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Title: 'Peace Mom' Leaves Camp, Her Mother Ill
Source:
AP
URL Source: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081805T.shtml
Published: Aug 18, 2005
Author: AP
Post Date: 2005-08-18 20:51:17 by christine
Keywords: Peace, Leaves, Mother
Views: 82
Comments: 8
The grieving woman who started an anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch nearly two weeks ago said Thursday she was leaving because her mother had a stroke. Cindy Sheehan told reporters she had just received the phone call and was leaving immediately to be with her 74-year-old mother at a Los Angeles hospital. "I'll be back as soon as possible if it's possible," she said. After hugging some of her supporters, Sheehan and her sister, Deedee Miller, got in a van and left for the Waco airport about 20 miles away. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey died in Iraq, said the makeshift campsite off the road leading to Bush's ranch would continue. The camp has grown to more than 100 people, including many relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq. Sheehan had vowed to remain there until Bush met with her or until his month-long vacation ended. Her protest inspired candlelight vigils across the country Wednesday night. Bush has said he sympathizes with Sheehan. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said earlier Thursday that the president said Sheehan had a right to protest but that he did not plan to change his schedule and meet with her. Two top Bush administration officials talked to Sheehan the day she started her camp, and she and other families met with Bush shortly after her son's death and before she became a vocal opponent of the war. Michelle Mulkey, a spokewoman for Sheehan, who lives in Vacaville, Calif., said Sheehan hoped to be back in Texas within 24 to 48 hours. Mulkey said Sheehan's mother, Shirley Miller, was in a hospital emergency room and Sheehan didn't yet know how serious her condition was.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Interesting timing...
Sending a prayer that her mother recovers quickly.
Yep, could be a coincidence, but I doubt it.
God is always good!
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I can't believe the response I just read on FR concerning this topic. LOL, good one God is always good!
I doubt it too. If it was a coincidence, it was the same type that gave the leader of Quebec flesh eating bacteria 6 weeks before the vote on Independence, or poisoned the guy in the Ukraine. The neocons gave her mother the stroke to take her out of the field, and it worked. you can bet on it.
God is always good! Yes, he sure is ...Because that's the way we created him ...LOL
Memo to Drudge, et al: It's Not About Me, It's About the War (134 comments ) Even after my repeated attempts to keep the focus of my protest on the war, the Drudge Report and others continue to try to make the issue about me. But I am not the issue. The issue is a disastrous war that's killing our sons and daughters and making our country less secure. They attack me because they can no longer defend this war. I've come to Crawford to bring to the president's doorstep the harsh realities of a war he's been trying so hard to avoid. But no matter what they say or how many shotguns they fire or how many crosses they destroy, they're not going to stop me from speaking out about a war that needlessly killed my son.
“Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild, a name famous in every capital of Europe, and every division of the globe." -Benjamin Disraeli
#2. To: christine (#0)
The camp has grown to more than 100 people, including many relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#3. To: Eoghan (#1)
Interesting timing...
#4. To: christine, All (#0)
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#5. To: christine, all (#0)
To: thoughtomator
#6. To: RickyJ, Eoghan (#3)
Yep, could be a coincidence, but I doubt it.
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
#7. To: RickyJ (#5)
#8. To: RickyJ, christine (#5)
Cindy memo to Drudge...
“Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild, a name famous in every capital of Europe, and every division of the globe." -Benjamin Disraeli
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