In Mother Sheehan’s latest diatribe, she blames Bush for hurricane Katrina and calls her opponents Nazis. And then she gets crazy:

The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford

By Cindy Sheehan
Day 25

"If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks," Bush said. "They’d seize oil fields to fund their ambitions. They could recruit more terrorists by claiming a historic victory over the United States and our coalition."(George Bush, August 30, 2005 in San Diego.)

So it is official, Casey had his blood shed in Iraq for OIL. He died so we could pay over 3.00/gallon for gas. Like I suspected all along, my dear, sweet son: almost 1900 others; and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis died so the oil fields wouldn’t "fall into the hands of terrorists" and so George and his immoral band of greedy robber barons could become wealthier. Like I have said all along: how can these people sleep at night and how can they choke down their food knowing it is purchased off of the flesh and blood of others? We have found our "Noble Cause." And it is OIL.

Has our hero mother ever suggested how Bush or any of "his immoral band of greedy robber barons" have become wealthier from the Iraq war? Or does she think, like Josef Goebbels, that if she merely repeats this treasonous lie often enough it will be accepted as truth?

This man and his handlers need to be stopped.

You’d never know it from our one party media, but Cindy has been making similar not-so-veiled threats against President Bush for a long time. It seems to be symptomatic of stalkers at an advanced stage.

Well, George and I are leaving Crawford today. George is finished playing golf and telling his fables in San Diego, so he will be heading to Louisiana to see the devastation that his environmental policies and his killing policies have caused.

There you have it. Bush caused hurricane Katrina. He is all powerful after all. (Or is it his handlers?)

Recovery would be easier and much quicker if almost ½ of the three states involved National Guard were not in Iraq. All of the National Guard’s equipment is in Iraq also.

Who are you going to believe? Cindy or your lying eyes? Spokesman: National Guard has enough troops.

Plus, with the 2 billion dollars a week that the private contractors are siphoning from our treasury, how are we going to pay for helping our own citizens in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama? And, should I dare say "global warming?" and be branded as a "conspiracy theorist" on top of everything else the reich-wingers say about me.

So now loving Mother Sheehan is calling anyone who disagrees with her "Nazis." How original.

In case you haven’t noticed, Cindy, the Nazis are down there — on your side. They support you. And why not, given how perfectly your Weltanschauungs match.

We are now packing up Camp Casey and leaving Crawford and heading to George’s place of employment. He wouldn’t talk to us, his employers, while we were here to give him his "job evaluation," so we must go to him to have our little chat.

Cindy now rolls the credits. (Fitting, since it was all just a show.)

I just want to thank a few people and groups for their support, help, and love while we have been here in Crawford. So many people made the Camp Casey experience possible and so successful. If I miss someone, I am so sorry: that is the difficult thing about thanking people. I love you all, even if I don’t remember to thank you!!

My sister: Dede Miller: My kids’ second mom who is always by my side and supports me 100% in whatever I do. My cause is her cause, and I couldn’t do what I do without her.

Carly, Andy, and Janey: Who would love to see more of their mom, but who understand that we are trying to save their future by what we do. I love you guys, and I will see you very, very soon (yea!!) I couldn’t do what I do without their love and support.

The Crawford Peace House: I got an email from [the radical anti-Semitic Iraqi] Hadi Jawad the day that I decided to come and camp in Crawford and he pledged the help and support of the Peace House. At that time, they only had a few bucks in their checking account and the phone was turned off. Now, thanks to America, they have been able to keep Camp Casey going and they will be able to continue their good works indefinitely.

And by "good works" Cindy means attacking the Jews.

Thanks to John Wolf who had the vision for peace in Crawford and I think that Camp Casey was a fulfillment of his vision. They are going to make a garden and call it "The Casey Sheehan Memorial Peace Garden." What a tribute to my son.

John Wolf has quite the CV. Among other things, Wolf has provided training camps for radical anarchists. He’s all about peace, doncha know.

