Apparently this guy is being recalled to Marine service so that he can be re-discharged, this time dishonorably. Oh boy.

Quoted: The funeral stunt earned the protesters a coveted “political protest” arrest — apparently it’s now illegal to protest anything for political reasons — and your favorite Marine was also charged with “Unlawful Assembly — Loud and Boisterous,” despite the fact that he was silent during the performance.

Quoted: And while right-wingers had no problem mocking the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, they have a tougher time mocking an actual living Marine male veteran who actually fought in the war they just write about on their blogs.

Quoted: All the chickenhawks will have permission to call him a traitor or whatever on the blogs and talk radio if he suddenly becomes dishonorably discharged, that’s the point!

Wonkette's title to the link: "Iraq War driving State Department crazy." I didn't know it was meant literally.

Quoted: U.S. diplomats are returning from Iraq with the same debilitating, stress-related symptoms that have afflicted many U.S. troops, prompting the State Department to order a mental health survey of 1,400 employees who have completed assignments there.

Quoted: In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death.

My goodness. They also drove the same black Suburbans used by US gov't convoys in Iraq. I saw blond hair reported somewhere else, or maybe somewhere in this article. Very strange.

Pointed out to me by Liz. Melissa, didn't you write one of your first Press features on the Lost Boys?

Quoted: Dave Eggers, in What Is the What, has carried that story another step forward to take in the lassitude that has overcome many of those who originally welcomed the young Sudanese so warmly, and who have since been worn down by the neediness of young people who have lost so much.