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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - When President Bush vacations at his Texas ranch he won't be hounded by Cindy Sheehan (SHEE'-han) any more. The Gold Star war mom announced Memorial Day she's quitting as the poster child of the anti-Iraq war movement. She's selling the five-acre piece of land she bought near the ranch as a protest headquarters. A spokeswoman for Sheehan says Los Angeles radio talk host Bree Walker is buying it for $87,000 and will preserve it as a peace memorial. A pro-war group called Move America Forward had wanted to buy the parcel but Sheehan refused. Her...

Help!!! Cindy Sheehan is coming to give a speech at UCLA on Feb the 26th . The propagation of her nonsense is being paid by the student association (our student fees are going to pay for this profanity) and the few very few conservatives on campus need help organizing a demonstration. Things at UCLA, as in many other campuses, are pretty bad. Today there was supposed to be an illegal immigration debate but the University unilaterally canceled the event after MECHA and other radical groups organized a protest. I can’t stand this anymore conservative free speech is routinely and blatantly...

Today I went to the antiwar protests, over in Hollywood, to check out the scene. Compared to other antiwar rallies, this was small. It might have been put together hastily - I did not learn about it until yesterday. Still, ANSWER tends to attract many more people than this and they did have Cindy Sheehan as their headliner. Without prejudice, I estimated there were only about 650 people at this one - I’ve been to the last three and this was the smallest of all. The ANSWER procession was led by a big billowing Venezuelan flag, followed by a Palestinian...

Are the Democrat leftists planning a loss November 7? Read this desperate call to action e-mail below: Every poll points to a Democratic victory on November 7. Yet George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove all insist Republicans will win. Are they planning to steal another election? Let's start a Blue Revolution across the USA on Election Night to stop Republicans from stealing Election 2006. When the polls close, we propose that Democrats across the country gather outside their County Election Office for a candlelight vigil to Count Every Vote, all wearing the same color: Blue. Imagine a Blue Revolution,...

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPTS FROM: "AMERICAN MOURNING" CINDY WAS in Crawford, trying to flush President Bush out, when a process server found her and handed over the lawsuit that would end her marriage. Casey’s father filed for divorce on August 12, 2005, at 2:47 p.m. Pacific time. He cited irreconcilable differences. Court papers show that Cindy and Pat separated on June 1, 2005, after twenty-eight years and two months together. Cindy wasn’t surprised when she received the divorce papers. She had a boyfriend and decided not to reconcile with Pat, even though he wanted to forgive her and fix their relationship. Pat...

Cindy Sheehan: Confessions of a Dangerous Mom The right-wingers who think nothing but the worst of Cindy Sheehan probably won't change their minds after reading Peace Mom. In the book, which hits bookstores September 19, the antiwar icon admits she has fantasized about going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush, thereby preventing the Iraq War. In fact, she reveals, her son's death in that war almost drove her to take her own life: "Every night I had to restrain myself from taking my entire bottle of sleeping pills instead of just one." Other targets of her...

In her new book due out Sept. 19, "Peace Mom," Cindy Sheehan writes of her fantasies of killing President Bush.Sheehan, whose son Army Spc. Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq in April, 2004, couches her desire for the murder of the President by saying she wishes she could go back in time and kill George Bush as an infant in order to prevent the Iraq war.Sheehan has been trying for over a year to meet with President Bush, but to no avail. She met with the President once in 2004 shortly after her son gave his life in Iraq. Since...

CRAWFORD — The growing anti-war movement fueled by last summer’s peace demonstrations in Crawford resurfaces in Washington, D.C., today, but the peace icon who sparked it all won’t be there. Cindy Sheehan says she’s taking a hiatus from her activist role to heal and re-energize herself after a trying and torrid summer. Most of the 100 or so anti-war demonstrators who joined her this year had left her peace camp in Crawford by the close of the Labor Day weekend. However, Sheehan, 49, remained behind, collecting herself after what proved a low-profile protest compared to last year’s massive, monthlong demonstration...

