War & Peace: August 2005 Archives

Or rather, the lack thereof.

Alas, A Blog has a great roundup of links on this unspeakably depressing subject. What have we done? 

Haven't been able to find the video yet, but apparently, some right-wing talkshow hack named Mike Gallagher dragged his minions to Crawford to participate in a counterprotest against Cindy Sheehan's Camp Casey. The group shouted the slogan, "We don't care! We don't care! We don't care!" repeatedly.

The best part? Gallagher's defense of the tactic.

Now of course, you know what the "We don't care" cheer was about, cause you heard me talk about it before we went to Crawford. It was about the Iraqi insurgents complaining - and the terrorist prisoners complaining - about being mistreated.

Yet, the bloggers wrote, "Mike Gallagher led a cheer of rabid right-wingers screaming, 'We don't care' directed at Cindy Sheehan over the loss of her son.

Oh, O.K.! Silly me. I thought you were saying that you didn't care that Ms. Sheehan had lost her son in the war. But all you were saying is that you don't care about all those human rights violations that have damaged our international image and derailed our struggle against terrorism! A thousand apologies. My bad!