On Idiocy

I try not to post too much on poilitcs (the ridiculous George Allen race excepted because its humor cannot be denied. Macaca...hehehe) because politics tend to angry up the blood a bit too much. That being said this whole John Kerry flap makes me so incredibly furious and so incredibly sad at the same time that I can't even see straight.

Kerry "botched" a joke criticizing Bush's intelligence the other day. This is what he meant to say:

"Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush."

He accidentally flubbed the line and said "You end up getting stuck in Iraq." The Bush administration has purposely misconstrued this line to say that John Kerry is calling the troops stupid. They have demanded an apology from John Kerry.

It is quote obvious what John Kerry meant to say. This line came in the middle of a bunch of other lines insulting Bush. Why would John Kerry, a veteran, call himself stupid?

George Bush should be the one apologizing. He should be sorry for misusing the brave men and women of the military. For sending them without the best armor. For sending them without a good plan. For sending them to Iraq for reasons that turned out not to be true. For still having no plan to end the war. For extending their tours of duty. For abusing the National Guard. For thinking this war would be easy. For making America less safe. For the thousands of Iraqis that have died. For the thousands of Americans killed and wounded. For not knowing that there is a differnece between Sunnis and Shiites.

Is that all you have Mr. Bush? 3 and 1/2 years into this war, your main argument for the continuance of your policies is that John Kerry misspoke? The blatant dishonesty and the false outrage makes me sick to my stomach. Have we really stooped this low?