Just when you think things can't get any more surreal...

Is he fucking kidding?

Pentagon announces September 11 concert The Pentagon would hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing today. "This year the Department of Defence will initiate an America Supports Your Freedom Walk," Rumsfeld said, adding that the march would remind people of "the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation". The march will start at the Pentagon, where nearly 200 people died on September 11, 2001, and end at the National Mall with a show by country star Clint Black. [...] What, it won't pass by Walter Reed, so the vets can hobble on their new legs along with the marchers? My God, are we not supposed to notice Cindy Sheehan sitting outside the Pig Farm, yet participate in something that would have shamed Francisco Franco? These people idea of America is alien to what I was raised to believe. They think this is appropriate? The shitstorm which is coming their way will be quite impressive. And there will be one. Once the NY papers pick up on this, the screeching will be quite loud. Disgusted isn't the word for this. Violated, maybe. Ashamed, another. Wow. Oh yeah, Clint Black should roast in hell for participating in this monstrosity. Why not piss on some graves instead?

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It's for real. The following site is not a parody. I wish it was.

Freedom Walk

A walk in the sun for dear leader

The Pentagon's "walk" (not "march") on Wx on 9/11 isn't just disgusting; it's an attempt to play on Americans' patriotism and fears for the benefit of the sinking Bush admin. It's a dangerous exercise in fascistic propaganda by our military in collusion w/ Bush that could sow seeds that split the country. The Pentagon has no business calling out the citizens for a political event -- a "walk" into the nation's capital. Let's get real about this event -- it's timing and character. It's intended to deflate what may be a huge anti-war march less than two weeks later in Wx that is being coordinated by United for Peace and Justice -- the org that produced an orderly million-person anti-Bush march thru the streets of Manhattan last year on the eve of the GOP convention. Grabbing "9/11" and telling the public to "support your troops" and "the commander in chief", the Pentagon's political rally is right out of the Nazi's fascist propaganda playbook.

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