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.

Has there ever been a phonier non-news event in the history of mankind? There is no one there:

Peace mom Cindy Sheehan takes a break at the anti-war protesters newest campsite near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. In the background is a portrait of her son, Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq.

Except the media:

Cindy Sheehan holds a news conference at the anti-war protesters newest campsite near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2005.

I know, I know. We can’t always pick our supporters. But when David Duke and the raving lunatics at  Stormfront think you’re doing something right, maybe it’s time to rethink your thinking:

Stormfronters Rally In Crawford Texas
On Saturday & Sunday Aug 27 & 28th

I’m driving out to Crawford, Texas tomorrow, Friday August 26th to help put up a White Nationalist voice in the protest against Bush’s War for Israel that was started by Cindy Sheehan.

We’ll be uploading digital photos, and maybe video, from Crawford so that Stormfront’s 58,000 Members (achieved today) and hundreds of thousands of Guests can follow the events in Crawford from a White patriot perspective.

If you live anywhere within a driving distance that won’t put you out too much, would you please join us on Saturday and Sunday? That’s August 27th and 28th.

The facilities at the Crawford Ranch Camp Casey are excellent: good food, shade, tents, water, toilets, parking, and all basic necessities are there in ample supply. Most supplies are free. All you need to bring is yourself, a good shade hat, and a long-sleeved shirt.

I’ll put up maps to Crawford and sign-making ideas in this thread. Please add your ideas.

Our purpose in journeying to the Crawford protest against Bush’s Neocon War for Israel is to:

Let The World Know That White Patriots
Were First & Loudest To Protest This War For Israel

We don’t want leftist Johnny-come-latelys who are misleadingly protesting this war as if the war is about oil (not true), or as if it’s right-wing patriots who launched this war (not true) to hijack the issue from us.

We want to challenge these leftists with the fact that their leftist leaders, like Hillary Clinton, are on the same War for Israel team as the cowardly Republicans who have been bought and paid for in the Senate, House, White House, and Media by the Jewish Neocon political machine.

I really can’t blame the Neo-Nazis for getting ticked at Cindy horning in on their act. After all, they hated the Jews first.

I suspect these Neo-Nazis are in Crawford by now. It will be instructive to see how the media manages to ignore them. Of course they’ve been ignoring so much of what has gone on down there.

It is truly sad how Cindy Sheehan has dishonored her son in so many ways. She has called the terrorists who killed him "freedom fighters."

Mother Sheehan has even suggested that the Army lied to her and that in fact Casey actually died from "friendly fire."

But perhaps worst of all, Cindy appears to have blatantly misrepresented Casey’s thinking about his service and the Iraq war. Casey’s father, Patrick, is now on record stating that his son was proud of his service in the Army.

And here we have this news report from the CBS affiliate in San Francisco–dated April 6, 2004. just two days after Casey’s death.

In it Cindy herself puts to the lie so much of what she has claimed about her son:

Watch The Video

The story is reiterated in this CBS5.com article:

Bay Area Soldier Dies in Iraq

One of the most recent U.S. casualties in the war in Iraq was a 24-year-old Bay Area man.

Army Specialist Casey Sheehan of Vacaville died over the weekend when the vehicle he was riding in was attacked in Baghdad. He had been in the country less than two weeks.

"He just wanted to go over to fight for his country, and serve his country," said Sheehan’s mother Cindy Sheehan…

Sister Carly Sheehan said… "He would stay up at night worrying about the world. From the time he was little, my mom would find him awake at night. He couldn’t sleep because he was too worried about the world.

He just wanted to take care of the world, and he gave his life for it."

» 04-06-2004

But Mother Sheehan has since changed her tune. She now endlessly regurgitates some variation of the following–which is from an interview featured on Howard Dean’s paid stooge site, the Daily Kos:

DS: How did Casey feel about going to Iraq?

CS: He didn’t want to go. He felt the war was wrong and did not support George Bush, but he felt it was his duty to go.

