Sheehan rallies support

[babylonsister]

http://www.benningtonbanner.com/headlines/ci_5358349

Sheehan rallies support
REBECCA ROBINSON, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 03/05/2007 03:03:00 AM EST

Monday, March 5
MANCHESTER — A standing-room only crowd of nearly 200 people filled the largest screening room at Village Picture Shows Sunday afternoon to see Cindy Sheehan and two veterans of the Iraq war speak about their experiences and call for Vermonters to pass impeachment resolutions against President George W. Bush.

Attendees with "Impeach Now" and "Bring Them Home" buttons mingled as they awaited Sheehan's speech, which was part of the Town Meeting Democracy Tour that kicked off Friday at the Statehouse in Montpelier and concluded Sunday night in Brattleboro.

Paul Brotchie, a musician and father of two from Dorset, expressed his excitement about the event, one that he said had great national and global resonance.

"Cindy Sheehan has become the folk hero of our time," said Brotchie of the woman who camped outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and demanded a meeting with the President after her son was killed in Iraq. "She has been one of the few who has chosen to speak out while so many have remained silent."

Brotchie, who had participated in New York City's February 2003 march protesting the U.S. plans to invade Iraq, said he hoped to present Sheehan with a song he had begun to write at that march four years ago, entitled "No War No More."

Dan DeWalt, a selectman from Newfane who had organized the tour and brought Sheehan on board, introduced the two Iraq war veterans, Adrian Kinney and Matthew Howard, who spoke passionately about their experiences in Iraq as well as their strong anti-war sentiment.

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[rodeodance]

1. keep well Cindy. We need you.

[Moderate Dem]

2. So, Cindy Sheehan's back in the news?

Oh joy, now THAT'LL be good for Democrats in middle America...

[babylonsister]

3. What's your point? She has as much of a right to speak as anyone

in middle America does.

[Moderate Dem]

4. Sure she does, she made some real contributions early on in the antiwar movement

I think she's a liability at this point for mainstream Democrats (of which I am one). That's just my opinion, which I also have a right to...

[babylonsister]

5. Well, I'm proud of her for being unrelenting, always talking about the

wrongness of this war, and doing something about it. Now she's on an impeachment tour, which imo is also necessary.
I don't fault her at all, I applaud her.

[Moderate Dem]

6. Good for you, free speech is great

For both of us.