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  Cindy Sheehan Is Working To Bring Our Troops Home - BuzzFlash Interview
Cindy has joined other moms and families who have lost loved ones in the conflict to tell Americans about the true costs of the war.
Cindy Sheehan: I think it was probably around last October, 2003, because they went to the National Training Center (NTC) at Ft. Irwin in the California desert in November.
Cindy Sheehan: Except for April, that was the highest.
www.buzzflash.com /interviews/04/10/int04050.html   (1476 words)

  
  Cindy Sheehan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sheehan gave another interview on October 4, 2004 stating that she did not understand the reasons for the Iraq invasion and never thought that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States.
Sheehan is one of the nine founding members of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization founded in January 2005 that seeks to end the occupation of Iraq and provide support for families of fallen soldiers.
Sheehan was back in Washington, D.C. in time for the 2006 State of the Union Address, first participating in a public forum at the Bus Boys and Poets Bookstore, where she was one of a six-person panel [59].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cindy_Sheehan   (4112 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan's son, Casey, was raised by her ex-husband after the couple divorced and both remarried.
Sheehan's alleged lack of involvement in her son's upbringing after divorcing his father, is something fabricated out of whole cloth, evidently the product of someone's confusing a completely different family with the Sheehans.
Cindy Sheehan and her husband, Patrick, were high school sweethearts who wed while both were in their early 20's and who have been married to each other for over
www.snopes.com /politics/war/sheehan.asp   (805 words)

  
 Cindy Sheehan - Wikiquote
Cindy Sheehan (born circa 1957) is an American anti-Iraq war activist and the mother of US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, who was killed in action at age 24 in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004, just five days after arriving in the country for duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Cindy Sheehan was a featured speaker at a pro-Lynne Stewart rally held on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at San Francisco State University.
Sheehan bears some responsibility for this and also for the responsibility of other American families who have lost sons and daughters in Iraq, who feel that this kind of behavior borders on treasonous.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Cindy_Sheehan   (1224 words)

  
 Michelle Malkin: THE FRIENDS OF CINDY SHEEHAN
Sheehan's father told the press in April 2004 that his son had re-enlisted the previous August, planned to make a career in the military, and "loved the Army because it gave him a chance to serve his country." I can't imagine Army Spc.
Casey Sheehan would stand for a bunch of strangers glomming onto his mother's crusade and using him to undermine the war effort as they shouted "W killed her son" in front of countless TV cameras.
Sheehan with the same compassion and sympathy he showed her when they first met--before her heart and mind were poisoned by the professional grievance-mongers who claim to be her friends.
michellemalkin.com /archives/003204.htm   (1146 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Who Does Cindy Sheehan Hate? by Michael Reagan
In this case it could well be that Cindy Sheehan is projecting her rage at George Bush when the one she really despises is her late son Casey, who died as a hero in Iraq, precisely because he did die a hero in Iraq.
The more I listen to Cindy Sheehan and consider her past actions and her past words, it occurs to me she has always been a liberal, she’s always been anti-military, and she’s always been anti-Republican.
Cindy Sheehan says she wants to ask the president, “Why did you kill my son?” She knows that George Bush did not kill her son.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19267   (603 words)

  
 Support Cindy Sheehan! Updates
Cindy Sheehan has stated that she intends to stay in Crawford until the end of August, when she will follow Bush to Washington DC.
Cindy Sheehan is camped out in the hot desert sun, speaking out about the occupations of Iraq and Palestine and demanding answers from the criminal regime that killed her son along with more than 1800 other soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqi people.
Sheehan left the VFP meeting on Saturday morning and is now in Crawford  with a couple dozen veterans and local peace activists, waiting for Bush to talk with her.
www.iacenter.org /folder06/sheehan.htm   (2631 words)

  
 A shot in the arm for protesters / Mother's vigil raises hope that anti-war sentiment will fuel a national momentum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Coverage of Sheehan's spontaneous vigil is a godsend for the anti-war movement, which has been struggling to gain traction outside of liberal areas of the country.
Sheehan said she has long disagreed with her Republican in-laws, some of whom she hasn't seen in a year.
Sheehan, for her part, wants the message to go beyond the personal, by encouraging sympathizers to engage in "counter-recruitment." She said military recruiters misled her son, who she said joined the service because many of his friends did.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/14/SHEEHAN.TMP   (1765 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
Sheehan's plight that she bestowed upon her and all grieving parents the title of "absolute moral authority." That characterization epitomizes the arrogance and condescension of anyone who would presume to understand and speak for all of us.
Sheehan cannot seem to come to grips with the idea that her own son, Casey, was a soldier like Zack who had a mission to complete.
Sheehan frequently speaks of her son in religious terms, even saying that she thought that some day Casey would be a priest.
www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110007122   (1244 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - One Mother's Stand
Sheehan is seeking a meeting with President Bush to discuss the death of her son Casey Sheehan.
Sheehan is seeking a meeting with President Bush to discuss the death of her son Casey Sheehan that was killed in Iraq.
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, last night brought her campaign to end the war to New York, where she accused Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of not doing enough to challenge the Bush administration's Iraq policies.
www.truthout.org /cindy.shtml   (13216 words)

