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BROKEN_LADDER
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Striving for Peace...doh!--I mean *Starving*

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics...L20060622a.html

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced Wednesday that she plans to begin an "open-ended hunger strike" on July 4 to urge the Bush administration to bring troops home from Iraq.

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The "Troops Home Fast," Wilson said, means that she will abstain from food and drink, with the exception of water, as long as possible. "I don't know how long I can fast," she said, "but I'm making this an open-ended fast. I plan to take this as far as I've ever taken anything in my 58 years."

i'm betting she goes six days. ten max.

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"Although Sheehan’s fast could go on for months, Hawkins and hundreds of other activists across the country are choosing to pursue much more limited hunger strikes."

ah, maaan...don't tell me this is one of those lame daytime only huger strikes.

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i do the daytime hunger strike everytime i work

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I think that we be as supportive of her as possible. Put her in a cell with a water tank and leave her there until the troops come home. She deserves help in standing by her principles I think.

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I think that we be as supportive of her as possible. Put her in a cell with a water tank and leave her there until the troops come home. She deserves help in standing by her principles I think.

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i do the daytime hunger strike everytime i work

She doesn't have to work. She lives off of the death of her son.

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oh yeah i forgot... that does pay the bills

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quote:
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She doesn't have to work. She lives off of the death of her son.

harsh words, to be sure, but true i guess.

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Sheehan was the beneficiary of a $250,000 Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI) policy. And legal documents filed in the divorce case of Patrick and Cindy Sheehan show that there was another Prudential Life Insurance policy (no. 43520001432577) paid at the time of his decease...in addition to having actual funeral expenses reimbursed by the Defense Department and the SGLI and Prudential life insurance policies, Sheehan also received a $100,000 death gratuity from the government to cover miscellaneous expenses not covered by the DoD reimbursement. The $100,000 death gratuity is paid to all deaths in the line of duty retroactive to October 7, 2001, the beginning of post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan.

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