit beyond that. [nt]
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 02:21 PM
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18. and you would , too, if your child was murdered.nt
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Jester Messiah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 03:46 PM
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20. And you know that... how?
You don't. You've never met me beyond a few words exchanged on the Internet. Don't suppose that you can predict what I would do in such a situation. I certainly wouldn't conduct myself as Cindy has. My reaction would likely be vengeful and grisly, but conducted in as much obscurity as I could manage.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 03:51 PM
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21. she is trying to help other parents keep their own children from being murdered
by corporate wars.

thats sanity and compassion.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 11:57 PM
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26. she started the flip in opinion about the war and went straight to the
lion's den to face the cowards. Cindy isn't mad. She's determined in a way most of us aren't because it requires us going out of our life, our comfort zone, our usual way of doing things. She is a righteous woman, Our Cindy. She forgot more about guts, goodness and courage than most of us will ever know. I love her.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 03:55 PM
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22. Ummm yeah, I've met her a few times. She is quite sane.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 10:39 AM
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9. Good for Cindy!!
She speaks for me :patriot:
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 01:08 PM
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16. Imagine the hatred that this thread would be dripping with if not for Kooch taking heat!
lol
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shockra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 02:31 PM
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19. I could mention that she's a vegan too.
That might do it!
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superduperfarleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 04:50 PM
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24. I didn't know that. Do you have a link?
If true, that's awesome, and makes me love her even more.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-10 04:38 PM
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27. lol
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marshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 04:44 PM
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23. Cindy is three or four steps ahead of the rest of us
It wasn't long ago that everyone, Democrat and Republican alike, thought she was just a nut for going after the current administration with as much vim as she went after the previous. Now, not so much. She's the most lucid one of us all.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-10 04:54 PM
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25. An aquaintance from another forum and I are seriously
Edited on Mon Mar-15-10 04:54 PM by Subdivisions
considering joining Cindy in D.C. I spent time with her on the first day of Camp Casey, the day after she returned from her famous trip to Jordan.
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-10 04:56 PM
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28. How come she is getting no press coverage?
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