".S. Army Spc. Mark Wilkerson, right receives a hug from anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey III Thursday Aug. 31, 2006 near Crawford, Texas. Wilkerson, 22, of Colorado Springs, Colo., plans to surrender to Fort Hood, Texas, authorities later today, a year and a half after going AWOL from the Army post before his unit's second deployment to Iraq." "After being absent without leave for a year and a half, Army Spc. Mark Wilkerson, center, returns to Fort Hood Army Base in Killeen, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. Behind Wilkerson are war protesters Dede Miller, sister of...

Anti-war activist 'jumped at chance' to be at protest WASHINGTON — Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson invited anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to join speakers at a rally when President Bush speaks to the American Legion Convention. Anderson invited Sheehan via e-mail a few days ago, her spokeswoman Tiffany Burns said, and "she jumped at the chance to be there." Bush, along with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, is expected to be at the American Legion convention on Aug. 30, which may draw about 14,500 attendees. Sheehan, who has become a high-profile spokeswoman for the anti-war movement since her son,...

CRAWFORD -- As night fell, about 50 peace activists sat in a circle under a blanket of stars and chanted a Hindu mantra. "Ommmmmm," they began, as one, in a droning monotone. Again. Then again, drawing out the syllable until they were out of breath. In the darkness, from a nearby pasture, a sound broke the meditative bliss. MoooooOOHhh. The bovine reply reminded the gathering of where they are, and gave them a reason to laugh, just the kind of bonding moment those who are doggedly committed to bringing American troops home from Iraq needed at the end of another...

Attention Cindy Sheehan: Your 15 minutes are up. Ms. Sheehan, whose son Army Spc. Casey Sheehan died heroically in Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004, has spent the intervening years morphing into a professional protester and disgracing her son's memory by fronting for extreme left-wing, anti-war groups. Last August, she cemented her position as a leftist icon with a 26-day "peace vigil" near President Bush's ranch in Texas that attracted the media horde and the glitterati. Well, she's back in Crawford, but this summer rerun is not playing nearly as well with the media, Hollywood halfwits or cut-and-runners. Her...

Use the keyword database to see all the articles:  KEYWORDS: CINDYSHEEHAN;    Drudge Focuses on Vacaville Mom ( Cindy Sheehan Responds with Lying Press Release) -- The original Vacaville Reporter article was first found by Freeper tgslTakoma Saturday evening on Cindy Sheehan's own Website.  Cindy Sheehan's Website has now scrubbed the original article.     He Acted Like It Was A Party’? (Cindy Sheehan Busted!)      PROTESTING SOLDIER MOM CHANGED STORY ON BUSH (Cindy Sheehan)  --tgslTakoma did the legwork on this story yesterday (as usual) on this thread:"** http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458638/postsAnd here, too: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1458809/posts  Freeper DrDeb compiled a good list of people...

Blood is the fluid of life, coursing through our veins and providing oxygen to the body. Cindy Sheehan has just been released from a Waco hospital where she was treated for exhaustion and dehydration and was transfused after losing almost five pints of blood. This ordeal is nothing compared to the heart-shattering agony of hearing the words, "We regret to inform you," a message delivered over and over as more blood seeps into the Iraq sand each day. The dangerous amount of blood that Cindy Sheehan lost has been replenished. But medical experts can do nothing to ease the grief...

AUSTIN, Texas - Chanting "Try Rove for treason," Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters disrupted a reception before President Bush's top adviser Karl Rove spoke at a fundraiser Saturday. One woman was arrested during a scuffle with police after Sheehan and the anti-war demonstrators rushed toward the closed doors and kept chanting loudly after the guests went into the dinner. Rove was speaking to the Associated Republicans of Texas, and ticket prices started at $200. He was not in the Renaissance Hotel lobby during the reception. "I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my...

Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan who is camped in Crawford, Texas demanding a meeting with President Bush over the death of son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, in combat in Iraq has surrounded herself with groups that have endorsed the so-called Iraqi resistance.Last June, groups opposed to the American-led war to depose the regime of Saddam Hussein gathered in Istanbul to hear testimony before a 'jury of conscience' on charges of war crimes and violations of international law by the United States.Endorsers of the statement issued by the World Tribunal on Iraq at the end of the conference include Code Pink Women...

