Just prior to giving lip service to the war dead at Arlington today, in a speech in which he said, “America is free,” King George W. Bush signed a law banning protests at military funerals.

Does anyone else see the contradiction?

Meanwhile, the Iraq Veterans Against the War say they will spend this Memorial Day in its “true meaning of remembrance” and not in decadent celebrations of the three-day weekend, barbeques, discount sales events, and flag-waving which has come to replace the image of fallen service members in the minds of most Americans.

On another Memorial Day note, it appears from perusing the online calendars today that the sad city of Birmingham, Alabama, can’t put together a single event to celebrate this somber national holiday at a time when the nation is at war. Or maybe all the mainstream media online calendars are just pathetic.

Guess we’ll break out the Yuengling and find some dead animal to barbeque. What do you think?

Tags: Iraq War Protests

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