you see, those are their MARTYRS now. And all the Iraq war dead are also their Martyrs. Plus and especially the ones who will die in the next few months, covering Bushco’s ass - er, SUCCEEDING in Iraq.

I’ll bet that Michele Malkin would have done very well in Vichy France.

Let us not forget that Petain was an arch-conservative, a veteran and a member of the establishment.

Sure, the Americans who killed Vietnamese were trapped by circumstances and their sacrifices are worthy of grief; their memories and descendants should be free of political comment. However, the public displays of our warrior worshiping culture need to come down just like the statures of Stalin were.

Actually, dwight, I’m not claiming two wrongs make a right. I’m pointing at you and your shrieking buddies and saying “You’re being dishonest, opportunistic assholes who just showed us all–again–that your most fervent wish is for your ideology to be the dominant regime in a Stalinist state.”

Oh, because I didn’t get shrilly exercised about some bullshit stupid vandalism, which may have even been a stupid mistake instead, and because I let the police do their work rather than trying to make it into some kinda cause celebre, that means it’s my fault Dwight? So, if some random idiot squirts WD-40 on the vietnam memorial for some stupid reason, and I don’t spend like a day trying to ‘get the word out’ about it, that means I somehow support the random idiot and his/her act of random idiocy? Do you and I have to protest every act of random idiocy in the world, or in my country? If so, Dwight, we are gonna be really, really busy. In fact, Dwight, I really doubt that you or I could protest every random idiot and their act of idiocy.

But thanks for trying to blame it all on me, asshole.

I’m tired of this bullshit from people who, because of whatever mental problem, take symbols and flags far more seriously than they take people’s lives.

The fact that nearly 4000 US troops have died, and tens of thousands of US troops are severly wounded, many for life? No problem. A small price to pay. That something like 100,000 Iraqis have been killed, and their country reduced to rubble? Who cares?

Oh, but some dumbass kid sqirted WD-40 on the Vietnam Memorial? Well fuckin’ stop everthing, it’s a national emergency!!

There really isn’t any propaganda value (for anyone) in “discolouring” a war memorial. Blowing it up, maybe, but a minor act of vandalism like this serves no purpose (except, perhaps, the one it already has begun to accomplish, encouraging centrists to dissasociate itself from the active anti-war movement).

I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be police agents provocateurs. Or someone from the far right.