The Venom Of The Snake

Charles Krauthammer oh so elegantly provides some inappropriate (in my mind) historical context surrounding Cindy Sheehan and the antiwar movement in this column, and then digs his fangs into her, so to speak, in the very last paragraph (speaking only for myself, I gave up on Krauthammer a long time ago).

Fortunately, John Grant of Plymouth Meeting, PA, in a Letter To The Editor in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, calls out Krauthammer and his words for what they really are.

I worked with Cindy Sheehan in Texas and here in Philadelphia. Charles Krauthammer's Oct. 3 op-ed smear ("Sheehan's moral authority in doubt") is an example of the gauntlet of garbage one must put up with when an antiwar message begins to reach ordinary Americans.

Sheehan has never supported any Stalinist organizations, endorsed the Tiananmen massacre, defended Saddam Hussein or held a bake sale for Kim Jong Il. This line is a tiresome red herring used by extremist right-wingers. It's simply garbage. The fact is, the recent highly diverse march in Washington was sponsored by thousands of very mainstream organizations, including a number of members of Congress.

Is the war in Iraq a case of bungling or corruption? Sheehan, indeed, leans toward the latter. By now, only die-hard Bush loyalists refuse to recognize the fabric of lies and secret acts that got us into this war. The fact is, corruption and bungling got us where we are. To twist this into a case that Sheehan supports the violent insurgency in Iraq is, again, simply garbage.

(note - more light blogging today...)