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As to using the word desecration, anyone who has been to The Wall, knows the solemnity that permeates that site. People talk in hushed tones, like it is sacred ground. That was not an accident.

And you know that how? I'm not disputing that the memorial is a solemn, even sacred, site, but there is too little information to conclude that it was a deliberate act. If it was, it was an incredibly wimpy one -- scattered splotches at ankle-height. You'd think that someone who wanted to make a statement would do it above a mumble.

In the first photo on the original post, there is bare earth and what appears to be a gap between the soil and the top of the granite slabs. That suggests to me that the grass atop the wall was recently edged. A gas-powered edger leaking oil, or fuel, could fit the pattern of the spots observed, as far as I can tell from the photos.

All I'm saying is that it's premature -- though it's a favorite FR pastime -- to assume that someone did it on purpose, and from there to guess why and then follow up to what should be done to them and how we can tell al Qaeda was behind it.

If it turns out to be something innocent, the folks who assumed have a choice of looking silly, or of denying the evidence and insisting there's some kind of cover-up, and thereby looking sillier.

153 posted on 09/09/2007 8:59:48 PM PDT by ReignOfError

To: ReignOfError

A gas-powered edger leaking oil, or fuel, could fit the pattern of the spots observed, as far as I can tell from the photos.

Do you really want to blame some Mexican gardener for this in front of this crowd?

177 posted on 09/09/2007 9:28:29 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)

To: ReignOfError

Look at the picture below and let us know how an oil leaking weed eater did this. Further they have been doing maintenance around the wall for years and this just happens now?

Granted there are weak postulations on this thread but your's are the weakest of all. Almost a defense.

352 posted on 09/10/2007 1:10:12 PM PDT by Eaker (If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)

To: ReignOfError

My first impression, given the height of the deposits, was that maybe someone had walked their dog there and allowed / encouraged it to urinate on the monument.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Oily+urine

357 posted on 09/10/2007 1:32:23 PM PDT by VxH (One if by Land, Two if by Sea, and Three if by Wire Transfer)

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