Laura Says...

Our first lady, Laura Pinhead, had Larry King chat her up this past Monday. She had a lot on her mind. Things like the unveiling of the Red Dress Collection at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley in California. It's not just fashion, it's fashion for a cause: apparently, the red dress has become the symbol that people wear to remind women about heart disease. It just makes me think of Natalie Wood in "West Side Story." Poor, poor Maria.
Larry also wanted to know how Laura felt about the reports that were surfacing about the care of wounded servicemen at Walter Reed hospital. "We've had many of the soldiers who are there recovering from their wounds come here to the White House, as well. And we did not see anything like that, obviously." She is referring to the Washington Post article that brought about the firing of Major General George W. Weightman, the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. I suppose we can look forward to the parade honoring his service to the country sometime in the very near future.
Then Larry cut to the heart of the matter: "Has the war - I don't know if it's a good term - worn you down?"
Laura, wife of Pinhead, former elementary school teacher and librarian said, "Well, of course, it's wearing, wearying. There's no doubt about it. And I understand how the American people feel and that they feel like things aren't going like we want them to there."
And now we all breathe a sigh of relief, acknowledging the potential for something resembling compassion within the walls of 1600 Pinnsylvania Avenue. For a moment. Then she went on: "This is their opportunity to seize the moment, to build a really good and stable country. And many parts of Iraq are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody."
How true. Why just the other day the U.S. command said that two U.S. Marines were "discouraged" by fighting in western Anbar province, which includes Fallujah. Four Iraqi civilians were "discouraged" and ten others were "let down" in a mortar attack Thursday in Iskandariyah. Maybe someone should tell them about the Red Dress collection. That should keep them from getting too discouraged, or at least deflect a little of the shrapnel.