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Gold Star Mothers and the "Truth"

In 2001, a fake report went out that Hillary Clinton "snubbed" a group of "Gold Star Mothers". This "report" instantly traveled across the globe via Right-Wing e-mail blasts. To this day, this story still appears in e-mail boxes.

Unfortunately, it was a lie. Even the Gold Star Mothers were forced to debunk this lie on their home page of their web site. Fortunately for some rabid right-winger All-Things-Democrat-Haters, the story still makes its rounds.

At this writing, there is another Gold Star Mother sitting by a road in Spider-Hole, er, Crawford Texas. She is mere miles away from the President, and yet he refuses to meet with her to answer her questions. When she did meet him, mere weeks after her son's death, he casually brushed her and her family off with a smirking "Who are we honoring today?" (Apparently, the families must have been there to honor George W. Bush).

In a rabid attack far more vicious than a "liberal media" ever used, the Right Wing media has gone and smeared as being unpatriotic. She has even been threatened with arrest. This threat was made because she posed a "security risk". Why? Is she armed? (Texas is a "concealed carry" state, right?)

It is all too easy to claim that these attackers of Cindy Sheehan are brainwashed. But the truth is, they know exactly what they are doing, and they have no qualms about it. As soon as their guy is even questioned, the attack comes full force. And Bush cowers in his spider-hole.

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