Cindy Sheehan: Articles & Commentary

The following are Articles & Commentary related to the main article Cindy Sheehan. Also see Peace Vigil in Crawford, Texas.

January 2005

• Stan Goff, "No One Wants to Talk to Cindy Sheehan on Inauguration Day (Or Any Other). The Spectacle," CounterPunch, January 24/25, 2005.

March 2005

• William Rivers Pitt, "Mother of Fallen Soldier Responds to Iraq Withdrawal Debate," truthout.org, March 11, 2005.

May 2005

• David Pastor, "Cindy Sheehan lost her son in Iraq, Sunday, in the 26th aniversary of his first son Casey, she will talk in Berkeley against war," Indybay.org, May 26, 2005.

June 2005

• Bob Geiger, "Cindy Sheehan: Mother And Quiet Warrior," Yellow Dog Blog, June 23, 2005.
• David Henson, "Bush, Sheehans share moments," The Reporter (Vacaville, CA), June 24, 2005.

July 2005

• Greg Szymanski, "Mom, Who Lost Son In Iraq, Talks About 'Disgusting' White House Private Meeting With Bush," LewisNews, July 5, 2005.

August 2005

• Jim Downing, "A Mother's Vigil. Vacaville Woman Whose Son Died in Iraq is in Texas to Confront Bush," Sacramento Bee (Common Dreams), August 7, 2005.
• Stan Goff, "Spread the Word! Talk to Cindy!" Feral Scholar, August 8, 2005.
• Greg Mitchell and Joe Strupp, "Account of Iraq War Protestor's Meeting With Bush Draws Scrutiny," Editor & Publisher, August 8, 2005.
• Richard W. Stevenson, "Fallen soldier's mother vows vigil to see Bush," New York Times (also International Herald Tribune), August 9, 2005.
• News Alert: "Austin Press Conf. for Sheehan Wednesday at Noon," BuzzFlash, August 9, 2005.
• Editorial: "Add Cindy Sheehan to the list. She too dared to stand up for the truth, after losing a son in Bush's war, and found herself in a ditch," BuzzFlash, August 10, 2005.
• Maureen Dowd, "Why No Tea and Sympathy?" New York Times, August 10, 2005.
• Gary Younge, "Bereaved mother camps outside Bush ranch," Guardian/UK, August 10, 2005.
• Susan Paynter, "Sowing change from a Texas ditch," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 10, 2005.
• Amy Branham, "King George and National Security. Why is Cindy Sheehan a Threat to George on Thursday, but Not Today?" BuzzFlash, August 10, 2005.
• "AUDIO: O’Reilly and Malkin Smear Cindy Sheehan," Think Progress, August 10, 2005. Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin: See video posted by Crooks and Liars and see "O'Reilly Smears Grieving Mother as Flip-flopping Tool of the Left," Newshounds.us, August 9, 2005.
• Carol Marin, "Americans join mom in waiting for Iraq answers," Chicago Sun-Times, August 10, 2005.
• Ahmed Amr, "Plaming Cindy Sheehan," Media Monitors, August 10, 2005.
• William Rivers Pitt, "Bush Is No Nixon," Truthout.org, August 10, 2005.
• "Soldier's mother in Bush protest," BBC, August 11, 2005.
• Angela K. Brown, "Grieving Mother's War Protest Draws Notice," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 11, 2005.
• Edwin Chen and Dana Calvo, "Mother's Protest at Bush's Doorstep Raises the Stakes," Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2005.
• Deb Riechmann, "Bush says withdrawal would be a mistake. Mother of fallen soldier stages protest at Texas ranch," Associated Press (Daily Bulletin), August 11, 2005.
• G. Robert Hillman, "Mother's protest transforms quiet country road," Knight Ridder (Dallas Morning News; Macon, GA Telegraph), August 11, 2005.
• Raymond McGovern, "Letter to Cindy Sheehan," Common Dreams, August 11, 2005.
• Ralph Nader, "An Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, Texas. May You Prevail, Where Others Have Failed," CounterPunch, August 11, 2005.
• Arianna Huffington, "Cindy Sheehan Steps into the Leadership Void," The Huffington Post, August 11, 2005.
• Christine Lahti, "Cindy Sheehan is My Hero," The Huffington Post, August 11, 2005.
• Steve Holland, "Bush to mother who lost son in Iraq: 'I grieve'," Reuters, August 11, 2005.
• Margaret Carlson, "A grieving mother waits for an answer," Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2005.
• Gary Hart, "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness," The Huffington Post, August 11, 2005.
• Editorial: "Cindy Sheehan's Crowd," New York Sun (Editor & Publisher), August 11, 2005.
• Matthew Rothschild, "The Savaging of Cindy Sheehan," The Progressive, August 11, 2005.
• Rupert Cornwell, "Mother who lost son in Iraq war camps out by Bush ranch," Independent/UK, August 12, 2005.
• David Potorti, "Seeing Cindy," Common Dreams, August 12, 2005.
• Editorial: "Mother of Peace," Houston Chronicle (Common Dreams), August 12, 2005.
• Lisa Leff, "Son Killed in Iraq Known for Quiet Service," Associated Press (Wasington Post), August 13, 2005.
• Michael A. Fletcher, "Cindy Sheehan's Pitched Battle. In a Tent Near Bush's Ranch, Antiwar Mother of Dead Soldier Gains Visibility," Washington Post, August 13, 2005 (Page A01).
• JJ Balzer and Scott Johnson, "Pundit Pap," American Politics Journal, August 14, 2005.
• Tom Engelhardt, "Cindy, Don, and George. On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road," TomDispatch, August 14, 2005.
• Joe Garofoli, "New face of the anti-war effort. Within protest movement, mother's vigil raises hope for renewed national momentum," San Francisco Chronicle, August 14, 2005.
• David Rossie, "Sometimes, One Woman is All it Takes," Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) (Common Dreams), August 14, 2005.
• Tom Hayden, "Cindy Sheehan's War," The Huffington Post, August 14, 2005.
• Peter Adesnik, "Cindy Sheehan, Democratic Savior?" Democracy Arsenal, August 14, 2005.