Code Pink: Jodie Evans and Tiffany and Alicia were the first ones here on Monday 08/08 to jump in and save me from going crazy and hopping on one of the trains that runs past the Peace House and pulling an "Agatha Christie." Code Pink also worked tirelessly (and I mean tirelessly) outside of Camp Casey.

Yes, doing such noble deeds as hectoring the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed every Friday.

MoveOn: For organizing the highly successful candlelight vigils.

According to the Washington Times , even the professional Bush haters at MoveOn.org are now backing away from al-Sheehan.

Lisa Fithian: For all the organizing work she did behind the scenes.

Speaking of radical anarchists. You’d better keep Fithian behind the scenes Cindy. Heaven forbid that middle-America ever learns you are the front man for a homegrown terrorist.

GSFP, IVAW, MFSO, AND VFP: Our organizations with "skin in the game" for all of their support, presence, love, and help.

When Cindy says "love" she means hate. These groups are some of the most vehement America-hating groups on the planet. (And yet they love Castro. Go figure.)

Bill Mitchell: Bill’s son Mike, was KIA in the same battle as Casey and he was the first GSFP member to come to Camp Casey and take some of the heat off of me. He found a new love at Camp Casey (one of our miracles) and I am sooo happy about that. Plus, Bill is one of my most ardent supporters and he just gets in the middle of things, digs in, and helps wherever. I love him and he and his family will be parts of our family forever.

Cindy’s slogan could be: "the only good soldier is a dead soldier." Unless of course they are fighting against the US.

From the paid Howard Dean stooge site, the Daily Kos:

 

Good By to Crawford

by Cindy Sheehan

Tue Aug 30th, 2005 at 06:28:59 PDT

Good By to Crawford
But Not to Camp Casey
Day 24
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford

While George golfed yesterday, the worst hurricane ever struck New Orleans; oil went up to over 68.00/barrel; and an American soldier was killed in the charade and cataclysmic occupation of Iraq. The soldier's family doesn't even know what's going to hit them yet. The death is "Pending Notification." I continually ask myself: "How do George Bush and other death-mongers live with themselves?" While George vacations and bikes and golfs his way to the lowest poll numbers since Richard Nixon, other "patriots" are wrapping themselves in the Stars and Stripes and going along with the farce that the mission from hell: Killing more people in Iraq, because so many have already been killed" is somehow a good thing ordained by God. I can live with myself, but trust me, sleep does not come easily to me these days.

Yesterday at Camp Casey was, again naturally, an amazing day. Dennis Means from the A.I.M. came with a group of Native American musicians and they made a presentation to me. He gave me a shawl in the tradition of Tecumseh and he pinned a brooch of 5 stars on it from "One chief to another." He also said we should all change our last names to Sheehan and he will be known as: Dennis Means Sheehan! Sheehan is Gaelic for "Peace" which I think is such a cool thing, and not a coincidence. Casey Sheehan's sacrifice will stand for peace forever.

I missed the candlelight vigil at Camp Casey I last night, but I heard that the counter-protesters came over and held vigil with us for our killed heroes. I heard it was beautiful and life-affirming. This is what Camp Casey does for us: it transforms bitter anger into righteous, productive anger. It turns hate into love. It brings people together in new love and cements mature relationships. It brings other people together who would normally not ever meet and makes them lifelong soul-friends. It heals broken hearts and mends broken souls. I know Camp Casey has healed my broken soul and heart. A veteran from the Iraq tragedy told me that he is now cured of any bad feelings he had.  

Just another day at Camp Casey.

I must admit when I sat down in the ditch on August 6th, I thought to myself: "Self, what the hell did you do? Texas in August? A ditch filled with fire ants, rattle snakes, and chiggers? Pooping in a bucket? Dodging lightening bolts and heat exhaustion? But I knew I would have to suffer it through to the end. I knew that the people of Iraq and our soldiers have it far worse than we did. I thought as long as I could have plenty of water and an occasional shower at the Peace House, that I would survive.

What I never thought, however, was that I would grow to love it here: That I would be so overwhelmed by the magnitude of love and support I receive that I would be depressed to leave Camp Casey. I don't want to leave, but I know that for the Camp Casey movement to keep growing, we have to leave Crawford and take Camp Casey to the people.