The continued focus by the nation's media on Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "Peace Mom" who's demanding a second meeting with President Bush in the wake of her son's death, is sparking a backlash from parents of other American servicemen and women in Iraq. One Texas family of a fallen Marine became so enraged with Sheehan's use of their son's name on a protest cross, they drove from the town of Spicewood to Crawford to remove it. "I went there and had Matthew's name taken off of there," said Matt Matula, whose son, a 20-year-old Marine, was killed by hostile fire...

The warmongers will stop at nothing. If you hear these lies, please be forearmed with the truth: (This from the website of Rep. John Conyers: http://johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={00BD10CF-C087-4EBD-A7D3-C9EE6B68B214} Rebutting the Lies of the Right Wing Smear Campaign -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are plenty of lies being spread about Cindy. Here’s a little help sorting through the fiction. Feel free to cut-and-paste and share these with others. Cindy is a being manipulated by liberal activist groups. Cindy went to Crawford on a moment’s notice without discussing or coordinating her plans with any organization. She was accompanied to Crawford by a handful of dear friends. Cindy...

AUSTIN — Chanting "Try Rove for treason," Cindy Sheehan and more than 50 other war protesters ambushed a reception before President Bush's top adviser Karl Rove spoke at a fundraiser at a hotel Saturday. One woman was arrested during a scuffle with police after Sheehan and the anti-war demonstrators rushed toward the closed doors and kept chanting loudly after the guests went into the dinner. Rove was speaking at an Associated Republicans of Texas dinner, where ticket prices started at $200 per person. He was not in the Renaissance Hotel lobby during the reception. "I want him arrested. He planned...

August 18, 2006 Crawford, Texas I received an invitation to join Our Suffering Mother Of Perpetual Peace And Publicity Sheehan (OSMOPPAPS) at the new Camp Casey down in Crawford, Texas. Apparently Cindy purchased some acreage not far from Chimpy McHitler's ranch and she was anxious for me to see it and join her reinvigorated peace vigil, so I hopped a plane for Texas. In all truthfulness, I was slightly underwhelmed by the new spread. For one thing, it's not that close to McHitler's ranch. For another, it's pretty scrubby land, dotted with only a few crappy tents, several smelly Porta-Potties,...

A year after her first war protest in President Bush's adopted hometown attracted thousands and reinvigorated the nation's peace movement, Cindy Sheehan resumed her vigil Sunday. Under the blazing Texas sun, Sheehan and more than 50 demonstrators again marched a mile and a half toward Bush's ranch, stopping at a roadblock. As Secret Service agents stood silently, Sheehan held up her California driver's license and said she wanted to meet with the president.

A federal judge in Waco ruled Monday that McLennan County ordinances restricting parking and camping along roads to President Bush’s ranch are constitutional and do not infringe on Cindy Sheehan’s right to protest the war. Chief U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith’s ruling was issued late Monday, despite his orders last week for both sides to try to break their impasse over enforcement of county ordinances. Fort Worth attorney David Broiles, who represents Sheehan’s group, said he and Mike Dixon, who represents the county, had worked out a proposal that Dixon planned to bring to the McLennan County commissioners court...

Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was undergoing a minor gynecological procedure Friday evening in a hospital where she was also being treated for dehydration and exhaustion, friends and relatives said. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco. Brenda Mauk, a nursing supervisor, declined to release additional information. Sheehan was taken to the Waco hospital after friends picked her up Friday afternoon at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where she arrived after spending several days in Seattle at the Veterans for Peace Convention, said Tiffany Burns, Sheehan's friend. Sheehan, who has been on a liquid diet as...

WACO, Texas — Cindy Sheehan said Saturday that despite her overnight hospitalization after a minor gynecological procedure and treatment for dehydration, the war protest activities will continue on land she bought near President Bush's Crawford ranch. Sheehan was listed stable condition Saturday at Providence Health Center in Waco, about 20 miles east of Crawford. Sheehan said she could be released later in the day but would still need to rest. She said she probably would not attend an afternoon barbecue at Camp Casey, the protesters' campsite named for her soldier son who was killed in Iraq in 2004. "Everything will...

