Peace Vigil in Crawford, Texas: Articles & Commentary August 16 to August 31, 2005

The following Articles & Commentary date from August 16 to August 31, 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.

For more external links, see Peace Vigil in Crawford, Texas: Articles & Commentary, as well the article peace movement.

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August 16, 2005

• Video Links, Brad Blog, August 16, 2005: Wolf Blitzer CNN "Situation Room" interview with Cindy; Swimmer Films' day at Camp Casey; and TruthOut's video tour of Camp Casey.
• Brendan O'Neill, "The Iraq war and the politics of grief," Christian Science Monitor, August 16, 2005.
• Joan Walsh, "The Mother of all Battles. Cindy Sheehan has almost single-handedly launched an American antiwar movement. And in the process, she's exposed a president's feet of clay," Salon (Common Dreams), August 16, 2005.
• "Bush a Coward," Niagara Falls Reporter, August 16, 2005; also posted on Common Dreams.
• Caren Bohan, "Antiwar protester Sheehan to move campsite," Reuters, August 16, 2005.
• Sara S. DeHart, "Cindy Sheehan: On the Road to Jericho—On the Road to Crawford," Online Journal, August 16, 2005.
• Amy Branham, "Camp Casey Revisited," BuzzFlash, August 16, 2005.
• "Why Is The Left Lining Up Behind Cindy Sheehan?", Hoffmania!, August 16, 2005.
• Scott Horton, "Who's a Traitor?" Antiwar.com, August 16, 2005.
• "Cindy Sheehan's Agenda," New York Post, August 16, 2005.
• Steve Duin, "The exodus of grief and anger to Crawford," The Oregonian, August 16, 2005.
• "Parents of Fallen Marine Make Plea to Bush," Associated Press (ABC 7 News WJLA Cleveland), August 16, 2005.
• Becky O'Malley, Editorial: "The Media Discovers Cindy Sheehan," Berkeley Daily Planet, August 16, 2005.
• "Rare August White House Briefing: Cindy Sheehan, the Pope, and Lance Armstrong," Editor & Publisher, August 16, 2005.
• Judy Keen, "Media escalation unnerves protest mom," USA Today, August 16, 2005.

August 17, 2005

• Maureen Dowd, Op-Ed: "Biking Toward Nowhere," New York Times, August 17, 2005.
• Patrick Condon, "Ex-FBI Whistleblower to Join 'Peace Mom'," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 17, 2005. re Coleen Rowley.
• Patrick J. Buchanan, "Cindy Sheehan: Anti-war catalyst," WorldNewsDaily, August 17, 2005.
• Susan Jones, "Cindy Sheehan Complains About Right-Wingers 'Spewing Filth'," Crosswalk (Cybercast News Service), August 17, 2005.
• Mark Knoller, "Sheehan Edges Closer To Bush Ranch," CBS News/Associated Press, August 17, 2005. Numerous links to other related stories and video on page.
• Missy Comley Beattie, "'He Did Not Die For Your Freedom'," AlterNet, August 17, 2005.
• Elizabeth Edwards, "Listen to Cindy," AlterNet, August 17, 2005.
• Norman Solomon, "Blaming the Antiwar Messengers," Common Dreams, August 17, 2005.
• Gary Younge, "US right targets anti-war mother," Guardian Unlimited (UK), August 17, 2005.
• Dan Froomkin, "Hurricane Cindy (is gaining strength in Texas)," Washington Post, August 17, 2005. Contains brief comments and links to other news of the day.
• Elisabeth Bumiller, "Protester Vows to Continue Her Vigil Near Bush Ranch," New York Times, August 17, 2005.
• Geov Parrish, "The triumph of Camp Casey," Working for Change, August 17, 2005.
• "More Parents Demand Answers from Bush," Blunt News (courtesy CBS News), August 17, 2005 (click on picture to play video).

August 18, 2005

• Cindy Sheehan, "Memo to Drudge, et al: It's Not About Me, It's About the War," The Huffington Post, August 18, 2005.
• Greg Mitchell, "On Losing a Son, and Saving Others," Editor & Publisher, August 18, 2005.
• Greg Moses, "Cindy, the Peace Train and the Little Ditch that Could," CounterPunch, August 18, 2005.
• Angela K. Brown, "'Peace Mom,' Her Mother Ill, Leaves Camp," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 18, 2005.
• Ellen Goodman, "Sheehan targets war's 'swing voters'. Simple protest aims to keep war dead from being 'honored' by more deaths," Working for Change, August 18, 2005.
• "Today's White House Briefing: More on Sheehan and Armstrong," Editor & Publisher, August 18, 2005.
• John Nichols, "Pro-war folks' attacks show desperation," The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin), August 18, 2005.
• Norman Solomon, "Camp Casey vs. Camp Carnage," Antiwar.com, August 18, 2005.
• Paul Begala, "Anti-War Imagery and the Iconography of Hate," TPMCafe, August 18, 2005: "Today it is the left invoking faith, flag and family, while the right destroys crosses. Today it is the left that honors the war dead, raises up a Gold Star Mother and publicly prays for our troops, while the right viciously attacks a woman who gave her country everything. Today it is the left that patiently and peacefully respects the Office of the Presidency, while the right diminishes the office by claiming it's more important for the President to go bike-riding with a sports hero than comfort the mother of a war hero." Numerous comments follow article.
• Robert Dreyfuss, "First, Ignore The Neocons," Tom Paine.Common Sense, August 18, 2005: "Stunning as it may seem, over the past few weeks I’ve surveyed leading think tanks in New York and Washington and talked to former State Department and CIA officials, and it appears that virtually no one is working on a real plan for an exit strategy."
• Randolph T. Holhut, "A mother's grief and a president's arrogance," The Smirking Chimp, August 18, 2005.
• Sidney Blumenthal, "Bush's unhappy holidays. The presidential vacationer is being besieged," Guardian Unlimited (UK), August 18, 2005.
• Ira Chernus, "Sheehan Story Shows Elite Split on War," Common Dreams, August 18, 2005.
• Steven Laffoley, "A Simple Question and the Power of Shame," Common Dreams, August 18, 2005.
• Monica Benderman, "For Cindy: There is no Glory in Dying," Common Dreams, August 18, 2005.
• Mary deJuliis, "Texas protest changes columnist's perspective," Muskogee Phoenix, August 18, 2005.
• Al Mascitti, "Another grieving parent knows why Bush fears a face to face meeting," The News Journal / Delaware Online, August 18, 2005. re Nick Berg.

