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Bush supporters, opponents gather in Texas
ap on Yahoo ^ | 11/26/05 | Angela K. Brown - AP

Posted on 11/26/2005, 4:27:55 PM by NormsRevenge

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Three months after the mother of a fallen soldier led a 26-day anti-war vigil near President Bush's ranch, peace activists and Bush supporters converged again Saturday for dueling rallies.

Cindy Sheehan, whose 24-year-old Casey died in Iraq, called for anti-war activists to return to Crawford this week as Bush celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday. The war opponents' camp is at the same 1-acre private lot that a landowner let them use in August when Sheehan's original campsite became too crowded.

The first demonstration attracted thousands from around the country and made the woman from Berkeley, Calif., a national figure.

"Nobody knew what was going to happen, and we made up Camp Casey as we went along, and it grew and grew and grew," said Sheehan. "But we're here to say that the killing has to stop, that we're not going to justify any more killing on our losses. And we're not going away."

Meanwhile, father Gary Qualls, who lost his Marine son Louis in Iraq last year, was among hundreds of Bush supporters who wanted to counter anti-war demonstrators with their own demonstration. Qualls, who also led a pro-Bush rally in August, said the anti-war demonstration is disrespectful to soldiers and hurtful to troop morale.

"Our sons and daughters have given the ultimate sacrifice, and they deserve nothing less than pure honor and pure respect," Qualls said.

On Friday, activists unveiled a stone monument bearing the words "Sheehan's Stand." The names of two dozen soldiers whose families were part of the vigil are engraved on the back. The monument stands at the Crawford Peace House, which opened downtown a month after the war began in March 2003.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: angelabrown; angelakbrown; bombcindy; bush; cindysheehan; crawford; freep; gather; lefties; opponents; qualls; supporters; texas
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1 posted on 11/26/2005, 4:27:58 PM by NormsRevenge
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It's so nice to see the 'family' back together in the ditch for the holidays..

Have a safe holiday everyone!

2 posted on 11/26/2005, 4:32:03 PM by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: NormsRevenge

The bitch is back.


3 posted on 11/26/2005, 4:34:20 PM by JOHANNES801
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Welcome to the house Soros help build.. cindy's room is padded.


4 posted on 11/26/2005, 4:35:54 PM by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: NormsRevenge
It's Saturday.

This means the people with jobs can come out to support the President.

Get that, MSM losers.

Am I the only person who knows that Sheehan is a liar.

Here is the truth. Her son went to Iraq once and reenlisted to go back six months into the war. He obviously blew his mother's mental patient rants off and decided to go to Iraq instead. She can lie and say things that clearly contradict his actions and then go on antisemitic rants because the press loves her.

It is FRAUD coated in fake support for the troops.
5 posted on 11/26/2005, 4:42:39 PM by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Cindy's useful idiot grave dancing circus is back in town.


6 posted on 11/26/2005, 4:44:34 PM by Liberty Valance (Support Our Troops and Iraqi Freedom)
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To: NormsRevenge
Yahoo news is putting this in the top stories. Sheehan hadn't made it there for this cycle until this morning. Without the controversy Sheehan is coming across as a nut. Are we helping this time by countering here?

I'm usually a big advocate on countering the left but in this instance it looks like we are giving her more press.

7 posted on 11/26/2005, 5:01:33 PM by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: NormsRevenge
"On Friday, activists unveiled a stone monument bearing the words "Sheehan's Stand." The names of two dozen soldiers whose families were part of the vigil are engraved on the back."

No, here is a monument. Made by an Iraqi from Saddams old statues:

Why these people cant honor what their sons did for a tortured and abused people, and to make America safer I will never understand.

8 posted on 11/26/2005, 5:02:03 PM by No Blue States
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To: armymarinemom

Totally agree.


9 posted on 11/26/2005, 5:02:51 PM by Extremely Extreme Extremist (JOE WILSON IS A MUTHAFAKING LIAR)
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To: NormsRevenge

This article doesn't tell us how many loons are there.

If there was a large crowd this time, the MSM would say it in the first sentence.

Any idea?


10 posted on 11/26/2005, 5:11:27 PM by ConservativeGreek
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The media is putting this out as a Bush crowd vs Antiwar advocates. This goes much deeper than defending our President. The general public needs to understand that Sheehan and her ilk are anti-American.

Does anyone have the email address of Angela Brown?

11 posted on 11/26/2005, 5:14:35 PM by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Might be a good time for a rancher on the adjoining property to spread some fresh manure for the late Fall... especially if his ranch is upwind of the Sheehan extravaganza.


12 posted on 11/26/2005, 6:13:31 PM by 6SJ7
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To: No Blue States
Why these people cant honor what their sons did for a tortured and abused people, and to make America safer I will never understand.

I cannot either. In these moron's minds it is the US Military who are the abusers.

13 posted on 11/26/2005, 6:20:07 PM by p23185 (Why isn't attempting to take down a sitting Pres & his Admin considered Sedition?)
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To: NormsRevenge
In my dreams...I could see...

"The Battle of Crawford Ranch"--A decisive Victory won by the charge of Patriotic Bush-Supporters who routed the Sheehanites from their ill-defended bivouc.

14 posted on 11/26/2005, 6:46:04 PM by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: NormsRevenge

All I can think of, is how sad Casey Sheehan would be if he could see what his own mother is doing...

(after all....he did, enlist...)


15 posted on 11/26/2005, 6:56:31 PM by onyx eyes (.... I'd give at least .50 cents to know why ....oh, never mind....)
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"All I can think of, is how sad Casey Sheehan would be if he could see what his own mother is doing... "

I do not think he would be sad. I think he would be proud that he overcame such dementedness and served his country proudly.

It is a miracle of nature that good seed can still come from bad loins.


16 posted on 11/26/2005, 6:59:44 PM by Prost1 (I get my news at Free Republic!)
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To: NormsRevenge
403 - 3

17 posted on 11/26/2005, 7:00:50 PM by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: Prost1

Ditto that.


18 posted on 11/26/2005, 7:05:28 PM by onyx eyes (.... I'd give at least .50 cents to know why ....oh, never mind....)
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To: ChadGore
THOSE Numbers should be the Crawford Ranch "battlecry"

Just Imagine...."Mother Sheehan" stopping her ears in agony of the mantra being chanted endlessly....Ahhhhhhhhh

19 posted on 11/26/2005, 7:17:40 PM by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: ChadGore; NormsRevenge
 
 
Saw some vid from there and at "Camp Qualls" they had a sign up with info about that vote all over it - pretty good sized sign, too. A yelled an "attaboy!" at the TV
 
 
Don't know if this has already been posted or what, but have found some raw video of the arrests from the other day
mms://a560.m.akastream.net/7/560/11756/v001/worldnowkwtx.download.akamai.com/11756/KWTX_20051123115022.wmv
 
 

20 posted on 11/27/2005, 1:52:09 AM by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! !)
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