"It's like déjà vu all over again!"

Whew boy! If you don't have access to Democracy Now!, you missed an extremely powerful news hour today. It was very moving testament to the growing anti-war sentiment. I realize as I say this, a shrinking 40% of the nation wouldn't agree, but to those of us who see Amy Goodman as one of the last bastions for questioning the policies of this nation that have gotten us into our current mess, I give thanks every day.

I'm so impressed by the people I witnessed at Sheehan's Camp Casey this weekend. Where does a military wife who's husband is soon to be deployed to Iraq gain the poise and public speaking skills to stand up and question the administration with such passion? I'm speaking of Tammara Rosenleaf from Montana who, while imploring us to maintain our right to speak out against the war, had this to say:

When my husband got ready to deploy, the military gave me a book. It's called “Surviving Deployment.” And I have looked at it, and it tells me things like make a list of the plumber, make a list of the electrician. If your toilet gets clogged up, call the plumber.

I am 47 years old; do you think I don't know that? What I'd like to know is that at 4:00 in the morning when I wake up scared to death that my husband is dead or injured, who the hell do I call? And it's not in that damn book!

Pro-war Bush supporters were also present. While letters from family members of Camp Casey were presented by Code Pink's Medea Benjamin to secret service for delivery to Laura Bush, about 50 pro-war supporters presented the secret service with with 32 white signed bed sheets in their clever "I Give a Sheet" campaign.

I was intrigued by the interview of a Dallas woman, Staci Glick, supporting Bush. When asked why she supported the president's war and about WMD's being a lie to justify it replied, "Well, because, I just -- to me, well, you know, he's a man of faith, and I just don't think that if he is what he says he is, I don't think he would do that."

Juxtaposed to the words of anti-war activist Reverend Peter Johnson, I became confused why Staci Glick didn't attach equal validity to his words, also a man of faith. (And sounding far more convincing than the president on Iraq.)

Glick also expressed sorrow for the mothers present who have lost family members in Iraq by further saying, "if we didn't fight today, my son, who is two years old now would have to fight in the future and other people's sons would have to fight in the future for, you know, the Iraqis." It sounded like "Better your kids now than my kid later." I'm sure she didn't mean that, but she did come across a bit confused.

I think the Right is feeling extremely challenged and cornered now, hence, their vicious attacks on the mother of a son who died for their stinking war. With a growing majority against it, how else do you explain them trying to trash Cindy Sheehan. "Swift boating" her some are calling it.

Bill O'Reilly hints Sheehan is traiterous because she lost her son in war and has questions. To question is treason, huh, O'Reilly? What country do you live in? A Fox News commentator called Sheehan a "crackpot" and said that if her son could speak now he would say that he was embarrassed by his mother's actions. And Rush Limbaugh had this to say of Sheehan, August 15:

I mean, her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it. It's not real. It's nothing more than an attempt. It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left.

Yeh, you tell 'em Rush. Maybe Sheehan's making this all up. Maybe her son Casey didn't die in Iraq, huh? Hell, now you have me wondering if she even had a son named Casey. Do you realize how desperate you're sounding Rush? Oh, and Rush, there is no coordinated left in this country. What you're sensing is a genuine disgust growing out of continuously unfolding revelations for this bogus-assed war.

The Right is sounding extremely nervous. We don't have the military needed to commit to winning Iraq and Afghanistan. And if we did, we sure as hell couldn't afford it. We've been led into a huge mess by leaders who chose to ignore the past history of the Brits, French, Russians and Americans in Asia. And I have a feeling these wars are going to end very badly for all of us.

And the Right's sensing "déjà vu all over again!"