  
 Sheehan, Chavez  bash Bush, Iraq war - Americas - MSNBC.com
Sheehan, whose 24-year-old soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, held a vigil outside Bush’s ranch during the president’s vacation in August, attracting some 12,000 peace activists and reinvigorating the national anti-war movement.
Sheehan, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., said Saturday that she is strongly considering challenging Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California because the lawmaker will not support calls to immediately bring the troops home.
Sheehan, 48, who was visiting Venezuela for the six-day forum, said running in the Democratic primary in June would help “bring attention to all the peace candidates in the country.” She said she will decide whether to run after talking with her three adult children in California.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10704025   (683 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Frank Rich | The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan couldn't have picked a more apt date to begin the vigil that ambushed a president: Aug. 6 was the fourth anniversary of that fateful 2001 Crawford vacation day when George W. Bush responded to an intelligence briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" by going fishing.
The hope this time was that we'd change the subject to Cindy Sheehan's "wacko" rhetoric and the opportunistic left-wing groups that have attached themselves to her like barnacles.
Specialist Sheehan was both literally and figuratively an Eagle Scout: a church group leader and honor student whose desire to serve his country drove him to enlist before 9/11, in 2000.
www.truthout.org /docs_2005/082105B.shtml   (2872 words)

  
 Cindy Sheehan returns to Texas
Sheehan returned to Texas and her anti-war vigil after a weeklong absence for a family emergency.
Sheehan, from Vacaville, Calif., began her vigil Aug. 6 on the road leading to Bush's ranch, vowing to stay through his monthlong vacation unless he met with her.
Sheehan and other grieving families met with Bush about two months after her son died last year, before reports of faulty prewar intelligence surfaced and caused her to become a vocal opponent of the war.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-08/25/content_472091.htm   (455 words)

  
 Activist Cindy Sheehan Arrested at Capitol
Sheehan, who was invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D- Calif., was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider.
Sheehan was taken in handcuffs from the Capitol to police headquarters a few blocks away.
Sheehan was arrested in September with about 300 other anti-war activists in front of the White House after a weekend of protests against the war in Iraq.
www.breitbart.com /news/2006/01/31/D8FG2HV82.html   (347 words)

  
 Protesting mom Cindy Sheehan arrested at Bush ranch - CNN.com
Sheehan, who in the past has camped out for weeks in protest outside the ranch in Crawford, Texas, was arrested for blocking the road leading to the property, Texas Department of Public Safety's Tela Mange told CNN.
Sheehan and the others are charged with obstructing a highway, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $2,000 fine and six months in jail, Mange said.
Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004.
www.cnn.com /2006/US/12/28/sheehan.arrest/index.html   (445 words)

  
 Michelle Malkin: THE CINDY SHEEHAN BANDWAGON
Cindy is scheduled to appear in Italy, Colorado, Louisiana, and Washington, DC for the September 24th mass rally.
Sheehan was anti-war before her son died in Iraq (she was), but why she has completely changed and embellished her account of Bush's behavior and her and her family's impressions of him.
Sheehan's loss is - and we don't belittle it - she has put herself in league with some extreme groups and individuals.
www.michellemalkin.com /archives/003225.htm   (2588 words)

  
 Cindy Sheehan: Archives
Cindy Sheehan on the notion of mass killing as glorious.
Cindy Sheehan on the war that stole her son's life.
Cindy Sheehan vs. a Marine veteran on the war and the AFSC.
www.lewrockwell.com /sheehan/sheehan-arch.html   (192 words)

  
 Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In New Orleans | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Sheehan was last seen Sept. 4, hours after he and his levee crew sustained injuries while attempting to shore up storm-weakened levee pilings.
Sheehan moved to New Orleans in 2004 to take a year off from the University of California at Berkeley, where administrators had temporarily suspended the stem-cell research program in which he was enrolled in hopes of helping to combat his younger sister Ruth's spinal meningitis.
Cindy Sheehan was unavailable for comment, as she was busy trying to contact her lone surviving son Teddy, a meteorologist studying global warming with the International Geophysical Foundation in Antarctica, who is believed to be marooned on a 45-square-mile chunk of the shrinking Ross Ice Shelf that broke off Tuesday morning.
www.theonion.com /content/node/40764   (703 words)