Cindy then goes on to admit this:

DS: Have you lost any friends or family over this? Or, how do your husband and neighbors feel about your sudden rise to prominence in the media and the role you’ve accepted in those venues?

 CS: I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died.

Gee, I wonder why.

It is becoming almost comical the contortions the media is going through to hide the fact that there is no one with Cindy down in Crawford.

Boom microphones follow Gold Star Families for Peace member Cindy Sheehan after she made a statement to the press at Camp Casey near US President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. Sheehan, the anti-Iraq-war standard-bearer, returned to the camp after a break to tend to her ailing mother.

Cindy arrived with about 40 people and from what I have seen, the numbers there never got much above 100–if even that. In every shot that isn’t insanely cropped or artfully cockeyed you can almost see the tumbleweeds blowing through the background:

Maybe I’m living in the past, but I thought the idea of journalism on some level was to report the facts. Wouldn’t a very pertinent fact in all of this be just how many people have shown up with Cindy? I have never seen that figure reported.

All I have ever seen is our one party media doing their damnedest to make it look like there were a lot more people with Mother Sheehan than there ever were.

Take heart, Cindy fans–and hipsters everywhere who still wax nostalgic for the golden days of the 1960s:

Cindy Sheehan Planning Anti-War Bus Tour
By Angela K. Brown, Associated Press Writer

CRAWFORD, Texas – A fallen soldier’s mother said Thursday that the anti-war vigil she started nearly three weeks ago near President Bush’s ranch won’t end when she and other protesters pack up their camp next week.

Cindy Sheehan said the day after she leaves Aug. 31, she will embark on a bus tour ending up in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24. Then the group will start a 24-hour vigil in the nation’s capital.

"I am not alone," she said at a news conference Thursday. "There’s the people standing behind me here, but there’s thousands of military families … who want the same answers to the same questions."

AP Story

And the bleat goes on.

By the way, at the bottom of the AP piece we see that Mother Sheehan’s handlers have come up with yet another explanation for Cindy’s contradictory descriptions of her first meeting with President Bush:

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.

Hey, at least this time she didn’t blame the Jews. (Or did she?)

But do notice that the AP and Cindy admit she rewrites her versions of events depending on her feelings of the moment.

CNS Reporter Marc Marano has put together a chilling video report on the vile protests that have been going on for weeks in front of the Army's Walter Reed Hospital:

Anti-War Protests Target Wounded at Army Hospital

By Marc Morano
August 25, 2005

Washington (CNSNews.com) – The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the current home of hundreds of wounded veterans from the war in Iraq, has been the target of weekly anti-war demonstrations since March. The protesters hold signs that read "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton."

The anti-war demonstrators, who obtain their protest permits from the Washington, D.C., police department, position themselves directly in front of the main entrance to the Army Medical Center, which is located in northwest D.C., about five miles from the White House.

Among the props used by the protesters are mock caskets, lined up on the sidewalk to represent the death toll in Iraq.

Code Pink Women for Peace, one of the groups backing anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas, organizes the protests at Walter Reed as well.

CNS News

From National Review Online:

Sheehan Supporter Physically Attacks Cameraman

While news cameras were filming the event, Marine Jeff Key physically grabbed a cameraman from San Francisco local affiliate KGO. Key objected to the cameraman’s shooting position, which was on the same site where the protesters have erected crosses listing the names of fallen soldiers in Iraq. Here's a photo from right before the altercation took place:

Jeff Key can be seen escorting Mother Sheehan upon her return to Crawford in the photo posted down below.

And here Key is in a somewhat less belligerent moment. The photo and caption are from the endlessly amusing Crawford Update site:

Cindy Sheehan and Joan Baez stand by as Lance Corporal Jeff Keys plays taps this evening. Have you ever seen a more beautiful grouping of people?