War protesters extended the olive branch to their new neighbors in President Bush's adopted hometown by hosting a barbecue Saturday - and a few even showed up. "You can have a dialogue, but you'll never agree," said Valerie Duty, a staunch Bush supporter who wore a "This is Bush country, by George!" T-shirt. "Both sides do agree about bringing the troops home safely. The difference is the way we go about that." Locals have been angry since a man bought five acres last month on behalf of peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who said no one in the area would have...

Peace mom Cindy Sheehan spent the night in a hospital for a gynecological procedure and treatment of dehydration but said Saturday that wouldn't stop her protest against the Iraq war on land she bought near President Bush's Crawford ranch. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco, about 20 miles east of Crawford. She said she could be released later in the day but probably would miss an afternoon barbecue at Camp Casey, the protesters' campsite named for her soldier son who was killed in Iraq in 2004. "Everything will still go on," Sheehan, 49, told...

CRAWFORD, Texas — War protesters who return in August to President Bush's adopted hometown will have a new and bigger gathering place: a 5-acre lot bought with insurance money Cindy Sheehan received after her son was killed in Iraq. Gerry Fonseca, a fellow war protester who acted as Sheehan's agent, said he recently bought the lot about a mile from downtown Crawford — and about seven miles from Bush's ranch — for $52,500. About half the land is pasture, the other half woods, he said. If Cindy Sheehan came to town, I don't think anybody would have sold her any...

While Cindy Sheehan’s purchase of five acres in Crawford might make her anti-war protests go more smoothly next month, it won’t affect a lawsuit that she and others have filed to contest McLennan County’s new parking and camping ordinances. Attorneys for Sheehan and McLennan County will square off Thursday in Waco’s federal court, with both sides seeking temporary injunctions from U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. Sheehan and her followers want to block the county from enforcing its ordinances against parking, camping and erecting portable toilets along roads leading to President Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch. County commissioners are seeking...

CRAWFORD — Cindy Sheehan is back in town. After flying in from Jordan on Saturday night, Sheehan led a day of anti-war protests that culminated in an afternoon march in heat exceeding 100 degrees from the site of Camp Casey I to a checkpoint outside President Bush’s ranch. The president visited Sunday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. About 40 protesters joined Sheehan, many toting signs that read “The War is A Lie” and “Bush Betrayed Our Troops,” while Sheehan carried a sign asking “For What Noble Cause?” The march followed a short protest at the Crawford Peace House, where...

Cindy Sheehan, the mother whose loss of a son in the war in Iraq led her to become the most recognizable face of opposition to the war, confirmed Wednesday she will come to Salt Lake City this month to join protests during the visit of President Bush. Sheehan's presence likely will increase the visibility and intensity of protests planned to coincide with Bush's address to the American Legion. Bush plans to arrive in Utah on Aug. 30 and speak the following day to the group's national convention. Salt Lake City "is a great opportunity for her to be where Bush...

CRAWFORD, Texas - War protesters extended the olive branch to their new neighbors in President Bush's adopted hometown by hosting a barbecue Saturday - and a few even showed up. "You can have a dialogue, but you'll never agree," said Bush supporter Valerie Duty. "Both sides do agree about bringing the troops home safely. The difference is the way we go about that." Locals have been angry since a man bought five acres last month on behalf of peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who said no one in the area would have sold her any property. Demonstrator Jim Goodnow said he...

Friday's article "Sheehan offers refuge to war deserters" contains a couple of inaccuracies. While war protester Cindy Sheehan may claim she is fasting, her self-acknowledged fasting diet of high-calorie Jamba Juice smoothies and vanilla ice cream is an insult to those such as Bobby Sands, who fasted to death, who take such things seriously.The other inaccuracy is in regard to the article's claim that Rep. Jim McDermott served in Vietnam. He did not. Rep. McDermott spent his brief years in the Navy in Long Beach, Calif., an ocean away from hostilities, as a psychiatrist. Honorable service, no doubt, but he...

