It took liberals to make it from conception to memorial.

And besides, why would a liberal oil down a war memorial when we could get some plastic sheets and have a Wesson Oil love-in?

1) either they stank like feces, or the park service set them up next to an open sewer. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

2) They think we all need jobs. This goes double for the ones holding “Safe since 9-11″ signs when we reminded them that , politely, that the antrax attacks came after 9-11.. so, maybe not so much.

C) The ones with the loudest voices and who would not let you get a word in edgewise, really go quite apeshit when you wink at them suggestively.

I decided not to take photo’s of them. Basically, they, mostly, served our country, mostly well I’ll bet. Really, it’s they’re own generations fault that they’re so fucking damaged.

I don’t get the reference in the title, and I’m afraid I should, as a history major.

It must be a reference to the Gleiwitz incident:

The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack on 31 August 1939 against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (since 1945: Gliwice, Republic of Poland) on the eve of World War II in Europe.

This provocation was one of several actions in Operation Himmler, a Nazi Germany project to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which would be used to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland.

National Review, 09/18/81: Our objection to this Orwellian glop…

Mystery solved. The stain was just some of the original Orwellian Glop bubbling back to the surface. The Park Service really needs to use a better sealant.

don’t certain religions use oils for the anointing of sacred objects?

OMG! It was Mutt Romney or his PhonyFred.org staff!

“Stop That Monument,” National Review, 09/18/81: 1064. “Our objection to this Orwellian glop does not issue from any philistine objection to new conceptions in art. It is based upon the clear political message of this design. The design says that the Vietnam War should be memorialized in black, not in the white marble of Washington. The mode of listing the names makes them individual deaths, not deaths in a cause; they might as well have been traffic accidents.”

“Washington Diarist: Memorials,” by Charles Krauthammer, New Republic, 05/23/81: 43. “This memorial says one thing: only the dead, nothing besides, remain. Its purpose is to impress upon the visitor the sheer human waste, the utter meaningless of it all. It is an unfortunate choice of memorial. Memorials are built to give context and, possibly, meaning to suffering that is otherwise incomprehensible. We do not memorialize bus accidents, which by nature are contextless, meaningless. To treat the Vietnam dead like the victims of some monstrous traffic accident is more than a disservice to history.”