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  • Phony soldiers

    Yeah, I heard the story about Rush Limbaugh calling people “phony soldiers”, I’ve watched the video, I’ve read the blogs – I know what he said, I don’t need it explained to me. He was talking about Jesse Macbeth – the best known fake veteran of this war, so far. Prairie Pundit is waiting for a Macbeth phony soldier squad to embrace him. Who thought this scrawney twirp was a Ranger?

    And who thought this was the career of an E-fricken-four?

    Limbaugh was talking about Scott Thomas Beauchamp who told phony stories about impossible events that happened to him before he set foot in Iraq. You’d think The New Republic would be smart enough to steer clear of the Limbaugh controversy, but, nope.

    Limbaugh was talking about Tom Harkin, the Senator who likes to tell war stories about a war he was never in. He’s talking about Harry Reid, who suddenly feels like the troops have been slighted (not when he called them losers and suggested they quit fighting, though). They can’t condemn Iran for killing our troops, but they can summon the guts to condemn Limbaugh (Hot Air) – how fricken brave.

    Limbaugh is talking about John Kerry who took a movie camera to Viet Nam (at a time when even most really rich people didn’t have movie cameras) and “re-enacted” his battles – and threw someone’s medals over some fence. And made up stories about what he’d wished he done in Viet Nam. Then makes a “botched joke” about how stupid the troops are. More on the original phony soldier, John Kerry from Sweetness and Light.

    Limbaugh was talking about John Murtha who hides behind his fake 30 years of service (half of which he spent in Congress, and all except one year, he spent defending Johnstown, PA from being awash in beer in his “special infantry” unit) while taking pot shots at the folks who are actually doing the heavylifting he couldn’t summon the testicular fortitude to accomplish. Need I mention his “pink badge of courage“?

    Here’s another phony soldier, Al Gore who had a body guard either because he was an E-4 journalist or a Senator’s son. I spent a year in Panama as an Army journalist and I never had a body guard. My friend, Gary, spent a few years as a journalist in Germany and didn’t get a body guard – so you tell me;

    Apparently his bodyguard was to protect Gore from himself.

    Limbaugh is talking about Jon Solz, who flew off the handle at a soldier in uniform at the Yearly Koz, yet a picture of Solz in his uniform is on his website (which is now closed because Solz has apparently foresaken his own band of phony soldiers) – doing nothing more than the young buck sergeant at the Yearly Koz.

    Limbaugh is talking about Adam Kokesh – the dimwitted bubblehead who claimed he’d been discharged when he hadn’t, who made false claims about the war all because he’d been busted smuggling an Iraqi pistol back from the war and the Marines wouldn’t extend him the honor of returning to the war. And then makes false claims about the recruiter that recruited him. Kokesh still calls himself “Sergeant Kokesh” even though he was busted to private years ago. All the while he’s using his GI Bill to get an education.

    I meet phony soldiers nearly everyday – they’re everywhere. Just the other day I saw some homeless bum walking around with a cammie jacket and a ton of patches sewn on it – none of which had anything to do with another. But the Left loves them – the Left defends them. The Left protects them. And this how they treat the troops with whom they disagree;

    So this Clinton-funded Media Matters gaggle with admitted liar David Brock at the helm doesn’t need to tell me what to think about Limbaugh – nothing Limbaugh says can compare to those phony warriors on Capitol Hill – and the ones the Left seems to attract.

    Michele Malkin is all over Tom Harkin and Crotchety Old Bastard is mopping up Harry Reid. Gateway Pundit is dragging out phony soldiers from every closet – here, here and here. Melanie Morgan at Move America Forward mentions a few more phony soldiers that I’ve forgotten,

  • Senate Democrats; we love losing

    To empasize their love of losing every battle, the Democrats thought it’d be a good idea to put the already-failed Feingold “we support the troops but let them fight without any money” bill up for a vote again – they were rewarded with a 70-28 defeat. Washington Times S.A.Miller quotes Dianne Feinstein;

    “There is value in doing it because I think it makes the record clearer,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat. “That’s what we do. … We live by our votes.”

