I thought that she retired

Apparently not. How can we miss Cindy Sheehan if she won't go away? Now, she is blathering on about the end of nation-states, (the U.S. committing) genocide in Iraq, President Chimpy McHalibuton plotting to attack Iran (because, you know, they pose NO THREAT TO US WHATSOEVER. AND EVEN IF THEY DID, IT WOULD BE OUR FAULT.): http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/04/4302. And she's hardly the only one on that side of the political spectrum who feels that way:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10278.

I'll say it again. I can't pretend to know the pain that Cindy Sheehan experiences when she thinks about the son she lost in Iraq. However, unlike Maureen Dowd, I do NOT think that her loss gives her "absolute moral authority" to say anything she wants at any time. That devalues the thousands of other parents who have also lost children in Iraq and who have said nothing or who, to Ms. Dowd's undoubted consternation, have spoken out in favour of the war. I wonder, do THEY have absolute moral authority, too? Or, are their opinions not as valuable or newsworthy because they go against "the party line" on the war?