Monday, August 22, 2005

The Mothers of All Battles

Cindy Sheehan is under attack. The woman dared to challenge the President, and now she is being slimed in retaliation. Frank Rich wrote in the NY Times yesterday about the attempt to discredit the grieving and outraged mother protesting the war that took the life of her son. Apparently, other mothers are joining the battle.

Here's an excerpt:

Another mother who has journeyed to Crawford, Celeste Zappala, wrote last Sunday in New York's DailyNews of how her son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was also killed in April 2004 - in Baghdad, where he was providing security for the Iraq Survey Group, which was charged with looking for W.M.D.'s "well beyond the admission by David Kay that they didn't exist."

As Ms. Zappala noted with rage, her son's death came only a few weeks after Mr. Bush regaled the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association banquet in Washington with a scripted comedy routine featuring photos of him pretending to look for W.M.D.'s in the Oval Office.

"We'd like to know if he still finds humor in the fabrications that justified the war that killed my son," Ms. Zappala wrote.

posted at 1:06:00 PM by Neil

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