    In other words, Feinstein admits that Democrats suffer from mental illness. The American people don’t want this bill to pass – if they did, the Senate Republicans, spineless cowards that they are, would collapse and vote for it. And Harry Reid suffers from the illness;

    “We’re not changing our strategy,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said shortly before the vote, adding that the tactic succeeded in making Senate Republicans claim responsibility for the war.

    “We are united,” the Nevada Democrat said. “We vote together all the time. And the Republicans vote together all the time, with rare exception. And as a result of that, it’s very clear to the American people who supports President Bush’s war.”

    So instead of actually doing something about winning the war, the Democrats are more focused on making pointless statements for the MoveOn crowd. How fricken brave.

    In the Washington Post, Weisman and Murray report that the Democrats are calling for a “bipartisan action” for withdrawal from Iraq. Here’s a hint, guys; the Republican Party is against ending the war before it’s won so any early withdrawal would not ever be bipartisan. If the war ends before it’s over, it’s all you guys. If you’re going to put fighting the war on Republicans, guess how you get associated – with losing the war. 

    Speaking of MoveOn, the Senate also voted to condemn the organization for their Petraeus ad last week in the New York Times by a margin similar to the vote above (Washington Times);

    The nonbinding measure, offered by Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, passed by a vote of 72-25, with 24 Democrats and one independent, Bernard Sanders of Vermont, voting against it.

    See the names of the 25 spineless weinies at SWAC Girl, Gateway Pundit and Michele Malkin. Hang Right Politics asks you to name the group.

    According to the Washington Post, MoveOn responded by sending an email to it’s members;

    In an e-mail to its members last night, the group acknowledged that the content of the ad might have angered its allies but argued that a larger issue is at stake. “Maybe you liked our General Petraeus ad. Maybe you thought the language went too far,” they wrote. “But make no mistake: this is much bigger than one ad.”

    And it turned its criticism squarely back on the Senate, accusing it of “spending time cracking down on a newspaper ad” after failing on Wednesday to pass a bill lengthening the home leaves of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq, a bipartisan measure that some regarded as pressuring Bush into limiting the redeployment of U.S. forces.

    Yeah, the Senate should listen to crack-smoking hippies and do the bidding of the squeaky wheels instead of listening to America. Way to go, MoveOn. After all, the Senate Democrats were only responding to another attack – this time from President Bush (Washington Examiner);

    “That leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org — are more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military,” [President Bush] said.

    Well, there, it’s been said. let’s see what the Democrat response will be – I expect a lot of whining and crying and shouts of “Not Fair!” Crotchety Old Bastard, Michael Goldfarb and Little Green Footballs wade into the slime to gauge the depths of Leftist misery while QandO deciphers what “support the troops” means to the Left. Redstate asks the left how it feels to be losers and Marooned in Marin compares Hillary’s words to her votes. 

  • Murtha, Haditha and Marines in general

    Just about every blog on the Right is touting the exhoneration of another Marine in the Haditha investigation (like Curt from Flopping Aces) and running the video of Jeff Gannon confronting John Murtha at the National Press Club (like Gateway Pundit) and the pictures of the accused Marines with “Cleared” stamped on half of them now (like at Chickenhawk Express) Everyone is demanding an apology from Murtha – it’ll never come, I’m telling you.

    Marines are honorable men who have a thankless job to do. They slog through mud and sand, kick down doors, sleep in the rain, choke down pounds of sand, huddle with their buddies behind a tiny rock to avoid rifle fire from an unseen enemy, they police up pieces of their friends and stuff the pieces in a plastic bag and then take the pieces to their friends’ families and standby tearful as they say goodbye to the best friend they ever had – and spend the rest of their lives wondering why they were spared from the same fate. For a few hundred bucks a week.