August 19, 2005

• Tony Norman, "Whatever happens, Cindy Sheehan will not be moved," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 19, 2005.
• Ahmed Amr, "Bush Launches 'Operation Cindy Sheehan'," Media Monitors Network, August 19, 2005.
• Rebecca Schoenkopf, "Bring ’Em On. We go a-visiting with the president," OC Weekly, August 19-25, 2005.
• Farhad Manjoo, "After Cindy Sheehan," Salon, August 19, 2005. (Requires preview or subscription.) "The antiwar movement was dominated by lefties and ineffective -- until a grieving mother from California became its symbol. With Middle America now asking the same angry questions she is, will the movement finally take off?"
• Eric Baerren, "Just looking for an answer or two," Morning Sun (Mt. Pleasant and Alma, Michigan), August 19, 2005: "It didn't take long for the smears to start from the pro-troops, pro-family Right."
• Helen Thomas, "Reality of war spoils Bush's vacation," Hearst Newspapers (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), August 19, 2005.
• Aaron Glantz, "Why Casey Sheehan Was Killed," Antiwar.com, August 19, 2005. Also see Aaron Glantz (Free Speech Radio News), "Battles Rage Across Iraq As U.S. Comes Face To Face With a Unified Armed Resistance," Democracy Now!, April 7, 2004.
• Debra Pickett, "War rages? Why fret? It's August, time for vacation," Chicago Sun-Times, August 19, 2005: "If the president wastes energy on things like American soldiers dying for a cause that seems increasingly incomprehensible, then he won't have time for the really important stuff."
• "Like Mother, Like Son," Think Progress, August 19, 2005: "Why doesn’t President Bush feel obligated to meet with Cindy Sheehan during his vacation? ... Remember this statement by his mother, Barbara Bush, on Good Morning America," March 18, 2003: 'Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?'"
• Bob Geiger, "Bush Interrupted Vacation For Schiavo," Yellow Dog Blog, August 19, 2005: "On March 20, 2005, George W. Bush rapidly returned to Washington from another Crawford vacation so he could intervene in the Terry Schiavo [sic] case by signing Republican legislation requiring doctors to restore Schiavo's feeding tube."
• "Sheehan plans return to antiwar camp. Protester tending to ailing mother," Associated Press (CNN), August 19, 2005.

August 20, 2005

• "Cindy Sheehan shows Bush is now losing in Iraq and at home," Socialist Worker, August 20, 2005 (issue).
• Glen Warchol, "Rocky's call to protest Bush makes vets see red. Mayor's e-mail: 'Nothing radical,' supporters say," Salt Lake Tribune, August 20, 2005.
• Alexander Cockburn, "CounterPunch Diary. Can Cindy Sheehan End the War?" CounterPunch, August 20/21, 2005.
• Greg Moses, "A Daytrip Without Cindy. Friday at Camp Casey," CounterPunch, August 20/21, 2005.

August 21, 2005

• Paul Harris, "Mother tips the balance against Bush. Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside the President's ranch has galvanised the anti-war movement - and provoked a vicious political slanging match," Observer.Guardian (UK), August 21, 2005.

August 22, 2005

• Earl Ofari Hutchinson, "Where Are The Black Cindy Sheehans?" AlterNet, August 22, 2005: "With the exception of a march in Harlem, the faces of the antiwar protestors have looked like Sheehan's."
• DeWayne Wickham, "Mother deserves meeting, and apology, from Bush," USA Today, August 22, 2005.
• Ian O'Connor, "Bush on vacation, out of touch during tough times," USA Today (Sports Section), August 22, 2005.
• Keith Olberman, "Limbaugh runs away from Limbaugh," Countdown (MSNBC), August 22, 2005.
• "Bush Believes Those Who Protest Iraq War Don't Want U.S. to Win 'War on Terror,' Spokesman Says," Editor & Publisher, August 23, 2005. Read transcript of the August 22, 2005, "Press Gaggle with Trent Duffy, Aboard Air Force One, En Route Salt Lake City, Utah."
• Mike Allen and Sam Coates, "Bush Says U.S. Will Stay and Finish Task. President Honors Lives Lost, Defends Role in Iraq," Washington Post, August 22, 2005.

August 23, 2005

• "Rumsfeld Compares Iraq Critics To Communists, Stalinists," Think Progress, August 23, 2005.
• David Sirota, "Only One Thing Left to Conclude: The Media Want the War," The Huffington Post, August 23, 2005.

August 24, 2005

• Maureen Dowd, "My Private Idaho," New York Times, August 24, 2005.
• Sam Coates, "Bush Says Activist Doesn't Speak for Kin of Casualties," Washington Post, August 24, 2005.
• Stan Goff, "The Hayden Plan. Containing the Anti-War Movement," CounterPunch, August 24, 2005.

August 25, 2005

• Richard Ward, "It's About Much More Than Cindy Sheehan. Impressions from Camp Casey," CounterPunch, August 25, 2005.