8.21.2005
Sheehan Plans to Return 'Very Soon' (CNN.com)
'Camp Casey' supporters ponder new site near Bush ranch
Friday, August 19, 2005; Posted: 8:08 p.m. EDT (00:08 GMT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- The California woman who has camped outside President Bush's ranch for nearly two weeks to protest the war in Iraq said Friday she plans to return "very soon" after leaving to tend to her ill mother.
Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq last year, said her 74-year-old mother suffered a stroke. She and her sister went to Los Angeles "to assess the situation," as her supporters continue her protest outside Bush's ranch.
"I plan on returning to Camp Casey very soon, but while I'm in Los Angeles please respect that my sister, brother and I are here focusing on our mother, while the moms in Crawford focus on Bush," the statement from Sheehan said. "The president is not off the hook."
"Camp Casey" is the protest site named for her slain son.
Her departure Thursday came as anti-war demonstrators prepared to move to a spot closer to Bush's property, where the president is in the middle of a five-week vacation. A sympathetic neighbor volunteered the use of his land after the president's neighbors complained about sanitation and traffic problems.
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Friday, August 19, 2005; Posted: 8:08 p.m. EDT (00:08 GMT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- The California woman who has camped outside President Bush's ranch for nearly two weeks to protest the war in Iraq said Friday she plans to return "very soon" after leaving to tend to her ill mother.
Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq last year, said her 74-year-old mother suffered a stroke. She and her sister went to Los Angeles "to assess the situation," as her supporters continue her protest outside Bush's ranch.
"I plan on returning to Camp Casey very soon, but while I'm in Los Angeles please respect that my sister, brother and I are here focusing on our mother, while the moms in Crawford focus on Bush," the statement from Sheehan said. "The president is not off the hook."
"Camp Casey" is the protest site named for her slain son.
Her departure Thursday came as anti-war demonstrators prepared to move to a spot closer to Bush's property, where the president is in the middle of a five-week vacation. A sympathetic neighbor volunteered the use of his land after the president's neighbors complained about sanitation and traffic problems.
(More ... CNN.com - Sheehan plans to return 'very soon' - Aug 19, 2005) ¶ 20:25