    John Murtha is no Marine. He climbs over the bodies of fallen marines to call attention to himself – for the anti-war movement. He has learned that the anti-war movement insulates him from Congressional investigations for his double and dirty-dealings in his district which enrich him and his family. A real Marine wouldn’t use a fallen or troubled comrade to improve his own condition. Real Marines jump on grenades to shield their friends from the blast.

    When Murtha wasn’t decorated for service in Vietnam, he tried to use political connections to get himself some medals. The Marines I know wouldn’t give a tiny rat’s ass whether they were awarded some medals or not – let alone go out of their way after the fact to swing some medals through Congressional connections.

    Now, I’m no Marine, in fact I’ve had more fist fights with Marines than civil conversations, but John Murtha couldn’t be a pimple on the worst Marine’s behind. That’s why you’ll never get an apology from Murtha – Marines are honorable men.

  • Vietnam Memorial vandalized UPDATE

    Last week I wrote about the Viet Nam Memorial vandalization and the Park Service brushed it off as a cleaning accident. I thought it was a little odd that a cleaning crew would even bring a potentially damaging material near the Wall, but without the Park Service’s admission, it was pretty much a dead end.

    Well, Michele Malkin broke the Park Service’s admission that it was indeed vandalism yesterday afternoon (I updated last week’s post with the news). Last night, the local DC Fox broadcast channel ran this story on the 10 o’clock news broadcast – the story has been updated this morning.

    The funny thing is this; in the lead-ins to the 10 o’clock news, the news team said they had video of the perpetrators, however this video of the perpetrators never aired and it’s not included on the video clip on their website, so I wonder if it was just a teaser to get me to watch the news or if someone dumped the idea.

    Robin at Chickenhawk Express has all of the pertinent statements andd links prior to the admission of vandalism and since.

    I just think that it’s a little disengenuous of the Park Service to call it an accident until the Gathering of Eagles and ANSWER leave town – then suddenly it becomes vandalism. There were also rumors of an arrest at the Viet Nam Wall on Saturday, the day of the protest. I can’t speak to those rumors because I was two miles away at the Capitol, and the rumors were forgotten in the shadow of the IVAW charades. So I don’t know – if anyone has firsthand knowledge, please let me know. 

    The Washington Post tries to explain the reticence of the Park Service to call it vandalism;

    The unidentified substance that was found splashed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial earlier this month was the result of vandalism, the U.S. Park Police said yesterday.

    Sgt. Robert Lachance, a Park Police spokesman, said that a detective made the conclusion but that officials would provide no more details because the investigation is continuing.

    Lachance said the case would involve a long-term investigation. “It’s a terrible crime, and we want to solve it,” he said.

    Yeah, well, why didn’t the media display that same caution before the Haditha incident. I’m sure Red-White-and-Blue patriot, John Murtha, Viet Nam veteran and Marine for 30 years (and not one moment more than 30 years) will at any moment decry the vandals as criminals – and demand justice. Waiting with unabated breath here.

    And the Left is spinning the story – apparently, it probably wasn’t someone from the Left neccessarily because the anti-war protest this weekend crossed partylines – according to the koolaid drinking sheep.

  • A week of action; mental masturbation to reach zenith

    If you think that the ANSWER/IVAW protest last Saturday was the a big waste of time, they have a “Week of Action” planned reports the Washington Post;

    Dozens of war opponents, including some who were among the 192 arrested Saturday, spent yesterday training for this week, which will be “the most intense week” of planned actions since the Iraq conflict began, said Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, which organized Saturday’s rally and march and many of the other large antiwar events across the country.

    Apparently, being a dumbass pest takes training – a whole day, so I guess it’s not a long journey. But first of all they needed to get out their horror stories from their arrests this last Saturday;

    Activists came to four training sessions held at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs yesterday, many trading stories from their arrests or from clashes with several hundred war supporters who lined the march route.

