USA Today: Peace House a Center of Dissent in Crawford

[dooner]

Peace House a center of dissent in Crawford
By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY Posted 8/10/2005 10:41 PM Updated 8/10/2005 10:41 PM

CRAWFORD, Texas — When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrive at President Bush's isolated ranch Thursday, they'll face an unwelcome greeting: scores of peace protesters who have joined a vigil by the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq.

Local authorities and activists also are gearing up for a possible confrontation Friday. The group's protest site sits beside a two-lane country road between Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch and the Broken Spoke Ranch, where his top campaign fundraisers are invited to a barbecue with the president.
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This month's protests have dented White House efforts to produce a stream of positive stories about the president at work on the ranch, including meetings with his economic advisers on Tuesday and his national security advisers today.

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"We ran out of steam last month, and we couldn't pay our phone bill," says Hadi Jawad, another co-founder who sells heavy equipment in Dallas. He became politically active in 1998 to protest international sanctions against Iraq. The publicity about Sheehan has turned things around again, he says. "Now we're getting support from all over the country."

The phone was reconnected Tuesday.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-10-peace-house_x.htm

[Erika]

1. W's top fundraisers are invited to a BBQ

but W won't meet with the mother of a dead military man?

He certainly knows his priorities.

[frictionlessO]

5. Lovely bullet point you have there! Must remember to use it frequently.

Thanks Erika.

[Triana]

2. GOOD! Send them more $$

:evilgrin:

[achtung_circus]

3. Well

Local authorities and activists also are gearing up for a possible confrontation Friday. The group's protest site sits beside a two-lane country road between Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch and the Broken Spoke Ranch, where his top campaign fundraisers are invited to a barbecue with the president.

If the bushbots have any smarts they will avoid any potential possibility of confrontation merely by avoiding Camp Casey. Although Prairie Chapel Rd. may be the most direct route from Crawford to the pig farm, it is by no means the only, or even the quickest route.

[dooner]

6. broken spoke ranch...

would have been a better name for the Bush Estate

[achtung_circus]

7. Or the Lazy W. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Thanks for sharing this. Cindy and crew are getting a lot more press than

I thought they would.

Still would like to see it top primetime major TV network news, though.