The post at Commentary magazine entitled, " Who Owns the Vietnam War? " tells some uncomfortable truths that the left doesn't want to hear.

"That means killing the bad guys. Not winning their hearts and minds, placating them or bringing them into the government. Killing them."

This military blog post is well worth reading. It concludes as follows, "Here's one soldier whose morale is not being ground down by the enemy he faces. If it's being eroded, it's by the people who putatively support him."

Hugh Hewitt's post reminds me that there is a corollary to the old saw, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". This year, "insults are in the ear of the listener".

Here's an excerpt that includes Hugh's response to Jonathan Chait of the LA Times:
"Everybody in professional politics, conservative or liberal," Chait wrote, understands that Kerry was trying to make a joke about Bush. And yet the GOP has succeeded in convincing the country that he was denigrating American soldiers." Which means that those who disagree with Chait must be stupid or lying. That group includes a vast number of men and women in the military, as has been pointed out repeatedly across the web. MSMers like Chait refuse to acknowledge their opinions and judgments. They don't want those opinions and judgments to be counted, just like the military's votes in Florida in 2000.

So do I, young war heroes, so do I.













H/T: Michelle Malkin.

Austin Bay applies a coup de grace to John Kerry's pathetic and revolting vitriol and non-apology apologies.

H/T: Instapundit.

John Kerry, no one is laughing at your joke, no matter how many times your water-carriers try to explain it or edit it after the fact. This father's tale is worth your time to read.


Sadly, I expect to see stories about issues with military voting. I didn't have to wait long.

The Democrat party--they support the troops, you know. That is, until it comes time for those who preserve and defend the Constitution are about to take the opportunity to exercise their rights under it.

Isn’t it now undeniable that US Soldiers in the field
1) read and watch and listen to the media, and
2) are affected/have opinions about it, and
3) their morale is affected by what the media distributes?

Contact Music quotes from an interview in Vanity Fair: (Sumner)Redstone concluded that his decision to axe (Tom) Cruise "sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of the industry."

Hmmm. It would appear that moonbats everywhere are beginning to see that words and actions have consequences...

Captain Ed nails the Kerry flap.

Excerpt:

"I'm still pretty torn on this controversy. Had Kerry simply come out yesterday and said, Whoops, my bad -- I left out a couple of key words from the punchline and left the wrong impression -- my apologies!, I think the entire story would have died immediately. However, in his typically tone-deaf manner, he decided to brand the entire incident a Republican smear, despite the fact that he had been quoted accurately.

Now he's left with the argument that he misquoted himself while trying to show off his supposed intellectual superiority over George Bush, and that it's all Bush's fault despite being Kerry's intellectual inferior. Really, no one could have scripted a more hilarious scenario, and the longer Kerry continues this line of defense/offense, the more ridiculous a figure he becomes. It demonstrates clearly that the 'I was for the $87 billion before I was against it' gaffe was no fluke."

That's it in a nutshell: John Kerry misquotes himself and manages to make himself look even more ridiculous than ever.

Update: Drudge points out that the troops understand what Kerry meant.