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Get Along Home, Cindy, Cindy

By on 2.9.06 @ 4:17PM

At long last, Cindy Sheehan, in declining a run for the Senate, has made a rationality-based statement:

"If I thought that running for Senate would bring our young people home more quickly I would do it in a minute, but I am not convinced that that would do so," she said.

What's next? Conceding that an all-volunteer military is comprised of individuals who have joined of their own free will?

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Paul Beston is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.

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