Nov 02 2006
No One Was Insulted By Kerry…
Except the troops, as Hugh Hewitt wisely notes.
Within the Manhattan-Beltway media machine there was utter cluelessness as to opinion about Kerry’s statement, Kerry’s refusal to apologize, and then Kerry’s non-apology apology, a cluelessness so profound as to be easily mistaken for contempt.
But the media doesn’t know any troops, or doesn’t care if they do hear from them. So the media tries to pretend the outraged troops don’t exist and don’t matter. Thus establishing another, more gross insult to our troops. The liberal media and Kerry seem to have been this year’s October surprise.
The troops are owed an apology by an administration which subjected them to harm by failing to plan for an insurgency
after being duly advised of such by experts. An apology for propagandizing them about a non-existent link between Saddam and Osama which causes them to believe they are revenging 9/11.
An apology for suppressing intelligence which argued against
the existence of WMDS and making them and the public believe
in the contrived and cherrypicked false intelligence.
Sadly the troops will never receive the actual apology they deserve.