Dear Marsha and fellow Patriots,
Can you believe I received this message in response to one of my mass
mailings.
I am never ceased to be stunned that some in our Nation have this mentality.
However I must some how face the fact that perhaps there are many who think
like this and then we have not only the "Bush Regime" to confront but a
unknown percentage of our country's population that is completely brain
washed and will support that Regime.
I have XXX out her last name and e-mail address, but believe me I was
surprised as I thought I was well . . .
With Best Regards,
Alan Dicey
Miami, Florida
-----Original Message-----
From: Judith XXXXX [mailto:xxxxxx @xxx.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 2:02 PM
To: Alan Dicey
Subject: Re: Cindy Sheehan The Revolution is NOW...
Please take me off your list. I do not sympathize with your political
agenda. I understand Cindy's pain at the death of her son, I don't wish
such a thing on any mother but she is not going to solve this war on terror
with this grand standing and media attention. The President met with her
soon after her son's death as he does with most of the families of
casualties from the war. Your goal is to appease the terrorists by pulling
out of Iraq now and that will only lead to more world wide bloodshed at the
hands of these monsters. The "roadmap" or pullout from Gaza is another
attempt to appease the terrorists and I fear that the bloodshed that is to
follow will make Iraq look like a cake walk. You don't appease terrorists
and you don't pull out of a war because the heart of a mother is broken.
Judith XXXXXX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Dicey" <adicey@bellsouth.net>
To: "Adicey" <adicey@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 12:09 AM
Subject: Cindy Sheehan The Revolution is NOW...
Cindy Sheehan The Revolution is NOW...
Thursday, August 11, 2005
The Peace House phone is 254-486-0099
E-mail can be sent to crawfordpeacehouse@yahoo.com
We are trying to catch up with the tremendous flood of messages.
Please know that we feel your good thoughts and and that Cindy knows of
your gratitude and support.
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The Revolution is NOW...
By Opinion: Sheila Samples
The incomparable Raw Story website is publishing a letter it acquired on
Tuesday, Aug 9, from 16 Democratic Representatives (whose number has now
burgeoned to 38) urging George Bush to meet with Cindy Sheehan, whose son,
Casey, was slain in Iraq in 2002. Sheehan has been camped on Bush's
doorstep
since Saturday when she and a small group of supporters were forced to
walk
in a ditch struggling through knee-deep weeds as they made their way to
Prairie Chapel, the Bush "ranch," a former pig farm in Crawford, Texas.
According to The Iconoclast, Bush's hometown paper, Sheehan said she
decided
to go to Crawford because of comments Bush made which coincided with the
deaths of 12 Marine reservists from Ohio who were killed in perhaps the
deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq. Sheehan was outraged at
Bush's remarks to about 1,800 members of the American Legislative Exchange
Council in Grapevine on Aug 3 that the men and women who've lost their
lives
in Iraq and Afghanistan died in a noble and selfless cause.
"We all know by now that that's not true, and I want to ask George Bush,
'Why did my son die? What was the noble cause that he died for?'" said
Sheehan. "I don't want [President Bush] to use my son's name or my family
name to justify any more killing or to exploit my son's name, my son's
sacrifice, or my son's honor to justify more killing. As a mother, why
would
I want one more mother to go through what I'm going through, Iraqi or
American?
"And I want to tell him that the only way to honor my son's sacrifice is
to
bring the troops home now."
There are few things more relentless this side of Hell than an August
Texas
sun. Unless it would be the lost souls of Fallujah crying out for justice
through the Napalm flames. Or perhaps it is a mother so engulfed in grief
at
the cruel and needless loss of her child that her primal screams
reverberate
throughout the world. Except at the pig farm. Or within the entire US
Senate. Or on the deaf ears of all but 38 of the 435 representatives in
the
US House.
The initial 16 -- one representative for each word Bush used to lie us
onto
the New World Order killing fields -- are John Conyers, George Miller,
Maxine Waters, Corrine Brown, Dennis Kucinich, Carolyn Maloney, Jim
McDermott, Jim McGovern, Barbara Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Peter Oberstar, John
Lewis, Bernie Sanders, Bob Filner, Micheal Honda, and Raul Grijalva. I
have
searched in vain for Nancy Pelosi, Cynthia McKinney, Charlie Rangel --
searched for just one Republican who would ask Bush to meet with the
mother
of a slain soldier...
Six soldiers and marines were killed today. Four yesterday. In just 10
days
of August, 44 Americans and many, many more innocent Iraqis have been
murdered. We don't "do" body counts of Iraqi citizens, so there's no way
of
knowing how many have died, but we do know that more than four soldiers
and
marines have been slaughtered in a single day -- every day. The pig farm
president may not know where his children are tonight, but Casey Sheehan
knows where his mother is -- sweltering in 100-plus-degree weather on a
desolate prairie -- ignored by the commander-in-chief -- but still out
there, bravely supporting the troops.
