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That was then. Now, even though the United States still has roughly 130,000 troops in Iraq, and is quickly escalating the war in Afghanistan -- 68,000 troops there by the end of this year, and possibly more in 2010 -- anti-war voices on the Left have fallen silent. No group was more angrily opposed to the war in Iraq than the netroots activists clustered around the left-wing Web site DailyKos. It's an influential site, one of the biggest on the Web, and in the Bush years many of its devotees took an active role in raising money and campaigning for...

I never thought I would agree with Cindy Sheehan but she actually said something that makes sense. The Washington Examiner's Byron York says the antiwar movement that stirred up trouble during the Bush administration wasn't really an antiwar movement at all: it was an anti-Bush movement. York shared his thesis with antiwar activist Sheehan that the antiwar movement has slipped into hibernation because President Bush left office, and she was honest enough to admit she agreed with him. She sent him the following email): I read your column about the "anti-war" movement and I can't believe I am saying this,...

Remember when the media lionized Cindy Sheehan and her fellow anti-war Code Pink protesters as they protested the war with tactics like disrupting multiple State of the Union addresses? The President’s inauguration? Hearings and public events too numerous too mention? And I’m sure you’ve all seen news reports about union groups and other liberal activists storming the campaign offices of Republicans and things like that. It happens all the time. It’s interesting to watch those same media types who seemingly have no problems with liberal activists harassing Republicans cluck their tongues derisively when Democrats are confronted by angry constituents at...

* "Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience.You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them; And the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." -Dr George Sheehan Sarah Palin is an avid runner.She grew up in a family of runners.Her parents were marathoners and H.S. track coaches. Sarah's father,Chuck Heath once ran in the Boston Marathon. Sarah herself ran Anchorage's 26.2 mile Mayor's Marathon. Before giving birth to Trig,Sarah was averaging 5-6 miles/day. Today she runs 3 miles every other day. As she has stated,"Running is my sanity." And,"I...

Cindy Sheehan continues anti Iraqi War protests against Bush at Texas ranch. Dallas, TX(JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Cindy Sheehan, a zealous anti-war activist, whose son was tragically killed in the war on Iraq, led a protest Monday, near George W. Bush’s Preston Hollow home on Daria Place, as reported by Dallas Morning News. Organizers of the anti-war protest proclaim they are fighting for crimes against humanity that took place during the Bush Administration. The Dallas Peace Center, an organization involved with Sheehan since 2005, is sponsoring the protest. Activists gathered around 4:30 p.m. a few blocks from the Bush home in Crawford, Texas. The...

Cindy Sheehan, who drew national attention for camping outside former President George W. Bush's ranch in protest of the Iraq War, is following him to Dallas. Sheehan will lead a demonstration Monday, June 8, 2009 protesting "crimes against humanity." "We can't allow George Bush's crimes to be forgotten just because he is not in office anymore," she said in an e-mail. While most people in Preston Hollow have gone out of their way to welcome the former president and first lady home, they're not exactly rolling out the welcome mat for Sheehan. "Go away," resident Kathie Taub said. "Go back!...

Former President George W. Bush recently said that what he missed most about the White House was the cooking of the top-notch chefs there and meeting with members of the military. Funny, Cindy Sheehan didn't make his list. No matter, he doesn't have to do without her absurd antics. She's bringing her roadshow to PReston Hollow this weekend to protest his actions as president. She crossed the line between principled crusader and crackpot long ago, so I shouldn't be surprised at this, and I wasn't the biggest fan of Bush's as his presidency wore on, but this makes me truly...

Cindy Sheehan, who drew national attention for camping outside former President George W. Bush's ranch in protest of the Iraq War, is following him to Dallas. Sheehan will lead a demonstration Monday protesting "crimes against humanity." "We can't allow George Bush's crimes to be forgotten just because he is not in office anymore," she said in an e-mail. While most people in Preston Hollow have gone out of their way to welcome the former president and first lady home, they're not exactly rolling out the welcome mat for Sheehan. "Go away," resident Kathie Taub said. "Go back! Leave us alone!"...

Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who became an anti-war flashpoint on the road to President George W. Bush's ranch, urged legislators in Salem on Wednesday to keep the Oregon National Guard out of Iraq. But even as she stood on the Capitol steps asking lawmakers to vote on House Bill 2556, inside, the House Rules committee chairman indicated the measure may already be dead. "We have not scheduled it for a work session, and right now I do not see it being scheduled," said Rep. Arnie Roblan, D-Coos Bay. The bill would give the governor the authority to send the...