Tonight I will write to look back on the good times, less than good times and the miracles that occurred here in Crawford. But I want to thank one person for the best "vacation" and most amazing experience I have ever had: George Bush: Thank you George for not meeting with me on August 6th and thank you for being the motivation for Camp Casey. I know you don't want Camp Casey to come to the place you reside between vacations, so I would suggest you bring our troops home immediately.

But most of all: thank you my son. Thank you for living the kind of life that inspires people to work for peace and justice. Thank you for choosing me to be your mom. Thank you for being the embodiment of love and thank you for being the inspiration for the Camp Casey movement. I promise you it won't end until all of your buddies are brought home. And I promise I will fight for your unborn nieces and nephews and the rest of the children of the world, so they won't be misused and abused by corrupt leadership like you and your buddies were.

I love you Casey.

Of course this isn't really goodbye from Cindy. But we don't want that anyway. We want more Cindy–all the time. And more cowbell!

PS — Cindy, that was Dennis Bankswho gave you the bogus Indian trinkets. You are mixing him up with your other hero, the murderous RussellMeans. (Sort of Cindy's Manny Ortiz moment.)

RUSSELL MEANS (right) gets a hug from singer Joan Baez at Camp Casey II on Saturday.

Oh, and Cindy, what the hell is "Good by"? Are you really as dumb as you sound? (Rhetorical question.)

I suppose in the interest of completeness we have to wade through this last bit of excrescence from Mother Sheehan, by way of the AP:

Sheehan Glad Bush Didn't Meet With Her

Aug 30 9:21 PM US/Eastern
By ANGELA K. BROWN

CRAWFORD, Texas A woman who led an anti-war protest for nearly a month near President Bush's ranch said Tuesday that she's glad Bush never showed up to discuss her son's death in Iraq, saying the president's absence "galvanized the peace movement."

Cindy Sheehan's comments came as war protesters packed up their campsite near the ranch and prepared to leave Tuesday for a three-week bus tour.

"I look back on it, and I am very, very, very grateful he did not meet with me, because we have sparked and galvanized the peace movement," Sheehan told The Associated Press. "If he'd met with me, then I would have gone home, and it would have ended there."

Sheehan and about 50 other peace activists arrived in the one- stoplight town Aug. 6, the day after she spoke at a Veterans for Peace convention in Dallas. She and a few others spent that night in chairs in ditches, without food or flashlights, off the main road leading to the president's ranch…

The massive response has transformed her life, she said.

"I thought our country was going down, down, down. I thought nobody cared about our children killed in the war, but millions care, and millions care about our country and want to make it better," she said. "The love and support I've received give me hope that my life can someday be normal."…

After leaving Crawford, protesters will spread their message on a three-week "Bring Them Home Now Tour" with stops in 25 states. Buses on three routes will meet in Washington, D.C., for a Sept. 24 anti-war march.

Sheehan will leave the tour next week to spend time with her family, including her mother who recently suffered a stroke, which caused Sheehan to miss a week of the protest. She plans to attend the march in the nation's capital, hoping to reunite with people who converged on the Texas roadside that came to be known as "Camp Casey."

"When I first started here, I was sitting in the ditch thinking, `What the heck did I do? Texas in August, the chiggers, fire ants, rattlesnakes, uncomfortable accommodations' –but I'm going to be sad leaving here," Sheehan said. "I hope people will say that the Camp Casey movement sparked a peace movement that ended the war in Iraq."

Not with a bang, but a simper.

Get out your handkerchiefs:

Cindy Sheehan hugs a tent pole as the camp breaks down near President
Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Sheehan and her
anti-war supporters are taking their protest on a cross country tour.

I always figured she’d have to be dragged out of there kicking and screaming.

Perhaps you have read Byron York’s excellent National Review piece, Cindy Sheehan’s Radical Strategist, which gives us a little insight into lifelong union organizer and anarchist, Lisa Fithian.

