From Juan Williams on Bill Oreilly tonight to Cliff Garstang on Cobalt 6 the mantra seems to be any one who criticizes withdraw now supporters is questioning their patriotism, and that violates their first amendment rights and is un-American. Since Cobalt 6 provides such a good example, let's examine this issue more closely.

Cobalt 6: SWAC Girl and other local reactionary blogs (I won’t link to them, they aren’t hard to find) have put out the call for counter-demonstrators and have referred to the pro-peace group as “anti-American.”

Ok we have something to work with here. Lets find where SWAC Girl claims a pro-peace group is "anti-American." Since Cobalt 6 disdains to link to SWAC Girl and her reactionary friends, I will provide the link directly here. And voila, does anti-American appear in SWAC Girl's post? Well no, not really. So how can Cobalt 6's claim be true?

SWAC Girl doesn't actually say the pro-peace group is anti-American, or even imply it, yet surely Cobalt 6's claim could not be made entirely without basis. Cobalt 6 does identify the pro-peace group consists of Cindy Sheehan and all of us who oppose the war in Iraq.
Has Cindy Sheehan said anything which reasonable folks would construe as anti-American?

Well there is this one: "I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people... since we first stepped on this continent; we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bulls**t to my son, and my son enlisted. I'm going all over the country telling moms this country is not worth dying for."

I would not consider this a particularly pro-American comment but it is not anti-American. A little irrational perhaps, if America refers to the American government than it could not have been killing people since "we" first stepped on this continent, whoever "we" is. If the "we" is Europeans than I don't think we can equate America with Europeans. In any case I don't see Cindy Sheehan self convicting herself of being anti-American.

If SWAC Girl doesn't call Cindy Sheehan, or all of us who oppose the war in Iraq anti-American, doesn't use the words anti-American, than Cobalt 6 appears to be unjustifiably tarring SWAC Girl.