The Moose writes:

First, she should be cut a lot of slack. Ms. Sheehan suffered an incalculable loss. However, she has discredited her cause by her associations with radicals, her extremist statements about Israel and her arguments even against the Afghanistan war. And now this…

Two quick responses. A) She’s already been cut miles and miles of slack. Enough slack already. B) The formulation he uses is similar to what you see all over the place. She’s been “misled” by radicals; she’s been “exploited” by radicals; she’s been “used” by radicals. It’s time to call this the nonsense it is. She is a radical. The exploitation is of her dead son’s memory. The implication of saying she’s “associating” with radicals is that she herself is not one. That is an assertion which cannot be supported. Period.