    Yeah, their harrowing ordeal or their arrests best recorded by Jack Langer of Human Events;

    Then, one at a time, around a dozen antiwar veterans of the Iraq War jumped over the wall. The cops grabbed them as they went over, cuffed them with flexicuffs, and marched them away. Emboldened, other protestors hopped the wall. Soon, the cops had scores of protestors lined up, with their hands tied, waiting to be carted off to jail. A kind of collective frenzy overtook the crowd. Old women from Code Pink went over the wall. College kids jumped over. At times there were so many of them that they were left to mill around for a few minutes before an officer became available to cuff them. Altogether, I’d say around 150 protestors were arrested.

    The police showed great restraint. When older protestors or women went over, the cops offered their hand and gently assisted them down off the wall. But after about an hour of this, the cops had had enough. They began pushing back would-be wall jumpers with their riot shields. Then, when two young men danced a little too long for the crowd on top of the wall, the police hit them with pepper spray. Blinded and choking, they went over the wall anyway. A protestor taunted the cops, yelling “Ha-ha, they won.” I suppose if you define “winning” as getting gassed and arrested, then yes, the two men won.

    The anarchists really disappointed me. None of them jumped the wall. They portray themselves as the most militant wing of the antiwar movement, but they didn’t even have the guts displayed by the Code Pink grandmas. The anarchists claim to want a revolution, but apparently not a single one of them is willing to risk a misdemeanor arrest to achieve that glorious goal.

    What a soft nation we’ve become when the police are polite and helpful while aresting people – where were the slobbering dogs and the riot batons, for cripes sake. I wonder if the Iranian or Chinese police would that polite. Oh, but I digress – the week of action…

    The Post story goes on to tell us about this action-packed week;

    They are calling today National Truth in Recruiting Day, during which war opponents will try to reach young people in particular, as well as anyone considering joining the military. Activists said yesterday that they planned to visit area recruiting centers, schools and other places young people might go and that war opponents would be doing the same in such spots across the country.

    “You have to ask the right questions, find out what’s motivating them, share with them the truth and dispel myths,” Adam Kokesh, co-chair of Iraq Veterans Against the War, told the crowd, which included local college students as well as older activists, many of whom had traveled from outside the District. “My reasons [for volunteering] were patriotism; I wanted to put my life on the line for my country.” But in hindsight, “I could have been convinced that there were better ways to further democracy in the world.”

    Other strategies include trying to eat up recruiters’ time by calling and visiting centers and pretending to be potential recruits.

    So I guess the recruiters will be harrassed for a week by a bunch of goofy kids making crank calls. Well, September is a good time for that – recruiters have already made their mission for September from last Spring’s high school graduates, so this mastermind Kokesh is just engaging in mental masturbation – he’ll feel better about himself, but will have accomplished nothing.

    As long as Kokesh is talking about the truth, let’s hear him tell us the truth…that he’d been to Iraq and volunteered to go back on another tour, but it was discovered that he’d smuggled an Iraqi pistol back on his first tour and was denied his coveted second tour. He was busted from Sergeant to private for his crime and that’s the reason he hates the military and the war – because he’s a sociopath who can’t follow the marine Corps’ simple rule to not smuggle firearms back from a war.

    While he’s at it, he can tell us how he hadn’t been discharged before he illegally wore his uniform to protest the war last Spring, as he had claimed to the ignorant and pliant press. In fact, he still had his military ID card and used it to gain access to military bases in Germany during the investigation.

    I find it somewhat disengenuous of Kokesh to tell these lies and lying about the numbers of the participants in last Saturday’s protest, yet demanding “truth in recruiting” – as if recuiters aren’t being truthful about military service.

    More from Michelle Malkin’s “The Left’s seditious war on military recruiters“. Tacobell at SandGram gives you a real soldier’s reaction to Kokesh and his merry band of attention whores. He also mentions a record deal for Kokesh – is that what this is? Publicity for a garage band?

