From PhonyKerry.com

The Kerry campaign insists that everything that goes wrong in the sphere of influence of the entire United States can - and should - be traced to the Oval Office. Example: obviously, the troops on the ground were not the ones most responsible for securing high explosives (HE) in Al Qaqaa, Iraq. Any blunders - if there were any - were the direct result of improper leadership by the Commander in Chief. Read more here. The Eminem lyric-quoting comment, by the way, is wonderfully profound.

Nevermind, in all of this, that:

1. there may never have been more than 5 tons (not 380) of HE at Al Qaqaa.
2. none of the HE was there with the 3rd Infantry Division rolled through and inspected the site.
3. even if there were 380 tons, that represents .06% of all the HE in Iraq at the time of invasion. When the CINC worries about every little detail like that, it’s called “micromanagement.” It’s what got 50,000 of our people killed in Vietnam. Operation Iraqi Freedom is not the war in Vietnam, by a long shot, but this kind of thing (which, apparently, Kerry values) will make Iraq into another Vietnam.
4. the Department of Defense says that Russian convoys moved all of the weapons out of Al Qaqaa during the months before the invasion.
5. the New York Times insists on screwing up the facts to make things look bad for Bush and our troops. They claimed, today, that IAEA inspectors viewed the weapons in question in March 2003; not so. The inspectors last viewed the weapons in January 2003; in March, only the seals were inspected. The NYT also has yet to report the facts above.

I have monitored the Kerry campaign blog, lately. It has grown ever more vitriolic of the Bush administration, and generally increasingly negative. Bush’s blog, if anything, has gotten more and more positive, while focusing harder on the issues. Kerry’s bloggers harp on single stories - sometimes discredited stories - for days, usually concluding with “x more days of Bush,” or similar nonsense. At best, you might find, “John Kerry has a better plan.” Mind you, that plan - if it exists - will not be laid out in any publically available form, or adhered to for very long, anyway. Plan? What plan? This one?

1. Go to Yale.
2. Go to Vietnam.
3. Get the **** out of Vietnam, in near-record time, with a few medals, if possible.
4. Throw away medal ribbons; keep medals; conspire to aid North Vietnamese enemy (the North Vietnamese recognize Kerry, today, as a “war here”).
5. Attend secret meetings, get the FBI on my case, and vote on a conspiracy to assassinate US Senators.
6. Give false testimony to Congress, provide Viet Cong with huge propaganda tool, and confess to war crimes.
7. Deny most of the above to anyone who asks.
8. Get elected to US Congress. (Oops. Darn.)
9. Lay low. Go to law school.
10. Remember to finally, officially get out of the Navy.
11. Get elected Lt. Governor!
12. Get elected to the Senate.
13. Sit around the District for 20 years, proposing only 5 new pieces of legislation in that time.
14. Trot out war record (minus early departure).
15. See if anybody who was in Vietnam with me thinks I’m qualified to run for anything other than a flight home (found 3 people, horrified everyone else).
16. Trot out medals (yeah, the ones I “threw away” as symbols of a corrupt regime) and heroic service in “a mistake” (the one in which I committed those war crimes).
17. Run for President on war record, minus war crimes.
18. Dodge issues, dodge specifics, and hope everybody hates the other guy so much it won’t matter.
19. Try to marry rich heiress with foreign flair, along the way.

Come on. Do you really want a guy who isn’t even sure if he was proud or ashamed of his Navy service or if he committed war crimes running the country?

Vote. Please. Vote for leadership, experience, integrity, and courage. Vote Bush.

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