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Welcome to the
Faggotgirl Tour of
Camp Casey!
It all starts here
at the Crawford Peace House.
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 Here's
Faggotgirl, "a meetin and a greetin" --and waiting for
a shuttle to take her to the two locations for the demonstrations,
both about 4 miles away.
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Jersey
Girls are in the House! Holla!
Show
me love, Gloucester, New Jersey!
(this
map showed where everyone was from)
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 This
sign sums it up. Faggotgirls like people. We don't
want them to die, or to have to kill people. We think the US can
do better at peaceful conflict resolution, and also treat armed
service members better.
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Isn't
this a great sign!
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Faggotgirls insist
that this child have a peaceful, hopeful future. There are so
many orphans her age in Iraq now. Let's let them be friends.
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We
hereby declare the Cindy Sheehan is a Faggotgirl!
Rock On, Cindy!
Hypocrites and
Liars
by CindySheehan
Sat Aug 20th, 2005 at 08:55:38 PDT
The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey
to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting
words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have
been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks
it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite
a hypocrite. Now I am urged to use softer language to appeal to
a wider audience. Why do my friends at Camp Casey think they are
there? Why did such a big movement occur from such a small action
on August 6, 2005?
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I haven't had much time to analyze the Camp Casey phenomena. I just
read that I gave 250 interviews in less than a week's time. I believe
it. I would go to bed with a raw throat every night. I got pretty
tired of answering some questions, like: "What do you want
to say to the President?" and "Do you really think he
will meet with you?" However, since my mom has been sick I
have had a chance to step back and ponder what I started in Crawford,
Tx.
I just read an article posted today on LewRockwell.com by artist
Robert Shetterly who painted my portrait. The article reminded me
of something I said at the Veteran's for Peace Convention the night
before I set out to Bush's ranch in my probable futile quest for
the truth. This is what I said:
"I got an email the other day and it said, `Cindy if you didn't
use so much profanity .... there's people on the fence that get
offended.'
"And you know what I said? `You know what? You know what, god
damn it? How in the world is anybody still sitting on that fence?'
"If you fall on the side that is pro-George and pro-war,
you get your ass over to Iraq, and take the place of somebody who
wants to come home. And if you fall on the side that is against
this war and against George Bush, stand up and speak out."
This is what the Camp Casey miracle is all about. American citizens
who oppose the war but never had a conduit for their disgust and
dismay are dropping everything and traveling to Crawford to stand
in solidarity with us who have made a commitment to sit outside
of George's ranch for the duration of the miserable Texan August.
If they can't come to Texas, they are attending vigils, writing
letters to their elected officials and to their local newspapers;
they are setting up Camp Casey branches in their hometowns; they
are sending flowers, cards, letters, gifts, and donations here to
us at Camp Casey. We are so grateful for all of the support, but
I think pro-peace Americans are grateful for something to do, finally.
One thing I haven't noticed or become aware of though is an increased
number of pro-war, pro-Bush people on the other side of the fence
enlisting to go and fight George Bush's war for imperialism and
insatiable greed. The pro-peace side has gotten off their apathetic
butts to be warriors for peace and justice. Where are the pro-war
people? Everyday at Camp Casey we have a couple of anti-peace people
on the other side of the road holding up signs that remind me that
"Freedom isn't Free" but I don't see them putting their
money where their mouths are. I don't think they are willing to
pay even a small down payment for freedom by sacrificing their own
blood or the flesh of their children. I still challenge them to
go to Iraq and let another soldier come home. Perhaps a soldier
that is on his/her third tour of duty, or one that has been stop-lossed
after serving his/her country nobly and selflessly, only to be held
hostage in Iraq by power mad hypocrites who have a long history
of avoiding putting their own skin in the game.
Contrary to what the main stream media thinks, I did not just fall
off a pumpkin truck in Crawford, Tx. on that scorchingly hot day
two weeks ago. I have been writing, speaking, testifying in front
of Congressional committees, lobbying Congress, and doing interviews
for over a year now. I have been pretty well known in the progressive,
peace community and I had many, many supporters before I even left
California. The people who supported me did so because they know
that I uncompromisingly tell the truth about this war. I have stood
up and said: "My son died for NOTHING, and George Bush and
his evil cabal and their reckless policies killed him. My son was
sent to fight in a war that had no basis in reality and was killed
for it." I have never said "pretty please" or "thank
you." I have never said anything wishy-washy like he uses "Patriotic
Rhetoric." I say my son died for LIES. George Bush LIED to
us and he knew he was LYING. The Downing Street Memos dated 23 July,
2002 prove that he knew that Saddam didn't have WMD's or any ties
to Al Qaeda. I believe that George lied and he knew he was lying.
He didn't use patriotic rhetoric. He lied and made us afraid of
ghosts that weren't there. Now he is using patriotic rhetoric to
keep the U.S. military presence in Iraq: Patriotic rhetoric that
is based on greed and nothing else.
Now I am being vilified and dragged through the mud by the righties
and so-called "fair and balanced" main stream media who
are afraid of the truth and can't face someone who tells it by telling
any truth of their own. Now they have to twist, distort, lie, and
scrutinize anything I have ever said when they never scrutinize
anything that George Bush said or is saying. Instead of asking George
or Scotty McClellan if he will meet with me, why aren't they asking
the questions they should have been asking all along: "Why
are our young people fighting, dying, and killing in Iraq? What
is this noble cause you are sending our young people to Iraq for?
What do you hope to accomplish there? Why did you tell us there
were WMD's and ties to Al Qaeda when you knew there weren't? Why
did you lie to us? Why did you lie to the American people? Why did
you lie to the world? Why are our nation's children still in harm's
way and dying everyday when we all know you lied? Why do you continually
say we have to `complete the mission' when you know damn well you
have no idea what that mission is and you can change it at will
like you change your cowboy shirts?"
Camp Casey has grown and prospered and survived all attacks and
challenges because America is sick and tired of liars and hypocrites
and we want the answers to the tough questions that I was the first
to dare ask. THIS is George Bush's accountability moment and he
is failing...miserably. George Bush and his advisers seriously "misunderestimated"
me when they thought they could intimidate me into leaving before
I had the answers, or before the end of August. I can take anything
they throw at me, or Camp Casey. If it shortens the war by a minute
or saves one life, it is worth it. I think they seriously "misunderestimated"
all mothers. I wonder if any of them had authentic mother-child
relationships and if they are surprised that there are so many mothers
in this country who are bear-like when it comes to wanting the truth
and who want to make meaning of their child's needless and seemingly
meaningless deaths?
The Camp Casey movement will not die until we have a genuine accounting
of the truth and until our troops are brought home. Get used to
it George, we are not going away.
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