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"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq...

Why not? He criticized the 500,000 serving in Vietnam. This is just more of the same. In fact, his Vietnam statement is EVIDENCE that he can be critical.

[Enchante]

"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq...."

Well I wouldn't have thought so until I saw and heard the sneering condescension and contempt expressed by John "Vichy" Kerry for those heroes (and it's far more than 140,000, apparently Kerry can't count all the heroes who have returned). NO, Kerry was obviously not talking just about Bush and Iraq policy, he clearly implied that only people too dumb or lazy to pursue their education properly could get "stuck in Iraq." Kerry displayed the kind of supercilious loathing that he truly feels for large portions of the US population and especially our great military - it's in such occasional unguarded moments that we see the real John Kerry and the real Demagogic Party.