HUGE BLOGGERS’ CONFERENCE CALL
MOBILIZING FOR GOLD STAR MOTHER
DITCHED AT BUSH RANCH
With Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice on their way to Crawford, Texas, to meet with President Bush on Thursday, Cindy Sheehan will hold a blog conference call hosted by Joe Trippi of JoeTrippi.com, Bob Fertik of Democrats.com, and Jodie Evans of CodePink4Peace.org. Given the urgency of Cindy's situation, we hope that you will attend the call.
Date: Wednesday, August 10th
Time: 2:00pm EST
Call-In Number: 888-391-6578
International Number: +1-773-756-0169
Passcode: 23009
Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Casey Sheehan, an American soldier who died in Iraq on April 4th, 2004. She is camping out on Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, until he agrees to meet with her. Cindy simply wants to ask Bush "Why did my son die?" and "What was the noble cause that he died for?"
We hope you will join us on this call and help raise awareness for Cindy's cause. We also hope that you will sign the petition demanding that Bush meet with Cindy.
Sign the petition -
http://elandslide.org/elandslide/petition.cfm?campaign=cindy
Learn more about Cindy -
www.meetwithcindy.org
T r u t h o u t reports they are sending William Rivers Pitt to Crawford to cover this expanding story. Stay tuned to http://www.Truthout.org for updates.
Cindy Sheehan Gives BuzzFlash the Latest from Crawford
Direct from the drainage ditch, the intrepid protester says "Our spirits are great," but Bush "doesn't have enough courage to face someone who actually disagrees with him ..."
http://snipurl.com/gu24
http://www.vaiw.org/vet/
Cindy Sheehan and others are at Bush's Crawford, Texas, vacation location, bringing a message to Bush that it's time to bring the troops home. She is a cofounder of Gold Star Families for Peace and the mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, killed in Baghdad April 4, 2004.
Intrepid, courageous, and effective. Cindy Sheehan has brought the war against war to George Bush during his frustratingly insensitive 5-week-long vacation in Crawford, Texas. BuzzFlash emailed her today, and is happy to share her responses with our readers and the world. (Open the link for the full interview and the two pieces that follow it: http://jack-dalton.blogspot.com/2005/08/interview-and-update-on-cindy-sheehan.html )
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2005 | Contact: Ryan Fletcher 202-641-0277
Dante Zappala 215-520-7040 |
| MILITARY FAMILIES TO JOIN CINDY SHEEHAN IN CRAWFORD Gold Star and Military Families from Across Country on their way to Texas CRAWFORD, TX – More members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) are traveling to Texas to join the protest outside of President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he is vacationing for the month of August. Starting today, Gold Star families from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Arkansas and other states whose loved ones have died as a result of the war in Iraq will be joining one of their members, Cindy Sheehan, at the protest. Ms. Sheehan, whose son Army Specialist Casey Sheehan was killed in Sadr City, Iraq on April 4, 2004, has been in Crawford since August 5th, demanding a meeting with the President. These families will be joined by military families with loved ones currently serving in Iraq or about to deploy or redeploy to Iraq. All of these families are coming to Crawford, Texas to share their stories about the personal costs of the war in Iraq and add their voices to the call for a meeting with President Bush.
On August 3, 2005 President Bush, speaking about the dreadful loss of life in Iraq in early August, said "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission… The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause." Gold Star and military families coming to Crawford know that the cause was not noble; that their loved ones died, or are currently in harm’s way, serving in a war based on lies. In the first 8 days of August, 36 service members died in Iraq; countless Iraq children, women and men are dying each day. All of the families traveling to Crawford will carry the message to the vacationing President: Honor our fallen and honor our loved ones’ service by ending the occupation, bringing the troops home now and taking care of them when they get here. President Bush has consistently tried to hide, and to hide from, the cost of the war in Iraq. This August, these costs are being brought right to his doorstep. Members of Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out who are traveling to Crawford will be available for interview beginning on Tuesday afternoon August 9th. For More Information: Military Families Speak Out: www.mfso.org Gold Star Families for Peace: www.gsfp.org Download the full Press Release |
Read: “My Life Living With Depleted Uranium” by Dawn Campbell. It is heart-breaking, but at the same time, her story is not a singular story. Those being sent to Iraq are going to be repeating Dawn's story as they are being contaminated in wholesale numbers. Then there is what DU has done to those in Iraq since 1991. This country is being run by war criminals--those whom I lump together under the heading of Bush/Cheney & Co., Inc. See: Depleted Uranium Education Project for more information on this issue.—Jack Dalton
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Depleted Uranium is WMD
By: Leuren Moret
Published on Tuesday, August 9, 2005
by the Battle Creek Enquirer (Michigan)
My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: (open the link for this most important essay: http://jack-dalton.blogspot.com/2005/08/depleted-uranium-is-wmd.html )
"Never Again Will One Generation of Veterans Abandon Another"
(Vietnam Veterans of America)
”If they ask you why we died, tell them 'cause our fathers' lied"
(Rudyard Kipling)
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