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I'm sure John Kerry is absolutely thrilled to hear this news.
Meanwhile, my friend James commented yesterday that he'd like to hear my thoughts on Cindy Sheehan's crusade. My response, in a nutshell: I commend her for having done what no one who's firmly against this war has been able to do: make an honest, powerful statement that causes some presidental squirming. Michael Goodwin's excellent editorial in today's NY Daily News articulated it nicely:
"There is a chance that Sheehan is just the media flavor of the month. But I wouldn't bet on it. This feels like a turning point. It's happened before.Abraham Lincoln, when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery tract Uncle Tom's Cabin, said: 'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!'
Perhaps someday a President will greet Cindy Sheehan this way: 'So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.'"
Meanwhile, Dubya attending a Veterans of Foreign Wars Conference? That just may be the single biggest insult to veterans ever cooked up. Of course, the conference will be so stressful for poor GW he'll need to take yet another vacation* to recover from the scorn he's bound to face from the real men of this country whom he disrespects with every breath.
*Bush's recent 5-week escape to Crawford was the longest presidential vacation in nearly 40 years. According to the August 4 Washington Post : "[This] getaway is Bush's 49th trip to his cherished ranch since taking office and Tuesday was the 319th day Bush has spent... in Crawford -- roughly 20 percent of his presidency to date."
Goodwin, in the editorial I mentioned above, takes it even further:
"Bush's decision to spend a full month in Texas was stunningly stupid. With Americans turning solidly against the war... the President looks callous when the nation needs reassuring."
Callous? Understatement.
We are inching toward 2,000 U.S. soldiers (plus thousands of Iraqis) DEAD for no comprehensible reason while the actual perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks (the ones Bush so earnestly promised would "hear from all of us soon") are living and breathing with Bush's blessing and Dubya himself is chowing down on Texas BBQ while refusing to deign to even speak to dead soldiers' families, let alone acknowledge that we haven't a clue how to clean up our mess. Motherfucker. Take that "Support Our Troops" ribbon off of your fucking presidential limo, you champion of hypocrisy.
Posted by ayelet at August 17, 2005 10:58 AMcouple of things I find interesting. The right cannot really attack her, they try to say she's been brainwashed. Also she seems to be rallying people her age, not college youth. I am surprised there is not more of a campus protest against this insane bush war.
Media has also been supportive of the war. They don't raise the issue that much of bush's lies. About WMD, about Saddam involved w/ 9-11.
And Craig will go over for 7 more months, accruing leave time he CANNOT use while overseas, so he'll probably lose it even though it's so well-deserved.
As of now, he's spent approximately 330 days in Iraq since January of 2003.
After his next tour he will have been in Iraq for 540 days.
When's the Military's vacation? I mean.. they ARE actually the ones DOING something.
Posted by: Aviva at August 17, 2005 01:13 PMWow, that's 5.8 US servicemembers dead for each day he's spent in Crawford, as of today.
Posted by: Vidiot at August 17, 2005 11:11 AM