Common Dreams
by Ira Chernus

08/18/05

It was an astonishing turnout. Last night, in my small middle-American city, more than 150 people stood on street corners supporting Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mom who is waiting outside the president's ranch to ask him, 'Why did you kill my son?' Of course, demonstrations like this don't have much effect unless they are reported in the mainstream media. Cindy Sheehan is making the media pay attention. ... The bad news is that, no matter how much the public wants our troops out of Iraq, they will probably stay there until the foreign policy elite decides its time for this folly to end. The good news is that the foreign policy elite is beginning to recognize that the U.S. effort to control Iraq really is folly. The clearest evidence is that they let Cindy Sheehan become front-page news...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0818-26.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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