There are many mothers whose anguish matches Sheehan's, not only those who
have lost children, but those whose children are returning broken and
maimed; doomed to lives of desperation and pain. Mothers like Sandy
Briggs,
from Keokuk, Iowa, whose son, Sgt. Robert Briggs, a soldier in the 224th
Engineer Battalion, was hit by shrapnel from an artillery round April 16
at
Iraq's Camp Ramadi.
According to the Burlington, Iowa, newspaper, The Hawkeye, "Surgeons took
one of his eyes. The other is partially blind. Head trauma paralyzed his
left side. Metal litters his body...An operation removed part of his
skull.
Now he wears a helmet to get out of bed."
Bush says he "grieves 'n mourns" for the dead and maimed. His "thoughts 'n
prayers" go out to them. He 'preciates them making the ultimate sacrifice
for his noble cause. Many, however, are beginning to think Bush has a
strange way of showing his compassion. He has not attended a single
funeral
of the now 1,848 Americans who have died in Iraq because of his lies and
lack of planning, and he continues to stubbornly "ditch" Sheehan as she
keeps a lonely vigil on the Texas plains.
Bush might wish later that he had come out to meet with Sheehan upon her
arrival Saturday when there was but a handful of supporters accompanying
her. If the media covered the meeting at all, he would have been portrayed
as a caring president, and by Sunday it would all have been over. But that
isn't how Bush operates.
He does not negotiate; remember, his will is strong, his resolve will not
be
broken. Bush is not satisfied until everything he touches turns into a
steaming, odious pile of bullshit. He made the cowardly choice to send out
a
couple of minions -- national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy
White
House chief of staff Joe Hagin -- to tell her that Bush really really
cares,
but nobody's coming home until "the mission is accomplished..."
So -- as Bush likes to say, "history will show" the Revolution started on
a
steamy August day...at the pig farm.
Who knew? Who would have believed just a week ago that, after all our
years
of hard work, the crude and pitiless Bush would run out there, ram his
middle finger in the face of a heartbroken mother, and jump-start the
Revolution?
By the time Cindy Sheehan leaves her station at the pig farm, Bush will
know
that he was wrong. He will know, because "Mother" is not just half a word,
as Bush and his Texas buddies, his Skull and Bones cohorts, his PNAC perps
were raised to believe. "Mother" is Nature. "Mother" is Earth. "Mother" is
an invincible, protective force that, if awakened and sufficiently
outraged,
will sweep the entire murderous bunch from their seats of evil power.
Ultimately, "Mother" will bring our troops home.
The mainstsream media will find, much to their chagrin, that the
Revolution
is NOW, and will continue apace without them. The Iconoclast is offering
hourly updates on the Sheehan vigil. Friends of Peace and Justice of Waco
is
mobilizing support for Sheehan's vigil, which could last until the end of
August.
More information can be obtained at the Crawford Peace House website or by
calling (254)486-0099. Air America Radio hosts, especially Randi Rhodes
and
Mike Malloy, are all over this story, giving minute-by-minute updates,
many
of them coming from Sheehan herself, who calls the station regularly.
Google
"Cindy Sheehan," and you will discover the entire Internet is wide awake
and
on the march, and will join the Revolution -- at the pig farm.
Also check out --
Gold Star Families for Peace; www.gsfp.org
Military Families Speak Out; www.mfso.org
Veterans for Peace; www.veteransforpeace.org
CodePink; www.codepink4peace.org
Vietnam Veterans Against War; www.vvaw.org
Iraq Veterans Against the War; www.ivaw.net
Meet With Cindy; www.meetwithcindy.org/
Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma freelance writer and a former civilian US
Army
Public Information Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety of
Internet sites. Contact her at: rsamples@sirinet.net.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00099.htm
We are mobilizing support for Cindy Sheehan's action in
Crawford Texas. Come to Crawford! Join Cindy and thousands of
others who have come to show their support for her and the
other military families who stand with her.
Check in at Peace House when you arrive for updates and
directions.
Monetary donations are needed and can be sent to:
Crawford Peace House
P.O. Box 710218
Dallas, Tx. 75371-0218
Thanks to all those who have donated, participated and sent
good wishes to Cindy. She is held up by your love and
desire for peace.
We are located In the center of Crawford, Texas on Hwy 185
and the railroad tracks
9142 5th Street Crawford, Tx. 76638-3037 (Map)
The Vigil is on Prairie Chapel road near the entrance to
Bush’s ranch
The Peace House phone is 254-486-0099
E-mail can be sent to
crawfordpeacehouse@yahoo.com.
We are
trying to catch up with the tremendous flood of messages.
Please know that we feel your good thoughts and and that
Cindy knows of your gratitude and support.
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