Sheehan Affirms Intent to Run

ABC News’ Michael Skocay Reports: Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said Monday she will run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., if the Congresswoman does not return impeachment to the legislative table.

"By midnight (Monday) I will announce that I am going to run against her" said Sheehan who spoke to a crowd of a few hundred supporters outside Arlington National Cemetery. Sheehan was referring to a comment made by Speaker Pelosi in May when she told Democratic Congressional leaders that "impeachment is off the table."

The rally was organized around calls to begin impeachment proceedings against President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over their conduct relating to the Iraq war. The protesters plan to spend the day marching from Arlington Cemetery to the office of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.

"Nancy Pelosi had no authority to take impeachment off the table," explained Sheehan to loud applause. Sheehan also criticized Iraq war policy, saying, "The status quo is not acceptable to us…the status quo is killing people every day."  She continued, "This is not a political decision, it is a humanitarian decision."

Watch the video from the rally HERE.

In late May, Sheehan announced that she was leaving the anti-war movement and in early July said she was mulling a Congressional run as an independent challenger to Pelosi.

Sheehan began her public protest of the Iraq war in 2004 when she set up outside President Bush’s Crawford Ranch.  Sheehan’s location became known as "Camp Casey," named for her son Army Spc. Casey Sheehan who died in Iraq. She has since become a powerful voice on the political left, campaigning across the nation to bring the war to a close.