War Room

by Tim Grieve
August 15
Salon.com

When John McCain had George W. Bush on the ropes in South Carolina in 2000, he quickly found himself subject to smears about his mental condition and family. When Richard Clarke criticized Bush after 9/11, Dick Cheney tried to discredit him as someone who "wasn't in the loop." When Paul O'Neill said that Bush used 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, the White House said that he was ignored when he worked for the administration and should be ignored afterward, too. When Joseph Wilson said Bush had misled the nation in the run-up to the war, the White House called him a liar and outed his wife.

Hello, Cindy Sheehan.

After all these years, no one should be surprised by what's happening to Sheehan. As McCain and Clarke and O'Neill and Wilson did before her, Sheehan has put George W. Bush in a tight spot. And like of each them, she now finds herself the victim of smear after smear after smear from the right. You can almost hear James Taranto rubbing his hands as he ticks off the revelations about Sheehan: Her family is "imploding"! She and her husband separated over the war! Her surviving son wishes she would come home! [...] Read the rest at Salon.com: http://tinyurl.com/86qoa


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