Peace Vigil in Crawford, Texas: Articles & Commentary August 3 to August 15, 2005

The following Articles & Commentary date from August 3 to August 15, 2005, and relate to the main article Peace Vigil in Crawford, Texas, including reports about ongoing activities and events in Crawford, Texas, connected with the peace vigil held since August 6, 2005, by Gold Star Families for Peace, Cindy Sheehan, and other peace movement organizations at Camp Casey a few miles from President George W. Bush's ranch, as well as worldwide reaction in support of and opposition to the peace vigil.

Also see Peace Vigil in Crawford, Texas: Articles & Commentary for more external links.

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August 3, 2005

• Cindy Sheehan, "Taking the Message to Bush: 'Honor' Our Soldiers by Bringing Them All Home Now; If Cause is 'Noble,' Send Jenna and Barbara. Gold Star Families for Peace, Veterans For Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, and Crawford Peace House Will Hold Protest in Crawford on Saturday, August 6th," BuzzFlash, August 3, 2005.

August 5, 2005

• Cindy Sheehan, Speech at the Veterans for Peace National Convention, August 5, 2005; posted on bellaciao.org website.

August 6, 2005

• "CBS Evening News, NBC Sunday Today and CNN Sunday Morning Cover Cindy's Protest," MeetWithCindy.org, August 6, 2005.
• "Soldier's mom protests near Bush's ranch," CNN/Associated Press, August 6, 2005. Also posted by CBS News/Associated Press.
• Julie Mason, "Bush says it's no vacation at his Crawford ranch," Houston Chronicle, August 6, 2005.

August 7, 2005

• Thaddeus DeJesus, "Mother of slain soldier demands audience with Bush," Waco Herald-Tribune, August 7, 2005.
• "Slain GI's Mom Camps In Crawford," CBS News/Associated Press, August 7, 2005.
• Richard W. Stevenson, "Mother Takes Protest to Bush's Ranch," New York Times, August 7, 2005.
• Bob Fertik, "Bush Refuses to Meet with Cindy but Sends Lies and Death Threats," Democrats.com, August 7, 2005.
• Michael Hedges, "Anti-war protesters go after Bush at home. Group, which included mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq, is halted 5 miles from ranch," Houston Chronicle, August 7, 2005.
• "Protesters march on Bush's ranch," Aljazeera, August 7, 2005.
• "Soldier's mom digs in near Bush ranch. Senator sees 'echoes of Vietnam' in vigil to meet president," CNN, August 7, 2005.
• Edwin Chen, "Bush Aides Meet Angry Mother of Fallen Soldier. The California woman, unassuaged, says she'll wait in Texas to discuss Iraq with the president," Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2005.
• Deb Reichmann, "Soldier's mother protests near Bush ranch," Associated Press (Boston Globe), August 7, 2005; also see CNN/AP and MSNBC/AP versions online.
• "Members of CODEPINK: WOMEN FOR PEACE Begin Hunger Strike to Support Cindy Sheehan's Roadside Vigil in Crawford, Texas," CODEPINK, August 7, 2005.

August 8, 2005

• Greg Mitchell and Joe Strupp, "Account of Iraq War Protestor's Meeting With Bush Draws Scrutiny," Editor & Publisher, August 8, 2005.
• Cindy Sheehan, 30 Minute QuickTime Video of Cindy Sheehan on the Veterans For Impeachment Tour Bus, August 8, 2005. Link to DC Indymedia posted on democrats.com website.
• Deb Reichmann, "Protest mom met Bush in '04," Chicago Sun-Times, August 8, 2005.
• William Rivers Pitt, "Every Mother's Son," truthout.org (peacejournalism.com), August 8, 2005; also posted on AlterNet.
• Edward Chen, "Grieving mother tries to call Bush to account," The Age, August 8, 2005.
• Elisabeth Bumiller, "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, Redefining 'Vacation'," New York Times (also International Herald Tribune), August 8, 2005.
• "Grieving mom may have worn out welcome outside Bush's ranch," 11 News KHOU (Houston), August 8, 2005.
• Oren Odell, "Slain soldier’s mother keeps protest vigil at Bush ranch," Army Times (USA Today), August 8, 2005.
• "Cindy, Crawford, and the Bush Smear Machine," Attytood, August 8, 2005.
• "No-one should have to camp out at the creepford ranch, much less the mother of a dead US soldier," Medbh Sings, August 8, 2005.

