TOO STUPID FOR WORDS

About 2,000 South Koreans marched Saturday in downtown Seoul to oppose a U.S. request that South Korea send combat troops to Iraq.

The protesters held banners and signs that said: ''We oppose the dispatch of troops,'' ''End the occupation of Iraq'' and ''Don't make young Koreans perpetrators of massacre in Iraq.''

No clashes with police were reported during the two-hour march.

The United States has asked South Korea, a major Asian ally, to dispatch thousands of combat troops to help American forces secure stability in postwar Iraq.

Opposition to the request is mounting in the country, fueled partly by an undercurrent of anti-Americanism among young or liberal South Koreans.

The government says it will consider the U.S. request only when it feels confident that tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program will be peacefully defused.

These would be folks who, but for the US intervening 50 years ago over idealogical differences, might jolly well be starving to death under total oppression by the communists, as their North Korean brothers and sisters are.

I'll say this for freedom. You know it is working when the stupid are free to broadcast their stupidity.