• Tabassum Zakaria, "Dead soldier's mom brings anti-war protest to Bush," Reuters Foundation / AlertNet, August 14, 2005.
• JJ Balzer and Scott Johnson, "Pundit Pap," American Politics Journal, August 14, 2005: "Bless their black little hearts. The Pundit Elite have finally figured out two very simple facts: 1) Most Americans have a dim view of the Iraq war -- and want our forces out. Yesterday. If not sooner. 2) Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq, has stolen the issue of the Iraq war from George W. Bush."
• "Mom says war protest will continue until month's end," Associated Press (KLTV 7 East Texas), August 15, 2005.
• Celeste Zappala and Dante Zappala, "Cindy Sheehan's Fellowship Of Grief," Philadelphia Inquirer (TomPaine.Common Sense), August 15, 2005.
• "Cindy Sheehan's protest is heroic," The Arizona Republic, August 15, 2005.
• "'Peace mom's' husband files for divorce," Associated Press (Houston Chronicle), August 15, 2005.
• Harry Smith, "The President And Cindy Sheehan," CBS News, August 15, 2005.
• Sara S. DeHart, "Cindy Sheehan: On the Road to Jericho—On the Road to Crawford," Online Journal, August 16, 2005: "Last Thursday, George W. Bush emerged from the Crawford, Texas, White House, a former pig farm, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at his side to present a carefully scripted response to Cindy Sheehan's public dissent against the Iraqi war that was dutifully reported in the Washington Post as news. The script expressed sympathy, but it lacked what Cindy Sheehan has, authenticity."
• Amy Branham, "Camp Casey Revisited," BuzzFlash, August 16, 2005.
• Becky O'Malley, Editorial: "The Media Discovers Cindy Sheehan," Berkeley Daily Planet, August 16, 2005.
• "Rare August White House Briefing: Cindy Sheehan, the Pope, and Lance Armstrong," Editor & Publisher, August 16, 2005.
• Judy Keen, "Media escalation unnerves protest mom," USA Today, August 16, 2005.
• John Nichols, "Cindy Sheehan's Tragic Critics," The Nation, August 17, 2005.
• Elizabeth Edwards, "Listen to Cindy," AlterNet, August 17, 2005.
• Patrick J. Buchanan, "Cindy Sheehan: Anti-war catalyst," WorldNewsDaily, August 17, 2005.
• Susan Jones, "Cindy Sheehan Complains About Right-Wingers 'Spewing Filth'," Crosswalk (Cybercast News Service), August 17, 2005.
• Dan Froomkin, "Hurricane Cindy (is gaining strength in Texas)," Washington Post, August 17, 2005. Contains brief comments and links to other news of the day.
• Elisabeth Bumiller, "Protester Vows to Continue Her Vigil Near Bush Ranch," New York Times, August 17, 2005.
• "Hating Cindy," The Rude Pundit, August 18, 2005. CAUTION: Contains language which may be offensive to some.
• Joe Garofoli, "She reopened debate about war, and, boy, is she hearing about it," San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 2005.
• Indy video of Camp Casey set to the reading of letters to Laura Bush, August 18, 2005.
• Angela K. Brown, "'Peace Mom,' Her Mother Ill, Leaves Camp," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 18, 2005.
• John Nichols, "Pro-war folks' attacks show desperation," The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin), August 18, 2005.
• Steven Laffoley, "A Simple Question and the Power of Shame," Common Dreams, August 18, 2005.
• Tony Norman, "Whatever happens, Cindy Sheehan will not be moved," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 19, 2005.
• Eric Baerren, "Just looking for an answer or two," Morning Sun (Mt. Pleasant and Alma, Michigan), August 19, 2005: "It didn't take long for the smears to start from the pro-troops, pro-family Right."
• Arianna Huffington, "Why Are the Media Having Such a Hard Time Covering Cindy Sheehan?" The Huffington Report, August 19, 2005: "It's as if the simple, direct, and starkly emotional nature of her stance is too raw for them to handle in any of the standard ways. So they've taken to treating her with a strange mix of detachment, condescension, distortion, and aggression."
• Vijay Prashad, "Cindy Sheehan's Tragedy is Real. The Rosa Parks of the Anti-War Movement," CounterPunch, August 19, 2005.
• "Sheehan plans return to antiwar camp. Protester tending to ailing mother," Associated Press (CNN), August 19, 2005.
• "Cindy Sheehan shows Bush is now losing in Iraq and at home," Socialist Worker, August 20, 2005 (issue).
• C.W. Nevius, "The face behind Bush vigil," San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 2005.
• Paul Harris, "Mother tips the balance against Bush. Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside the President's ranch has galvanised the anti-war movement - and provoked a vicious political slanging match," Observer.Guardian (UK), August 21, 2005.
• Angela K. Brown, "'Peace Mom' Returns to Texas War Protest," Associated Press, August 24, 2005.
• Patt Morrison, "Looking for wisdom in the wrong places," Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2005.
• Alexander Cockburn, "Says Sheehan 'Not a LaRouchie'! Hitchens Backs Down," CounterPunch, August 24, 2005.
• Jeremy Pelofsky, "Iraq war protestor says to shift focus to Congress," Reuters (Yahoo! News), August 26, 2005.
• John Koopman, "Families share Sheehan's pain, but not all share her politics," Associated Press (San Francisco Chronicle), August 26, 2005.
• Paul Waldman, "Sliming Miss Cindy," Philadelphia Daily News, August 30, 2005.
• "Cindy Sheehan to protest against Blue Angels air show in Maine," KLTV 7 East Texas, August 31, 2005.
• Carla Binion, "Cindy Sheehan, mainstream media and Bush propaganda," The Smirking Chimp, August 31, 2005.

