GOLD STAR MOTHER TO STAY, BUSH DITCHES HER, SUPPORTERS BEGIN HUNGER STRIKE

FOUR MEMBERS OF GROUP AT CAMPSITE HAVE STARTED A HUNGER STRIKE IN SOLIDARITY WITH MOTHER.

President Bush Ditches Mother Of Slain Soldier

By Nathan Diebenow
Associate Editor, The Lone Star Iconoclast – on – line

CRAWFORD — The mother of a U.S. soldier slain in Iraq was denied a face-to-face meeting with President Bush here Saturday after she walked through a ditch-like path in the August heat to the President’s Prairie Chapel Ranch.
“I didn’t come all this way from California to stand here in a ditch,” said Cindy Sheehan, 48, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, attempting to continue her trek to the ranch.
Even though two of the President’s aides later agreed to deliver her message to him, Sheehan said that she would remain in Crawford for the whole month, if need be, until she is granted a private audience with the commander-in-chief to ask him for what “noble cause” did her son die overseas.
“If he doesn’t come out to talk to me in Crawford, I’ll follow him to D.C., and I’ll camp out on his lawn,” she said, to a round of applause from her supporters. “I’ll go to prison. I don’t want to live in a country where people are treated this way.” …….

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