Eyeballing the Bush Ranch Protest 1

14 August 2005. This is part 1. See Part 2:

13 August 2005

Captions by Associated Press.

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In this photo released by the White House, President Bush meets with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the foreign policy team at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)
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White crosses are reflected in the glasses of Celeste Zappala of Philadelphia as she looks down at them at the roadside camp near President Bush's home, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. The nearly thousand crosses that line the road show the names of soldiers who have died in the Iraq war. Zappala's son Sherwood Baker died in the war on April 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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A plaque with the numbers of soldiers killed and wounded in the Iraq war sits by a mass of crosses honoring those soldiers, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, along a road leading to President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch. The crosses were placed along the road near a camp site of anti-war protestors just miles away from the ranch. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Rebecca Bahr of Scottsdale, Az., looks at a crosses placed by a roadside camp near President Bush' ranch, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. The crosses have the names of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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President Bush, joined at right by senior members of his administration, talks to reporters after meeting on defense and foreign policy issues at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. From left to right are: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The wide-ranging talks touched on violence in Iraq and standoffs with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs to anti-American sentiment abroad, especially in the Middle East. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is surrounded by cameramen and reporters as she holds up a sign for President Bush as his motorcade passes on the way to a political fundraiser near his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 12, 2005. Sheehan, president of Gold Star Families for Peace, has accused President Bush of lying about the war in Iraq which claimed the life of her son, Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan. The U.S. death toll from the war is now over 1,800, and a new AP-Ipsos poll shows the lowest approval yet for Bush's handling of Iraq, just 38 percent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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First lady Laura Bush waves as she steps out of her pickup truck to join President Bush at a gathering of his defense and foreign policy teams, meeting on their ranch in Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. The house in the background was their first home on the 1,600 acre Prairie Chapel Ranch and is referred to as the "governor's house". (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Cindy Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif., makes a statement to the press during a news conference at a roadside camp near President Bush's ranch, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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Dot Haight, front, of Rockwall, Texas., wears a shirt that reads "I don't believe in your war Mr. Bush", as she and other anti-war protestors place crosses along a winding road by a makeshift campsite near President Bush's ranch, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Flowers sent in support of the protest line the roadside camp as Cindy Sheehan, left, of Vacaville, Calif., holds hands with Sue Niederer, right, of Pennington, N.J., as they chat at the makeshift camp near the ranch of President Bush, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. Both Sheehan and Niederer's sons were killed in the war in Iraq. Casey Sheehan was killed on April 4, 2004 and Niederer's son, Seth Dvorin was killed in action on Feb. 3, 2004. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., gathers herself as she recounts stories of her son to a reporter by a tent that she is staying in on the side of the road that leads to President Bush's ranch, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. Her simple, quiet protest of the war that took her son's life is gaining momentum as dozens joined her Wednesday at the site. Sheehan, 48, has insisted on speaking to Bush and vowed to remain during his ranch stay through the end of the month. Her tenacity has gained the support of anti-war groups, with one activist calling her "the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement."(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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A pair of lecterns are set up amid the cactus and wild grasses on President Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch, a reminder that he is mixing official duties with a monthlong holiday at his home in Crawford, Texas. On this day, Thursday, August 4, 2005, the microphones await Bush and visiting Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for remarks to the press. On Monday, Aug. 8, Bush visits Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., where his signature will authorize the recently passed Energy Bill and he travels to Illinois on Wednesday to sign the Transportation Bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Tiffany Strause, right, of San Diego chats with Rusty Tomlinson of Cedar Hill, Texas, as the two stand by a makeshift camp on the road that leads to President Bush's ranch Wednesday, Aug. 10. 2005, in Crawford, Texas. The two showed up in support of Cindy Sheehan, a mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who started a quiet roadside peace vigil near the ranch last weekend against the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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McLenan County health inspectors, center with badges, are escorted by a sheriffs deputy through a roadside camp of anti-war protestors near the ranch owned by President Bush, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. The inspectors were checking the food and living conditions of the camp. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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This photo released by the White House shows President Bush, right center, and Vice President Dick Cheney meeting with economic advisors, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005, at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, White House)
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Cindy Sheehan, of Vacaville Calif., supported by more than 50 shouting demonstrators, pours water on her head while camping out on Prairie Chapel Road, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. Sheehan staged a protest near President Bush's ranch Saturday demanding an accounting from the president of how he has conducted the war in Iraq. Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. He was an Army specialist, a Humvee mechanic. The protestors were stopped a few miles from the main checkpoint leading to the president's ranch where he is vacationing this month. She vowed she would camp out as close as she could get to the president's ranch until Bush comes out and talks to her. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)

