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For me, a fast is when I miss a beer

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paull
 
Reply Fri 28 Jul, 2006 04:15 pm
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Troops Home Fast: Day 6 - Cindy Sheehan

By Cindy Sheehan


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7-10-06,8:53 am


I find traveling out of the country very challenging being on a fast. When I was on a layover in Madrid on my way to Venice, Italy yesterday, the closest thing I could find to a smoothie to get a little protein was a coffee with vanilla ice cream in it. Traveling for 22 hours is very taxing under normal circumstances--but then again, when have we had normal circumstances since the 2000 and 2004 successful coup attempts that have brought BushCo into power?

I traveled from Venice to the frontier of Italy to the province of Udine which is right at the foot of the pre-Alps. I am here for a huge youth festival which includes many elements of social justice and peace work. It is beautiful and the air feels different from other places that I have travelled. It is strangely soft and gentle as is the natural light. However, there is not a Jamba Juice on every corner, so blended juice drinks with protein powder are impossible to find.

I have also received so many emails from worried, wonderful, and well-meaning friends and supporters in the US who are concerned about me and all of the others who are fasting. I don't like being on this fast, trust me, but 3 Marines were killed in Iraq today---3 unsuspecting families are about to head into a tailspin of senseless grief and we won't ever get an accurate count of the Iraqis who were killed today. It is going to be 112 degrees in Baghdad tomorrow. The occupiers and the occupied are suffering terribly.

It is important to keep our focus on saving the people of Iraq and our soldiers.

It is important to keep our focus on ending the war crime in Iraq.

The Troops Home Fast is a moral response to an immoral act. We can, and must be, morally strong so we can feast on the day that the last troop is brought home from the war crime in Iraq.

Then our focus can change to holding BushCo responsible for the war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace and focus on never allowing this to happen again.

Come to Camp Casey. August 16 to September 2nd.

Cindy Sheehan began her hunger strike against the war in Iraq on July 4th.

From www.commondreams.org
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mysteryman
 
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Reply Fri 28 Jul, 2006 04:17 pm
Who is paying for her trips?
She doesnt have a job or collect any kind of pension,so where is the money coming from?
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paull
 
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Reply Fri 28 Jul, 2006 05:23 pm
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Who is paying for her trips?
She doesnt have a job or collect any kind of pension,so where is the money coming from?


Who cares? She is a waste of time and money for those that support her. I wish she could be cloned.
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blueflame1
 
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Reply Fri 28 Jul, 2006 05:26 pm
"It is important to keep our focus on saving the people of Iraq and our soldiers.

It is important to keep our focus on ending the war crime in Iraq."
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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Fri 28 Jul, 2006 05:29 pm
Michelle Malin goes on a "Sheehan style" fast (YouTube video).

She does a mean Sheehan impression, IMHO.
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kelticwizard
 
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Reply Fri 28 Jul, 2006 06:08 pm
mysteryman wrote:
Who is paying for her trips?
She doesnt have a job or collect any kind of pension,so where is the money coming from?


Now that's just typical.

The right has any number of spokespeople representing all sorts of groups nobody ever heard of showing up at any newsworthy place to stick their face in front of a microphone for free, and nobody asks where they get their airfare or who pays their general expenses.

Let one lone woman who lost her son in the war do some public speaking, and you want a full accounting.

When yoiu get around to answering where all these right wingers get their cash, then you can ask about Cindy.
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paull
 
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Reply Fri 28 Jul, 2006 06:42 pm
[/QUOTE]The right has any number of spokespeople representing all sorts of groups nobody ever heard of showing up at any newsworthy place to stick their face in front of a microphone for free, and nobody asks where they get their airfare or who pays their general expenses.
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I would guess the groups pay them, KW. I think that MM's point is the Cindy doesn't represent a group, but seems to travel willy nilly.........at will, I might add.

At any rate it's money well wasted. She neither looks, nor sounds, smart, which puts her a step behind John Kerry, fer chrissakes.
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