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July 20, 2012 10:42 AM   Subscribe

In the summer of 2005 protesters led by Cindy Sheehan set up outside Bush's Crawford, TX ranch during his 5-week vacation in order to protest the continuing Iraq war. This encampment was named Camp Casey after Cindy Sheehan's son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who died in Iraq. Down the road, Iraq war-supporters formed a counter-protest encampment named Fort Qualls, named after Marine Louis Wayne Qualls, who died in Fallujah. Right-wing counter-protest group Protest Warrior (motto: "fighting the left...doing it right") decided to show up with an ironic sign to show support to support the inhabitants of Fort Qualls. It did not go well.

As a side note: although Lance Corp. Qualls' father Gary supported the war and lending his son's name to the pro-war protests, he was the only person who accepted Cindy Sheehan's invitation to meet with the pro-war parents of deceased soldiers; the accompanying pic is very powerful.
posted by Challahtronix (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This topic was really well-covered on Metafilter when it was current, and it's not clear what you're trying to do with this material now. -- restless_nomad



 
Sooo... a seven-year-old protest... two opposed sides shouting at each other... confusion... what's happening apart from that, exactly? Not sure I'm getting the point here.
posted by Decani at 10:50 AM on July 20, 2012


Yeah, it's a little late to be posting this on MetaFilter, I think.
posted by Curious Artificer at 10:51 AM on July 20, 2012


Bush? Bush who?
posted by nostrada at 10:52 AM on July 20, 2012


Not sure I'm getting the point here.

Thank God for that. I was wondering if it was just me.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:52 AM on July 20, 2012


Seven years old? Delete, right?
posted by benito.strauss at 10:53 AM on July 20, 2012


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