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by Larry Johnson
[From the diaries by susanhu.] Larry C. Johnson
The clueless right wing is up in arms over the momentum of the Cindy Sheehan anti-war movement. There appears no depth they will not plumb, nor mudpit they will not enter in their effort to smear a mother who gave her son in service to our country. I cannot award a Chutzpah prize because there are too many deserving schmucks. Take wheelchair bound Charles Krauthammer's recent vicious attack: She says she wants to ask the president why her son died. She already knows her own answer, and her answer is -- and she's said this openly -- to enrich the president's friends, meaning oil companies and contractors. There are a lot of honorable reasons and thoughtful reasons to oppose the war in Iraq. That's not one of them. And to advance the idea, as she has also, to the press of the entire world that we are in Iraq as a matter of imperialism is to demoralize our troops, encourage our enemies, and to encourage those who say that we are there as conquerors and not as liberators, which can only endanger our troops, which I think is a disgrace. Well, well. What does Charles say about President Bush's multiple misrepresentations of why he took our nation to war? Nothing! In fact, according to Krauthammer's reasoning, to even challenge the President over what we now know to be as patently false reasons for going to war, you are disloyal and demoralizing the troops. The same specious reasoning has been echoed by rightwing apologists like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter. Read more... (29 comments, 777 words in story) by Larry Johnson
[From the diaries by susanhu.] If Cindy Sheehan does not have a political agenda, she ought to. She's entitled to it because her son died in the service of his country. The thing Cindy Sheehan most wants she cannot have. She cannot hug her son. She cannot offer him motherly advice about his girlfriend, his eating habits, or the music he plays too loud in his car. You know, the normal stuff that mothers around this country, who love their sons, do because they can't help themselves.
So, here's my suggestion of some items for the political agenda: Read more... (48 comments, 437 words in story) |
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