Anti-War Insanity

From the AP today; and I actually agree with Dianne Feinstein:

The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered one of the nation's most deadly military accidents.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a former San Francisco mayor, helped secure $3 million to tow the Iowa from Rhode Island to the Bay Area in 2001 in hopes of making touristy Fisherman's Wharf its new home.

But city supervisors voted 8-3 last month to oppose taking in the ship, citing local opposition to the Iraq war and the military's stance on gays, among other things.

"If I was going to commit any kind of money in recognition of war, then it should be toward peace, given what our war is in Iraq right now," Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi said.

Feinstein called it a "very petty decision."

This is the most stupid, pacifistic, anti-war "for anything" move that I hope to ever see out of the United States. It is absolutely disgraceful that a US city would refuse to recognize and honor veterans of other wars as a protest of the current one we're in. People must realize that a recognition of peace is merely peace from the expense of war - especially when WW II is concerned. Only a very foolish pacifist would fail to recognize that.