Joe Conason
Salon.com
August 2005

The right has hit new depths with its scurrilous and idiotic attacks on Cindy Sheehan, a politically inexperienced mother in deep pain.

Like Max Cleland and John Kerry, the decorated Democratic veterans who endured vicious lies about their service because they dared to oppose President Bush, Sheehan has learned that the proof of her patriotism doesn't matter to the bullies of the Republican right. Forming an electronic mob, these so-called conservatives don't hesitate to rough up war heroes and Gold Star Families for Peace mothers in a manner that would once have been simply unimaginable in American politics. [...] Read it all at:
http://www.peterhansen.com/ugly_acts_of_desperation_the_rig.htm


Don't forget that Crawford's newspaper, The Lone Star Iconoclast, has news about the happenings in Camp Casey: http://198.65.14.85/default.htm
You will also find lots of news at the web site http://crawfordupdate.blogspot.com/


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