It All Started at the Pig Farm...

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It All Started at the Pig Farm...

 

The Revolution is NOW

 

by Sheila Samples

 

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" If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will

but grow, and gather to itself

such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow

up everything in its way. "

~~ French author Emile Zola~~

 

 

 

 

 

 

The incomparable Raw Story website is publishing a letter it acquired

on Tuesday, Aug 9, from 16 Democratic Representatives (whose number

has now burgeoned to 38) urging George Bush to meet with Cindy

Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was slain in Iraq in 2002. Sheehan has been

camped on Bush's doorstep since Saturday when she and a small group of

supporters were forced to walk in a ditch struggling through knee-deep

weeds as they made their way to Prairie Chapel, the Bush " ranch, " a

former pig farm in Crawford, Texas.

 

According to The Iconoclast, Bush's hometown paper, Sheehan said she

decided to go to Crawford because of comments Bush made which

coincided with the deaths of 12 Marine reservists from Ohio who were

killed in perhaps the deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in

Iraq. Sheehan was outraged at Bush's remarks to about 1,800 members of

the American Legislative Exchange Council in Grapevine on Aug 3 that

the men and women who've lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan died

in a noble and selfless cause.

 

" We all know by now that that's not true, and I want to ask George

Bush, `Why did my son die? What was the noble cause that he died

for?' " said Sheehan. " I don't want [President Bush] to use my son's

name or my family name to justify any more killing or to exploit my

son's name, my son's sacrifice, or my son's honor to justify more

killing. As a mother, why would I want one more mother to go through

what I'm going through, Iraqi or American?

 

" And I want to tell him that the only way to honor my son's sacrifice

is to bring the troops home now. "

 

There are few things more relentless this side of Hell than an August

Texas sun. Unless it would be the lost souls of Fallujah crying out

for justice through the Napalm flames. Or perhaps it is a mother so

engulfed in grief at the cruel and needless loss of her child that her

primal screams reverberate throughout the world. Except at the pig

farm. Or within the entire US Senate. Or on the deaf ears of all but

38 of the 435 representatives in the US House.

 

The initial 16 -- one representative for each word Bush used to lie us

onto the New World Order killing fields -- are John Conyers, George

Miller, Maxine Waters, Corrine Brown, Dennis Kucinich, Carolyn

Maloney, Jim McDermott, Jim McGovern, Barbara Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Peter

Oberstar, John Lewis, Bernie Sanders, Bob Filner, Micheal Honda, and

Raul Grijalva. I have searched in vain for Nancy Pelosi, Cynthia

McKinney, Charlie Rangel -- searched for just one Republican who would

ask Bush to meet with the mother of a slain soldier...

 

Six soldiers and marines were killed today. Four yesterday. In just 10

days of August, 44 Americans and many, many more innocent Iraqis have

been murdered. We don't " do " body counts of Iraqi citizens, so there's

no way of knowing how many have died, but we do know that more than

four soldiers and marines have been slaughtered in a single day --

every day. The pig farm president may not know where his children are

tonight, but Casey Sheehan knows where his mother is -- sweltering in

100-plus-degree weather on a desolate prairie -- ignored by the

commander-in-chief -- but still out there, bravely supporting the troops.

 

There are many mothers whose anguish matches Sheehan's, not only those

who have lost children, but those whose children are returning broken

and maimed; doomed to lives of desperation and pain. Mothers like

Sandy Briggs, from Keokuk, Iowa, whose son, Sgt. Robert Briggs, a

soldier in the 224th Engineer Battalion, was hit by shrapnel from an

artillery round April 16 at Iraq's Camp Ramadi.

 

According to the Burlington, Iowa, newspaper, The Hawkeye, " Surgeons

took one of his eyes. The other is partially blind. Head trauma

paralyzed his left side. Metal litters his body...An operation removed

part of his skull. Now he wears a helmet to get out of bed. "

 

Bush says he " grieves 'n mourns " for the dead and maimed. His

" thoughts 'n prayers " go out to them. He 'preciates them making the

ultimate sacrifice for his noble cause. Many, however, are beginning

to think Bush has a strange way of showing his compassion. He has not

attended a single funeral of the now 1,848 Americans who have died in

Iraq because of his lies and lack of planning, and he continues to

stubbornly " ditch " Sheehan as she keeps a lonely vigil on the Texas

plains.

 

Bush might wish later that he had come out to meet with Sheehan upon

her arrival Saturday when there was but a handful of supporters

accompanying her. If the media covered the meeting at all, he would

have been portrayed as a caring president, and by Sunday it would all

have been over. But that isn't how Bush operates. He does not

negotiate; remember, his will is strong, his resolve will not be

broken. Bush is not satisfied until everything he touches turns into a

steaming, odious pile of bullshit. He made the cowardly choice to send

out a couple of minions -- national security adviser Steve Hadley and

deputy White House chief of staff Joe Hagin -- to tell her that Bush

really really cares, but nobody's coming home until " the mission is

accomplished... "

 

So that's how the Revolution started.

 

Who knew? Who would have believed just a week ago that, after all our

years of hard work, the crude and pitiless Bush would run out there,

ram his middle finger in the face of a heartbroken mother, and

jump-start the Revolution?

 

By the time Cindy Sheehan leaves her station at the pig farm, Bush

will know that he was wrong. Because " Mother " is not just half a word,

as Bush and his Texas buddies, his Skull and Bones cohorts, his PNAC

perps were raised to believe. " Mother " is Nature -- " Mother " is Earth

-- " Mother " is an invincible protective force that, if awakened and

sufficiently outraged, will sweep the entire bunch from their seats of

power. Ultimately, " Mother " will bring our troops home.

 

The mainstsream media will find, much to their chagrin, that the

Revolution is NOW, and will continue apace without them. The

Iconoclast is offering hourly updates on the Sheehan vigil. Friends of

Peace and Justice of Waco are mobilizing support for Sheehan's vigil,

which could last until the end of August. More information can be

obtained at the Crawford Peace House website or by calling (254)

486-0099. Air America Radio hosts, especially Randi Rhodes and Mike

Malloy, are all over this story, giving minute-by-minute updates, many

of them coming from Sheehan herself, who calls the station regularly.

Google " Cindy Sheehan, " and you will discover the entire Internet is

wide awake and on the march, and will join the Revolution -- at the

pig farm.

 

Also check out --

Gold Star Families for Peace; www.gsfp.org

Military Families Speak Out; www.mfso.org

Veterans for Peace;www.veteransforpeace.org

CodePink; www.codepink4peace.org

Vietnam Veterans Against War; www.vvaw.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War; www.ivaw.net

Meet With Cindy;www.meetwithcindy.org/

 

 

 

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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army

Public Information Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety

of Internet sites. Contact her at: rsamples

 

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