Someone needs to drop Cindy "Hey, Look, I'm Still Here!" Sheehan a memo and clue her in about the election 14 mos. ago:
Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-16-10 10:22 PM
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Cindy Sheehan leads protest at CIA, Cheney's house
Source: Washington Post
LANGLEY, Va. -- A group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has protested near the CIA's headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney's home in northern Virginia.
They were protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to attack al-Qaida and Taliban targets.
The group of about 70 people rallied alongside a highway near the CIA compound Saturday. About half then marched to Cheney's nearby street and stayed for 20 minutes. Police kept them from going down his street.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
gateley (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-16-10 10:23 PM
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1. ...and then they were gunned down. nt
Yeah, just like all those people sent to the camps.
canetoad (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-17-10 02:01 AM
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23. All I can say is
*schadenfruede*
As if this is even a blip on Cheney's radar.
winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-16-10 11:23 PM
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4. YOU GO CINDY!!!!!!
I love that lady..she has done more to wake people up than most.
Speaking of schadenfruede, how'd that work out for ya? Are we out of Iraq and Afghanistan yet?
onehandle (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-16-10 11:53 PM
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5. Pointless.
Dick is no long President.
I mean Vice-President.
Well, in their defense, it is confusing.
twitomy (641 posts) Sun Jan-17-10 01:42 AM
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17. Psssssttt, Hey Cindy, Get you GPS updated!
The guy your supposed to be protesting now is at Number One Observatory Circle
Shhh. Don't wake up the sleepers.
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-17-10 12:16 AM
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7. Go, Cindy!
One from the mindless cheerleader.
alp227 (759 posts) Sun Jan-17-10 03:20 AM
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30. Good, but why did she protest at a retired Vice President's home
but not the White House?
Good question. Unfortunately, good questions are not popular at the DUmp.
Hekate (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-17-10 05:05 AM
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38. Because Cheney is an effing war criminal and Barack Obama is not. That's why, genius.
Brilliant response. I mean just incredibly astute. Especially considering that the protest is supposed to be about current drone strikes, not past alleged "war crimes."
Syntheto (219 posts) Sun Jan-17-10 05:37 AM
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41. Okay, I don't get it...
...Cheney's been out of office for how long now? The CIA answers to the current president. This is a meaningless gesture. If Sheehan is antiwar, why isn't she in front of Clinton's house or the White House? The State Department and the Executive branch escalated the situation in Afghanistan, and just recently, too. I say, the more drones the better; that's our schtick, the other side uses suicide bombing, which is hardly a selective method to kill a particular individual. Cindy just misses dat ol' spotlight, I suspect. But she's gutless because she doesn't dare draw a crowd in front of the White House... just like people who dis Christianity but are too frightened to say a word about Islam. I'm underwhelmed.
Hekate (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-17-10 05:56 AM
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43. Because Cheney is an effing war criminal, and Obama is not. Cindy has more guts than you ever will
I have met the lady in her time of deepest grief, and my friends in the VFP walked with her and stood with her in the Texas sun outside Bush's pig farm until she got heat exhaustion. I may not always agree with what she is doing these days, but I will always defend her and admire her conviction. Cindy knows who is responsible for the death of her son Casey, and it isn't Barack Obama.
> "Cindy just misses dat ol' spotlight, I suspect. But she's gutless because she doesn't dare draw a crowd in front of the White House... just like people who dis Christianity but are too frightened to say a word about Islam."
Go do something anatomically impossible to yourself, why don't you?
Hekate strikes me as a person with a brain roughly the size of a walnut. Aside from the reptilian autonomic function centers, he/she/it only possesses around three functioning neurons, and they're always glowing with stupid, brutish red hot rage. As such, he/she/it can only repeat the same sputtering nonsense. If he/she/it walked into the ocean and was never heard from again, it would be no loss whatsoever to humanity.
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