I’ve been known to say that the opponents of the liberation of Iraq were “objectively pro-Saddam” on account of the fact that their policy choices would have left the Big Turd in power. Now we have evidence that one of their most vocal members, Daily Kos editor Markos Zuniga, is explicitly anti-American in his response to the murder of civilian contractors in Fallujah:
That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.
OK, it’s one thing to vigorously argue a position based on your twisted concepts of sovereignty and international law, but cheering the murder of innocent civilians making life better for ordinary Iraqis at great personal peril crosses the line.
Scum like Zuniga are free to hide behind their screens whipping their demented fans up into a lynch-mob frenzy only because they’re protected by this country’s Armed Forces, including their contractors and their Commander-in-Chief.
Anyone who takes the anti-liberation crowd seriously now is a fool.
Link via Roger L. Simon.
UPDATE: the scum Zuniga has deleted his comments and replaced them with a lame attempt to justify his cheering; now that’s a compassionate man for you. See the original post here.
I assume you realize that “that scum Zuniga” is a vet.
I wouldn’t take my cat to him on a bet, Jeff.
Kerry was a vet when he threw his (err, someone else’s) medals away. It doesn’t innoculate one from being called a scumbag when the term fits. In the case of Kos, it most certainly does.
I was one of the only folks to try to forgive the guy and hope he just came clean and admitted he’d done something stupid and tried to cover it. Looks like he’s intent instead on digging the hole deeper.
Ah well. Let him be an object lesson.
It’s amazing how much money he’s been making from his blog ads, given the right-wing bias the Blogosphere has (according to the lefties.)