Fithian has been in charge of the Camp Casey "Movement" from the start. And she is behind Cindy’s "bus tours" which will all converge in DC in time for the ultra leftist anarchist United For Peace and Justice demonstration there. (Coincidentally, Fithian is the co-chair of UFPJ.)

But it’s only fair that Fithian should be calling the shots for Cindy’s PR campaign. After all, it was her idea. Behold an early report of what was to become Camp Casey and Cindy’s "bus tour," from last February:

Antiwar coalition holds national assembly meeting in St. Louis

Debating UFPJ’s direction

February 25, 2005 | Page 2

Eric Ruder reports from the United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) national assembly meeting in St. Louis.

More than 400 activists and organizers gathered February 19-21 for the second annual UFPJ national assembly to map out a strategy. The event brought together people from UFPJ’s 850 affiliated organizations…

After some discussion, the mini-plenary agreed to bring a proposal to the assembly floor for a September 10 national mobilization to march on the United Nations and demand that the U.S. bring troops home from Iraq now. UFPJ National Coordinator Leslie Cagan and UFPJ Co-chair Lisa Fithian voiced their agreement with the call.

Delegates to the full assembly passed this proposal by an overwhelming margin–and also voted for other initiatives including a grassroots education and speaking campaign, a focus on organizing to expose the local costs of the war, and a campaign to counter military recruiters in high schools and on college campuses. This showed that among UFPJ delegates were activists involved in local initiatives who were anxious to get back to building a visible protest movement and who hoped that UFPJ could serve as a vehicle to generalize these efforts.

Incidentally, here’s a photo from some of the bright lights involved with UFPJ, from their own website:

Some members of the newly elected Steering Committee

Fithian is a terrorist in every sense of the term. Even the briefest of internet searches will reveal her long and sordid background. It is Fithian’s avowed intention to bring about revolution by destroying the system.

As Fithian told the funsters at International Socialist Review, she wants to accomplish this through destruction and intimidation, just like every other terrorist. And just like them, Fithian is eager to use violence to get her way.

"I have no issue with property destruction. I think sometimes it’s appropriate, sometimes it’s not. Again, I look at it strategically. Does this help us or does it hurt us? Does it help us achieve our goal, or does it not? We’re in a society where property is idolized, so a lot of people don’t get it yet that it doesn’t really matter. It’s just glass or products."

Fithian first gained widespread notoriety as a major organizer of the anti-WTO riots in Seattle. She has since tried to instigate similar riots elsewhere, including New York, during the Republican National Convention.

Fithian and her friends want to form an alternative government to our (corruptly) elected one. She wants something more in line with basic democracy–where she and her friends will be in charge.

Campaign Proposals: Empire and Occupation (Part II)

Goals

1) Move the peace movement from reaction to a proactive stance.

2) Strengthen our local bases and involve a broad range of groups.

3) Develop a permanent base of grassroots people prepared to organize and take action quickly when crises develop.

4) Develop an alternative governance.

Submitted By

Name:Starhawk and Lisa Fithian

Organization:RANT

City, ST:

Email:stella@mcn.org, fithianl@ogc.org

Tel:415-640-5872, 213-840-1972

Delegate(s) attending:Starhawk, Lisa Fithian

In a new introduction to Abbie Hoffman’s ancient screed, Steal This Book, Fithian wrote a letter to her dead hero and mentor about 9/11 and her noble efforts in Seattle:

"Planes turned into bombs. The Twin Towers collapsed. The Pentagon in flames. Two of the most powerful symbols of capitalism and militarism left gaping and destroyed in a matter of moments. The foundations of the old order were cracked open.

Meanwhile the Government Inc. propaganda machine is in full-tilt boogie and the right-wing is doing everything it can to consolidate its power. Our democratic system is a joke. Would you believe the Supreme Court actually chose the last President? You know when his wife’s nickname for him is STUPID, we’re in trouble. Yup, baby George W., son of the ex-CIA director drug dealer and oil man, George Bush, is now the Prez. He can barely articulate a coherent sentence. Just makes you sick. Now he gets to wage a war in the name of fighting terrorism.

