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Cindy Sheehan Arrested For Wearing Anti-War T-Shirt At Bush’s Address

HeadlineFeb 01, 2006

Moments before President Bush spoke, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested and removed from the House gallery. Sheehan, whose son Casey died in combat in Iraq, was accosted by police after taking her seat and unveiling a T-shirt with an anti-war message. Referring to the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq, the shirt read: “2,242 and how many more?” California Democratic Congressmember Lynn Woolsey, who invited Sheehan to the event, said: “It stunned me because I didn’t know in America you could be arrested for wearing a T-shirt with a slogan on it. That’s especially so in the Capitol and in the House of Representatives, which is the people’s House.’’

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