Ellen Goodman, Cindy and "Dead Wrong"

ellen goodman has a strong, respected, reasoned voice... i wish she'd make use of it more often on critical topics... i'm glad to see this...

We are now ending Week Two at Camp Casey. The August phenomenon of 2005 is not shark bites or missing women, but a mother who showed up at the president's vacation doorstep.

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In Week Two, prowar supporters have tried to make the war protest all about Cindy. She was dubbed the ''Poster Child for Surrender" and ''America's Most Embarrassing Mother." But, in fact, this woman with a reckless courage born of grief and anger -- ''I'm not afraid of anything since my son was killed" -- directs her challenge to the ''swing voters" of this war. She presents a different image to those uneasy Americans who have so far held their tongues and their doubts out of respect to the war dead and their families.

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So the question is not whether the president will talk with her. He won't. [...] It's whether nearly 1,900 Americans died in a war of choice and how painful that is to acknowledge. It's whether we go on quietly honoring those deaths with more deaths.

ellen makes a good point... it is encouraging to see a major story that isn't about a missing white woman or a shark attack... we badly need a focus on the real issues that are facing our country... also encouraging is seeing a major network pushing out truth... i just finished watching the rest of the cnn presents: "dead wrong" special report... it's searing despite the fact that it tiptoes around laying the blame at the feet of the two principal perpetrators, cheney and bush... if cindy, currently at her mother's side in california, happens to catch it, it will only add to the terrible knowledge that her son was taken to an early death by a president who either did not know, did not want to know, or did not care to tell the truth...

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