Camp Casey on Tulsa World front page

[sazemisery]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/

Sorry I can't link to the article but I saw it on the newsstand this morning. Probably the article leans toward the right.

[Ysolde]

1. Here's snippets from the article...

and a link, but you probably have to be a subscriber to read the full article.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=050812_Ne_a1_busha_0

Bush answers protests
By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press
8/12/2005

President, slain soldier's mom worlds apart on policy

CRAWFORD, Texas -- They were just a few miles away from each other Thursday, standing under a hot midday sun to express their concern about U.S. troops dying in Iraq. But President Bush and the grieved mother outside his ranch were worlds apart on how best to honor the dead.

<snip>

Sheehan's son, Casey, was killed five days after he arrived in Iraq last year at age 24. Sheehan began her standoff on Saturday, saying she would stay for the entire month that Bush plans to be in Texas unless he meets with her.

<snip>

While Bush hosted a strategy session with foreign affairs and military advisers at his ranch, protesters who had traveled from across the country pitched tents outside in ditches next to Sheehan. Among them were at least three other parents who had lost children in the war.

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The White House put out an accounting of all the meetings that Bush has had with families of the war dead -- 900 relatives of 272 people who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sheehan met the president in June 2004 but said she deserves another visit since there have been so many revelations about faulty prewar intelligence since then.

More...

[hippywife]

2. We're going to really try to head down there

next weekend. Anyone who can make it should really try. It's only a six hour drive.

[vickitulsa]

4. Have you left yet, Hippywife?

And do you live in Tulsa?

I'm just finding the state forum ... am jumping right in if that's all right. I so wish I could travel to Camp Casey but there are a few reasons I'm hesitant to even get my hopes up that I could actually do it.

~VV

or vickitulsa here at DU and elsewhere

[bobbieinok]

3. saw this in vending machine and noted 'Bush ANSWERS protests'

which of course he doesn't do