Month: September 2004

because of a late, lengthy dinner with my girlfriend and some of her visiting family. I’ll read the speeches later and may post something, but I wanted to blog a little flip-flop that I came across earlier.

“When it comes to Iraq, it’s not that I would have done one thing differently, I would have done everything differently.”

After hearing this earlier in a clip from Kerry’s speech at the American Legion national convention (screw the tradition of laying low during the opposition’s convention — that doesn’t apply to Kerry, just like the concept of not stabbing your fellow soldiers in the back while they’re still in the field to further your personal ambitions), I wandered over to the Kerry campaign site to see exactly what he’s claimed he would do differently.

Unfortunately, my search was quickly derailed as I sat puzzling over this, the very beginning of his Iraq page:

More than a year ago, President Bush stood on an aircraft carrier under a banner that proclaimed “mission accomplished.” But today we know that the mission is not accomplished, hostilities have not ended and our men and women in uniform stand almost alone with the target squarely on their backs.

Our military performed brilliantly in the war’s first mission: ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Mission accomplished?!! No, mission not accomplished!!! Well, a mission was accomplished, brilliantly even, but, well … crap. I don’t know. How can the Kerry campaign, in back-to-back sentences, manage to muddle what has been a major talking point of the shrill left?

Kerry’s handlers have been inept. Kerry’s strategists have been inept. Kerry’s web writers are now inept. Kerry’s Secret Service agents have been inept on the slopes. Or are they all inept because of the empty suit they must support?

Note: I needed to enter an email address to access Kerry’s site. Apparently, lookingforinfotopost@myblog.com worked just fine.