Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote “Screw them” about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. This is the URL, and it now leads to a story about the Democratic Convention. Two days ago, it led to the “Screw them” remark, followed by a chorus of approving backslapping from his sycophants.

Zuniga has also blocked access to his site for the Google cache and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Craven. Coward.

UPDATE at 7/27/04 6:28:11 pm:

Zuniga’s ugly comment is still there on his site, as it turns out; scroll about halfway down this page: Screw them. But notice: click the date link next to his post, that is supposed to bring that comment up as a separate page—and voila! you get the replacement post again. Apparently, Zuniga has specifically installed a redirect for that URL, to prevent people from linking directly to his comment. (Hat tip: True blue.)