Protesters, Supporters Gather for Vigil at Home with Anti-War Displays

This we have from the local TV station.

Mercifully, nobody got hurt, nor did anyone's property suffer any further damage. Police on the scene did their job--keeping the two hostile groups apart--and no one has gotten arrested beyond one of two counter-protesters who, last week, tore down the first of the anti-war displays that the homeowners had erected.

Naturally, I must reply to Steve Pearcy and his wife, who repeated the unoriginal line that "Bush is responsible for the deaths of American troops in a foreign country." No, Mr. Pearcy. Nineteen hashshasheen are responsible for three thousand deaths right here in this country, and Bush is responsible for seeing that no other teams of hashshasheen can claim responsibility for any more. And if attitudes like yours had prevailed during World War Two, we might not have won it.

Your problem, Mr. Pearcy, is failure of proper enemy identification. George W. Bush is not our enemy. Osama bin Laden is. (I would further state that Islam has been our enemy at least since the assassination--there's that word again--of Robert F. Kennedy, if not since the Barbary Pirates. But that's another topic.) And no matter what you say, your displays have demonstrated disrespect for the soldiers themselves, as many, many actual servicemen will attest and have attested.