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   http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4956565.html
   >…Sheehan even suggested that the Bush administration would refuse a
   peaceful transition after the November 2008 elections.

   “This is why they have to be removed. There will not be a peaceful
   transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2009,” Sheehan said. “I don’t want to be
   an alarmist.”

   http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4956565.html
   July 10, 2007, 10:47PM
   Sheehan brings new campaign through Houston

   By ANNE MARIE KILDAY
   Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

   Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan spent her 50th birthday in Houston
   today, attending events aimed at ending the war in Iraq.

   Sheehan joined other activists who gathered on the Montrose bridge
   during the afternoon rush hour to hold signs calling for the
   impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

   Sheehan urged about 100 Houston peace activists to join join her
   13-day caravan to Washington, D.C., where she plans to formally
   announce her candidacy against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
   Sheehan, a Californian, announced she will challenge Pelosi if the
   lawmaker has not moved to impeach Bush and Cheney by July 23.

   “My campaign is going to happen, because we know she is not going to
   put impeachment on the table,” Sheehan said.

   A spokesman for Pelosi said her “focus is on winning the war in Iraq.”

   Sheehan said American troops should be immediately withdrawn from
   Iraq.

   “I have a very simple solution. Put our troops on the borders,”
   Sheehan said. “Total and complete withdrawal, close the permanent
   (military) bases, bring out the war profiteers.”

   Since announcing her conditional candidacy against Pelosi, Sheehan
   said the topic of impeachment has received more publicity.

   Sheehan even suggested that the Bush administration would refuse a
   peaceful transition after the November 2008 elections.

   “This is why they have to be removed. There will not be a peaceful
   transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2009,” Sheehan said. “I don’t want to be
   an alarmist.”

   In her speech at First Unitarian Universalist Church, Sheehan also
   announced her new campaign, called People for Humanity, which is aimed
   at ending the war, supporting veterans and sending medical supplies to
   Iraqi refugees displaced by the war.

   Many of the anti-war activists went to City Hall today and asked the
   Houston City Council to support a resolution in favor of impeaching
   Bush and Cheney.

   “The actions of this administration have cost our city dearly,” said
   John Beatty of Houston. “Most importantly in the lives of our children
   in uniform, but also by increasing the number of Iraqi sympathizers
   and increasing the risk of attacks on our refinery infrastructure.”

   “When the National Guard is called to Iraq, the state’s ability to
   control floods and wildfire is compromised,” said Christine Morshedi
   of Tomball.

   While some council members thanked the activists for exercising their
   right of free speech, Councilman Michael Berry called them “terribly
   rude” for wasting the council’s time. The mayor has a policy of not
   allowing the council to take up non-binding resolutions.

   “I never ran on the basis of whether to impeach the president or not,”
   said Berry, a lawyer, businessman and conservative radio talk show
   host.

   Berry said the speakers were “taking up the time of people who have
   issues that the city can actually address.”

   “It’s not a political circus and that’s what Cindy Sheehan is about,”
   Berry said.

   Sheehan set up camp outside Bush’s Crawford ranch in 2005 as part of
   her campaign to end the war in Iraq. Two months ago, Sheehan said she
   was selling “Camp Casey,” named in honor of her 24-year-old son who
   died in Iraq in April 2004.

   In May, Sheehan said she was going home to California, after enduring
   hatred and smear tactics from both the left and right.

   This evening, Sheehan said she is “re-energized” by the idea of a
   campaign against Pelosi and the new effort to help Iraq war veterans
   and refugees.

   Sheehan said she left the Democratic Party after Congress voted to
   approve more funding for the way.

   Chronicle reporter Carolyn Feibel and The Associated Press contributed
   to this report.

   anne.kilday@chron.com

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