'Peace Mom': Spearhead of Peace Movement?

[tocqueville]

By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer
30 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - What began as one mother's vigil on a country road in Texas two weeks ago has grown into a nationwide protest, putting a grieving human face to the miseries of war and growing misgivings about President Bush's strategies in Iraq.

It's still not clear whether Cindy Sheehan's effort was the start of a lasting anti-war movement or a fleeting summertime story fueled by media-savvy liberal interest groups.
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One activist has called Sheehan "the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement," a reference to the civil rights heroine who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955.

What happens in Iraq the next weeks and months may determine whether the "Peace Mom" finds her own place in history, or becomes a footnote.

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