The Crawford Eunuch Chorus

As predicted, the crowds are growing in Crawford as lefties from around the country arrive to "support" Cindy Sheehan, and of course get themselves a little media time as well. This isn't sitting well with the thousands of families who are not protesting in Crawford:

On Internet chat rooms and blogs, some organizations and soldiers' relatives are criticizing the protest, saying participants are trying to promote a left-wing agenda and lower troop morale. They say Sheehan does not represent their views on the war with Iraq.

"You have hundreds of people protesting there; you have thousands upon thousands who are not," Becky Davis of Orrington, Maine, who has three sons in the military, told The Associated Press. "A lot of military families I've talked to think it's almost sickening to watch."

Davis says she doesn't know how she would react if one of her sons died in Iraq. But she said she would still support the war because she believes Saddam Hussein was an inhumane dictator who posed a direct threat to the U.S.

"My sons made me promise not to go off the deep end and protest if they got killed ... (because) they were doing what they wanted to do," Davis said. "They volunteered, and they very much believe in their mission."

Wes Pruden, editor-in-chief of the Washington Times, writes today about the near impossibility of consoling a grieving mother, especially one now bent on revenge and being used as a tool of the wimpy left. He also wrote about the difficulty a president faces in going to war and having to deal with the naysayers:

George W.'s gift is his stubborn and determined persistence in not allowing sacrifices made in Afghanistan and Iraq to be squandered by those who have no stomach for the fight now that the fight is rougher than expected. Democracies wage war only with difficulty. Mackubin Thomas Owens, a Vietnam veteran and associate dean of the Naval War College, observes in National Review Online that the Athenians second-guessed every decision their leaders made in the Peloponnesian War; Lincoln had to contend with Radical Republicans who thought he was a bit of a weenie as the commander in chief.
"But neither the Athenians nor Lincoln had to contend with a smug, detached mainstream media," he writes, and " ... it is hard to conduct military operations when a chorus of eunuchs is describing every action we take as a violation of everything for which America stands, a quagmire in which we are doomed to failure, and a waste of American lives." Certain earlier presidents would agree.

It's hard to argue with that. And with the deification of Ms. Sheenah now firmly under way, it's only going to get wackier. We already have her described by one moonbat as the "Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement". Frankly, I think she has higher aspirations.

I think she wants to be Martin Luther Queen.

UPDATE: In case anyone doubts that this is all about getting as much press coverage as possible, Byron York posts this excerpt from Ms. Sheehan's own blog on the HBomb:

Yesterday was kind of a blur to me. From running around from interview to interview, to getting a visit from Viggo Mortensen, it was a whirlwind of activity. I have discovered that the White House press corps is always looking for something to do and someone to cover. We have been happy to oblige them.

I warned you before about the dangers of a bored press corps.