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Love and hope, then how come all I seem to hear is hate, anger and despair…

By Cindy Sheehan

Tuesday 16 August 2005

12:08 AM

Misses and Miracles

We still have so many great things happening at Camp Casey. In spite of all the smears and lies, people are still coming.

The most amazing thing today was learning that Camp Caseys are opening and spreading all over the country. They have been set up in Boston, Portland, Seattle, and elsewhere. If you can’t make it to Camp Casey, set up your own version. Camp Caseys are amazing places full of love and hope. I am so gratified that the movement is spreading.

There is a meeting tomorrow at the County Commissioner’s meeting to vote on closing Prairie Chapel Road and then evicting us. We were all worried about that and planning on being arrested when we got the best news yet. The property owner who owns property near Bush’s ranch and right across the street from Bush’s church will let us move Camp Casey there!! He has property on both sides of the road … a full acre for us to camp! We are so excited!!! We can fit more people and we will be closer to the ranch. Miracles, miracles.

Mike Rogers from Tokyo showed up today and a dear woman from Australia who was a human shield in Iraq and knows that the Iraqi people are not jumping for joy that the policies of Bush destroyed their country.

This is an extremely short post today … I am exhausted.

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I’ve tried to put the whole thing in historical (and psychological) perspective in this article. There are some very interesting tie-ins to the Vietnam era and the intergenerational conflict it engendered.

Phil is stationed at Fort Hood and on his day off whet to Crawford to see Mrs. Sheehan. He said that in his opinion she has not even begun to address her grief. When they were saying goodbye after a private conversation away from the cameras, Cindy asked if she could hug him and pretend for a moment that he was her son. He whispered in her ear “I love you, Mom” and she replied “I love you, Casey”. Phil’s account helped me put a human face back on Cindy Sheehan. I still despise her rhetoric and her actions and, like Rick, have nothing but contempt for the scum who uses people like Sheehan to further their own contemptible ends, but, damn, she’s a sad, sad woman.

It will only serve to feed her self-induced martyrdom.

Oh, the cross she must bear on behalf of us ignorant chickenhawks.

That’s only a piece of the price she will pay.