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...just "Bush Country" and "IM4W" signs that have multiplied in the quiet countryside. In the weeks since Cindy Sheehan set up Camp Casey there are several new encampments along the road. Camp George, run by the Crawford American Legion complete with a hot dog and lemonade stand, is down the hill from Sheehan's original campsite. Camp Reality, manned by vocal pro-Bush supporters, sits across the road from Camp Casey, and a mile or so away the peaks of a huge Camelot-like tent shades is Camp Casey II with its new field of crosses, a chow line, portable...
...Santiago family, who drove in from North Texas, were among the thousands of both antiwar and pro-Bush forces who descended on tiny Crawford Saturday. Carmella Bradwell left Dallas and met her daughter Katelyn, who lives in Austin, at Camp Casey II. "I have been getting more and more upset about the war," Bradwell said, "and as a mom I wanted to be here to support the moms and Cindy...
...Camp Casey II where Joan Baez was on hand and Father Joe Mulligan brought a letter of support from Nicaragua signed by four former Sandinista cabinet members, there was a flavor of the past, but this was not your father's protest movement. Both sides boasted bloggers and internet radio show hosts, caterers, shuttle buses, tee shirt and bumper sticker production on a major scale, instant music CDs-patriotic or folk-and the hit of the day, saddammagnets.com, a set of refrigerator magnets featuring Saddam Hussein in his underwear...
...wants to return to a quieter time. McLennan County Commissioner Ray Meadows, who told TIME he was "mad as a hornet" when he first saw cars and tents spilling over the ditches on Prairie Chapel Road in what was to become Camp Casey, has called on his fellow commissioners to limit traffic and activity on seven miles of road around the Western White House...
...White House noted that Bush met with Sheehan too, two months after Casey died. She had always had misgivings about the war, and she says she had mixed feelings about Bush's demeanor at the meeting, but she kept quiet. When more information came out about the planning for the war, however, she started to feel utterly betrayed...