Reply #43: Be glad you missed it.

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Despite numerous photos on Yahoo showing Kerry talking with troops in Iraq during his recent visit there, including one showing him sitting at a dining hall table talking with several, Malkin borrowed and cropped an amateur photo where they managed to capture Kerry almost "alone" in a dining hall, then claimed that the troops were "snubbing" him. Given the amateurish nature of the photo, the bad lighting which STILL leaves open the possibility that some photoshopping was done, and so forth, there was a raging debate about the authenticity of the photo. However that misses the real point, that it is all one more right wing attempt at reinforcing their smear job memes against someone they desperately need to discredit.* The op is merely a corroboration that the photo could be authentic (if conveniently cropped), and what the situation was when it was taken.

* Desperately need to discredit because of what he knows and what he might do, re: Iran/Contra, BCCI, and the web of corruption and evil that is still out there. For a glimpse at just one piece of that web, don't miss Robert Parry's great article about the Washington Times: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/122706.html