The mainstream media SO wants to paint Iraq as another Vietnam. They don't have Walter Crankcase intoning on the nightly news about the body bags coming home, because there just aren't that many of them relative to the numbers of soldiers in country in either Iraq or Afghanistan. So they're trying to tout Cindy Sheehan as representative of the mothers of soldiers who have died. It ain't gonna happen. There are too many who are willing to stand up against her, grieving mother, or no.
And she's so perfect to help pass the August recess and try to ruin the few days Bush will have away from these jackels.