It is always the same. During the Vietnam conflict if one protested the war they were labeled "bleeding-heart-liberal-commies" by the honorable VP Agnew - others took up his battle cry, even after he was dismissed on corruption charges. That is until the "silent majority" proved to be against the war as much as the vocal college students and "VN vets against the war". When the middle class began turning up at the rallys, it became difficult to claim they were all a buncha traitors to the noble cause of a free Vietnam (even tho it had been ruled by one military junta after another after the assassination of Diem) then. But, for some it was impossible to leave the "traitor" philosophy and turn to one of reason (or atleast, acknowledgement that we were in an unwinnable war). It remains the same today. Only today, it has yet to be proven that we can leave safely and lose what ever we think we have gained (access to the northern oil fields), a military hold in the middle-east (Haliburton has been given contracts to build 14 permanent bases in Iraq - but, you already know that).

To protest against an illegal war, is not being a traitor - it is a patriotic stance against the corruption that led our boys to war without a true reason or justifiable purpose. Which is now: the spread of democracy ... vs the original that Saddam was 45 minutes away with WMD he intended to use to destroy us (our way of life? - which they hate us for according to Bush43).

To equate that Mrs. Sheehan's actions are equal to siding with the enemy is ludicrous. It is simply bringing out the old format used in the Vietnam War (by the same sponsors of military incursions) to justify their actions by demonizing anyone that disagrees with them. It works for a while, until those that originally agreed with their premise see thru it - as the toll of soldiers lives being lost can no longer be justified by accusing others for it. Sooner than later, Bush43 must take responsability for his actions - I believe that is all Mrs. Sheehan is asking for.

Bush, is again the deer in the headlights - as he was on 9/11 for 7 minutes in a classroom after being told "America is under attack". He doesn't know how to respond, so he figures if he does nothing and leaves it to his minions to defile Mrs. Sheehan as being a tool for his enemies - it will all just go away. Like the DeLay affair, the Roves affair, the WMD, his and Cheney's ties to Haliburton and Enron, etc, etc, etc. He is banking on the short term memories of his constituents to do as they have always done - follow blindly and believe the propagations of the right-wing media.

It may work, again. Who knows? Expect a new change of menu soon - is how they generally get something off the front page and back on the obituaries where they believe they belong. Maybe they can bring back the boat-people ads against Kerry. What ever it will be, it will have a modecum of truth to it, but be trailed by a string of innuendo and lies. Is how they work, if you haven't noticed.