Check out these OpEd pieces by Salena Zito, a columnist over at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - about Cindy Sheehan's latest stunt, and the Iran threat.

Jagged Little Pill
If you harbored any lingering doubts as to the motivation of Cindy Sheehan, grieving mom turned Mother Peacenik, harbor no more.

Sheehan's latest nerve-scraping -- an Internet-posted open letter to Barbara Bush -- reveals her in all her politically motivated glory. She sheds her usual passive-aggressive drivel and goes for the throat.
"(My son) didn't want to go to Iraq, but he knew his duty. Your son went AWOL from a glamour unit," Sheehan writes.

Childlike in her vitriol, she attacks Mrs. Bush for failing to raise a decent human being. And she accuses the president of killing her son, Casey, who died in Iraq...More here


The monster in our closet
Remember when, as a kid, you were convinced a monster lived in your closet?

Most parents dismiss a fear-gripped child's insistence that the bogeyman lurks in the dark. But ask any kid who lay huddled under the bedcovers waiting for the inevitable grisly attack to spring from the closet. That monster was real.

A reality shift is going on in America right now that deals with our own closet-monster, Iran. And this bogeyman is real, a serious threat, and it should be dealt with accordingly; dismissing it will have deadly consequences.
The phrase "wipe Israel off the face of the map," proclaimed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, should make that clear. As one Holocaust survivor put it, "When someone in power tells you that they want to kill you, they will." - More here

Decidedly good reading.