Sheehan supporters stage rally in Benicia (nationwide movement?)

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http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_2936044

Sheehan supporters stage rally in Benicia

Anti-war protesters in Benicia said Thursday they are buoyed by a Vacaville mother's demand to ask President Bush personally why soldiers like her son had to die in Iraq.

The protesters, holding a vigil at City Park, said they hope Cindy Sheehan's persistence will galvanize the peace movement enough to convince the Bush administration to bring the troops home.

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Former Benicia Mayor Jerry Hayes, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the protesters, said Sheehan "may be able to get the smattering of protests into a nationwide movement."

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U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Solano, in a prepared statement, said, "All Cindy Sheehan wants to know is why her son had to die in Iraq. President Bush told the country that we were sending young men and women into harm's way because Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a grave threat to our national security. That turned out not to be true. The president owes Cindy Sheehan and all Americans an explanation."


Anti-war protesters Clydene Cannon and Wounded Knee, both of Vallejo, attend a peace vigil Thursday in Benicia. (Times-Herald, Vallejo)