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From: Daily Kos

I took their best shot, and... that was it?
by kos
Sat Apr 3rd, 2004 at 15:55:07 GMT
So I said something pretty stupid last week. I served up the wingnuts a big, juicy softball. They went into a tizzy, led by Instapundit.

And for a while, I was actually pretty worried.

But the final tally was -- about 30 hate-filled emails, about 15,000 hate-filled visitors, and the pulling of three advertising spots that are going to be replaced in less than a week. (I had two emails today about people wanting to advertise despite the controversy.)

That was it. Oh, they're doing their best to turn me into the devil, and they're making racist comments about my heritage and family and threatening to kick my ass -- you know, typical right-wing shit.

But if that's the best they can throw at me, I'll simply echo Kerry.

Bring it on.

Advertisers come, advertisers go. Just as the Right suffers the foolish things their base says and does, the Left tolerates theirs. Islam must put up with its clerics caring more about corpse mutilation that murder.

My first reaction to the notion that the victims in Fallujah, Iraq, were "mercenaries" (which I heard on Air America) was that they may have perferred the term "bodyguards," but hired guns don't care what they're called when they're dead. Read this before you decide if they were "mercenaries."

You have to admit that there is something nefarious about companies like
Blackwater USA operating in Iraq. On the other hand, unlike many of our ROTC reservists and Weekend Warriors, these guys are very well paid, know exactly where they're going, what the dangers are, and presumably possess the training and experience to do the job. KOS said "screw 'em." He could have been more polite, but I understand the sentiment..

Better them providing security for private interests there than our taxpayers (although we probably pay for it anyway, just not directly). I'm sure Haliburton's budget includes significant funds for just this kind of "security."

Outrage? There's enough to go around. For the murderers themselves, of course, for our armed forces, public and private, being there at all, for a culture that condemns desecration. buy not murder and suicide, or the leathal combination of both. Leave KOS alone.