Who is Really Defaming Our Soldiers?

The most relevant response to the 'Kerry Comment Controversy' I've heard comes from the Democratic Underground:

Kerry Bungled a Joke, Bush Bungled a War.

Death toll from Kerry's bungled joke - 0

Death toll from Bush's bungled war-- 600,000 and climbing daily

And where, by the way, is McCain on this? Silent on Cheney's "no-brainer" on waterboarding. Silent recently on Iraq. But vocal - oh, how vocal - on Kerry. It tells you something about what has happened to him. And to America.

Andrew Sullivan writes:

"...The U.S. military does not have a tradition of abandoning its own soldiers to foreign militias, or of taking orders from foreign governments. No commander-in-chief who actually walks the walk, rather than swaggering the swagger, would acquiesce to such a thing. The soldier appears to be of Iraqi descent who is married to an Iraqi woman. Who authorized abandoning him to the enemy? Who is really giving the orders to the U.S. military in Iraq? These are real questions about honor and sacrifice and a war that is now careening out of any control. They are not phony questions drummed up by a partisan media machine to appeal to emotions to maintain power."

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