Crawford Texas Watch: Joan Baez Sings and Supports Anti-War Protestors

Folk music legend Joan Baez performs at an anti-war protest camp near U.S. President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, August 21, 2005. Baez joined anti-war protesters near the ranch on Sunday to meet military families who want troops pulled out of Iraq

The ASSociated Press and Washington Post have Folk Singer Supports Anti-War Protesters.

Joan Baez was against the Vietnam War and she showed it _ appearing at marches, once even blocking the entrance of a military induction center.

The folk singer is against the Iraq war, too, and she showed her support Sunday to protesters camping out near President Bush’s ranch.

Baez took to the stage for about 500 people on an acre lot offered by a landowner who opposes the war, performing such classic peace anthems as “Song of Peace,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.”

Not far way is the camp started by Cindy Seehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq.

“In the first march I went to (opposing Vietnam) there were 10 of us. This is huge,” Baez told the relatives of fallen soldiers before performing just up the road from the ranch.

For Baez, an anti-war movement was inevitable.

“It was the final tear for the overflow and you can’t stop running water,” she said. “Cindy’s was the final tear.”

Oh Please……

This anti-war crowd have been waiting ever since Vietnam to hit the streets again and protest something – anything.

Notice how Joan Baez gets the lead in this story……

This piece is brought to you by the morons from the MSM.

But, wait…….

Downtown, more Bush supporters arrived at a pro-Bush camp that had been set up as a reaction to Sheehan’s. As of Sunday afternoon, more than 150 people had visited the large tent with “God Bless Our President!” and “God Bless Our Troops” banners and a life-size cardboard cutout of Bush.

“When we saw this, we said, `Thank God you’re here’,” said Frances Lee, who came from Douglasville, Ga., with neighbor Brenda Bohanan. They planned to hold pro-Bush banners down the street from the protesters.

“We said, `We wanted y’all to know that there are people from all over the United States that care’,” Lee said.

The pro-Bush camp is called “Fort Qualls,” for Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls, 20, killed in Fallujah last fall. His father, Gary Qualls of Temple, said the anti-war demonstrators are being disrespectful to soldiers.

Gary Qualls, of Temple, Texas, kneels in front of a memorial to his fallen son Marine LCPL Louis Qualls in Crawford, Texas, Saturday

Besides “Fort Qualls” camp, a few Bush supporters have stood with signs in the ditch across from the demonstrators’ camp. Down the street, another group of about a dozen set up tents and pro-Bush signs on private property over the weekend.

Oh! There will be more pro-Bush supporters as the week progresses.

A caravan is coming from San Francisco.

Has anyone seen Cindy Sheehan lately?

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