CRAWFORD, Texas - Anti-war demonstrators said Sunday they hope the end of President Bush's ranch vacation doesn't hurt attendance at their protest during the rest of the summer. They urged opponents of the war in Iraq to come to the five-acre campsite purchased last month by Cindy Sheehan, who resumed her protest a week ago. Sheehan's first trek to Crawford one year ago during Bush's monthlong vacation turned into a 26-day vigil that drew more than 10,000 people and spurred counter-protests by Bush supporters. A few hundred war opponents returned at Thanksgiving, when Bush was at his ranch, and again...

Peace mom Cindy Sheehan spent the night in a hospital for a gynecological procedure and treatment of dehydration but said Saturday that wouldn't stop her protest against the Iraq war on land she bought near President Bush's Crawford ranch. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco, about 20 miles east of Crawford. She said she could be released later in the day but probably would miss an afternoon barbecue at Camp Casey, the protesters' campsite named for her soldier son who was killed in Iraq in 2004. "Everything will still go on," Sheehan, 49, told...

With or without President Bush, Camp Casey may be here for the remaining dog days of summer. Although the president took his shortest summer vacation yet and spent just 10 days at his Prairie Chapel Ranch this year before heading out of town with the White House press corps in tow, protesters plan to stake out new turf just off State Highway 317. “Regardless if Bush is here or not, we’ll be here,” said protester Dave Jensen, of Tyler. “I think all of us feel like he’s cut and run.” Whether peace activist Cindy Sheehan will stay for the entire...

Country music legend Willie Nelson made a hefty donation to anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan's Crawford protest site. Nelson donated a 5,000 watt bio-diesel fueled generator, valued at nearly $10,000. The protest site has been without electricity and running water since the five acre plot of land was bought late last month because of problems getting permits and permission from neighbors for those utilities. Protestor Dave Jensen said, "Cindy called Willie Nelson and asked where we could get a bio-diesel fueled generator and Willie said he's got one on the way for us." The two week protest at the Crawford site...

Attention Freepers!! The Syracuse Post Standard announced yesterday that the Women’s Studies Dept. at Syracuse University has invited anti-American, anti-war activist and traitor to America Cindy Sheehan to speak at Hendrick’s Chapel on the SU campus on Thursday, October 19th from 7-9pm. All patriotic Central New Yorkers are encouraged to show their support for our country and our troops by showing up and giving Cindy Sheehan the greeting a traitor deserves. Prizes to be awarded for best Cindy Sheehan look-alike Pinata and best sign denouncing this vile traitor. Some of what Cindy Sheehan has to say about our country while...

Sheehan treated at Waco hospital 10:26 PM CDT on Friday, August 11, 2006 Associated Press WACO – Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was hospitalized Friday evening for dehydration and exhaustion after fasting for more than a month and protesting earlier this week in 100-degree weather, friends and relatives said. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco. Brenda Mauk, a nursing supervisor, declined to say what Sheehan was being treated for and declined to release additional information. Sheehan was taken to the Waco hospital after friends picked her up Friday afternoon at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport,...

It was at the Veterans for Peace national convention in Dallas last year that Cindy Sheehan says she was galvanized to seek a meeting with President Bush at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. The result was a 26-day sit-down protest near Bush's ranch that attracted common folk and luminaries from across the nation, rejuvenating the anti-war movement.    On Thursday, Sheehan, who became a peace activist after her soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004, was at the Veterans for Peace national convention at the University of Washington. Now almost 40 days into her fast supporting war resisters and...

(August 11, 2006)—Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was being treated Friday evening in the emergency room of Providence Health Center in Waco. Sheehan, who has been on a liquids-only diet for 37 days as part of a fast in protest of the war, was described as being gaunt and pale as she arrived at the hospital. An assistant said Sheehan, who flew to Central Texas after a trip with other activists to Jordan to meet with members of Iraq’s new parliament, was being treated for exhaustion. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey died in Iraq in 2004 while serving with Fort Hood’s...

Since anti-war protestors outside President Bush's Crawford Ranch have been unsuccessful in their attempts to talk directly with the president, today they wrote letters to him, placed the notes inside helium-filled balloons and released them. They hope the balloons will end up on the president's property, and he will read the notes.

