Arthur Silber: Shifting Tides--Cindy Sheehan Is Not Alone

August 15th, 2005

Here’s another part of the Cindy Sheehan story that most Bush supporters can’t acknowledge or answer: the evidence mounts that Cindy Sheehan is hardly alone in her opposition to Bush’s war of choice, and this is true even for many military families.

For example:

In a departure from past policies, newspapers around the country, with the U.S. death toll in Iraq again soaring, increasingly are reporting the antiwar sentiments of family members of the deceased in their coverage of funerals. The latest example comes from the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader on Sunday.

It concerns the funeral of Lance Cpl. Chase Johnson Comley. The story notes that “in a departure from the norm in Kentucky—one of the reddest of red states—some of Comley’s relatives, including a few sitting in the front pews, have spoken out strongly against the Bush administration and the war that took the 21-year-old Marine’s life.”