I'm a little late in mentioning this, and hopefully it will not come in to play at any point in the future, but I just got caught up on a number of blogs tonight and found a surprisingly number of people saying some variation of the following two statements after the London attacks:

"Let's see how long it takes for Bush and his crew to politicize this and turn it into a rallying cry for the War on Terrorism."

or

"Let's see how long it takes for the lefties to politicize this and turn it into a rallying cry against the War in Iraq."

I found these statements amazing in their galling and concise ... well... hypocrisy. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm not supposed to use that word since it's meaningless from overuse, but I'll be danged if I can't think of a better word to use. It is simultaneously accusing the other side of politicizing tragedy and then politicizing it yourself. In the same post, paragraph, or even sentence.

Don't get me wrong, there are political implications in all this. The most likely result being the wonderful validation of everyone's pre-existing beliefs.

I was, in case you couldn't tell, pretty silent on the whole thing. There wasn't much that I could say that wasn't being said elsewhere. Up to and including the vapid, insulting partisan thoughts. But there is a time to speak (or post) your mind. I guess I'm just constantly amazed that some people consider the shield of the Internet justification to believe that there isn't a time not to.