Gold Star Moms
At Huff-Po, Tom Hayden says the following:
The reason [Cindy Sheehan] is such a threat to Bush is that she claims the "authority of the dead" as a justification for peace. So do an increasing number of Gold Star mothers and military families and Iraq veterans. What is striking so far is that the Bush operatives have been unable to organize a committee of pro-war families who lost sons or daughters in the war. [Nixon did so against John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War]. The White House has only been able to mobilize the Bill O'Reilly, who never fought a war, and Cindy Sheehan's in-laws.
Actually there is a group of Marine mothers heading to Crawford and their calling it the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" caravan. What I find most instructive about Hayden's comment, though, is that he callously sees the soldiers' deaths as something to be exploited. I'm sure if the Bush administration were to organize such a group as he describes, the left would be making just this sort of accusation - that they're exploiting the deaths. So what does it say for lefty groups when they put out 1800 crosses along a Crawford road. Is that not exploitation? I think it is, only it's the left that is currently doing it, not the right.
