Damian G. is a brilliant young American. I say that with sincerity. On my previous post, The Things That Really Matter, he said:

I think that combining serious events with funny/gross pictures is a tad disrespectful to the victims, but I get your point nonetheless.

You are absolutely correct. It is disrespectful, but perhaps you didn’t get the point, because that was the point. Sure, I simplified it, and I gave it greater impact by using images rather than words. Images of 9/11 or mass graves, or whatever else tend to have greater impact, and provoke a greater emotional response than mere words.

You see, when something offends me, my response is to offend. I lampooned positions that are taken seriously by pundits, Mainstream Media, and elected representatives of the United States. The point is not just that there are people Hell-bent on blaming President George W. Bush for all of the worlds evils and ills, and that such a position is ridiculous. The point is that doing so is offensive to me, and disrespectful to the victims.

So what offends me? Jackass MurthaFxxxer calling our Marines “cold-blooded killers” offends me. Michael Berg declaring President Bush to be a worse terrorist than the man responsible for the greusome decapitation of his son offends me. People blaming the aftermath of a hurricane on the President offends me.

Saying that 9/11 was an inside job offends me. Blaming it on the President offends me. Saying Iraq was better of under Saddam offends me. People with no regard for what the Nazis actually did, and throwing the term around so loosely, and with no historical perspective offends me.

So was my post offensive? You bet your ass it was. That’s the point. Will I take it back? Yes, I will take it back when I no longer have to hear an Elected representative of the United States call our troops “cold-blooded killers.”

I will take it back when an American President, any American President is no longer compared to Hitler, and instead people see the sobering, and horrific atrocities commited by Hitler, and realize that very few people in this world are anywhere near that evil. When they realize that a minor political difference does not equate, even remotely, with the genocide of millions, I will take it back.

When people realize that we are at war with a very real, very brutal, and sadistic enemy, I will take it back. When they realize that it’s not Bush’s or even America’s fault that we are at war with this enemy, and that it is not “Bush’s War” but Freedom and Democracy’s War, I will take it back.

When I am no longer offended in these ways, I will take it all back. Each and every one. Until then, I will continue to offend.

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