A mother's wrath proves a bigger threat to US hawks

[dweller]

By Linda S. Heard
Online Journal Contributing Writer
August 19, 2005—When all around you are losing their heads and blaming
your administration then what better antidote than to mosey on down to the
ranch and head for the chainsaw, or so the US President George W. Bush
appears to believe.

After all, out of felled oaks, little policy acorns grow in the Bush upside-down
neo-universe.

Meantime, back on terra firma, the great one's loyal entourage is doing the
rounds of the cable talk-shows, explaining why the leader of the free world is
studiously avoiding bumping into a grieving mother who has been camped
out in a ditch near his fence post or as near to one as burly security guards
allow her to get.

Cindy Sheehan wants nothing more than a few moments of her president's
time to ask him how the loss of her 24-year-old son, Casey, and so many
other sons in Iraq has helped to keep the nation safe.

She may have started her journey to Crawford as an ordinary mom with a
broken heart, but along the way she morphed into a weapon against Bush's
foreign policies more lethal than most.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/081905Heard/081905heard.html

[Bumblebee]

1. MSNBC has a poll on whether she is being "used" by liberal groups

and now 57% say yes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/#survey

[ray of light]

2. Actually,

It's a poorly worded question. It says "political groups" as if it's pretending it doesn't imply "left" or liberals. But some could take it as the neoCONS using Cindy to bash instead of the anti-war movement.

[Gyre]

3. Now 63:37 saying "yes" she is getting used.

Getting freeped I suppose. The "good Germans" are talking out their asses once again.

Gyre