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Who needs Cindy Sheehan when you have Daniel Ellsberg? The media’s best-loved leaker of national defense secrets joined a gaggle of unwashed lefties with no Thanksgiving plans outside the Bush ranch for another round of demands that American foreign policy match the pictures they see inside their heads. Where was Cindy? Tending to “a family emergency,” we’re told, though what would qualify for such at this point is unclear. Sheehan has long since made her break from Burke’s little platoons. She belongs to the People now.
One demonstrator held a sign that read, “Give me liberty or give me a ditch.”
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