  • Gathering of Eagles vs Moonbats (Updates)

    UPDATES: As I sift through my photos, videos and other blogs, I’ve been updating this post since this morning. Just scroll through and you’ll see. Whew! I think I’m done. Enjoy!

    Editor’s Note: If you don’t see the photos, it’s because your system is behind a WebSense internet filter and it blocks Photobucket.

    Well, not unlike the stupid hippies that they are, they were HOURS late. They were supposed to start at noon, but they didn’t get to the Capitol until 3 pm. While we were among them at Lafayette Park, one of the event organizers complained over the loudspeakers that people were having trouble showing up because, mysteriously, Metro had shut down the Blue and Orange Lines (from Virginia and GW University) so they weren’t going to kick off until one o’clock.

    But my friend had arrived moments before on the Blue Line from Virginia – it hadn’t been shut down – so another moonbat lie.We figured they were making excuses for their pitiful numbers.

    By the time they got to the Capitol, the general consensus was that they had less than 4,000 people, there were rumors of only 2,000 – but I’m pretty sure there were more than that. Most of them were moving towards Union Station before the die-in started, so their numbers shrank by about half within 20 minutes of their arrival at the Capitol. In a city of a 1/2 million where a good 10% are college students with little to do on a Saturday afternoon the first few weeks of the semester, a few thousand is a pretty shabby turnout.

    This first picture is an upside down flag in Lafayette Park. But they still love this country, right? But the remarkable thing about it (and it wasn’t the only upside down flag) is that all of the flags the moonbats carried through the march were right-side up. So that tells me that someone made a conscious effort to tell all of the upside down flag guys to right their flags – and you know it was for their image, not because of their ideology;

    Another of the upside down flags in front of the White House that mysteriously righted itself before the march;

    Robin from Chickenhawk Express asked me to get photos of folks in uniform, so here’s one;

    An Arty officer from the 24th Division – I’m pretty sure the 24th Division was inactivated before President Bush became president – so he’s making a vacuous point.

    This fellow has more money than brains – he’s way too old to have been issued that uniform by the Army;

    And this Veterans For Peace stuff really cheeses me off. It hints that I’m a Veteran For War because I don’t belong to their testoterone-deficient organization. I’m not “for” war – I’m “for” national security and given the current enemy, war is the only answer. If you think war isn’t the answer, you didn’t understand the question.

    And by the looks of his scraggly ass, he was probably a chapter case anyway.

    If you don’t have a uniform to wear to the event, well, just wear your yacht skipper’s hat;

    Too many signs and not enough moonbats;

    This guy stalked me until I took his picture, so it should make him happy that he made the blog;

    I guess he’s madder at Israel than he is at Bush. But, if you wanted to take a whacky picture with the President, they had cutouts;

    This is my personal nemisis, he stalks me at every event, I have a video of him today in which he calls me “an enemy of peace” (Actually, I’m thinking of changing the name of the blog to Enemy of Peace – it has a nice ring to it, ya know). He’s wearing the same pretentious “Peace” shirt he wears at every event, too. What I did to piss off the Travelocity Roaming Gnome, I’ll never know.

    I’d like for this fellow to name one instance where nonviolence worked to solve anything when dealing with babarians;

    The real rockstars of this rally, though, was supposed to be Adam Kokesh and his IVAW crowd. But I didn’t see them – well I saw them, but only as shadows moving around inside their rockstar bus away from the crowds and adoring fans;

    Apparently, they’re not so hot on attacking Iran, either;

    Well, we left the moonbats behind and went to the Gathering of Eagles down on the National Mall.

    A much more lively group. Here’s a video of a Gold Star father’s speech to the crowd. (I’d embed this stuff if I could figure the darn thing out.