From our intrepid correspondent on site down in Texas, Crawford Activist, we have this photo of Cindy Sheehan registering to vote in the local post office last Tuesday: Crawford Activist reports that Mother Sheehan then left Crawford late Tuesday afternoon to attend a conference in Seattle she is headlining. Ms. Sheehan is supposed to return to Crawford Friday morning in time to protest the RNC fundraiser near the President's ranch. Then Cindy is off again to give a speech in Washington, DC on Saturday. It seems she just can't resist those speaking fees.But hasn't our hero mother broken Texas law...

MOTHER SHEEHAN'S MARRIED LOVER Activist breaks camp in Crawford to do 'damage control' Cindy Sheehan packed her bags and left Crawford ,Texas, Tuesday afternoon and arrived home in Berkeley, Ca. late Tuesday evening. Sheehan rushed back to do damage control after explosive information became public today about an alleged affair that began while she was still married to her husband Patrick, and after her son Casey Sheehan died in Sadr City, Iraq attempting to rescue members of his trapped squad. Sources are telling authors Melanie Morgan and Catherine Moy, (American Mourning, Cumberland Press) that Sheehan is furious that the news...

Crawford- One local resident is fearful for her family's safety, after alleged threats from a supposed anti-war demonstrator. After news of protestor Cindy Sheehan's purchase of property near President Bush's ranch, Tracy Thiele gave an interview to News Channel 25. The interview was later broadcast on a segment ABC's Good Morning America. That's when the trouble all began. "About seven times in a row, I have gotten threatening phone calls against me and my family," said Thiele. "The caller knew where Crawford was, she knew where I lived. She said be on my doorstep the next morning to take care...

A year after her first war protest in President Bush's adopted hometown attracted thousands and reinvigorated the nation's peace movement, Cindy Sheehan resumed her vigil Sunday. Under the blazing Texas sun, Sheehan and more than 50 demonstrators again marched a mile and a half toward Bush's ranch, stopping at a roadblock. As Secret Service agents stood silently, Sheehan held up her California driver's license and said she wanted to meet with the president. "It doesn't say my new address, but I do live here now," said Sheehan, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., and recently bought land in Crawford for war...

"U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan (L), whose military son Casey was killed in Iraq, is hugged by fellow Californian Michelle George (R) on the streets of Washington July 26, 2006. Almost a year ago Sheehan's campaign to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq began on a roadside near U.S. President George W. Bush's Texas ranch, and she has already made plans to do the same next month."

A grassroots pro-military group is organizing a counter to the efforts of Cindy Sheehan, the polarizing icon of the anti-war movement whose son, Casey, was killed in Iraq. The group, "American Pride," is led by Leonard Wahl, who also lost a son in the war. American Pride is petitioning people to come to Crawford, Texas between August 14 and 22 -- part of a period when Sheehan and her followers are expected to launch "Camp Casey III." Crawford, the home of President Bush's ranch, was the site of a stalemate of sorts last August when Sheehan declared she wasn't leaving...

Local blogger, Charles Ryder, went down to the Iraq Embassy yesterday with camera in hand to cover the latest Cindy Sheehan/Code PinkO "Look At ME! I'm starving For Peace" media stunt.There were only six or seven PinkOs in attendance, no mention of any mainstream media.It looks like the Jamba Juice Smoothies, protein shakes and coffees with dollops of ice cream are taking their toll on Mother Moonbat Sheehan's waistline, so much so that she had to wear a tablecloth as a skirt...WARNING: BARF ALERT !! Photo Credit: Charles Ryder, Age of Hooper

See http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/2976421.shtml "Joan Braun, a member of Farmington Women in Black, a group that holds the silent peace vigil in front of the Farmington Post Office every Friday at noon, said she received an e-mail this week that CODEPINK had a break-through. She said long-term fasters, including Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was killed in the war in 2004, have been invited to meet with five members of the Iraqi Parliament in Amman, Jordan. The gathering will be to discuss the peace movement and publicly break their fast with the Iraqi peacemakers."