  
 CNN.com - Activist Sheehan arrested in House gallery - Feb 1, 2006
Sheehan, who became a vocal war opponent after her son was killed in Iraq, was an invited guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-California.
Sheehan gained national attention in August when she and hundreds of other protesters camped outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and demanded an audience with the president.
In April 2004, Sheehan and other relatives of troops killed in Iraq met with Bush during a visit to Fort Lewis, Washington, shortly after the death of her son, Army Spc.
www.cnn.com /2006/POLITICS/01/31/sheehan.arrest/index.html   (578 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: A Mother's Texas Vigil -- August 16, 2005 | PBS
Following a background report, two columnists discuss the recent political firestorm caused by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a solider killed in the Iraq war, and her antiwar protest in Crawford, Texas.
At the center of the flurry of media coverage, protest and debate is Cindy Sheehan, the 48- year-old California mother and anti-war protester whose son, Casey, was killed in Iraq last year.
As to whether people are using Cindy, obviously people who are putting television ads up for her are exploiting her celebrity of the moment.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/july-dec05/sheehan_8-16.html   (1587 words)

  
 Support Cindy Sheehan! Photos, Reports and Video from Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas
On August 6, Cindy Sheehan traveled to George Bush's vacation ranch in Crawford, Texas to demand that Bush tell me why my son died in Iraq." She was told that if she and her companions did not leave, they would be considered a "national security threat" and arrested.
Cindy Sheehan's decision to camp on the road to Bush's ranch near Crawford and remain there until Bush either speaks with her or he returns to Washington, is one of those individual acts of resistance that has inspired tens of thousands of others to act.
Cindy first arrived on the road to Prairie Chapel, Bush's ranch, on Saturday, August 6, accompanied by more than 50 supports -- most of whom traveled with her from the Veterans for Peace national convention which was wrapping up in Dallas.
www.notinourname.net /war/sheehan.htm   (1092 words)

  
 Cindy Sheehan and three others convicted of trespassing | KOMO 1000 News Radio - News, Weather and Sports - Seattle, WA ...
Sheehan and about 100 other members of a group called Global Exchange were rebuffed last March when they attempted to take a petition with some 72,000 signatures to the U.S. Mission's headquarters across a street from the United Nations.
Sheehan, 49, of Vacaville, Calif., lost her 24-year-old son Casey in Iraq on April 4, 2004.
Sheehan's co-defendants were Melissa Beattie, 57, of New York; Susan "Medea" Benjamin, 54, of San Francisco; and Patricia Ackerman, 48, of Nyack, N.Y. (Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press.
www.komoradio.com /news/national/4882711.html   (521 words)

  
 Media Matters - Limbaugh baselessly compared Cindy Sheehan to Bill Burkett: "Her story is nothing more than forged ...
Sheehan's "story" is, in fact, that her son died while fighting in Iraq.
Casey Sheehan was one of seven U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad's Sadr City on April 4, 2004, by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.
Sheehan initiated this on her own volition and I am sure the vast majority of people who went to Crawford are there to support her.
www.mediamatters.org /items/200508160009   (2483 words)

  
 Crawford Update
Cindy Sheehan and peace activists from across the country wrapped up Thanksgiving outside the Bush vacation ranch today.
Cindy Sheehan is expected to arrive this evening and resume her vigil to win a meeting with Bush.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan wasn't among the protesters Wednesday because of a family emergency in California, but she planned to be at the camp later in the week.
crawfordupdate.blogspot.com   (2458 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Anti-war activist Sheehan arrested at protest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who has used her son's death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House.
Sheehan and several dozen other protesters sat down on the sidewalk after marching along the pedestrian walkway on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in an ambush in Sadr City, Iraq, last year.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-09-26-sheehanarrested_x.htm   (525 words)

  
 Cindy Sheehan
August 19, 2005--Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who maintained an anti-War protest outside of President Bush's ranch, is viewed favorably by 35% of Americans and unfavorably by 38%.
Sheehan is viewed favorably by 34% of men and 35% of women.
Among those with family members who have served in the military, Sheehan is viewed favorably by 31% and unfavorably by 48%.
www.rasmussenreports.com /2005/Cindy%20Sheehan.htm   (436 words)

  
 Cindy Sheehan | AfterDowningStreet.org
I was relieved to hear Cindy Sheehan say this morning on Democracy Now that she does not plan to retire from the struggle for peace and justice.
Cindy set up Camp Casey outside President Bush's Crawford estate in August 2005 in memory of her son Casey, who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Sheehan became an activist in 2004 after her son, Casey, was killed during the US Invasion of Iraq.
www.afterdowningstreet.org /cindy   (2275 words)

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