I wish I had more time for this right now. And I REALLY wish I had an inside track to Rush's ear.
I just did a quick search on these 9/11 widows who've been criticizing Bush for his ads. They belong to "September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows".
http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/ I haven't had time to read much of it, but a recent press release announced they were sending women members to Afghanistan to "...meet with Afghan families who lost loved ones to the US-led bombing, weighing the positive effects of being freed from the Taliban against the negative effects on their physical, emotional and psychological
well-being".
Non partisan, my foot!
..."weighing the positive effects of being freed from the Taliban against the negative effects on their physical, emotional and psychological well-being". Were these the same people circulating a petition decrying the Taliban and their brutality against women? Of course, pre-9/11, it was politically correct.