We know how violent Wingnuttia is: unhinged, radical, immoral, and instantly ready to threaten death for anyone who disagrees with them, or says anything about Shrub they don’t like.
We know how hard it must be to fight this long war on terrorism from behind their computer screens, conducting almost continuous missions behind the lines, exhausting themselves, squeezing out that last poorly-spelled rhetorical flourish certain to make liberals cry, and, you know, make all the insurgents give up and open a Starbucks.
These committed soldiers of George Bush’s stateside forces have been in the field too long, sent back into battle too many times, with too little intellectual armor, and the last resort of a Bush patriot; killing everyone they see as the enemy, might become reality all too soon.
Paradoxically, the latest barrage of war porn in Lebanon, gleefully passed around to ever-tightening tiny tighty whities, may keep the killing mind active from a distance, but… One of them, or one of their readers who lurk strokingly in their comment threads, people who have felt marginalized too long, felt unappreciated, and of course, may be too illiterate to understand the threads except the killing part, may snap.
They may decide that it’s okay to extract the ultimate penalty for disobedience to Wingnuttia’s goals: killing a liberal, or a reporter, or a judge, or anyone with the wrong bumper sticker.
But now they can rejoice!
A defense has emerged which, when fully read and explained to them by people who can actually read, will let them go out and kill liberals and reporters and judges and anyone they don’t like with pure abandon.
Their heroes, the murdering rapists who attacked and killed Iraqi teenager Abeer Qasim Hamza al Janabi, then set her aflame and slaughtered the rest of her family, including her five year-old sister, have created the perfect defense for our weary Fighting 101st Keyboarders:
Combat Stress Made Them Do It
Attorneys for Army soldiers accused of raping an Iraqi teenager and killing her and her family in March are planning to argue that the men were under extreme emotional distress because of the horrors of their combat assignment and will probably challenge the alleged confessions some of the soldiers gave to investigators in Iraq.
So now when the headlines read… “Liberal Judge Beaten To Death”, all of Wingnuttia can utter a sigh of relief, because they’ll have a way to defend their own, their precious warriors, their shock and awesome supporters, while of course tut-tutting their actions, but high-fiving each other in anynomous comments.
As their cause fades into meaninglessness, and their ranks thin with what they see as defectors crossing over to “the other side”, there will be no shortage of targets for the rage of the impotent infantry, and, like all of Shrub’s wars, innocent civilians will die for being in the wrong place at the wrong time… America.