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Cindy Sheehan, pictured in front of the White House today, says that any Democrat with presidential aspirations who doesn't oppose the Vietraq War doesn't deserve our support in 2008. I wholeheartedly agree, but I would add that a Democrat who opposed the Vietraq War even before the Bush regime's illegal, immoral, unprovoked, imperialist and anti-Christian March 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq deserves our support over any Democrat who voted in 2002 to give the Bush regime the authority to launch its bogus war on Iraq.
She's baaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Anti-Vietraq-War activist Cindy Sheehan is back in the media spotlight to afflict the comfortable.
This time, however, her deserving target is Hillary Clinton.
Reports The Associated Press today:
Cindy Sheehan, who became the face of anti-war sentiment after her son died in Iraq, urged foes of the war to thwart Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political aspirations unless the New York Democrat opposes the conflict.
"I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support," Sheehan said [today] in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever."
Sheehan has become a de facto leader of the anti-war movement since she camped out near President Bush's Texas ranch while he vacationed there in August, requesting a meeting with the president. Her son Casey was killed last year in an ambush in Sadr City, Iraq.
The former first lady, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted in 2002 for the congressional resolution authorizing the president to use military force in Iraq. Clinton has supported troop-level expansions even while criticizing Bush's handling of Iraq. [Emphasis mine.]
Clinton is up for re-election next year and leads national polls of the party's potential 2008 presidential candidates.
Sheehan met with Clinton in Washington last month to discuss the war.
"After she met with me, she said she has to make sure our sons didn't die in vain," Sheehan said. "That is a totally Republican talking point." [Emphasis mine.]
Clinton campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis declined to comment on Sheehan's criticism.
Sheehan is in Washington this week to continue her protests. Her public criticism of Clinton surfaced earlier this month with a message posted on anti-war filmmaker Michael Moore's Web site in which she wrote: "I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it."
I think there's a good chance that Hillary will denounce the Bush regime's bogus Iraq war eventually because, like her husband, she goes in whichever direction the wind blows. (And Hillary's "[supporting] troop-level expansions even while criticizing Bush's handling of Iraq" is classic Clintonian triangulation: Tell all sides what they want to hear and make yourself as difficult to pin down as possible.)
Polls taken this month show that a majority of Americans think that the Bush regime's March 2003 invasion of Iraq wasn't worth it.
As the quagmire in Vietraq is unlikely to improve any month soon, the majority of Americans will likely continue to believe that the Vietraq War wasn't worth it, and I expect Hillary to get on board with the majority of Americans -- at least where her political rhetoric is concerned.
Recent polls also show that a solid majority of Americans are ready for a woman to be president of the United States. (See here and here.)
Hmmmmm... Who is a strong, intelligent woman who opposed the 2002 congressional resolution authorizing "President" Bush to bomb the hell out of Iraq based upon his regime's bold-faced lies and fabricated "intelligence"?
Why, that would be California Sen. Barbara Boxer, of course -- the woman whom, if I got to hand-pick the next president of the United States like the five members of the U.S. Supreme Court who had been appointed by Repugnican presidents got to hand-pick George W. Bush in 2000, I would pick.
I think Cindy would approve.
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