Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sick Mother Forces Cindy to Leave Crawford

The ASSociated Press has ‘Peace Mom,’ Her Mother Ill, Leaves Camp.

The grieving woman who started an anti-war demonstration near President Bush’s ranch nearly two weeks ago left the camp Thursday after learning her mother had had a stroke, but she told supporters the protest would go on.

Cindy Sheehan told reporters she had just received the phone call and was leaving immediately to be with her 74-year-old mother at a Los Angeles hospital.

“I’ll be back as soon as possible if it’s possible,” she said. After hugging some of her supporters, Sheehan and her sister, Deedee Miller, got in a van and left for the Waco airport about 20 miles away.

Michelle Mulkey, a spokeswoman for Sheehan, said Sheehan hoped to be back in Texas within 24 to 48 hours. Mulkey said Sheehan’s mother, Shirley Miller, was in a hospital emergency room and Sheehan didn’t yet know how serious her condition was.

The Cause Celeb of the anti-war Left most probably will be back in Crawford soon.

How can the press give this crackpot so much attention?

Sheehan and the other demonstrators have camped in ditches along the road to Bush’s ranch since Aug. 6. After complaints from some neighbors, they planned to start moving the camp site Thursday and Friday to a private one-acre lot owned by Fred Mattlage, who opposes the war and offered his property to give them more room and safety.

FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley and Sen. Becky Lourey, a Minnesota lawmaker whose son died in Iraq, were expected to join the demonstrators later Thursday.

But, where is the darlin’ of the Democrats Hillary Clinton?

Why does she not come down to Crawford to support Cindy?

Where is Joe Biden?

And….. where is Howard Dean who was an anti-war candidate for President?

Why is the mainstream Democrat Party shunning these anti-war activists?

Flap and all of you know the answer.

Actor Richard Dreyfuss holds up a sign at a candlelight vigil in the North Hollywood area of Los Angeles on August 17, 2005. Anti-war protesters held candles, sang, and chanted in vigils across the country on Wednesday in support of Cindy Sheehan, who has camped out near President George W. Bush’s ranch to urge him to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq, where her son was killed a year ago. Sheehan has become a magnet for anti-war protesters who have crowded around her since her vigil began on August 6 in Crawford, a community of 705 people, where Bush is on a month-long vacation.

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