Anti-Iraq war parents to take protests across nation

[maddezmom]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parents of soldiers killed in Iraq plan to follow President George W. Bush around the country in the coming months, hoping to generate nationwide anti-war sentiment after camping out at his Texas ranch.

Though much of August, Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son in Iraq, has stationed herself with other protesters outside Bush's Crawford ranch, garnering international media coverage at a time when more than 1,800 U.S. military have died in the Iraq conflict.

Sue Niederer, who with Sheehan and other families of dead soldiers founded "Gold Star Families for Peace," on Wednesday vowed to pursue the president with her anti-war message.

"We are going to be continuously on Mr. Bush and make him understand we are not going away. We are very, very steadfast in what we doing," said the 56-year-old housewife, real estate agent and substitute teacher from Hopewell, New Jersey.

more:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050824/ts_nm/iraq_bush_protest_dc_1

[libhill]

1. The tide is finally turning -

the blinders are off, people aren't buying the "hate us for our freedom, stop them there or stop them over here" bullshit any more. I wouldn't give spit for the chances of Repuke politicos in '06 and '08. :)

[BeFree]

6. Tide is turning...but

If the voting machines are fixed again and the votes are stolen again, the pukes will still be in power. In fact I believe its the only reason we have to put up with them today: since election 2000 the pukes have been illegal.

[libhill]

13. I know that

this is easier said than done, but we'll have to nominate a Presidential candidate who has the nuts to fight 'em tooth and nail, rather than falling over and playing dead when the 'pukes announce their phony "victory". Both Gore and Kerry threw in the towel to damned early and easily.

[Kikosexy2]

2. Keep it...

up people...as long as he is (p)resident...keep it up!!!!

[madokie]

3. A great Idea

As they and he* travels around the United States we will all have an opportunity to participate and become part of this movement which getting our troops home is only one small part of. A few hundred here a few thousand there and before long we will have the numbers to make a difference.

[maddezmom]

4. welcome to DU madokie

:hi:

[madokie]

5. Thanks,

What a family you folks have.

[rodeodance]

7. 'Hounddog"---meant as a thing of beauty!!

[rodeodance]

8. and this is a Yahoo story. good.

[madokie]

9. Hound Dog it will be.

I got ah hell of a bite and a damn big bark. I would be in crawford* at this minute if I could swing it. It would be a dream come true to travel and heckle this impostor, he's* a sorry waste of human skin.

[leftchick]

12. Welcome to DU madokie!

wonderful to have you here!

:toast:

[mom cat]

15. Welcome to DU madokie.....Glad to have you aboard!

:hi:

[saigon68]

16. IT WILL BE A LONG HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL

[unhappycamper]

10. Ever seen a pissed-off grizzly bear?

A pissed-off Mom is even worse.

[libhill]

14. Hell hath no fury

like a woman scorned, 'specially when she has a dead child to grieve over. Bush is playing with fire, methinks.

[leftchick]

11. "This is Vietnam No. 2"!!!

She is as amazing as Cindy.... :)

"You are dishonoring the soldiers, you are not honoring them," she said of Bush's speech.

"Given the reasons for why we went into this war, why have their deaths not been in vain?" she asked, referring to Bush's now disproved pre-war assertion in 2003 that Iraq might have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.


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After Bush ends his Crawford stay at the end of August, the anti-war families are also considering crisscrossing America in buses in hopes of building a national protest movement similar to that seen during the Vietnam War, when public sentiment against the war contributed to the eventual U.S. withdrawal.

"This is Vietnam No. 2. As we are seeing in the polls, the American people are beginning to realize this war was created on lies, deceit and deception," Niederer said.