After spending weeks dogging George W. Bush's presidential vacations,
anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is now trying to make life
uncomfortable for President Barack Obama.
Sheehan used to pitch a peace camp near Bush's ranch in Crawford,
Texas, becoming a symbol of the anti-war movement after her son Casey
died in action in Iraq.
On Thursday, she and a band of anti-war protesters turned up outside
the media center used by journalists covering Obama's vacation on the
well-heeled east coast resort island of Martha's Vineyard.
"The reason I am here is because ... even though the facade has
changed in Washington DC, the policies are still the same," Sheehan
told a handful of journalists, against a backdrop of her "Camp Casey"
banner.
She told US peace activists to wake up and protest Obama's escalation
of the war in Afghanistan, and complained that despite the president's
anti-war stance, US troops remained in Iraq.
"We have to realize, it is not the president who is power, it is not
the party that is in power it is the system that stays the same, no
matter who is in charge."
"We are here to make the wars unpopular again," she said.
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