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The grief and outrage that Cindy Sheehan and the other dissenting military families have evoked this week in Washington, D.C., is palpable, as is the evidence they muster of just how careless this administration was in putting their loved ones at risk for the Iraq war. But in calling for an immediate withdrawal, the peace movement can't duck a central question: Just how do we leave On Friday, Sheehan appeared on a Congressional Black Caucus breakfast panel with General Wesley Clark, the former NATO commander and presidential hopeful, who was there to address the issue of whether the U.S. can...

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. -- Do Wesley Clark and Dennis Kucinich have street cred? While nobody is surprised that the Rev. Al Sharpton can hang out with rap moguls Russell Simmons and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, satirists skewered white candidates for their pop-culture reach at a this week's youth-oriented debate. But young aides for Clark, a silver-haired retired general, and Kucinich, a middle-aged congressman, claim their candidates can have real cache with young voters -- in other words, street cred. Clark spokeswoman Kym Spell said Clark particularly likes OutKast, Atlanta rappers with anti-war lyrics that parallel Clark's opposition to President Bush's...