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Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville Calf, confronts McLennan County chief deputy Randy Plemons while attempting to see Bush on his ranch outside Crawford, Texas, Saturday Aug. 6, 2005. Sheehan and staged a protest near President Bush's ranch Saturday demanding an accounting from the president of how he has conducted the war in Iraq. Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. He was an Army specialist. The protestors were stopped a few miles from the main checkpoint leading to the president's ranch where he is vacationing this month. She vowed she would camp out as close as she could get to the president's ranch until Bush comes out and talks to her. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)
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Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., center, whose son died in Iraq, listens to Capt. Ken Vanek of the McLennan County (Texas) Sheriff's Office, left, as he discusses the procedures for a peace protest by Sheehan and others to confront President Bush at his ranch, in Crawford, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Protestors against the Iraq war are stopped short of their goal to meet with President Bush on his ranch near Crawford, Texas, on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005. About 50 people including family members of fallen soldiers in Iraq were attempting to meet with Bush to voice their opposition to the war. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)
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Crawford Police Chief Donnie Tidmore, right, pauses during a confrontation with anti-war protesters who brought their message to President Bush's Crawford ranch, following a march with a mother whose son died during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005 in Crawford, Texas. The face-off ended without incident or arrests. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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A protester holds up a peace flag next to a wanted poster of U.S. President George W. Bush during a demonstration at Westminster Square in London, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005. At least four people were arrested under the new Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act, which outlaws organised demonstrations in an area of up to 1 km around Parliament without police authorisation. A number of groups, including CND, the Stop the War coalition and Friends of the Earth are protesting against the new law and have pledged to carry on demonstrating. (AP Photo/Sergio Dionisio)
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American author Ron Kovic, who was paralyzed during the Vietnam War and wrote the anti-war book "Born on the 4th of July" which was later made into a film starring Tom Cruise, sits outside Number 10 Downing Street in London Monday Nov. 17, 2003. Kovic was part of a group that handed in a 100,000 signature petition, opposing the visit of U.S. President George Bush to Britain later this week. (AP Photo/PA, John Stillwell) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES MAGAZINES OUT ** Creation Date 11/17/2003 00:00:00. Submit Date 08/08/2005 13:06:40.

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President Bush escorts Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe to a joint news conference at his ranch near Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit:Christopher Morris/VII)

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President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney await the arrival of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas April 25, 2005. Abdullah became King Aug. 1, 2005, upon the death of his half brother, King Fahd. Fahd was 84. Abdullah is 81 and essentially had been the kingdom's leader since 1995, when Fahd was sidelined by a stroke. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit:Christopher Morris/VII)
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President Bush with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah at his ranch in Crawford, Texas April 25, 2005. Abdullah became King Aug. 1, 2005, upon the death of his half brother, King Fahd. Fahd was 84. Abdullah is 81 and essentially had been the kingdom's leader since 1995, when Fahd was sidelined by a stroke. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit:Christopher Morris/VII)