September 2005

• Andrew Gumbel, "The Passion of Cindy Sheehan. The protest in Crawford has far greater meaning than just ‘one woman sitting in a ditch’," Los Angeles City Beat, September 1, 2005.
• Marilou Johanek, "Gold-star mother accomplished her mission," Toledo Blade, September 2, 2005.
• "`Peace mom' to visit officials in Illinois," Chicago Tribune, September 7, 2005.
• Scott Galindez, "You Can't Steal the Camp Casey Movement," Truthout, September 16, 2005.
• Sarah Feguson, "NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan. City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried," Village Voice, September 19, 2005: "The NYPD pulled the plug just as Sheehan was calling on the audience not to lose heart in the fight to end the war in Iraq." See WMP and QT video on Crooks and Liars website, as well as links to more on this story.
• Marc Santora, "Mother Who Lost Son in Iraq Continues Fight Against War," New York Times, September 19, 2005: Cindy "brought her campaign to end the war to New York, where she accused Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of not doing enough to challenge the Bush administration's Iraq policies."
• Joshua Frank, "NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan. But Not the Anti-War Movement," CounterPunch, September 21, 2005.

• Also see Peace Vigil in Washington, DC.

• Caren Bohan, "Antiwar mom Sheehan takes protest to White House," Reuters (Yahoo! News), September 21, 2005.
• Sarah Ferguson, "Cindy Sheehan Caravan Stopped by Capitol Police. Bring Them Home Now treks afoot to press conference," Village Voice, September 21, 2005.

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