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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 10:49 AM
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Cindy Sheehan makes the Seattle P-I

Sowing change from a Texas ditch

By SUSAN PAYNTER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

The President's gaze is averted, but the eyes of at least some of Seattle, Texas and the nation are upon her.

Cindy Sheehan sits on her lawn chair three miles from Crawford, determined to swelter in the Lone Star sun until vacationing President Bush comes out to talk to her.

She wants to ask him to stop saying we must stick with the war in Iraq in honor of soldiers like her son, Casey, who died there. She wants him to bring the troops home.

In Seattle, P-I readers, peace activists and callers to KUOW's "Weekday" program have been saying lately that another Walter Cronkite moment is what's needed to tip an already tilting nation toward demanding an immediate withdrawal.

Someone of fame and stature. Someone formerly neutral or even supportive of the invasion must speak out the way the father figure anchorman did in a watershed way during Vietnam.

But, instead of someone famous, is it crazy to think that, this time, the grieving nobody mom of a young soldier killed in Iraq a little more than a year ago could be the catalyst?


The column continues at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/235869_paynter10.html

Please send feedback to Ms. Paynter at susanpaynter@seattlepi.com
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 10:59 AM
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1. Excellent article...and here is an article that explains her appeal.
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SeattleVet Donating Member (708 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 10:59 AM
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2. David Horsey's cartoon on the Crawford Coward was also good
Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 11:04 AM by SeattleVet
at <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=1244>.

And there was a small group of people on an overpass on Aurora Avenue yesterday afternoon with a nice banner!

(Waiting for them to attack Iran to get this off the front pages.) :tinfoilhat:

(Edited for Subject)


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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:21 AM
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3. Very nice. I'll check the Oregonian
and see if there's anything in there. Since we're the "Left Coast", chances are good.

Here's another tag line for you, Tech;

"A country of sheep creates a government of wolves"
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 03:14 PM
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4. also check out the PI's David Horsey Cartoon re: Cindy & bushie
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