"Cindy Sheehan launches campaign to unseat Pelosi"
"Virtually ignored by the establishment media, the famous antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan officially kicked off her campaign to unseat Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the opening of her campaign headquarters yesterday in San Francisco.
The date of her headquarters opening coincided with the date John Lennon was assassinated in New York 27 years ago. Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, hoped his passing would be remembered by people everywhere imagining a world of Peace and Love.
Except for a short broadcast by Don Knapp of local television station KPIX Channel 5, Sheehan's official opening of her new campaign headquarters in San Francisco yesterday was virtually ignored by the establishment media. There was no coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle. If one searches "Cindy Sheehan" from Google's news page and glances over the search offerings, one might even get the impression that Sheehan has given up her activism.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that under Pelosi's "leadership," Democrats will have, for the third opportunity since taking control of Congress, failed to force Bush to change course in Iraq. On Monday, they plan to give Bush a half-trillion-dollar spending package to include billions of dollars for the war in Iraq without timelines for the withdrawal of combat forces.
During a speech a the office opening event, Sheehan expressed her contempt for such measures which suggest Democrats are colluding with the Bush administration and not presenting a true opposition that reflects the will of the people -- particularly in San Francisco where Sheehan is now running as an independent. She also expressed her desire to implement healthy changes which will begin by bringing American troops home from a war that is universally known today as having been founded on lies and deception.""
Especially after these latest revelations:
"US Congressional Candidate Cindy Sheehan Calls on Pelosi to Explain Silence on Torture Briefing"
"US Congressional Candidate Cindy Sheehan today called upon Nancy Pelosi to respond to a story printed in the December 9 Washington Post which claims that the Speaker of the House was present in a 2002 meeting where four members of Congress were given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and torture program.
According to the CIA, no objections were raised by any member of Congress present in the meeting, even though waterboarding, the interrogation technique profiled in the meeting, is illegal under international and US military law.
Pelosi has declined to comment on the story. Sheehan, who this year declared her candidacy to run for Pelosi’s seat, reaffirmed her intentions to unseat the House Speaker.
“This is the smoking that makes it obvious why Nancy Pelosi ‘took impeachment off the table.’ It is more urgent now than ever that she is removed from office & I am even more determined to win her seat in 2008."
Yeah, that's right, Cindy!
That's why PELOSI must be IMPEACHED, too!!!!