In reality this war is just another front in the capitalists’ efforts to expand and control world markets, keep the rich, white boys in charge and squash an intensely amazing, growing resistance movement. A movement that captured the attention of the world on your birthday! November 30, 1999 over fifty thousand people swarmed the streets with song and dance to shut down the Millennial Rounds of the World Trade Organization in Seattle.

This movement arose from the fact that corporations with the support of elected officials are selling our water, endless polluting our air, genetically modifying our food, clear cutting our forests. For them, "developing" means "destroying." …same shit, different generation…"

"Same shit, different generation…" — I’ll say.

It’s strangely reassuring to see that Mother Sheehan doesn’t restrict her love to foreign terrorists.

No, she has recently opened her arms to homegrown David Duke, Stormfront skinheads and even (token black Camp Casey visitor) Al Sharpton.

And now she is feting (token red man) Russell Means and his notorious hostage-taking, FBI-murdering American Indian Movement.

Cindy Sheehan, left, begins to cry as Anishinabi elder Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement puts gold stars on her warrior shawls presented to her at Camp Casey 2 near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. Banks drove 1357 miles from northern Minnesota to present Sheehan with the Native American gift reserved for warriors.

Cindy "begins to cry"?! The hell you say!

I realize you are all hanging on tenterhooks, wondering what Mother Sheehan had to say about the hurricane known as Katrina. (Though Mother Sheehan has probably dropped more water on Texas, with her tears.)

Well, wonder no more. From the agit-prop crap site, Truthout:

t r u t h o u t | One Mother’s Stand
By Scott Galindez

Monday 29 August 2005
12:52 PM

Cindy opened today’s press conference by expressing her concern for the people affected by Hurricane Katrina. Cindy said that the people of Louisiana are in her prayers. Iraqi Veterans Against the War then called for veterans around the country to help with the disaster relief in the affected areas. It was announced that supplies donated to Camp Casey will be delivered to New Orleans when the camp is broken down on Wednesday.

Kelly Doherty, a veteran of the Iraq war, raised the issue of the National Guard being stretched thin at home. She said that with troops and equipment deployed in Iraq, the Guard will not be able to provide the resources they usually bring to disaster relief efforts.

From the same news conference, the laughfest Crawford Update breathlessly reports:

Paralyzed Iraq veteran Tomas Young called on President Bush to meet with him to explain why his best hope to walk again, stem cell research, was not being pursued. Tomas was wounded in Iraq the same day that Casey Sheehan was killed.

It’s always topic A with these guys. Always Bush’s fault. Teenage pregnancy up? –Bush’s fault!

I wonder if any of them ever took a civics class. They seem to believe we live in a dictatorship where Bush is all-powerful. (Which is of course their dream. They just want it to be their guy who is all powerful.)

By the way, I just have to point out that Truthout’s Cindy banner is actually lifted from a photo yours truly uncovered in a very obscure corner of the internet.

Guess who they cut out of the picture?

In their typical Stalinist fashion, Truthout have airbrushed the truth out.

It’s only fitting that Sheen would show up at Turdstock in support of al-Sheehan.

Actor and Peace activist Martin Sheen, left, applauds Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey 2 near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Lest we forget, Sheen’s Hollywood career began with his very sympatheticportrayal of the last American soldier executed for desertion, since the Civil War.

Of course Mother Sheehan is herself a big proponent of desertion. As she told the revolutionaries at the Socialist Worker:

Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace:
“They died for a lie”

June 24, 2005 | Pages 6 and 7

I DEFINITELY think that we should support war resisters in the military. This war is not only illegal, but it’s immoral–in fact, some people might say all war is immoral. It’s our job as moral human beings to oppose it–and oppose it in any way that we can.

I know several people who are being court-martialed, and they need support–they need monetary support, they need our moral support, and they need to know that we’re with them.

We need to encourage more people to do this.

A match made in media whore heaven:

Cindy Sheehan, left, and Rev. Al Sharpton greet each other after he arrived at Camp Casey 2 near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005.

Sharpton is just what Turdstock was missing:

Dignity.

