More war

I think by now we're all familiar with the story of Cindy Sheehan as well as the kind of treatment she's been getting. It's truly appalling. But it's also made me think.

I can't even imagine what it must be like to lose a son to a war _ any war. But I can't imagine it helps much to know that once you lose a son or daughter, your loss will be thrown back in your face if you so much as dare to voice an objection.

And then there's the argument that we have to stay the course because otherwise people will have died in vain. How horrible is that? Once someone's killed in Iraq, they become part of the ex post facto justification for the war. It's like some horrible dystopian nightmare.