Gas Face

I simply can't express how disgusted I was to read popular leftist blogger Markos Zuniga's (Daily Kos) comments about the recent savagery in Fallujah:

Let the people see what war is like. This isn’t an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush’s folly.

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.

Thanks to Charles Johnson of LGF fame for pointing me to this, and countless other topics of disussion so often ignored and so important to our hopes for a peaceful future for ALL people (Note to terrorists and those who support them: that includes Americans and Jews). LGF continued to follow the story:

Markos Zuniga has disappeared his post on how little he cared about the security personnel torn apart in Fallujah, and replaced it with a Kerryesque flip-flopping non-apology that ends up saying pretty much the same thing: Daily Kos.

Something else seems to have disappeared from Daily Kos, though; at least two of his advertisements from Democratic candidates.

UPDATE: Not only did Zuniga delete his original post, he also deleted it from Google’s cache and from the Internet Archive. (Hat tip: Thom™.) Pretty thorough butt-covering, I’d say.

The Daily Kos gets the gas face.

As I continued reading, Charles pointed me to this Roger L. Simon beauty:

When I read yesterday on Little Green Footballs and this morning on Instapundit of the comments of Markos Zuniga of Daily Kos, seemingly gloating (at least to some extent) over the slaughter of Americans in Fallujah, I felt literally sick to my stomach. Zuniga is a young man of the left, still in his twenties, justifiably applauded for his pioneering use of the Internet in political organizing. In the old days not long ago (August 2001), he would have been among our best and brightest, our most idealistic.

But something happened in the cataclysm of 9/11, a fracture that, instead of repairing in the normal way, has just grown worse. In the intervening relatively short period, a great portion of the left has almost unthinkingly placed itself in a classical Laingian double-bind—its hatred of Bush unable to co-exist with its natural idealism. Back in the Early Paleolithic Period, when I first joined the left, it was this idealism that motivated all of us. I assume it did for Zuniga et al. But some kind of cognitive dissonance set in after those planes came crashing into the World Trade Center. They refused to accept that anything good could happen under another name (Republicanism, conservatism, Bush, etc.). Good only comes from the names they traditionally associate with it. So heinous and barbaric acts are excused by people who under other circumstance would never do that. It’s depressing and it’s frightening.

A voice of reason in crazy times.