From Cindy’s cheerleading squad at the
Lone Star Iconoclast:

Gene Ellis reporting for the
Iconoclast

Joan Baez sang about four times this afternoon, a couple of
the songs being Joe Hill, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

Cindy Sheehan spoke at the rally and at a press conference
just after that.

Sheehan said that before she came down here, someone told
her, "You should go down in a pasture near Bush’s ranch and thousands of
people would come and you ought to call it Turdstock, so let’s call it
Turdstock."

Self-sainted Mother Sheehan spits in the face of other grieving Gold Star mothers who don’t accept her seditious pronouncements.

Cindy comes to us once again by way of Zsa Zsa Huffington’s preposterous hate-America-first blog:

Camp Casey, Day 20

I finally figured out George Bush’s NEW reason for staying in Iraq. This reason has also been co-opted by the Move America Forward and the poor mothers who would be honored if their sons were killed in George Bush’s war for greed and power.

Since the Freedom and Democracy thing is not going so well and the Iraqi parliament is having such a hard time writing their constitution, since violence is mounting against Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down everyday, he had to come up with something.

I have continually asked George Bush to quit using Casey’s name and the names of the other Gold Star Families for Peace loved ones to justify his continued killing. He continues to say this: "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." So the mission is now this: WE MUST CONTINUE KILLING AMERICANS BECAUSE AMERICANS HAVE ALREADY BEEN KILLED!!!

How can anyone, anyone in their right minds support this line of reasoning? I have been silent on the Gold Star Moms who still support this man and his war by saying that they deserve the right to their opinions because they are in as much pain as I am. I would challenge them, though, at this point to start thinking for themselves. Iraq DID NOT have WMD; Iraq WAS NOT linked to Al Qaeda and 9/11; Iraq WAS NOT a threat or danger to America.

How can these moms who still support George Bush and his insane war in Iraq want more innocent blood shed just because their sons or daughters have been killed?

I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how any mother could want another mother to feel the pain we feel. I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America, but they know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another. However, I still feel their pain so acutely and pray for these "continue the murder and mayhem" moms to see the light.

Meanwhile, for the cameras:

Cindy Sheehan wipes her eyes in front of the crosses representing fallen U.S. soldiers at Camp Casey near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2005.

By the way, there is this information from the actual real-life Gold Star Mothers:

The Gold Star Pin, so intimately associated with Gold Star Mothers is, in fact, not awarded by us nor is it limited to mothers. It is awarded by the Defense Dept, usually through your casualty officer. The pin is awarded to the following relatives of the deceased:

Widow, Widower, Mother, Father, Stepmother/father, Mother/father through adoption, Foster mother/father in loco parentis , Son, Daughter, Stepson/daughter, Son/daughter by adoption, Brother, Sister, Half brother/sister.

American Gold Star Mothers

The motto of the real Gold Star Mothers is: "Perpetuating the principles for which they fought and died."

(Thanks to reader Chandra for the heads up on Cindy’s blog update.)

A sign at Camp Qualls lists the names of soldiers whose families have requested that crosses be removed at Camp Casey I. (Iconoclast Photo)

I've seen nothing to indicate that Mother Sheehan and her Camp Casey crowd have honored any of these requests from Gold Star families.

By the way, the al-Sheehan organ, The Lone Star Iconoclast, is also might proud of this witticism perpetuated by one of their bravos:

If any of these folks had the brains God gave an oyster, they would realize that just as they oppose our war on terrorism, they would have opposed our war against Fascism.

After all, Hitler was not involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Which was all a fake anyway, doncha know.)

I sure hope this doesn't offend any of those troops al-Sheehan says she loves so much. Or her fans from Stormfront.

One thing you’ve got to hand to the folks at Soros front, Fenton Communications, they know how to drive up a nonentity’s Qand thereby assure a boost to their speaking fees.

Of course Mother Sheehan belongs to a speakers bureau. Of course she will accept "honorariums." I wonder what her honorarium rate is at the moment.

Here is her shingle at (another Soros front) Global Exchange:

Cindy Sheehan — Mother of Fallen U.S. Soldier

Hear an audio clip of Cindy speaking

Cindy Sheehan’s son Casey, a soldier, was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004. "Our family never agreed with the war or it’s reasons, but since Casey was killed, so many of the reasons and rationalizations that Bush has given have proven to be lies," Cindy said.

