[LarryDeRobio]

Thought this piece was pretty groovey (hey i'm down with this whole 60s vibe with Joan Baez and all). The dude is a lefty, but is still lucid enough to be bothered enough by the freakshow and the freaks to write about them.

[LarryDeRobio]

Apologies for the double post had a little computer fart there.

[MJY1288]

"Thought this piece was pretty groovey"

LOL, I guess so, you posted it three times :-)

[pipecorp]

As with any wrtiting , the first few paras is to get you lulled in, so when he starts attacking the "lizards" you don't notice. by the way cindy is not the sweet naive mommy he tries to make her out to be, his ultimate objective, negating the first 3/4 of the story.

[MarkeyD]

He tried to make it sound reasonable. But then he finished it with:

Iraq isn't like that. Iraq is an insane blunder committed by a bunch of criminal incompetents who have managed so far to avoid the lash and the rack only because the machinery for avoiding reality is so advanced in this country. We don't watch the fighting, we don't see the bodies come home and we don't hear anyone screaming when a house in Baghdad burns down or a child steps on a mine.

The only movement we're going to need to end this fiasco is a more regular exposure to consequence. It needs to feel its own pain. Cindy Sheehan didn't bring us folk songs, but she did put pain on the front pages. And along a lonely Texas road late at night, I saw it spread.

[Cecily]

He's also not very objective about Axis Cindy. She's earned every bit of the scorn he criticizes.

[CaptRon]

On my first night at the camp, a protester parked too close to a gully, and her car slipped into a ditch. While a bunch of us tried to extricate it, pushing the car as its wheels spun, one protester leaned over to another.

Why didn't Cindy just wander over, raise her arms, and levitiate the thing out (a Volvo no doubt).

[ChildOfThe60s]

We don't watch the fighting, we don't see the bodies come home and we don't hear anyone screaming when a house in Baghdad burns down or a child steps on a mine.

Funny, we have seen a lot more of that than CNN showed us of Saddam's torture chambers, rape victims, mass graves, wood chippers, gassed kurds and leveled villages.

Wonder how that happened, huh Rolling Stoned?

[Jeff Head]

"If I truly was a media whore do you think I would like
maybe get myself fixed up a little bit before I went on?"
Quote and pic of Cindy Sheehan - August 24, 2005

[soccermom]

What I find sad about this article is Matt Taibbi seems to think it is about as illogical that Saddam was linked to 9/11 as it is to think the US was behind it. No, I don't think Saddam was behind 9/11, but Taibbi's logic is as simplistic as it gets. Bin Laden wouldn't work with Saddam because Saddam was a secularist? So what? We worked with the Soviet Union during WWII. I wonder if Taibbi understands that the whole reason Bin Laden turned on Saudi Arabia is because the Saudis aided the US in the Gulf War.

[Roscoe Karns]

Keeping a discrete distance just outside of Camp Casey...

"That's good, Cindy, you're doing just fine. Now make your eyes look
a little crazier. Good, good. Ok, now repeat after me, 'America is evil...the Jews
took out the WTC... Vote Democrat...Bush poisoned my neighbor's hamster..."

[Beckwith]

Sometimes, mother is half a word.

[kublia khan]

He's right about extremist. Be they on the right or left they contribute little light and lots of smoke to the issue of the day. When I was growing up those on the left were an excellent source of weed and it was free if you agreed with them and those on the right usually plied you with beer and liquor and if they were hard right you might even get a snort of home brew. Like my momma always said everybody has some good in them if you'll look for it.

[HighlyOpinionated]

The saddest part of all of this is that Cindy Sheehan will be even more alone when the media finds another standard bearer for their "Hate Bush" cause. These 'friends' won't be there when she's alone and realizes what she's really lost. Husband, children, and a son who volunteered for the military. All the vigils and protests and demands won't bring the boy back.

Despite a rising tide of combat deaths and the prospect of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan for years to come, Americans continue to volunteer for duty and are re-enlisting at record rates.
The services believe a combination of patriotism and the economy is driving people to the military and keeping them there.
"The war is not only not having a negative effect, but it is helping to reinforce the number of people who want to join," said Cmdr. John Kirby, a spokesman for the Navy's Bureau of Personnel.

Although the quote above is a year old, the numbers are still impressive.

Here's a recent article: as the fiscal year nears an end, the Army's numbers look great. Especially in combat units and Iraq, soldiers are re-enlisting at record levels. And you don't hear a whisper about it from the "mainstream media."
* Every one of the Army's 10 divisions — its key combat organizations — has exceeded its re-enlistment goal for the year to date. Those with the most intense experience in Iraq have the best rates. The 1st Cavalry Division is at 136 percent of its target, the 3rd Infantry Division at 117 percent.
Among separate combat brigades, the figures are even more startling, with the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division at 178 percent of its goal and the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Mech right behind at 174 percent of its re-enlistment target.
This is unprecedented in wartime. Even in World War II, we needed the draft. Where are the headlines?
* What about first-time enlistment rates, since that was the issue last spring? The Army is running at 108 percent of its needs. Guess not every young American despises his or her country and our president.


Apparently not everyone between the ages of 18 and 31 is anti-war or anti-Bush.

[Lorianne]

... an informal poll taken around a campfire revealed that six out of a group of ten protesters, selected at random, believed that the United States government was directly involved in planning the 9/11 bombings. Flabbergasted ...

This is the tipping point for me too. I first became aware of how far the "left" had slipped over the horizon when I started hearing these sentiments at social functions shortly after 9/11 ... they try to deny that the 'left' believes these things, but and informal survey by me indicates that they really do. Lunacy.