On April 21, Cindy Sheehan -- known for camping outside President Bush's ranch in 2005 to protest her son's military death in Iraq -- joined representatives from the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel. Sheehan and representatives of the 12 organizations that make up the Coalition dedicated 10 billboards in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which call for ending American military aid to Israel. The billboard message, "Tell Congress: Stop Killing Children, No More Military Aid to Israel," refers to a U.S. pledge to aid Israel over a ten-year period. The billboard features a picture of an Israeli tank juxtaposed with...

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On the 6th Anniversary of the Iraq War... March on the Pentagon Saturday, March 21, 2009 From Iraq to Afghanistan to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime Jobs & Education - Not Wars & Occupation Gather at 12 noon at 23rd St. & Constitution Ave. NW in Washington, D.C.! Endorse the March Sign up to be a Transportation Center Make an urgently needed Donation NEW: Add a button and a link to PentagonMarch.org to your page View and Print Flyers and Posters View and Print Flyers and Posters Various coalitions, organizations, and networks are joining together in a March 21 National...

THE kumbaya crowd which pressed for East Timor's independence must shoulder much of the blame for the failure of its dysfunctional Government. But while the collective of liberation theologists and civil rights lawyers cheered Fretilin's Portugese-educated Marxist guerrilla leaders, the same candle-wavers protested against the toppling of the mass murdering Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. Yet East Timor, with a population estimated at about one million, whose independence was internationally recognised on May 20, 2002, is now arguably in proportionately worse shape than Iraq, population 26 million, where the first election under its new constitution took place just last December. The...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign offices were shattered. Although staffers had been in the office less than an hour earlier, no one was in the building at the time of the incident. No one was hurt and there were no witnesses. Cindy Sheehan is a candidate for Congress in California's 8th Congressional District race against incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). "It seems to have been a calculated intimidation tactic," said Tiffany Burns, the Cindy for Congress campaign...

Campaign says attacks could be related to Pelosi confrontationsJust five days before the election, at 3 a.m. Thursday morning, someone smashed through all the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign headquarters in San Francisco. Although someone had been in the office less than an hour earlier, no one was in the building at the time of the incident. No One was hurt and there were no witnesses. Sheehan is running against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Speaker of the House, for the 8th Congressional District seat. "It seems to have been a calculated intimidation tactic," said Tiffany Burns, the...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign offices were shattered. Although staffers had been in the office less than an hour earlier, no one was in the building at the time of the incident. No one was hurt and there were no witnesses. Cindy Sheehan is a candidate for Congress in California's 8th Congressional District race against incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sean Penn, a San Francisco resident, Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actor and director, and star of the film "Milk," a biopic of the life and assassination of San Francisco supervisor and gay rights leader Harvey Milk, will escort activist and San Francisco Congressional Candidate Cindy Sheehan to the film's San Francisco release at the Castro theater tonight. Like Sheehan, Penn is a long-time critic of the Bush administration and its handling of the Iraq war. His political activism has included a tour of Iraq and travel to post-Katrina New Orleans. On October...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign offices were shattered. Although staffers had been in the office less than an hour earlier, no one was in the building at the time of the incident. No one was hurt and there were no witnesses. Cindy Sheehan is a candidate for Congress in California's 8th Congressional District race against incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

In the most liberal neighbourhood of America's most liberal city, it's possible to walk for blocks without seeing a single campaign sign declaring support for Barack Obama.But those Cindy Sheehan For Congress posters? They are displayed in the windows of bohemian coffee shops and Hispanic diners throughout the Mission District, a community that has long been an incubator for leftist politics and a place where the 2008 presidential election has sometimes been less interesting than the congressional battle being waged in their own backyard.Here in California's 8th District, the most powerful Democrat in Congress, Nancy Pelosi, is facing a...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 20, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today, the Cindy for Congress Campaign, dedicated to electing Cindy Sheehan to Congress to replace Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), announced a full scale media blitz throughout San Francisco's 8th Congressional District. The campaign confirmed that 360 television ads, 1,243 radio ads and print advertising in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Bay Guardian and The Bay View had all been coordinated to appear with direct mail and door tags distributed to voters throughout San Francisco this week. "This coordinated media campaign is the best way for me to reach voters in San Francisco,"...