Eine Armee Von Einer

Seien Sie Alle, Daß Sie Sein Können

Then again, maybe THIS is what Rumsfeld meant when he opined "freedom is messy:"

A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks racist and right-wing militia groups, estimated that the numbers could run into the thousands, citing interviews with Defense Department investigators and reports and postings on racist Web sites and magazines.

"We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the group quoted a Defense Department investigator as saying in a report to be posted today on its Web site, www.splcenter.org. "That's a problem."

This comes on the heels of reports of urban street gangs likewise taking advantage of recruiting shortfalls to obtain taxpayer financed training in the "subtleties" of urban combat. Wonderful. I wonder what's next...maybe selling the gangs and skinheads surplus 50 caliber machine guns?

I'll bet at least one neocon dingbat would consider that an effective deficit-cutting measure.

On a more serious note, this again makes me worry about the possibility of individual soldiers snapping at some point--and do we really want more Tim McVeighs? Or John Allan Mohammeds?

And, just to ensure that historians will wonder just what the fuck WAS going on in this era of absurdity, Shrub had all he could handle last night...with Larry King, aptly described as "look[ing] less like an interrogator than a hotel concierge gently removing lint from a customer's coat."

Moron...in...chief.