Peter Beinart’s post on Haditha at the H-Bomb is interesting. But the comments really are more illuminating. (Via, AS ). Here’s the top of the list of reader’s favorite comments:

It makes my heart sick when I hear anti-war liberals in the USA talking about their country like this. You think the USA is different? You think it is special? You have no idea…
Oh, semi-divine people of the USA! You did not have the stomach to fully pursue the gangsters of the Nixon administration, did you? You looked in the mirror but the truth was too painful. How many Vietnamese died for your pride?
So those same gangsters came back under Reagan, running death squads in Honduras, but again you let them off the hook. Bush Snr closed the book on his own involvement, and you all let him do it. How many Nicaraguans and Hondurans died for your pride?
Bush Snr was sucking floor at 29% in the polls, yet you all elected his miserable son. Not just that, but you elected Cheney as his VP, so now you have those same Nixon-era crims in charge of not just Iraq but your own country too. And you still believe you are “Special”?
How many Iraqis must die for your pride?
Oh, but I am a Democrat, you cry! I am not like those Others! We were 49% or more, you know!
So what have you done, Democrat, to stop the war in Iraq? What have you done to stop the Bush cabal from dragging your country – and the world – towards corporate Fascism? What have you – YOU! – done to protect your famed Constitution?
Whatever you may have done, it is not enough, is it? And when your votes are stolen again in November, and again in 2008, what will you do, Democrat? What will it take, Democrat, to get you off your fat, lazy, Oprah-watching, American butt and go camp outside the White House, rain, hail or shine, till the vermin who infest that place are gone?
See, that’s what people do in REAL democracies, in places like Argentina and Thailand and Nepal. And they don’t try to export their Democracies by force. And they don’t pretend that they are any better than anyone else on the planet.
Bush is the symptom of a very sick society. You all need to take a damn good long look at yourselves.