Captions by Associated Press.
In this photo released by the White House, President Bush meets with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the foreign policy team at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)	White crosses are reflected in the glasses of Celeste Zappala of Philadelphia as she looks down at them at the roadside camp near President Bush's home, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. The nearly thousand crosses that line the road show the names of soldiers who have died in the Iraq war. Zappala's son Sherwood Baker died in the war on April 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A plaque with the numbers of soldiers killed and wounded in the Iraq war sits by a mass of crosses honoring those soldiers, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, along a road leading to President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch. The crosses were placed along the road near a camp site of anti-war protestors just miles away from the ranch. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)	Rebecca Bahr of Scottsdale, Az., looks at a crosses placed by a roadside camp near President Bush' ranch, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. The crosses have the names of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
President Bush, joined at right by senior members of his administration, talks to reporters after meeting on defense and foreign policy issues at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. From left to right are: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The wide-ranging talks touched on violence in Iraq and standoffs with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs to anti-American sentiment abroad, especially in the Middle East. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)	Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is surrounded by cameramen and reporters as she holds up a sign for President Bush as his motorcade passes on the way to a political fundraiser near his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Friday, Aug. 12, 2005. Sheehan, president of Gold Star Families for Peace, has accused President Bush of lying about the war in Iraq which claimed the life of her son, Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan. The U.S. death toll from the war is now over 1,800, and a new AP-Ipsos poll shows the lowest approval yet for Bush's handling of Iraq, just 38 percent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
First lady Laura Bush waves as she steps out of her pickup truck to join President Bush at a gathering of his defense and foreign policy teams, meeting on their ranch in Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. The house in the background was their first home on the 1,600 acre Prairie Chapel Ranch and is referred to as the "governor's house". (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)	Cindy Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif., makes a statement to the press during a news conference at a roadside camp near President Bush's ranch, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Dot Haight, front, of Rockwall, Texas., wears a shirt that reads "I don't believe in your war Mr. Bush", as she and other anti-war protestors place crosses along a winding road by a makeshift campsite near President Bush's ranch, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)	Flowers sent in support of the protest line the roadside camp as Cindy Sheehan, left, of Vacaville, Calif., holds hands with Sue Niederer, right, of Pennington, N.J., as they chat at the makeshift camp near the ranch of President Bush, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. Both Sheehan and Niederer's sons were killed in the war in Iraq. Casey Sheehan was killed on April 4, 2004 and Niederer's son, Seth Dvorin was killed in action on Feb. 3, 2004. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., gathers herself as she recounts stories of her son to a reporter by a tent that she is staying in on the side of the road that leads to President Bush's ranch, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. Her simple, quiet protest of the war that took her son's life is gaining momentum as dozens joined her Wednesday at the site. Sheehan, 48, has insisted on speaking to Bush and vowed to remain during his ranch stay through the end of the month. Her tenacity has gained the support of anti-war groups, with one activist calling her "the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement."(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)	A pair of lecterns are set up amid the cactus and wild grasses on President Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch, a reminder that he is mixing official duties with a monthlong holiday at his home in Crawford, Texas. On this day, Thursday, August 4, 2005, the microphones await Bush and visiting Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for remarks to the press. On Monday, Aug. 8, Bush visits Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., where his signature will authorize the recently passed Energy Bill and he travels to Illinois on Wednesday to sign the Transportation Bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Tiffany Strause, right, of San Diego chats with Rusty Tomlinson of Cedar Hill, Texas, as the two stand by a makeshift camp on the road that leads to President Bush's ranch Wednesday, Aug. 10. 2005, in Crawford, Texas. The two showed up in support of Cindy Sheehan, a mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who started a quiet roadside peace vigil near the ranch last weekend against the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)	McLenan County health inspectors, center with badges, are escorted by a sheriffs deputy through a roadside camp of anti-war protestors near the ranch owned by President Bush, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. The inspectors were checking the food and living conditions of the camp. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
This photo released by the White House shows President Bush, right center, and Vice President Dick Cheney meeting with economic advisors, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005, at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, White House)	Cindy Sheehan, of Vacaville Calif., supported by more than 50 shouting demonstrators, pours water on her head while camping out on Prairie Chapel Road, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, in Crawford, Texas. Sheehan staged a protest near President Bush's ranch Saturday demanding an accounting from the president of how he has conducted the war in Iraq. Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. He was an Army specialist, a Humvee mechanic. The protestors were stopped a few miles from the main checkpoint leading to the president's ranch where he is vacationing this month. She vowed she would camp out as close as she could get to the president's ranch until Bush comes out and talks to her. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)
Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville Calf, confronts McLennan County chief deputy Randy Plemons while attempting to see Bush on his ranch outside Crawford, Texas, Saturday Aug. 6, 2005. Sheehan and staged a protest near President Bush's ranch Saturday demanding an accounting from the president of how he has conducted the war in Iraq. Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. He was an Army specialist. The protestors were stopped a few miles from the main checkpoint leading to the president's ranch where he is vacationing this month. She vowed she would camp out as close as she could get to the president's ranch until Bush comes out and talks to her. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)	Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., center, whose son died in Iraq, listens to Capt. Ken Vanek of the McLennan County (Texas) Sheriff's Office, left, as he discusses the procedures for a peace protest by Sheehan and others to confront President Bush at his ranch, in Crawford, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Protestors against the Iraq war are stopped short of their goal to meet with President Bush on his ranch near Crawford, Texas, on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005. About 50 people including family members of fallen soldiers in Iraq were attempting to meet with Bush to voice their opposition to the war. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)	Crawford Police Chief Donnie Tidmore, right, pauses during a confrontation with anti-war protesters who brought their message to President Bush's Crawford ranch, following a march with a mother whose son died during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005 in Crawford, Texas. The face-off ended without incident or arrests. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
A protester holds up a peace flag next to a wanted poster of U.S. President George W. Bush during a demonstration at Westminster Square in London, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005. At least four people were arrested under the new Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act, which outlaws organised demonstrations in an area of up to 1 km around Parliament without police authorisation. A number of groups, including CND, the Stop the War coalition and Friends of the Earth are protesting against the new law and have pledged to carry on demonstrating. (AP Photo/Sergio Dionisio)	American author Ron Kovic, who was paralyzed during the Vietnam War and wrote the anti-war book "Born on the 4th of July" which was later made into a film starring Tom Cruise, sits outside Number 10 Downing Street in London Monday Nov. 17, 2003. Kovic was part of a group that handed in a 100,000 signature petition, opposing the visit of U.S. President George Bush to Britain later this week. (AP Photo/PA, John Stillwell) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES MAGAZINES OUT Creation Date 11/17/2003 00:00:00. Submit Date 08/08/2005 13:06:40.
President Bush escorts Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe to a joint news conference at his ranch near Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit:Christopher Morris/VII)
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney await the arrival of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas April 25, 2005. Abdullah became King Aug. 1, 2005, upon the death of his half brother, King Fahd. Fahd was 84. Abdullah is 81 and essentially had been the kingdom's leader since 1995, when Fahd was sidelined by a stroke. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit:Christopher Morris/VII)	President Bush with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah at his ranch in Crawford, Texas April 25, 2005. Abdullah became King Aug. 1, 2005, upon the death of his half brother, King Fahd. Fahd was 84. Abdullah is 81 and essentially had been the kingdom's leader since 1995, when Fahd was sidelined by a stroke. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit:Christopher Morris/VII)