Ted Rall must really be thriving under all the attention, like a noxious mushroom. His ego was so pumped up by his appearances yesterday on O’Reilly and countless radio shows that he scurried back to his hole and retched up his worst excrescence yet: An Army of Scum.

Now it’s official: American troops occupying Iraq have become virtually indistinguishable from the SS. Like the Germans during World War II, they cordon off and bomb civilian villages to retaliate for guerilla attacks on their convoys. Like the blackshirts who terrorized Europe, America’s victims disappear into hellish prisons ruled by sadists and murderers. The U.S. military is short just one item to achieve moral parity with the Nazis: gas chambers.

Maybe he’s trying for an O’Reilly call-back.