I was perusing the Drudge Report tonight and, about half way down the page saw, at first glance, this image:

Say what? Then I took a second look and it all became clear. Here is the actual layout:

Not as much fun but, still, you gotta appreciate the positioning of these two articles.

David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com

As you can see by the AP photos below, Ms. Sheehan’s 15 minutes of fame have clearly come and gone. I disagree with her words and her actions… I think she’s a bit of a kook really… But I know also that she is a mom whose arms ache to hold her son again.

Her mistake was to believe a lie. It’s what we Christians call “a lie straight from the pit of hell.”

The lie is that her son died for nothing. Worse; that her son died for a lie.

Nothing could be further from the truth, but Ms. Sheehan chose long ago to believe that her son, rather than being a heroic young man determined to defend the people he loved, was a deceived young man sent to a war that has no meaning. Actually, Ms. Sheehan is the one who was deceived.

She chose to believe the lies of those who could care less about Iraq, or freedom in general. Furthermore, they had no compuction when it came to duping her into supporting their cause. They made her into their poster child, hoping that her status as a “Gold Star” mom would give their cause a higher profile, and the MSM bit. They milked it for all it was worth, putting Ms. Sheehan on display like she was some kind of prize-winning pig from the state fair.

And Ms. Sheehan, desperately alone and still grief-stricken over her son’s death, did exactly as she was told. She repeated the things they told her to repeat, showed up wherever they told her to show up, and believed in the anti-war cause even as she refused to believe in the cause her son died fighting for.

And now, as you can see, Ms. Sheehan is alone again. And her so-called friends? They’ve mostly moved. Yes, they are still telling her where to go and what to do and say, but, after this past weekend, I don’t think you’ll see groups like Code Pink showing up for her rallies. Did they even show up for this one?

But what of Ms. Sheehan?

I pray that she finds peace. I pray that she learns the truth… Her son died for a reason. He made a difference, he died protecting us. And he died helping to found a new nation that will rise up to become a vibrant democracy.

I believe that, even if so many others do not. The Iraqi people will prove all the doubters wrong; they’ll lay hold of freedom, and they won’t let go.

David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com