Salon: Is Cindy Sheehan Fair Game Too?

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Is Cindy Sheehan "fair game," too?
By Tim Grieve, "war room", Salon

We're not particularly shy about saying what we think to the ever-shrinking group of people who support George W. Bush and the war he started in Iraq. If you've still got a "W 2004" sticker on the back of your SUV, you can expect that we'll engage you in conversation in the parking lot at the grocery store. Maybe it's not such a good idea -- in Kentucky this week, an argument over the war came to a close when one participant shot the other -- but we're always eager to have a "frank exchange" with those who see the war differently than we do.

Well, almost always. By our way of thinking, families who have lost a loved one in Iraq get a free pass to think whatever they want to think about the war. If getting through their grief requires them to believe that Iraq had WMDs or that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11 or that the war will spread democracy through the Middle East or that fighting "the enemy" there means we don't have to fight them here or whatever new story the president is peddling this week -- well, whatever. They've paid the price of admission to think whatever it is that lets them sleep at night, and we wouldn't presume to tell them why we're right and they're wrong. Is it too much to ask for a similar courtesy from our friends on the right?

Apparently so. Cindy Sheehan's ...
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