Editorial supporting Cindy Sheehan in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

[I Have A Dream]

Friday, August 12, 2005

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A mother mourning the death of her son has a right to answers. In the case of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in April 2004, the search for facts goes beyond the circumstances of the ambush that led to his death.

Mrs. Sheehan wants what many of President Bush's critics have howled for since the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The 48-year-old Vacaville, Calif., woman wants a coherent explanation for why her son and more than 1,800 other sons and daughters have died in Iraq.

Like the rest of the nation, she doesn't buy the justifications, long since discredited, about the 9/11 connection and the existence of WMDs in that country. Most of all, Mrs. Sheehan wants an accounting from President Bush for a policy based on erroneous assumptions.

Last week, she began keeping vigil several miles down the road from the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. The Secret Service and the local police are monitoring the situation. Raw pain of the kind she's expressed so articulately makes them nervous. Meanwhile, President Bush clears brush on his ranch in splendid isolation, insulated from criticism of all kinds.

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http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/05224/552657.stm


Additionally, the premiere spot on the front page was a huge picture of Cindy weeping while holding Casey's cross. My heart aches for her. :cry:

[samsingh]

1. let's give them a click by following the link

[I Have A Dream]

2. Kick

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[Metta]

3. Up the post. nt

[second edition]

4. I've been very proud of the editorials in the Pittsburgh Post

Gazette lately. I would take that paper over the other rag paper in my area anyday.

[I Have A Dream]

5. I totally agree. I wouldn't take the Tribune-Review for anything.

They called and offered it to me for free -- I laughed at them. In fact, I started to get the Post-Gazette only because of the way the reporter for the Trib treated Theresa Heinz-Kerry during the election. I decided that I wanted to support their competition. I haven't been disappointed for the most part, and there are certainly times when I've been proud, like yesterday and today. (Yesterday was because of the front page article about the woman who said that her family isn't the kind that serves in the military.)

I think that we're really lucky to have Tony Norman as part of the Post-Gazette's Editorial Board. He's a really intelligent man who really knows what he's writing about. There may be other equally good people as well.