Key has made a name for himself by coming out as a gay Marine. He's even written a play of sorts about his fascinating (to him) ordeal:

And it turns out that Key is quite the author. Behold this excerpt of his paean to Iraqi male beauty from (where else?) the Advocate:

Then those beautiful brown eyes lit up. I just smile. We're making out big-time with our words. "You're beautiful," he says quietly.

We stand there, enjoying the torture of our situation. "You have …?" And he pantomimes the action for lip balm. I dig in my pocket and produce my dirty, half-used tube. I've got to tell you, I don't think anyone's ever put on lip balm in a sexier way.

"What you call …? And he kisses the air, making a kissing noise. "Yes, kiss. We call it kiss," I reply. "Kiss," he repeats and hands back the ChapStick.

"No, you keep it," I say, putting my hand up to refuse it. "Kiss," he repeats and pushes it into my palm.

By the way, if you look at the background of the first photo, you'll see a whole lot of no people. Where have all the followers gone?

Since Mother Sheehan® is forever nattering on about the questions she would ask President Bush, it seems only fair that we should try to come up with some questions to pose to her. (You know the media will never ask her anything that might expose her true agenda.)

To kick things off:

• Like just about every national and international expert and leader, President Bush was mistaken as to the extent of Iraq's WMD program. But that was only one of his many reasons for going to war. Can you cite one specific lie George Bush ever told about the Iraq war?

• You have stated that there has never been a good excuse for war. Do you believe there was no valid reason for military participation in Rawanda? WWII? Our Civil War?

• Why do you call the terrorists in Iraq, many from other countries, "freedom fighters"? Our elected leaders, "terrorists"?

• When you call Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Iranian and Saudi terrorists "freedom fighters," exactly whose freedom and what freedoms are they fighting for?

• Do you still contend that Israel's presence in Palestine is the root of the US's problems with terrorism? If you got your wish and Israel were to leave Palestine, where should the Israelis go?

• Did you meet with John Kerry shortly after your son's death? Did he convince you to campaign for him? Had you been pro-Bush and supported the Iraqi war prior to that meeting?

• Did the John Kerry campaign or any of its extensions (such as RealVoices.org, MoveOn.org or Fenton Communications) ever pay you, or provide your expenses, for your year and half long PR campaign?

• Has your organization, Gold Star Families For Peace, received tax-exempt (501c3) status from the IRS? If not, why do you claim you have, and that donations to you are tax-deductible?

• You have said in interviews your group, GSFP, has lobbied and campaigned against Bush. You and other GSFP members did ads for RealVoices.org against Bush. Do you realize tax exempt charities (501c3s) are prohibited from lobbying and campaigning for candidates?

• In your view America isn’t worth dying for. Can you tell us what countries are worth dying for? And what would make America worth dying for?

• Given your close ties to Code Pink and Medea Benjamin, do you support their ongoing protests at Walter Reed Army hospital that target wounded veterans? Do you support those protesters when they display caskets in front of the hospital?

• You often claim Casey was lied to by his Army recruiter and cheated out of money he was promised. If so, why did your son re-enlist in the Army four years later–and during a shooting war?

• Your husband, Patrick Sheehan, states that Casey was proud to be a soldier. Why do you say otherwise? 

Please feel free to add any questions you'd like to ask our Perpetual Mother Of Sorrows (PMS). I will update the list for her, in case she drops by.

In a long and incredibly weird audio clip from Camp Casey, Cindy avers: "if I truly was a media whore, don’t you think I’d get myself fixed up a little before I went on?" Er…

It’s instructive to suffer through her bizarre ramblings, especially if you still need to be convinced that this poor woman is truly unbalanced.

You will get to hear Cindy modestly assert, "the country is going to take me at my word from now on." She assures us she is going to make sure all of the troops are brought home from Iraq– personally.

Mother Sheehan also notes in the recording that "when I would nurse [Casey as an infant], I would promise him I would never let him go to war."

You have to wonder what she was thinking when her brave son Casey grew up and joinedthe Army–and then re-enlistedfour years later in the midst of a shooting war.