21 August, 2005

The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan -Frank Rich

The American public is finally seeing Iraq as that cancer that is draining our military forces and the nations economy and resources. Only when the public demands that the cash flow to this ill conceived adventure will it finally be over. I think that time is drawing near. As always, Frank Rich hits the nail on the head with his articles.
The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan - New York Times: "THIS summer in Crawford, the White House went to this playbook once too often. When Mr. Bush's motorcade left a grieving mother in the dust to speed on to a fund-raiser, that was one fat-cat party too far. The strategy of fighting a war without shared national sacrifice has at last backfired, just as the strategy of Swift Boating the war's critics has reached its Waterloo before Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury in Washington. The 24/7 cable and Web attack dogs can keep on sliming Cindy Sheehan. The president can keep trying to ration the photos of flag-draped caskets. But this White House no longer has any more control over the insurgency at home than it does over the one in Iraq."

No comments: