Limbaugh et al spread lie about General Giap

For more than a decade now, the pseudo-patriots among us have been peddling a false quotation from a non-existent book said to have been written by former North Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap.

The bogus claim is that Giap said America lost the Vietnam War because of its biased domestic media.

The quotation has been thoroughly debunked, but that hasn't stopped Rush Limbaugh from trotting it out again as recently as earlier this month, which will only give it new life among the booboisie.

POSTSCRIPT: This matter reminds me of the fake Lincoln quotation used earlier this year by right-wingers all across the fruited plain to impugn the patriotism of those in Congress who dared to dissent against our glorious war in Iraq.

FLASH: THE WAR IS OVER! WE WON!

The number of Iraqi insurgents who have been killed or captured now exceeds the number the U.S. military said we were fighting.

By God, this is cause for celebration. George Bush's manhood finally has been validated after decades of doubt in the wake of his chickenshit avoidance of service in the Vietnam War, which he had otherwise enthusiastically supported.

Watch your local media for times and locations of the victory parades.

Oh, and stand by for the start of the war against Iran, which will happen any day now.