Protesters dig in despite absent anti-war mom
Sunday, 21 August, 2005, 12:08 PM Doha Time
About 80 Bush supporters, including a group that chartered a plane from Georgia, held a rally dubbed ‘I Give A Sheet’ at the nearby Crawford Community Center.
They hung up white sheets filled with written messages like ‘Mr Bush, you are doing a great job, thank you for all your hard work! God Bless America!’.
Valerie Duty of Waco, Texas, said that as a mother she sympathised with Sheehan, but disliked the anti-Bush vehemence expressed by organisations that took up her cause.
“People who are for things don’t usually go out and say something, it’s usually people that are against something that does,” said Eve Tidwell, who organised the group from Georgia.
They later folded the sheets and presented the stack to a White House aide at a Secret Service checkpoint.
The messages were written with washable markers so the sheets can be washed and donated to homeless shelters, organisers said.
The sheets were accepted at the Crawford Ranch checkpoint, unlike this letter that was hand delivered by Mimi Evans and Beatriz Saldivar on behalf of other military family members from Camp Casey 2. No surprise. Mr. Bush will go down in history as someone who saw, heard, and read only what pleased him.
At least they were waving sheets and not wearing them. I guess that’s something.
And why exactly would homeless people be gratefull for sheets?