Surly's Soap Box

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — Peace activist Cindy Sheehan returned to Texas on Wednesday for another war protest near President Bush's ranch, although he was to spend the weekend at Camp David.

The anti-war demonstrators accused Bush, who has spent every Easter at his Crawford ranch since he was elected, of running from them and their message to bring the U.S. troops home from Iraq immediately.

"We chased him away from his ranch," said Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004. "We protest all over the country without him being in attendance, so I don't think it takes away (from this vigil) a bit because he never met with us anyway. It wasn't even like we ever sat down and had sweet tea together."

Borrrrring.

Poor little girl. All used up by the commies, and tossed back on to the rocks. You can hear her peace movement protesting run doing the crappie (what a fish does when tossed into the bottom of a boat with no water).


But death of a movement (not that there was one) doesn't stop people from trudging along, acting like nothing is wrong, acting like things are moving forward even though it stalled out a long time ago.

Like the civil rights movement. It had drive, accomplished much, then ground to a halt. Legally, there was nothing more to be accomplished. What was left to be done was the changing of hearts away from prejudice. But many of the leaders in that movement kept driving on even though the car was dead. The Politician Jesse Jackson is a good example. The Politician Joseph Lowery is another.

The group's third Crawford protest in less than a year includes candlelight vigils, a rally and a march. The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., is to speak at a sunrise Easter Sunday service.

"We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace," Sheehan said. "We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts."

You know, if something really bad happens, like we actually get nuked, these people are going to be the first ones whining that Bush didn't do enough to protect us.




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