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Tilting at Windmills

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August 19, 2005
By: Kevin Drum

CAMP CASEY....OC Weekly's Rebecca Schoenkopf takes a trip to Crawford and writes about what the scene at Camp Casey is like:

A lot is being made on the blogs and on the talk shows about the co-opting of Cindy Sheehan by the left. These are the fringe groups, theyre snarling, the far left! and yeah, PETA was there. But a lot of the guys there were Vietnam vets, while the rest were pretty middle-aged and wholesome, middle-class and earnest. People ate meat, and smoked cigarettes, and drove cars with internal combustion engines. Aside from the fact that there were recycling bins, even in the middle of a field, it really was awfully mainstream and with more than half of Americans now saying Iraq wasnt worth it, now the mainstream is us. Of course, at Sundays lunch at the Peace House a gorgeous Middle Eastern buffet, hosted by a group of Iraqi-Americans who fed the multitudes like Jesus with loaves and fishes I did have a particularly crunchy exchange....

Chris Nolan and LA Weekly's Marc Cooper have a somewhat different take. Meanwhile, Media Matters continues to document the almost unbelievable savagery of the ongoing conservative smears of Cindy Sheehan.

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