ONLY WAR SUPPORTERS CAN MOURN FALLEN SOLDIERS

Apparently. From the Daily Kos:

Late Monday night, a man, now confirmed by the media as Larry Northern, age 46, decided to run over the over crosses at Camp Casey that serve as a memorial to the soldiers who have died in the war in Iraq.

According to TexasLady at DemocraticUnderground as well as Ernest Hancock from Air America affilliate KXXT, the man was soon caught and arrested by the Crawford police. Hancock stated on Air America Radio's "Mike Malloy" program, "He had some crosses in the undercarriage of his pickup truck, and he's been arrested".

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If I understand this correctly, this guy is a conservative who disapproves of Cindy Sheehan's anti-war vigil outside Bush's vacation ranch in Texas, and his protest of her protest was to desecrate a row of small monuments to fallen American soldiers. Now, I understand all the nuances at play here, how a war supporter would think that Sheehan is crassly capitalizing on her son's and other soldiers' deaths in order to advance a political position that, from a pro-war point of view, is bogus. I understand how this guy's perspective paints Sheehan's anti-war memorial as nothing but an insult to the soldiers who it ostensibly honors. I get it--after all, I used to be conservative, myself; I think I have some insight. But how could this guy completely miss the fact that the image he sent out to America is of a frothing, war-lusting, lunatic mowing down little crosses for dead American soldiers? Some conservatives really are nuts.


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