    And the highlight of the day for me, was meeting Michelle Malkin;

    You’ll notice the jumpwings on my cap are on a 1/325 AIR flash – I wore it today to honor the son of my good friend, COBDanny, who happens to be in Iraq while assigned to my old Battalion, the Red Falcons – the spearpoint of the surge. Hooah!

    The funny thing is, I took this picture of Michele Malkin just prior and didn’t even recognize her;

    The GOE group had better signs, too;

    When the Moonbats finally started their parade of fools – THREE HOURS LATE – our side was out in front of them;

    And this is the only sign that I saw that really expressed the moonbats true feelings;

    In this photo, the protesters stretched a huge red banner across the road to keep the protesters bunched up so it looked like a bigger crowd. But it took about five minutes for them to pass as this video shows;

    As this video attests, they thinned out pretty quickly. And this video shows how many they ended with at the Capitol – hardly the hundred thousand that’s being bandied about the web. And it hardly looks like the tightly compressed crowds that the media has been showing in their photos.

    This is a video of Leftist fellow recruiting for the Army. And this ugly cow kept mooing the same thing over and over – “Take your ass to Iraq”. That’s the only response they have – “Go to Iraq”. Why? So we won’t be here to hold you accountable for your intellectually vacant yammering?

    This is a video of a Gold Star father confronting a protester.

    Meet Jake. His right forearm and hand are missing from an IED attack. I found him standing with his friend outside where the die-in was going on. I talked with him a while and I asked him how he was holding up, rockhard troop that he is. He answered, “This isn’t what I went to war for, dude. These people suck.”

    They sure do, Jake, they sure do.

    Michele Malkin has more about GOE at Walter Reed and the Live blogging today’s event. More from Gateway Pundit and Robin at Chickenhawk Express with the view from outside – all the stuff I missed because I was alternately surrounded by goofuses and heroes. Redhunter was there with great report from the GOE crowd, too. One thing is certain – everyone got pictures of Michele Malkin. That little girl was all over this thing.

    The San Francisco Sentinel blog touts the ANSWER demonstration as the largest protest since January (which isn’t hard since all of the others were flops and January wasn’t so hot, either). ANSWER’s numbers are just over the top; they claim 100,000 marched with them – that’s just ridiculous. Even the AP story they use as a source only says “several thousand”. Like I said, there were less than four thousand that diminished to two thousand when the march ended. There were probably one or two thousand counter-protesters.

    Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has the news on the arrests at the DIe-in (Geez, I missed that part).

    More from Kate of A Columbo-Americana’s Perspective – another MM sighting. Age of Hooper catches the corpse of Ramsey Clark on parade. Keep watching the sky – I mean Skye at Midnight Blue. I met her there, too, so I’m sure she’ll have some pics up soon (she also got a picture with Michelle Malkin). Big Dog wandered into the moonbat crowd when they were at their slobbering worst, as Big Dogs usually do and comes out unscathed with a report of biting incidents.

    Powerline has pics of the Die-In and Victory Caucus has tons of photos and links to more blogs. Pam at BlogmeisterUSA and PC Free Zone has more pictures of the GOE side.

    For some reason, veterans getting arrested is more honorable than veterans who continue to serve their brothers and sisters in uniform. Some Leftists wish for the good old days, while others think we’re “scared little babies“.

    The Washington Post calls it “Dueling Demonstrations“, but it’s not really a duel when one side is has no clue what he’s doing. Bloodthirsty Liberal conducts a post-mortem on media coverage.

    The Washington Times provides a more balanced account than the Post or AP.

    Since Kokesh went out of his way to get arrested a week ago Thursday for putting up posters in a National Park with the press on hand to record his arrest, and since he also went out of his way to get arrested yesterday (Saturday, Sept. 15th) I gotta figure that they sense the failing support for their movement and they’re trying to whip up some outrage among the sheep. Like I said last week, we’re witnessing the death throes of the anti-war movement. Just like the American people are tired of hearing about the war, they’re also getting tired of hearing about the primadonnas of the anti-war movement.

