The day after their candidate roared "Bring it
on!" to George Bush to invite debate of their respective service
records, John Kerry's crack advisors and Democratic Leadership
Council consultants snapped into action and... apologized. Sorry
about that whole anti-Vietnam War thing and what I told the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971. That excessive
language, that impolitic mention of routine atrocities, routinely
ordered and carried out by corn-fed farm boys dropped into the
most immoral conflict imaginable. Poor form on my part to have
brought it up. The rashness of youth, and all that. Now please
hand Mr. Rove this large paddle and ask him to wait a moment
while I bend over. Someone thought this was a good idea. Here's the
calculus, as transparent as glass: The left has nowhere else to
go. The swing voters must be assiduously courted. The nation's
presumptive pro-military mood must be appeased. So: Vietnam is
retracted. Then the retraction is underscored, as a "defense"
against Republican attack ads consisting of clips from Kerry's
principled testimony against the war. [more ]
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