Cindy Sheehan, CODEPINK, Iraqi Women to Protest at Frist's Office Today

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Cindy Sheehan, CODEPINK and Iraqi Women to Protest at Sen. Frist's Office at 3 p.m. Today

4/27/2006 2:46:00 PM

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: David Swanson, 202-329-7847 or Gael Murphy, 202-412-6700 or Medea Benjamin, 415-235-6517

News Advisory:

Cindy Sheehan, CODEPINK and Iraqi Women to Protest at Sen. Frist's Office at 3 p.m. Today

Demand he listen to Iraqis' Demand to End the Occupation

WHEN: TODAY, April 27, 3 p.m.

WHERE: Office of Senator Bill Frist, Hart Building, Rm 509, Washington, D.C.

With the Senate poised to pass a Supplemental Appropriations bill allocating an additional $67 billion for war, four US women, together with three Iraqi women, are going to the office of Senator Bill Frist to demand a meeting. All six adamantly oppose further funding of the war and want the Senator to hear, firsthand, from the Iraqi women.

The group is made up of Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan, former diplomat and Army Colonel Ann Wright, and CODEPINK: Women for Peace cofounders Medea Benjamin and Gael Murphy. The three Iraqi women are Faiza Al-Araji, Dahlia Wasfi and Aseel Al-Banna.

"The Iraqi women gave searing testimony in Congress this morning about how the troops most leave their country, but there was not a single Republican present," says Gael Murphy of CODEPINK. "We are going to Senator Frist's office because it is critical that he hear from these women, as they represent the 82 percent of Iraqis who want the U.S. troops to leave."

"We cannot stand by quietly while the Senate votes more billions for war," says Cindy Sheehan. "There's already been too much killing of both Americans and Iraqis. It's got to stop. We hold Senator Frist particularly responsible because he is promoting the continued funding and blocking amendments that would attach some measure of accountability. Perhaps listening to genuine voices of Iraqi women will help him reconsider his decision to support this cruel war."

"We'd also like to talk to the Senator about what it means to support the troops," says Colonel Ann Wright. "The Senator believes that we must protect the troops by allocating more money for war. But there is really only one way to protect our troops, and that is to bring them home."

CODEPINK Cofounders Medea Benjamin and Gael Murphy agree. "The majority of people in this country want to see the troops come home, but our elected officials keep handing over billions of our tax dollars to keep the war going. As we saw in the case of Vietnam, there's one sure way to stop a war: cut off the money. And that's what Senator Frist must do," says Medea Benjamin.

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They would have a better chance if they were a brain-dead Florida woman, I fear.

I had herd rumors and put up a thread about this. Glad to see it coming about.