Political Leaders' Silence on Iraq War Is a Dereliction of Duty

August 22, 2005
latimes.com : Politics
Ronald Brownstein:
Washington Outlook

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a slain soldier who has been camping outside President Bush's Texas ranch, is an impassioned witness but an imperfect messenger.

Her leftist foreign policy agenda is as unlikely to draw majority support as the militant unilateralism of the hard-core neoconservatives.

But Sheehan will have done the nation a service if she inspires, or shames, both parties to resume debate over the direction of the Iraq war.>>>continued

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