One Woman Against The Bush Political Machine
'Cindy Sheehan's War' by Tom Engelhardt
By Winter Patriot on 8/16/2005, 11:49pm PT  

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

I wouldn't want you to miss this excellent new column by Tom Engelhardt. I'll even give you a few excerpts to get you started:

On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road

Over the last two years, administration officials, civilian and military, have never ceased to talk about "turning corners" or reaching "tipping points" and achieving "milestones" in the Iraq-War-that-won't-end. Now it seems possible that Cindy Sheehan in a spontaneous act of opposition --- her decision to head for Crawford, Texas, to face down a vacationing President and demand an explanation for her son's death --- may produce the first real American tipping point of the Iraq War.
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Faced with the power of the Bush political and media machine, Cindy Sheehan has engaged in an extreme version of asymmetrical warfare and, in her person, in her story, in her version of "the costs of war," she has also managed to catch many of the tensions of our present moment. What she has exposed in the process is the growing weakness and confusion of the Bush administration. At this moment, it remains an open question who, in the end, will be found in that ditch at the side of a Texas road, her --- or the President of the United States.

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