Since April, Cindy has traveled all over the country telling Casey’s story. She is also a member of Military Families Speak Out, www.mfso.org, as well as a founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace which is affiliated with MFSO.

In her talks, she touches on how the president has betrayed the American people and exploited the brave men and women in uniform to bring more profit to his friends. "My goal is to bring our troops home to try and save another mother from going through what I am going through."

If you have a few minutes to kill, do yourself a huge favor and click on the audio clip. It’s Mother Sheehan’s "teach in." It was recorded last April, before she became the meteoric media star we know today.

You will hear many marvelous things in her Valley Girl-esquemaunderings. Such as:

"I’m just a mom. A broken hearted mom. Doing what any mom would do."

"[Casey] knew and I knew that this war was not just."

"I knew I had been put in a prison I wasn’t going to get out of until I joined my son."

"Maybe Casey is dead because I didn’t work for peace."

"I believe [Casey] was telling me [from the grave], ‘you need to do whatever you can to bring my buddies back from that quagmire.’"

"We were all upset when [Bush] won again."

"I’m going to work until my last breath to have [Bush] impeached."

"Bush’s administration is another mistake we should correct as soon as possible."

"[I'm against] the upcoming war. I’m so terrified that our country, either our country, or we are going to allow Israel to attack Iran."

"Our kids that are over there are sitting ducks."

"People tell you 1,524 American soldiers [have died]. But that is only the soldiers who die in country. If they get one foot on the helicopter, or they die at Walter Reed, or Wiesbaden, Germany–they’re not counted. The low estimate for our own losses is 4,000. It’s hard enough being the mother of a soldier who counts. I can’t imagine being the mother of a dead soldier that doesn’t count."

"Every person who has been killed since the sham [2004] elections–that is innocent blood on the hands of Congress. They need to pull back the financing, they need to take away the authority from the maniacs who rule our country. The Neo-Con maniacs who rule our country need to have the authority taken away from them."

"I know I don’t sound very peaceful, but I’m pissed."

"When they came and told me that my wonderful gentle sweet son was killed, I collapsed on the floor and I screamed. I’m sure I did permanent damage to either my brain or my heart."

"The cruelest joke that God plays on you when he takes one of your kids, is that he doesn’t take you with that kid. If I had a choice, if an angel came and said, ‘do you want to live or die?’ I would say, ‘I want to die. Take me with my son.’ If I didn’t have three other kids, I would have had them bury me with Casey."

If hearing such insights isn’t worth the price of admission, I don’t know what is.

But you better book this Solon now. Cindy’s dance card is filling up fast:

Cindy Sheehan

Speaking Engagements

GREEN FESTIVAL
"Stop the Next War Now"

Mainstage at the Green Festival
Washington DC Convention Center
802 Mount Vernon Place NW (Just north of New York and Mass Avenues at M Street. Mt. Vernon Square Metro, on the Green Line metro)
Washington, District of Columbia

Cindy Sheehan will be speaking at the Green Festival along with co-authors of the book "Stop the Next War Now ": Medea Benjamin, Phyllis Bennis, Adrienne Maree Brown, Jodie Evans, Laura Flanders, Camilo Mejia, Rebecca Solnit, Fernando Suarez, Nina Utne and Diane Wilson. (The DC Green Festival runs September 24-25 at the DC Convention Center.)

They come by their slogans naturally. Here is a poster from the Presidential campaign of   Communist and convicted seditionist Eugene Debs:

As mentioned in Cindy’s ad, "Stop the Next War Now" is also the title of Medea (sic) Benjamin’s latest screed. Ultimately, it’s all about how we have to stop those evil Jews in Israel from invading peace-loving Iran.

In fact, Cindy even works this sentiment into her rant in the above linked "teach in." But Cindy isn’t anti-Semitic. No way. We’re just twisting her words–by reporting them.

