Protestors Declared Brain Dead at Walter Reed

As I've driven many miles today, I've heard several different radio hosts talking about the latest outrage in the anti-war protest movement:

The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the current home of hundreds of wounded veterans from the war in Iraq, has been the target of weekly anti-war demonstrations since March. The protesters hold signs that read "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton."

The anti-war demonstrators, who obtain their protest permits from the Washington, D.C., police department, position themselves directly in front of the main entrance to the Army Medical Center, which is located in northwest D.C., about five miles from the White House.

Among the props used by the protesters are mock caskets, lined up on the sidewalk to represent the death toll in Iraq.

Code Pink Women for Peace, one of the groups backing anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas, organizes the protests at Walter Reed as well.

Some conservative supporters of the war call the protests, which have been ignored by the establishment media, "shameless" and have taken to conducting counter-demonstrations at Walter Reed. "[The anti-war protesters] should not be demonstrating at a hospital. A hospital is not a suitable location for an anti-war demonstration," said Bill Floyd of the D.C. chapter of FreeRepublic.com, who stood across the street from the anti-war demonstrators on Aug. 19.

"I believe they are tormenting our wounded soldiers and they should just leave them alone," Floyd added.

How brain dead do these protestors have to be to think picketing wounded soldiers is going to bring people around to their cause. I'm beginning to think that CodePink and Veterans For Peace were secretly founded by that evil genius Karl Rove to bring scorn and shame on the lefties. He couldn't have set this up any better if he tried.

Of course an obvious question is, if these protests have been going on for weeks, how come we're just now hearing about them from a rather obscure news service? Every major news organization in the world has bureaus in Washington, and you mean to tell me that not a single one of them noticed these nuts at Walter Reed, or thought it important enough to mention?

By the way, on a related subject, the decision to announce the pending closure of Walter Reed by the Base Realignment Commission seems just a little bit politically tone-deaf at a time when so many of our wounded troops are being treated there.