US Politics

The other day I posted on Cindy Sheehan. Mohamed, over at Iraq The Model has a very moving response. It's nothing we don't already know from Iraq, but it's the response of someone who lived in a country where people really were killed for no reason.

I realize how tragic your loss is and I know how much pain there is crushing your heart and I know the darkness that suddenly came to wrap your life and wipe away your dreams and I do feel the heat of your tears that won't dry until you find the answers to your question; why you lost your loved one?

I have heard your story and I understand that you have the full right to ask people to stand by your side and support your cause. At the beginning I told myself, this is yet another woman who lost a piece of her heart and the questions of war, peace and why are killing her everyday. To be frank to you the first thing I thought of was like "why should I listen or care to answer when there are thousands of other women in America, Iraq and Afghanistan who lost a son or a husband or a brother…”

But today I was looking at your picture and I saw in your eyes a persistence, a great pain and a torturing question; why?

I know how you feel Cindy, I lived among the same pains for 35 years but worse than that was the fear from losing our loved ones at any moment. Even while I'm writing these words to you there are feelings of fear, stress, and sadness that interrupt our lives all the time but in spite of all that I'm sticking hard to hope which if I didn't have I would have died years ago.

Read it all.

The Washington Times Insider has an article today (free registration required) that the controversial (read: full of lies) ad that NARAL was running on CNN and several local stations has been pulled. The best part of the article was the second paragraph:

"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, wrote in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter.

That's got to be the understatement of the year. After the flogging the ad received from FactCheck, an independent group that reviewed the ad, you wonder how she can say that it was "misconstrued" with a straight face. Spector, who has a stellar record with NARAL, had written that the ad was counterproductive.

California Senator Barbara Boxer apparently missed the memo on the ad. In a speech she gave at Golden Gate University, she said "Roberts sided with some of the nation’s most violent anti-choice extremists." While she at least tries to come up with some facts to prove it, she's still wrong. And she doesn't care.