Interestingly, several of Medea’s last few tomes have been homages to Fidel Castro and that Earthly paradise known as Cuba. Such as this page-turner:

Cuba: Talking About Revolution: Conversations with Juan Antonio Blanco

Available at fine Communist front bookstores everywhere.

It’s official. The Soros billions and all those other tax exempt donations have been marshaled. The Cindy Al-Sheehan Defeat America Now™ tour is now set and ready to roll:

Bring Them Home Now Tour

From Camp Casey, Crawford to Washington DC

From George Bush’s door step to Communities along the way, We Demand That:

• Elected Representatives Decide Now to Bring the Troops Home
• We Take Care of Them When They Get Here
• We Never Again Send Our Loved Ones to War Based on Lies!

We are currently at a significant turning point in how the American public views the war in Iraq. As the death toll in Iraq rises, Cindy Sheehan’s vigil near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of Americans. Bush’s approval rating is falling. The voice of military families, who have lost loved ones and those with loved ones in harm’s way or about to deploy, can activate the American people. The voice of veterans, both of this war and of previous wars will also build the movement to end the war. Together these critical voices can demand that President Bush make the decision now to bring the troops home.

On August 31st, the last day of the encampment, the Bring Them Home Now Tour will launch three buses from Crawford, Texas, each carrying military and Gold Star families, veterans of the Iraq War and veterans of previous wars. These buses will travel different routes across the country, converging in Washington, DC on September 21, for the United for Peace and Justice Mobilization September 24th-26th.

The tour will amplify the voice of Gold Star families, who show the devastating human cost of this war; the voice of military families, for whom each and every day that this war continues brings the potential for the most devastating of consequences; and the voice of veterans, who can share the ground truth about war and the impact on those who were sent off to fight it.

Over the course of the tour, members of the sponsoring organizations will reach out to military families, veterans, and concerned citizens in cities and towns in the heartland, the north, and the south. The Tour will spread the truth about the war in Iraq, mobilize people to Washington DC for September 24-26th and ask Congressional decision-makers the hard questions Cindy has asked President Bush and to learn what our elected representatives are doing to bring this war to an end.

The Bring Them Home Now Tour is sponsored by Gold Star Families for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Veterans For Peace

It’ll be just like old times.

I’m not quite sure what to make of Cindy’s two day stint as an Amazon book reviewer, except that it shows she is… a mite different:

Resurrected: Tangible Evidence That Jesus Rose from the Dead by Gilbert R., Md. Lavoie

This book took me an hour to read, June 14, 2001

Loved it and I thought the proofs were very compelling. I went in believing that the shroud was of Jesus of Nazareth and now I believe it even more strongly.

Read this book if you are a skeptic or true believer!!!

Here are two other reviews Mother Sheehan did for Amazon:

The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything by K. C. Cole

WOWZER, June 15, 2001

I found this book amazingly easy and fascinating. The author explains "Nothing" quite compellingly.

This book went from "zero", to black holes, to vacua, to quarks, matter and anti-matter……my head was spinning. Sometimes the ideas were so huge, I would have to put the book down for a week before I could take it anymore.

After reading this book my interest in cosmology and quantum physics has quadrupled and I am now reading Stephen Hawkings A Brief History of Time and I am understanding it and enjoying it.

For those of you who never really understood: E=MC(squared) I highly recommend KC Coles fine book.

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

Best book I have read in a long time, June 14, 2001

I read the book during Lent this year. I have admired Gallileo for a long time and I was happy when the church finally pardoned him and admitted that he was right (400 years later).

The book was one of the best books I have read in a long time. I laughed and cried. I didn’t expect his daughter to pass away before him. And I cried when she was found buried beneath him. What a pure love story!!

Since I have a love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church (I am a church employee), I found Gallileo’s struggles compelling and all to familiar for our day and age.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone!!!

A little weird, n’est ce-pas? The morbid streak. Her love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church, which is (or was) her employer.

Notice that even after reading a book about him, Cindy still can’t spell Galileo.

Probably the next time we see Cindy’s name at Amazon, it will be appended to a runaway best-seller chronicling her brilliant career as a grieving mother.