Tuesday, August 16, 2005
DISTRUBING NEWS
Via Michael Moore’s website, Crawford celebrity Mother Sheehan reports:
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.
That’s from Bernie Slattery (who also has news of pointless nude activism). Who might this “dear woman from Australia” be? J.F. Beck detects the caring presence of Donna Mulhearn, who has ditched Iraq for the fun of sharing a roadside ditch with her anti-Bush allies:
After spending a just few hours in Camp Casey I feel immensely moved by this spontaneous and prophetic movement of truth.
I can’t count all the people here but it’s hundreds. The place is buzzing, people are connecting, teams of people have made a communal meal in the Peace House, a base in town where people go for showers and a cup of tea.
They heard that an Australian was coming and so I got a special welcome! There is a map of the US pinned up with marks of where everyone comes from. Someone had already written ‘Australia’ on the paper.
Cindy came to give me a big hug as soon as she heard my accent. When I told her about all the messages from Australia she hugged me again clearly moved by the thought of support from so many people there.
In the front room of the Peace House, a bunch of us are typing away on our laptops while someone gives Cindy’s aching feet a massage.
A young man rushes in spurting out distrubing news: he’s heard word that someone in a four wheel drive truck has driven over the crosses. People are racing around, shocked by such an act. It causes a rucus and everyone is talking at once.
Then Julie, on the floor with her computer on her lap, suddenly screams and covers her face. She has just read that a friend of hers was killed in Iraq. She’s sobbing. People rush to comfort her. No one knows what to say. It’s crazy now.
The war and the hatred that this war has created is all encompassing and far-reaching. It hurts in Baghdad, Mosul and Kerbala, it hurts in Crawford, Texas. It just hurts ...
PS: “When Bill Clinton lied, nobody died”. Sign at Crawford Peace House.
Oooh. Bet that caused a “rucus” at Crawford’s House of Saddamite Idiocy.