Cindy under siege...

the lesson here for all of us - when you stand up for your beliefs in today's society, you better be prepared to be attacked mercilessly, without restraint or compassion... the right's attack machine knows no limits, following the karl rove playbook to the letter... in roveworld, you don't merely attack your enemies, you utterly destroy them, beat the dead bodies with baseball bats, drive metaphorical stakes through their hearts, jump up and down on them, drag them behind cars through the streets, and then dump them in the river weighed down with concrete blocks...

Cindy Sheehan rode into town 10 days ago, a forlorn mother with a question for her president: Why did my son die in Iraq?

But now the same wave of publicity and political anger that she rode to become a nationally known symbol of the antiwar movement threatens to crash down on Sheehan herself.

Conservative commentators and Web sites are taking aim at Sheehan with the same ferocity she has aimed at President Bush. In part, they are using her own words against her -- reciting such controversial comments as her vow to refuse to pay taxes to a government waging an "illegal" war and her desire to see Bush impeached.

"the same ferocity she has aimed at president bush...?" i think not... first of all, she's not manipulating the levers on a finely-tuned propaganda machine... secondly, she is speaking the truth, unlike bush who is incapable of telling the truth... finally, she is struggling with the worst of all personal losses - a child...

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