Ann Wright: Bush, Impeachment, Strong Women and Dallas, Texas

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/14/2532/

Bush, Impeachment, Strong Women and Dallas, Texas
by Ann Wright

Seems like strong women are not afraid of taking on George Bush and his war on Iraq in his home state of Texas and particularly in the city of Dallas.

In August, 2005, Cindy Sheehan began her 26 days in the ditch in Crawford, Texas by announcing in Dallas at the national Veterans for Peace conference, that she was going to challenge Bush’s characterization of the Iraq War as a “noble cause” by going to Crawford and staying there until Bush answered her question. 26 days and 12,000 stop the war visitors later, Bush had still not answered Cindy.

This last weekend Cindy was in Crawford to transfer to a new owner, the deed of the property she purchased there last year for Camp Casey. On July 10 she with twenty others (including myself on the first day) began a 19 day, 16 city trip called a Journey for Humanity (www.thecampcaseypeaceinstitute.org) from Crawford to New York City. The Journey will stop in Washington, DC on July 23 where Cindy will challenge Nancy Pelosi to put the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney “on the table.” If Pelosi does not lift her block on impeachment proceedings, Cindy says she will run for Pelosi’s seat in the US House of Representatives.


As Cindy left Texas earlier this week, another strong woman took on George Bush in Dallas. On July 11, in her keynote address at the International Women’s Peace Conference being held in Dallas, Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams from Ireland told the audience of over 1,000 that the Bush administration was “treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally” in invading and occupying Iraq. Williams said that “the Muslim world right now is suffering beyond belief. Unless the president of the United States is held responsible for what he is doing and what he has done, there is no one in the Muslim world who will forgive him.”

To the applause of much of the audience, Williams called for the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney!

Williams later apologized for having also said, in an exasperated, joking manner, “Right now, I could just kill George Bush. No, I don’t mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody?” Williams later said “My feelings now and again get way ahead of me. I couldn’t kill anybody, but I must confess that I’m extremely angry with the Bush administration and what they have done. To say that I could just kill him was wrong.” According to the July 13 Dallas Morning News, the conference hotel received at least 40 hate emails in response to Ms. Williams’ speech.

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there are also more than 3600 others that are also,,,

part about Betty Williams, who won the Noble Peace Prize in 1976 for creating a group that helped start peace talks in Northern Ireland? Most of this article was about her.

about one mothers grief, when there are literally Thousands more who are just as hurt and don't get any of the attention or support Cindy does.

because they're 3600 others..I want to hear from all those other grieving parents, too!

How many kids have you lost to bushits'and corporatemediawhores' misbegotten War On Iraq?

He's just expressing his opinion. Ad hominem attacks add nothing to the equation.

so many people rag on Cindy that have no empathy for what she and the other family and friends of fallen soldiers could be going through.

It was a question maybe some of them can ponder.

or have understanding to know

can appreciate anyone who's lost family or friends in bushits' corporatemediawhore war on Iraq.

And I understand a lot about losing someone but you don't seem to have any empathy for Cindy's loss of her son.