Cindy Sheehan- Speaking Truth Is Power

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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=1761

Cindy Sheehan- Speaking Truth Is Power

By Grace Reid
August 10, 2005

"Today is the beginning of the end of the occupation of Iraq"

Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, Texas; August 6, 2005

There has been some confusion about a meeting between Cindy Sheehan and George Bush in 2004 now being spun in the newspapers. More than that, there has been an attempt to smear Cindy Sheehan - to portray her as someone who does not know her own mind or heart - implying that she was consoled by Bush last June, and has become an anti-war activist in the last year. The polls say that 35% more of the American people have withdrawn their support for the war in the last year. The people are not buying the lies, and the media is, timidly, beginning to tell the truth. Sixty percent of the American people say that there was no legal or ethical basis for the war on Iraq, and that they do not support it.


Here are some basic facts about what has happened in America over the last four years that reveal the war on Iraq for what it is. Insane and criminal. Here are some facts and dates that should dispel any confusion in the media about Cindy Sheehan's confrontation with George Bush. "Mr. Bush, meet the truth."
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1. Recommended.

I think that it is very important to keep the focus on Cindy. The group of people there supporting her deserves our respect and much appreciation. But they are not the story. The people across the country who are inspired by her are growing in number. She is in a roll that the administration would prefer becomes blurred; we should make sure it stays focused.

Attempts to blur her simple yet profound message will backfire on the administration.

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4. Sheehan Speaks For A Majority

Sheehan Speaks For A Majority

Right-wing efforts to smear the grieving mother in Crawford may actually have the opposite effect.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050810/sheehan_speaks_for_a_majority.php

Sheehan Speaks For A Majority


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Readers of TomPaine.com know we opposed the invasion from the get-go. And probably most of our readers did, too. But most Americans did not. Now they do. Sheehan's evolving position on the war actually shows she has more in common with everyday Americans than conservative commentators would like to admit.

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And those of us who believe a serious fraud was perpetrated on this country could ask for no better interrogator than Cindy Sheehan, whose own understanding of the reasons for war has evolved in light of what she's learned about the war. Recently, she answered eloquently a question about the right-wing media's obsession with her past statements:

I think it's really ironic that they're so willing to assiduously scrutinize the mother of a war hero, a grieving mother, a mother filled with shock and grief, but they won't even scrutinize a president when he says Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, when everybody else is saying, "No, he doesn't." If the mainstream media and the right-wing media hadn't been such propaganda tools for Washington, D.C., my son might still be alive.

Sheehan's detractors seek to depict her as a "patsy" being manipulated by anti-war liberals. By accusing her of somehow impeaching herself a year ago with kind comments about the president, they fuel the publicity surrounding her protest. And in doing so, they may instead be drawing much-deserved attention to the president's own contradictions on Iraq.

Alexandra Walker | Wednesday 11:06 AM

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2. Nominated...speaks for itself!

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3. Wow to the point... but the bushbots hate fact based reality.

Still fence sitters would probably jump to our side real quick with this info in the MSM, but noooooooooooo so many of them are still afraid of unkle karl molesting their careers.

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