    They ride in rock star buses, play to the echo chamber and jet off to another scripted event, and Americans understand that they’re just trying to make a living by not working.

  • Protest preview

    Well, tomorrow is ANSWER‘s and IVAW‘s “Mass” march against the war. They plan on meeting up at the White House at noon from all I can gather and meandering along Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol for their “Die-In”. The Gathering of Eagles, Free Republic and Protest Warriors will be lining their route.

    GOE plans on a rally at 9am on the National Mall near 7th Street. Protest Warriors will be protecting the Navy Memorial from the same type of injustice that has been done to it in the past.

    Yours truly plans to arrive at the Farragut North Metro Station (on the Red line) about 10 am (after my morning bike ride and my SOS breakfast at the Walter Reed mess hall) and I’ll get ya’all some pictures of the hairy-legged crowd as I walk about a half-mile to the good guys. I’m trying to find an internet hotspot near the march route, but I’ve not been successful so far, so ya’all might hafta wait until I get home before I get the pictures up on the blog. But I’ll take my laptop just in case.

    On my quick recon around the city today, I haven’t seen the usual hippie-types anywhere. Usually I see them straggling in from the bus station and the train station all day long, but they’ve been noticably absent today. I get the impression that Kokesh‘s expectation for 4,000 die-in volunteers might be a little ambitious.

    I’ll grant that they may have lots of buses show up at the last minute, but, as I said, this pre-protest day is a whole lot quieter than the ones I’ve seen in the past.

    On the other hand, I have seen several motorcycles flying American flags cruisng the city. But anyway we’ll see tomorrow.

    If anyone is planning to link up with us tomorrow (I have two so far that have expressed an interest), you can catch up me at Farragut North Metro Station or at the Navy Memorial. I’ll email my cell number if necessary. Keep watching this space for photos!Â

  • Vietnam Wall defaced; consider that shark jumped (Updated)

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    My first task every morning (after a Winston and some coffee) is to check this corner of the internet for comments to my posts. This morning I found one from Robin at Chickenhawk Express who left this;

    Jonn – I don’t want to fire you up to much but you REALLY need to see this;

    The Vietnam Memorial Wall in DC Has Been Defaced

     

    Well, I went into a funk that I really can’t shake this morning. After I sent the links from Robin’s post and the post from tgslTakoma at Free Republic to several bloggers to get the word out, I tried to write on another subject but I just can’t assemble a coherent thought. I checked the Gathering of Eagles website and they have a link to the Free Republic report. 

    I’m writing this in hopes that the word gets out, I haven’t seen anything on the local news or in the local papers. This should be the death knell of the anti-war movement. This what they came to town to do back in March, and they finally got their opportunity before the Patriots came to town. I suspect that it was those idiot Black Bloc creeps – but really any of those cretins on the Left are capable of such sociopathic behavior.

    Redstate’s Bluey interviewed some park Service employee who claims the damage may be permanent;

    I spoke to a National Park Service employee who was livid that someone would vandalize the memorial. “It’s like defacing a grave,” he told me. When I asked if there were any clues as to who was responsible, he told me videotape was being reviewed. It is believed the damage was done on Friday night. Because the monument never closes, it could have taken place late in the evening when no one was around.

    I remember the email I got back when I covered the Gathering of Eagles I in March from some little immature weasel who claimed that the Left had a right to do what they want to the Vietnam Memorial because it was their monument, too. There are no monuments to cowardice in this country and there are no names of draft evaders or protesters on the Wall.

    As I predicted yesterday, the Left is pulling out all of the stops. They’ve begun their disparaging of the troops – it began this past weekend with our honored dead, and our hallowed ground. This weekend on Pennsylvania Avenue between 12th and 7th Streets, this crap ends. 

    UPDATE: Michele Malkin has an update that the Park Service has admitted that the Wall has been defaced. Funny how they denied it before the protest this weekend and then suddenly, the protest ends and they fess up.