Reply #46: But remember

[sandnsea]

Remember the numbers of people who still considered the torture nothing to get riled up about, a few bad apples, no big deal really. The people who are outraged that the left is trying to portray the entire military as brutal thugs. That printing those pictures and telling those stories are giving Iraqis the wrong impression of the military and hurting our efforts to "win" in Iraq. They just would have said he was doing the same thing to our current vets that he did to the Vietnam Vets.

What a massive diversion from what we really needed to be talking about and that was how to get out of Iraq and start focusing on Bin Laden again. Which is what happened in the campaign, eventually. Just not alot of good options.

What Kerry might could have done is talked about the purpose of his 1971 testimony, to force our leaders to tell the American people the truth and provide real leadership in ending the war. That's what he was doing then, that's what he's doing now. That might have been understood alot better.