All Troops Accounted For, One Toy Missing

This is just great, at least I hope it is. What I speak of is the finding that the "missing American soldier" is actually a toy. This is a good thing, because it might be showing the weakness and waning of insurgents. Or maybe, it shows they have a sense of humor. A dark, twisted sense of humor.

On the Daily Show, their coverage of this breaking news was second to none. Jon Stewart "reported" that the insurgents were threatening to blow the GI up with fireworks and stick Ken's butt in his face. You just have to love it. America needs the Daily Show, now more than ever. When all you see on the news is death and destruction, slow traffic and rainy weather, you can appreciate this humorously-slanted "news source" to give you your daily dose of funny.

Also, Ann Coulter got served, as the (stupid) saying goes. She was being interviewed on CBC (that's Canadians, you'll understand), and she claimed that Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Bob McKeown, interviewing Coulter, rejected the statement. They did not, he said. She wished desperately to go back in time to make Canada militarize so she'd be right today. Well, they did not, just as McKeown said. I'm glad someone isn't just drinking wildly and getting viewers drunk on the lies of Coulter. He's asking the hard questions, as reporters should. Or maybe this was just a lucky strike of truth. Whatever it may be, hats off to McKeown.

But, I know conservatives are going to start screaming at me. Canada, in Vietnam, did form the largest foreign contingent for the United States army. That's in a U.S. uniform, and Canada is still not officially involved as a government. "Coulter is still wrong," claims Sorceress Sarah of the Daily Kos.

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