August 9, 2005

• Richard W. Stevenson, "Fallen soldier's mother vows vigil to see Bush," New York Times (also International Herald Tribune), August 9, 2005.
• "Interview with Cindy Sheehan on Laura Flanders," MeetWithCindy.org, August 9, 2005.
• Joan Vennochi, "Mr. Bush, let's talk," Boston Globe, August 9, 2005.
• Debra J. Saunders, "War reports -- we'd be Brits," San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 2005.
• Susan Ager, "Bush should simply listen," Detroit Free Press, August 9, 2005.
• "Military Families to Join Cindy Sheehan in Crawford; Gold Star and Military Families from Across Country on Their Way to Texas," US Newswire, August 9, 2005.
• "Local Women To Join Vigil At President's Ranch. Families Of Fallen Soldiers Want Audience With Bush," NBC San Diego, August 9, 2005.
• "Our absent leader," Brattleboro Reformer (Vermont), August 9, 2005.
• "Vacaville Mother Leads Anti-War Protest Outside Bush Texas Ranch," KXTV News10 (Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, CA), August 9, 2005.
• Amy Branham, "Peasants on the March to King George," antiwar.com, August 9, 2005.
• Interview: "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 ...'," BuzzFlash, August 9, 2005.
• News Alert: "Austin Press Conf. for Sheehan Wednesday at Noon," BuzzFlash, August 9, 2005.
• Amy Branham, "Thank you, America! A Report from the Vigil in Crawford," BuzzFlash, August 9, 2005.
• Steve Cobble, "Casey's Mom at the Bat," The Huffington Post (Yahoo! News), August 9, 2005.
• Tom Hall, "In a media storm. Protest draws national attention," The Reporter (Vacaville, CA), August 9, 2005.
• "Networks Trumpet Cause of Bush-Hater Sheehan's Anti-War Vigil," Media Research Center, August 9, 2005.
• "Support Cindy Sheehan. A Mother's Vigil to End the War and Bring the Troops Home Now," United for Peace and Justice, August 9, 2005.
• Editorial: "One Mother in Crawford," New York Times, August 9, 2005.

August 10, 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.
• Anthony Wade, "The Proverbial Truth About George W. Bush and Cindy Sheehan. Hang in there Cindy, the country is behind you," OpEdNews, 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.
• Lakshmi Chaudry, "A Mother's Texas Vigil," AlterNet, August 10, 2005: "Her vigil is receiving widespread media coverage, and on Tuesday, 16 Democratic members of Congress signed a letter requesting Bush to meet with her." Article contains MP3 audio link. Letter posted on The Raw Story website.
• "38 Members of Congress Call on Bush to Meet with Cindy Sheehan," BuzzFlash, August 10, 2005. Link to pdf version of letter on web page.
• Amy Branham, "King George and National Security. Why is Cindy Sheehan a Threat to George on Thursday, but Not Today?" BuzzFlash, August 10, 2005.
• "Handful of military families join mother's Crawford protest," The Raw Story, August 10, 2005: "Members of the progressive Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out have begun to trickle into Crawford, Texas, to join mother of fallen soldier Cindy Sheehan and call on President Bush to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq."
• "President Who-Gives-a-Shit (Part 2)," The Rude Pundit, August 10, 2005. (Part 1 is about Peter Jennings. CAUTION: The Raw Pundit often includes offensive language.
• Tim Grieve, War Room: "Crashing the party at Crawford," Salon, August 10, 2005.
• William Rivers Pitt, "Bush Is No Nixon," Truthout.org, August 10, 2005.
• Carol Marin, "Americans join mom in waiting for Iraq answers," Chicago Sun-Times, August 10, 2005.

August 11, 2005

• Mike Anderson, "Protesters gather in Crawford to support protesting mom," Waco Herald-Tribune, August 11, 2005.
• Thaddeus DeJesus, "Mother of slain soldier in Crawford draws international attention," Waco Herald-Tribune, August 11, 2005.
• "Sitting with the Dead: In Solidarity with Cindy Sheehan," Common Dreams, August 11, 2005.
• Angela K. Brown, "Grieving California mother's war protest outside Bush's ranch gaining momentum," Associated Press (AOL), August 11, 2005; also posted on CNN.
• Oren Dorell, "Peace House a center of dissent in Crawford," USA Today, 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.
• Cindy Sheehan, "This is George Bush's Accountability Moment," The Huffington Post, August 11, 2005.
• Arianna Huffington, "Cindy Sheehan Steps into the Leadership Void," The Huffington Post, August 11, 2005.
• Bob Fertik, "Cindy Exposes the Emperor's New Clothes," The Huffington Post, August 11, 2005.
• Greg Moses, "Mornings with Cindy. At the Crawford Peace House" (Camp Casey, Texas), CounterPunch, August 11, 2005.
• Steve Holland, "Bush to mother who lost son in Iraq: 'I grieve'," Reuters, August 11, 2005.
• Greg Mitchell, "Cindy Sheehan, Bill Mitchell and the Lost Boys," Editor & Publisher, August 11, 2005. Bill Mitchell has "been protesting the war before it began -- and before he lost his son ... Mitchell’s son Mike had died on the same day, April 4, 2004, as Sheehan’s son Casey -- and in the same Sadr City incident."

