[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Senator Kennedy by Cindy Sheehan

[Brussel Morton K.]

Better words than we've seen on this list. --mkb

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> From: Cindy Sheehan for Peace <CindysSoapbox at gmail.com>
> Date: August 26, 2009 9:30:33 AM CDT (CA)
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Senator Kennedy by Cindy Sheehan
> Reply-To: cindyssoapbox at gmail.com
>
> http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2009/08/senator-kennedy-from-cindy-sheehan.html
>
> "My vote against this misbegotten war (Iraq) is the best vote I have  
> cast in the United States Senate since I was elected in 1962."
>
> Senator Ted Kennedy
>
> I would like to extend my sincere condolences to the Kennedy family  
> and the people of Massachusetts on the death of Senator Edward  
> Kennedy.
>
> I was invited to visit with the Senator in September of 2005 right  
> after my first foray into presidential vacation adventures. I walked  
> into an office on Capitol Hill that was a mini American History  
> Museum. The Senator displayed his own art, memorabilia from the  
> Kennedy family and even framed child's artwork from his children and  
> various nieces and nephews.
>
> Gathered around a large marble fireplace (unlit in the September  
> Washington DC heat) and surrounded by his Portuguese Water dogs, we  
> talked about loss and war and peace.
>
> We commiserated on my tragic loss of Casey and the losses that his  
> mother Rose had to endure in her life. No matter what one thinks of  
> the Kennedy family, they have been hit hard with tragedy.
>
> The Senator and I talked about the wrongness, even criminality of  
> the US foreign policy in the Middle East and I find it serendipitous  
> that I am on Martha's Vineyard the day he died.
>
> In the next few days, we will be working on an International  
> People's Declaration of Peace (IPDoP) here in Massachusetts where I  
> have always felt overwhelming support for a message of peace and  
> justice.
>
> In the spirit of peace and to honor Ted Kennedy's legacy, Camp Casey  
> Martha's Vineyard will go forward and hopefully at the end of the  
> week, we will have a wonderful first draft of the IPDoP that we can  
> present to the globe: a people's grassroots movement to counteract  
> the violence of governments all over the world.
>
> We will be leaving Martha's Vineyard and taking this Declaration all  
> over the world to advocate that, finally, we the people of this  
> planet refuse to be used as pawns of failed and violent policies.
>
>

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