Bill Mitchell, one of the founding members of Gold Star Families for Peace, was on Bernie Ward's program on KGO last night talking about Cindy Sheehan and her vigil out at Bush's phony ranch near Crawford, Texas. Mitchell did a great job responding to critics who say that if he and Sheehan get their way and the U.S. did pull out of Iraq, then their sons would have died in vain. His simple response: "My son has already died in vain." I think Bernie is right and we may be reaching a real turning point in this country regarding the Iraq War.
Bush is apparently hoping that the great right wing echo chamber will make this woman and her friends give up, but the radical right is really having a problem figuring out how to do Bush's dirty work regarding Cindy Sheehan. Extremist Michelle Malkin is basically taking the position that Sheehan's dead son would not have approved of what his mother was doing on his behalf (nice try). Folks like Oxycontin Rush and Drudge are trying to call her a flip-flopper; but even if she did change her mind about Bush and his folly in Iraq (she didn't), Bush's rapidly falling poll numbers regarding his handling of Iraq tell me that she would not be the only person in this country who has had a change of heart. And, reportedly, that pervert over at FauxNews, Bill O'Reilly, has called Cindy Sheehan a "traitor" for what she is doing. What's next? Are the Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth" going to come out of their holes and allege that Cindy Sheehan's son isn't really dead?
So, while the great right wing echo chamber is trying to figure out what to do about this thorn in its side, Bush is hiding at his ranch hoping that this will all go away. Of course, Bush could end this whole thing himself by simply meeting with this woman. If Bush really did believe that what he is doing in Iraq in right and that 1843 American soldier really did die for a good cause, why wouldn't he want to go out and meet with Cindy Sheehan?
I guess I just answered my own question.
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No, they'll probably come out and accuse her son of killing himself in protest of his mother's traitorous stance.
In fact, her son opposed the war too, but did his duty and paid the price.
My one gripe about the mother's stance is her statement that he kid never expected to be sent to war. I'm sorry, but if you joined the military in the expectation you'd never be called on to do the very thing you trained to do with an organization whose sole purpose is to fight a war, then you're an idiot.
Yeah, like I said before, when you join the military, you take the chance that you might have an idiot for a commander-in-chief. Of course, one assumes that the president would use common sense and not go to war unless it is absolutely necessary, but - as the events of the last couple years demonstrate - there is no guarantee that will happen.
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