August 12, 2005

• Bennett Roth, "President passes by anti-war protesters. Demonstrations for and against Bush set for today," Houston Chronicle, August 12, 2005.
• Steve Gilliard, "Bad Politics," The News Blog, August 11, 2005.
• Rupert Cornwell, "Mother who lost son in Iraq war camps out by Bush ranch," Independent/UK, August 12, 2005.
• Norman Solomon, "Cindy Sheehan's Message. Repudiating Bush and Dean," CounterPunch, August 12, 2005.
• "Ranks Swelling At Camp Crawford. Mother Of Slain Troop Has Been Camped Out Since Saturday. Vows To Remain Until Meeting With Bush," CBS 2 News (wcbstv.com New York), August 12, 2005.

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).
• Agnes Jasinski, "Pastors for Peace takes cause on the road," The Monitor, August 13, 2005. re Pastors for Peace.
• Thaddeus DeJesus and Mike Anderson, "Bush supporters arrive in Crawford as anti-war protestors continue vigil," Waco Tribune-Herald, August 13, 2005.
• "Bush Responds to Sheehan Protest in Weekly Radio Address," Editor & Publisher, August 13, 2005.
• "President snubs war protesters. Iraq support low, but Bush sticks to guns," Associated Press (Edmonton Sun), August 13, 2005.
• Tom Tomorrow, "The Collapsing Storyline," This Modern World, August 13, 2005.
• E.L. Doctorow, "Bush cannot grieve because he doesn't know what death is," Houston Chronicle, August 13, 2005.

August 14, 2005

• William Rivers Pitt, "Cindy's Victory," Democratic Underground, August 14, 2005.
• Frank Rich, "Someone Tell the President the War Is Over," New York Times, August 14, 2005.

• Read Norman Solomon's August 15, 2005, response to Rich: "Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Is Not Over," Common Dreams.

• Ahmed Amr, "Cindy Sheehan Confronts Judith Miller's War," Media Monitors Network, August 14, 2005.
• Peter Adesnik, "Cindy Sheehan, Democratic Savior?" Democracy Arsenal, August 14, 2005.
• Ken Herman, "Bush will `go on with life'. Defends refusal to meet protester," Cox News Service (AOL), August 14, 2005.
• Debbie Daniel, "Cindy Sheehan becomes National Security Advisor," RenewAmerica, August 14, 2005.
• "Dog Day Afternoon," Billmon, August 14, 2005.
• David Rossie, "Sometimes, One Woman is All it Takes," Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) (Common Dreams), August 14, 2005.
• "When Politics Kills, Grief Becomes Politics," Light of Reason, August 14, 2005.
• Tom Engelhardt, "Cindy, Don, and George. On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road," TomDispatch, August 14, 2005.
• JJ Balzer and Scott Johnson, "Pundit Pap," American Politics Journal, August 14, 2005.

August 15, 2005

• "Mom says war protest will continue until month's end," Associated Press (KLTV 7 East Texas), August 15, 2005.
• "Sheehan gets support from Congresswoman, Iraqis," NBC 6 KCEN (Central Texas), August 15, 2005.
• "Cindy Sheehan and the Crossroads of Crawford," Revolution #012, posted August 15, 2005, at revcom.us; August 21, 2005 (issue).
• "Cindy Sheehan's protest is heroic," The Arizona Republic, August 15, 2005.
• Arianna Huffington, "Russert Watch: Running from Sheehan and the Truth," The Huffington Post (Yahoo! News), August 15, 2005.
• Greg Saunders, "Michelle vs. Michelle," This Modern World, August 15, 2005.
• Greg Moses, "'God, What a Weak Man'. Pilgrims of Protest in Crawford," CounterPunch, August 15, 2005.
• Judd, Kathleen Parker: "If Bush Meets With Cindy Sheehan, The Terrorists Win," Think Progress, August 15, 2005.
• Harry Smith, "The President And Cindy Sheehan," CBS News, August 15, 2005.