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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 11:59 AM
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Protesters near Bush ranch demand withdrawal of troops from Iraq
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/6603183.htm

CRAWFORD, Texas - (KRT) - The ongoing, emotional debate over Iraq came to President Bush's doorstep Saturday.

While protesters near the presidential ranch in Crawford urged that American troops be brought home from Iraq, Bush called their effort there a major offensive in the war on terrorism.

"There will be no flinching in this war on terror, and there will be no retreat," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

Among those gathering at the local football stadium to denounce both Bush and the war, four days after a terrorist bombing at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, were relatives of troops.

"George Bush does not support our soldiers," said Candance Robison, whose husband is an Army lieutenant in Iraq. "He lies to our nation and our soldiers about our reasons for going to war. He makes thoughtless statements like, `Bring `em on' to the Saddam loyalists who target our troops."

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jamesinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 12:03 PM
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1. It is happening in TX
This gives me hope. I like that they are becoming more vocal in his strongholds.
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 12:07 PM
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2. About 100, according to the Statesman
Families, friends of troops ask Bush for their return

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Robison, who lives in Krum, said she has opposed the war from the beginning. When she learned that Bush was going to spend August at his ranch, she decided to bring her message to the president personally.

"I was going to sit on the side of the road near the ranch with my two children and wait as long as I had to with my husband's picture," she said. "I don't know; maybe he would invite me in, and I could tell him about my family and all the other families who want to bring their loved ones back from this war."

http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/metro_state_f38426ac5179513700cd.html
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 12:08 PM
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3. If I remember correctly it was to be at the Crawford HS football field
Good for them
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kimchi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 12:48 PM
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4. Now this is a beautiful thing.
I have new respect for Texans. My sister lives there and I visit at least once a year. It is nice to know the US is waking up. Now, if Florida would get with the program, I'd know the times were a changin'.

Still cautious, but dancing in my seat here. Everytime any dissention gets covered I get more hopeful. Soon it will be all over the major papers. Drip, drip....TSUNAMI!
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tlcandie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 12:52 PM
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5. Honestly, they really need to THINK before they speak!
<snip>
"A Palestinian state will never be built on a foundation of violence," Bush said.
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Do they think that an Iraqi democratic state will be built on a foundation of violence IMPOSED by the US/UK?
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sham Donating Member (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 01:52 PM
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11. People are beginning to feel real pain.
All the people who thought it would never happen to them -- that this kind of pain only happens in faraway places like New York -- are seeing their sons and daughters killed or injured half a world away. They're losing their jobs. They're not able to find new ones. They're losing their retirement savings. Their kids' schools are falling down around them. The list goes on and on. People in this country (and even in Texas) are feeling real pain, and they are starting to understand what is causing that pain. If Texas of all places is waking up (and I believe it is, be it ever so slowly) then we have reason to hope that the rest of the country will wake up as well.
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MaverickX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 12:58 PM
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6. I disagree with them...
We need to secure Iraq not withdraw from it and let it further erupt into chaos.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 01:00 PM
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8. Maybe Iraq doesn't want our "help" anymore
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MaverickX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 12:08 PM
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22. you can't know that..
You only know what you see on tv. I seriously doubt Iraqis want no help. Arab nations surrounding Iraq are criticizing us for not securing Iraq enough.
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kerouac Donating Member (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 12:59 PM
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7. J'ever notice they never show the pics..

Seems like 9 outta 10 times one of these VERY frequent protests actually makes it into an article or news item online, they don't include a photo of the protesters... I find that disturbing..
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 01:29 PM
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10. These people are very legit
You can go to http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ for more information. They announced this rally at the press conference covered on cspan for military families weeks ago.
They have a very real bitch, their husbands, wives, sons, daughters etc... suffer daily in Iraq for the neocons and the bfee. Many have had their eyes opened and are spreading the message that our soldiers are being hung out to dry in the Iraqi heat.
The rally should have been story one on the evening news.
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QuietStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 01:58 PM
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12. It will be interesting to see how long the MEDIA will suppress

coverage of what looks to be the re-emergence of the anit-war movement entitled BRING 'EM HOME - BRING THE BOYS HOME - END THE OCCUPATION.
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lindashaw Donating Member (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 02:46 PM
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14. I was there in Crawford...
And it wasn't held in the football field a few feet away. We had to have the meeting out on the blistering parking lot with no place to sit and four police cars parked beside us. I don't know whose idea it was to not let us on the grassy field, but media cameras were there, and they saw. It was a small gathering, but a lot was said. I suspect that every license plate there was written down by the police.
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lindashaw Donating Member (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 03:01 PM
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17. Yes, we have pix of protest in Crawford. I will get you pictures.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 04:30 PM
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18. HEY LINDA
THANK YOU AND WELCOME TO THE DU. :hi:
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 01:22 PM
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9. I've heard that the AFSC, the Quakers, have opened a Meeting
House in Crawford, Tx. this year.
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 02:40 PM
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13. Were any of them wearing cowboy hats ?
Edited on Sun Aug-24-03 02:42 PM by bahrbearian
In Redmond Oregon last week Chimppy said he could tell when his was in a Freindly Gathering when he could see cowboy hats, From now on mine says Impeach Chimmpy.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:48 AM
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20. Maybe he sees their "souls" in the hats
Remember when he looked into Putin's soul and saw that he was a "good man"?
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 02:48 PM
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15. Someone should let Centre Daily know that it's not a ranch.
N/T
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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 02:57 PM
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16. "Richard Cheney - Get The Halliburton out of Iraq."
The protesters know what this war is about.
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 04:32 PM
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19. Take Back the Media is offering Whistles to get Whistle Ass REMOVED
Go to http://www.takebackthemedia.com/whistlestop.html

and pick up a nice whistle for the next protest, think of how far we must reach from those pesky First Amendment Zones..

These people know best, they have lost family over the lies - we need more Whistle Blowers in this administration
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mbperrin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 07:00 PM
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21. Pix at Crawford protest
Here: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0824-01.htm
and here: http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/6606843.htm

Dallas Morning News, Reuters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram good enough?

Bring them home! Send Bush home (hint: it ain't Texas!)!
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