Big fucking deal

It's August. It's Friday.

Got no time or energy for bloggin'.

So being lazy I will just say thank you to Arianna Huffington for this:

So Cindy [Sheehan] might have used the "f-word" when talking about the administration that sent her son to die in Iraq. Big fucking deal.

And thanks to Arianna for calling out such resepected "mainstream" voices as Paula Zahn, Edmund Morris, and Dana Milbank for their consdescending, openly contemptous attitudes towards Sheehan. Acts of selflessness and courage bring out the worst in some people, apparently.

And thanks to Arianna for pointing out a Matt Drudge column (which I would never in a million years read on my own), in which Drudge quotes a speech Sheehan made earlier this year. I imagine Matt wants us all to be outraged that Sheehan would say such things. But many millions (billions?) agree with every word:

"We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We?re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!"[quibble: Dick Cheney might have something to say about that!]

"We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now." [Oh, OK. She's exagerrating wildly. The half life of depleted uranium is only 4.5 billion years.]

"The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it's so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go this war. And you aren't willing to send your own children, or if you're not willing to go die yourself, then you bring there rest of our kids home now."

Well thanks Matt, for pointing that out. Now more than ever I say God* Bless Cindy Sheehan.

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* if there is a God.